#shreds

Men walk through tragedy, quietly, calm and precise on the outside, tearing themselves to shreds inside. ↗

— Steven Herrick

#inside #outside #precise #quetly #tearing-yourself-to-shreds

I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive. ↗

— William Wells Brown

#brothers #build #captive #chains #constitution

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#away #day #done #every #every day

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

— John Mayer

#accidents #days #head #i #mistakes

Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

#country #into #many #patches #shreds

If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches and most Southerners don't live there any more. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#care #define #geographical #live #lousy

Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, 'Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.'. ↗

— Joan Rivers

#birth #daughter #easy #go #had

You can't let a candidate run for too long. He will be dragged along, cut apart, put back together and ripped to shreds again - from both the political opponents and the media. ↗

— Peer Steinbruck

#along #apart #back #both #candidate

It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh. ↗

— Wanda Sykes

#laugh #making #rip #shreds #somebody