Rends Quotes

#1. A thinking that approaches it objects openly, rigorously ... is also free toward its objects in the sense that it refuses to have rules prescribed to it by organized knowledge. It ... rends the veil with which society conceals them, and perceives them anew.

Theodor Adorno

#2. O King of glory, though you hide your beauty, yet the eye of my soul rends the veil. I see the angelic choirs giving you honor without cease.

Mary Faustina Kowalska

#3. Waiting is worse than knowing. Grief rends the heart cleanly, that it may begin to heal; waiting shreds the spirit.

Morgan Llywelyn

#4. The wretch condemn'd with life to part,
Still, still on hope relies;
And every pang that rends the heart
Bids expectation rise.

Oliver Goldsmith

#5. One understands now the drama that rends the adolescent girl at puberty: she cannot become "a grown-up" without accepting her femininity

Simone De Beauvoir

#6. I regard it (the Constitution) as the work of the purest patriots and wisest statesman that ever existed, aided by the smiles of a benign Providence; it almost appears a Divine interposition in our behalf ... the hand that destroys our Constitution rends our Union asunder forever.

Daniel Webster

#7. In every pang that rends the heart the Man of Sorrows has a part.

Michael Bruce

#8. Time's violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.

Simone Weil

#9. He didn't smile. He cupped her face with both hands. An emotion tugged at his expression, a dark awe, the kind saved for a wild storm that rends the sky but doesn't ravage your existence, doesn't destroy every thing you love. The one that lets you feel saved.

Marie Rutkoski

#10. Time catches up with kingdoms and crushes them, gets its teeth into doctrines and rends them; time reveals the foundations on which any kingdom rests, and eats at those foundations, and it destroys doctrines by proving them to be untrue.

James Baldwin

#11. Only from chaos does order come. The angry Fates bring death where they will, when war is king, says Enlil, storm god of the armies, and the tip of his crown rends the clouds above their heads. "Wheresoever I rule, death comes shambling after. So it has always been, is, and will be."

Janet Morris

#12. I can't expect loyalty from the army if I do not give it.

George C. Marshall

#13. Among the mighty store of wonderful chains that are for ever forging, day and night, in the cast iron-works of time and circumstance, there was one chain forged in the moment of that small conclusion, riveted to the foundations of heaven and earth, and gifted with invincible force to hold and drag.

Charles Dickens

#14. When you do hit the gym, you should push yourself. This is what makes fitness phenomena so interesting.

Jillian Michaels

#15. I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature innacurate

Doris Lessing

#16. I see that even as the world plunges into darkness and peril, you two stand around discussing your love lives. Teenagers.

Cassandra Clare

#17. Basketball for me has always been a matter of rhythm - what you do bouncing the ball, how you bounce the ball, how you run, how you receive the ball to be in rhythm.

Earl Monroe

#18. Microsoft runs the world's biggest blogging platform, MSN Spaces.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#19. These hearts of ours are curious and contrary things, and time and nature work their will in spite of us.

Louisa May Alcott