Tears Quotes - Page 51

Women are better than they are reputed to be: they don't mock the tears men shed unless they themselves are responsible for them.

But a sort of rupture-in anguish-leaves us at the limit of tears: in such a case we lose ourselves, we forget ourselves and communicate with an elusive beyond.

I've got God's shoulder to cry on. And I cry a lot. I do a lot of crying in this job. I'll bet I've shed more tears than you can count, as president.

Tears, she said scornfully to Sansa as the woman was led from the hall. The woman's weapon, my lady mother used to call them. The man's weapon is a sword. And that tells us all you need to know, doesn't it?

You little fool. Tears are not a woman's only weapon. You've got another one between your legs, and you'd best learn to use it. You'll find men use their swords freely enough. Both kinds of swords.

Barth's approach tears up any possibility of dialogue between faith and unfaith or between theology and other human sciences. Theology just says what it says on the basis of scripture, and that's that.

They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question. What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying man, could have value in itself

Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.

She would wonder what had hurt her when she found her face wet with tears, and then would wonder how she could have been hurt without knowing it.

A broken Altar, Lord, thy servant rears, Made of a heart, and cemented with tears.

The microscopes that magnified the tears, studied warts and all. Still life flows on.

Did you ever see a one eyed woman cry? You know the saddest thing about the woman, the tears don't come out just one eye.

Nick shook his head and found to his surprise that he did have tears left after all. He wasn't surprised by a talking cat. The world was crumbling around him and anything could happen.

It'll all end in tears and oil.

She sensed it, saw my eyes wet with tears, and only then must have discovered I was no longer the man I had been, and I endured her glance with a courage I never thought I had.

It is easier to tear down a code than to put a new one in its place.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

The chimpanzees could tear me apart in no time. They're many times stronger than we are.

Often, we separate intellectual discourse from emotional reaction. But I take such genuine pleasure in things that are intellectually well architected. It's definitely an integrated experience for me. Much more than any kind of cheap, emotional pulls that you get in popular culture, when I read a sentence and it's beautifully written, it can bring me to tears.

We often shed tears that deceive ourselves after deceiving others.

Life, to me, is never one color. Even in the saddest moments, you can have a chuckle. And in the happiest moments, you can shed a tear.

No one should be allowed to give back the gift of life, unless they are very old and full of tears, when the body outlives the spirit, when they should be allowed to join the others who've already gone.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Grief embraced him and welcomed him back, showering tears upon his arrival.

I am a woman and my business is to hold things together. My business is to tear them apart.