Best 1677 quotes in «tears quotes» category

If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to find Tears, Idle Tears valuable.

If I dare to tear up or shed a tear, then I'm criticized for that as well! It's a horrible double standard, but quite frankly, I don't have time enough to fight that battle and fight crime. I chose to fight crime and ignore the rest. I just keep going to the best I can.

If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!

If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.

If might is right, then the world will tear itself apart. We must strive to create a world in which right is might.

If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow.

If our tears do not lead us to act then we have lost the reason of our humanity, which is compassion.

If the boy have not a woman's gift To rain a shower of commanded tears, An onion will do well for such a shift.

If there are any tears shed in heaven, it will be because we prayed so little.

If there is a fence and you don't know its purpose, don't just assume there isn't one and tear it down. Find out what the fence is intended to accomplish. You might see it needs to stay.

If the world 's a vale of tears, Smile, till rainbows span it!

If war has its chivalry and its pageantry, it has also its hideousness and its demoniac woe. Bullets respect not beauty. They tear out the eye, and shatter the jaw, and rend the cheek.

If we cry more tears we will ruin the land with salt; instead let's praise that which would distract us with despair. Make a song for death, a song for yellow teeth and bad breath

If we pay attention to our tears, they'll show us something about ourselves.

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a classroom. If you wanted to create a business environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a cubicle. And if you wanted to change things, you might have to tear down both and start over.

If you can make someone tear up a little bit and feel something in their throat, those are the best kinds. That generally means that there's got to be some love in there.

If you love God, tear out your heart's love of the world.

If you love a Dream Woman ... let her stay the divine Woman of the Dream. To awaken and clasp flesh and blood, no matter how delicately tender, and find that love has sped at the dawn is a misery too deep for tears.

If you really want you people to innovate, buy a science fiction book, tear off the covers, and tell them it's history.

If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.

If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentence you'll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe.

If you would write emotionally, be first unemotional. If you would move your readers to tears, do not let them see you cry.

I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.

If we take the freedom to put a friend under our microscope, we thereby insulate him from many of his true relations, magnify his peculiarities, inevitably tear him into parts, and, of course, patch him very clumsily together again. What wonder, then, should we be frightened by the aspect of a monster.

If you are an inventor, then you are destined for blood, sweat and tears.

If you bury your face in your tear-stained pillow and beg God to please send you your soul mate, may you not slur your words in such a way that they sound like "cell mate.

If you cant laugh at your own characters, or shed a tear for them, or even get angry at one of them, no one else will either.

...if you fall into a lion's pit, the reason the lion will tear you to pieces is not because it's hungry-be assured, zoo animals are amply fed-or because it's bloodthirsty, but because you've invaded it's territory.

If you go back and look at President Reagan's speeches, they bring you to tears almost.

If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures, whom you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared, and without whose company life seems empty and meaningless. If such things have not been part of your own experience, you probably won't understand what Bastian did next.

If you're going to tear down a hero, you should never forget that you're tearing down someone else's hero. You're tearing down somebody else's son. You might have to face her one day.

If you're not connected emotionally to a story, then you're dead. You're as a filmmaker really just opening the door for people to lose interest and their minds to wander, for them to start picking it apart. That's what people will do, people will naturally tear stuff apart because they're trapped with it, they paid money for it. And they came into it wanting to love it. So all you can really do is piss off the audience. Unless you do things right.

If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.

If you took every tear cried by everyone on earth on one single day and put them in a container, how big would that container need to be? Could you fill a water tower? Three water towers? It's one of those unknowable things. There has to be an answer, but we'll never know what it is.

If you willing to put in that sweat! Blood! And tears! I'm telling you! You can have, be and do what you want!

I got, like, Diane Keaton's manager, and she was very connected; she had power. And she was like, "Your star is in tears on this comedy. Do you even notice that at all?

I guess the answer would be yes." "Got to love that word." He kissed her so sweetly then, it brought tears to her eyes. "Got it in you to say it again?" And then he did the unthinkable. He went down on one knee.

I had a constant fear, a constant little doubt in my mind: 'OK, I'm getting ready to do my standing back full on beam and I might re-tear my ACL.'

I had a screening in Baltimore where one of the hardest individuals just broke into tears at the end. That's the response you want.

I hadn't even dreamed of getting another Academy Award, and there I was unhappy in my private life and miserable, I remember Odets drove me three times around the Biltmore, where the Oscars were given out, because I was so full of tears.

I have also long held the belief that one's tears are a guide, that when something makes you cry, it means something. If we pay attention to our tears, they'll show us something about ourselves

I hate the moment when suddenly my anger turns into tears

I hate sentiment when it's inappropriate. I saw someone who went and saw an exhibition and came out in tears. If an exhibition drives you to tears you need to see a psychiatrist immediately. That's what I think.

I have asked a lot of my emotions-one hundred and twenty stories. The price was high, right up with Kipling, because there was one little drop of something, not blood, not a tear, not my seed, but me more intimately than these, in every story, it was the extra I had. Now it has gone and I am just like you now.

I imagined the hard things that pulled us apart Will never again, sir, tear us from each other's hearts.

I have my whole life organized on an 11x17-inch tear-away weekly calendar.

I have not let myself be stultified by science, whose highest goal is to furnish a `waiting room', which it would be best to tear down.

I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the living; tears for the dead.

I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days.