Tearing Quotes

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I believe in a higher power. I`ve studied Eastern philosophies, and I`ve studied the Koran. We`ve devalued everything worth believing in. Now we`re tearing into religion. A line should be drawn. The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) and The Da Vinci Code (2006) borders on that. I was glued to the book, but afterwards I thought, `Oh my Lord, now we`re tearing into God and our faith.` Are we going to be turning into a reality show too? I certainly hope not.

- Patrick Swayze

(on John Ford) Marvelous but loony, tearing out pages of the script everywhere.

- Anne Bancroft

"It`s wonderful. If anything, this business has brought my family together because we can sit at the dinner table and say, "Oh, my gosh, wait till you hear this crazy story." And my whole family always comes to sets with me, so it`s something we can share as opposed to tearing us apart." (on having a sister who is also an actress)

- Danielle Panabaker

The most attention I get is in a book store or video shop when I go to the foreign film section. Sometimes that can be fun, but usually those women want to talk about philosophy or something very dense. It`s not like they`re tearing off my shirt, you know.

- Tobey Maguire

George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions.

- Bianca Jagger

I love getting ready to do a scene, and thinking about it, and talking about it. But the rest of the time, I`m so nervous and obsessed. I`m just tearing my hair out in the trailer. The whole time I`m really tense.

- Casey Affleck

We`ve made mistakes along the way, but that`s no reason to start tearing up the best flag God ever gave to any country.

- John Wayne

When you reach that kind of successful pinnacle, it is the nature of the business and the press and everything that they go about tearing you down.

- Joni Mitchell

I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want to be built. I want to be an architect.

- Sandra Bullock

The doctor told Phil, my then husband, that my condition was really bad news. They had found an artery tearing and said I could die. They said they could try to patch it up but it could go horribly wrong. It all turned out okay in the end but it was touch and go.

- Sharon Stone

To us, it was this cute little show that was on against a bunch of cartoons on Saturday morning. None of us expected it to last very long. We didn`t realize anything big was happening until our first personal appearance, and then we were shocked out of our minds. We went to a mall and there were 4,000 screaming kids waiting for us. They were tearing off our clothes and begging for the cups of water that we were drinking from. We kept looking at each other in amazement. We had no idea this was happening, and I still don`t understand it. On the success of "Saved by the Bell" (1989).

- Tiffani Thiessen

There`s a way about it: tearing people down, but not tearing them apart.

- Michael Shanks

I think as a kid I wasn`t even aware of the extent to which my freedom was being infringed upon. We`re conditioned not even to know that we`re not free. When you think about what we all believe America to be, it just seems ludicrous that so much of America`s populace lives in this sort of prison. I think coming out for me is really about tearing down the prison wall.

- Robert Gant

I couldn`t take it no more. The mosquitoes were tearing us up,

- Michael Sullivan

I wanted you to understand the smallness of this community, and the impact of tearing down three houses on a community that`s this small. It`s the kind of neighborhood that the city should be trying to support and maintain.

- Stephanie Sullivan

You can gain more friends by being yourself than you can by putting up a front. You can gain more friends by building people up than you can by tearing them down. And you can gain more friends by taking a few minutes from each day to do something kind for someone, whether it be a friend or a complete stranger. What a difference one person can make!

- Sasha Azevedo

I am not as scared about people tearing this one up as I would have been in the past because of the basis in `knowing` this one has. There are people out there that are hungry for this.

- Kenny Loggins

The approaches have been straightened out and smoothed so you don`t have to hit bumps going up to it. The crossing itself was tearing the under-carriages of cars out. It was so bad,

- John McKay

We looked at each other standing on the podium, and I think we all were tearing up. But we had to keep it cool. I think we did. Then we let out a breath.

- Michael Irvin

It shows Republicans do not want Joe Lieberman in the U.S. Senate because they know he`s a strong, loyal Democrat, professing Democratic values. It also probably shows the Connecticut Republican party is cheering on Ned Lamont and applauding his strategy of tearing down Senator Lieberman.

- Sean Smith

I feel like it is tearing up the bay. It might be three years before they come back.

- Jim Cox

Tearing that building down would be yet another loss to the city of Utica, ... My problem is, will I be able to get enough investors to get the $50,000 accumulated?

- Robert Dunn

It`s better to be safe than sorry. I`ve got a lot of money to lose if this thing goes and water comes tearing down the street.

- Brian Bishop

I understand. It`s better to be safe than sorry. I`ve got a lot of money to lose if this thing goes and water comes tearing down the street.

- Brian Bishop

Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award.

- Elfriede Jelinek

Senescent judges show how patriotic they are by passing out hard sentences for tearing up a draft card or following one`s conscience according to the principles established by our country at the Nuremburg trials.

- A. P. Herbert

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatreds. You cannot establish security on borrowed money. You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man`s initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

- Agnes Martin

Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.

- Alderman Dana McLendon

That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.

- Alfred Balauro

If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she`s wearing your best sweater.

- Amos Gilad

The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land.

- Andrei Krivtsov

We`re planning on tearing her down Thursday.

- Arron Sears

I woke up and felt like someone was tearing all the muscles from my arm from top to bottom.

- Ata Mohammad

We arrived late and just sat at the back of the auditorium. They were showing snippets of a game against Real Madrid and we were just chuckling away because it was great to watch this wee man tearing strips off defenders. He was voted the greatest Celtic player ever, and rightly so.

- Augie Ghio

If you have to redo wiring, it could mean tearing out a wall,

- Barbara Richardson

The clock is really ticking. It`s tearing us up knowing that so many animals are in need and (we) can`t get to every one on our own.

- Barry Axelrod