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  • In the same way that a tornado rips the roof off a double-wide trailer, leaving the occupants dazed and staring at the clouds from the splinters of what used to be their living room, it was over.

    Rip   Clouds   Leaving  
    Augusten Burroughs (2004). “Running With Scissors”, p.185, Atlantic Books Ltd
  • There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavour of life until he has known poverty, love and war. The justness of this reflection commends it to the lover of condensed philosophy. The three conditions embrace about all there is in life worth knowing. A surface thinker might deem that wealth should be added to the list. Not so. When a poor man finds a long-hidden quarter-dollar that has slipped through a rip into his vest lining, he sounds the pleasure of life with a deeper plummet than any millionaire can hope to cast.

    Philosophy   War   Rip  
    O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.621, Delphi Classics
  • The hippie is the scion of surplus value. The dropout can only claim sanctity in a society which offers something to be dropped out of--career, ambition, conspicuous consumption. The effects of hippie sanctimony can only be felt in the context of others who plunder his lifestyle for what they find good or profitable, a process known as rip-off by the hippie, who will not see how savagely he has pillaged intricate and demanding civilizations for his own parodic lifestyle.

    Rip   Hippie   Ambition  
    Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.121, Atlantic Monthly Press
  • It's important for me to have strong hair in case someone pulls it and tries to rip it all out.

    Strong   Rip   Hair  
    Source: www.complex.com
  • There are so many ways a family can unravel. All it takes is a tiny slash of selfishness, a rip of greed, a puncture of bad luck. And yet, woven tightly, family can be the strongest bond imaginable.

    Rip   Greed   Luck  
    Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.456, Simon and Schuster
  • Sometimes the good guy rips out innocent people's throats. That's just something the world need to live with if it wants the good guy to keep saving the day.

    Rip   People   Guy  
  • Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.

    Rip   Mean   Intelligence  
  • You have to rip your opponent's lungs out and then move on.

    Rip   Moving   Opponents  
  • ...I will exile my thoughts if they think of you again, and I will rip my lips out if they say your name once more. Now if you do exist, I will tell you my final word in life or in death, I tell you goodbye.

    Goodbye   Rip   Thinking  
  • sasha growled low in his throat. "Send the wolf to watch them," he mocked in falsetto. His nostrils flared. "I swear Z, if I live, I'm going to rip that damned goatee off your face and stick your shaving cream in the fridge.

    Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Retribution”, p.311, Macmillan
  • Living on the street as a kid changed the way I looked at everything. It was a different time and while it had its dangers, it was nothing like it would be today. It was the Summer of Love and there was a real sense of community among us. We were hippies who looked out for each other instead of trying to rip each other off. We only had to watch out for the police who liked to roust us just on general principles, and the kids who came in from the suburbs to do a little hippie-bashing.

    Summer   Real   Rip  
  • I wouldn't perform in front of the Nazis. I hear they didn't take freedom of speech too well. It would be a fun gig to rip into them, but I don't think the ending would be great for me.

    Fun   Rip   Thinking  
    Source: manofmany.com
  • As long as we are alive, we feel fear. It is an intrinsic part of our makeup, as natural as a bitter cold winter day or the winds that rip branches off trees. If we resist it or push it aside, we miss a powerful opportunity for awakening.

  • We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice. Where is the skillful swordsman who can give clean wounds, and not rip up his work with the other edge?

    Rip   Evil   Giving  
    Henry David Thoreau (1996). “The nature writings of Henry David Thoreau”
  • Misha's importance and distinctiveness are beginning to be noticed, there's beginning to be some kind of rip-tide here that will soon become a wave of recognition for a book that the world is beginning to catch up to... We weren't ready before. We'd better be ready now. Because it's the 21st century, any minute now, and that means that Misha's time has come. In more ways than one.

    Rip   Book   Mean  
  • Obamacare is woven into the fabric of health care. It's very hard to just rip it out, as Donald Trump sort of acknowledged with The Wall Street Journal.

    Wall   Rip   Obamacare  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • One single word and I swear I’ll rip your tongue out. (Zephyra)

    Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “The Dark-Hunters”, p.1553, Macmillan
  • The fittest, not the richest, make the most enviable mark. Pampered sons of plutocrats may shine for a time in society, but not in the world of affairs and of service unless they rip off their coats and get to work early and stay late. To be born with a golden spoon in the mouth is more of a handicap than a help in attaining worthwhile success in this age.

    Success   Rip   Son  
  • When I set out to write, I want to write something that will rip your heart out.

    Rip   Writing   Heart  
  • The only other animals that would be in the ballpark to be able to do it would be a gorilla, but it's not going to occur to a gorilla to strangle the life out of somebody. They might rip their head off, all right, but it wouldn't occur to a gorilla to just, I'm going to cut off your air.

    Rip   Cutting   Animal  
    "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History Listen· 45:04". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.
  • It's a physical urge, huger and stronger than thirst or sex. Halfway back on the left side of my head there is a spot that yearns, that longs, that pleads for the jolt of a bullet. I want that rage, that fire, that final empty rip. I want to be let out of this dark cavern, to open myself up to the ease of not-living. I am tired of sorrow and struggle and worry. ... I want to turn out the last light.

    Sex   Rip   Struggle  
  • The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase "ill-gotten" might have been specially invented. And of all its money-making rip-offs, the selling of indulgences must surely rank among the greatest con tricks in history, the medieval equivalent of the Nigerian Internet scam but far more successful.

  • When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again.

    Rip   Recovery   Loss  
  • You forget what it was like. You'd swear on your life you never will, but year by year it falls away. How your temperature ran off the mercury, your heart galloped flat-out and never needed to rest, everything was pitched on the edge of shattering glass. How wanting something was like dying of thirst. How your skin was too fine to keep out any of the million things flooding by; every color boiled bright enough to scald you, any second of any day could send you soaring or rip you to bloody shreds.

    Life   Rip   Fall  
  • My head was throbbing, and my hands were shaking, but I went down the ladder to my workroom - and started figuring out how to rip someone's heart out of his chest from fifty miles away. Who says I never do anything fun on a Friday night?

    Friday   Fun   Rip  
    Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.128, Penguin Group
  • It always bothers me to see people writing RIP when a person dies. It just feels so insincere and like a cop out. To me, RIP is the microwave dinner of posthumous honours.

    Rip   Writing   People  
  • My desire, my sincere and heartfelt desire is to rip that surprisingly sheer garment from your body, toss you onto that bed, and indeed ravish you from head to toe. I wish to make love to you until you are too exhausted to do so much as stand without support. Until you call out my name in your dreams and reach for me in your sleep. Until you can think of no one and nothing beyond the touch of my hand, the caress of my lips.

    Dream   Rip   Sleep  
  • When I'm out there, I don't think about anything. I just grip it and rip it. I don't like to worry about technique.

    Rip   Thinking   Worry  
  • I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.

    Rip   Rags   Nerves  
    John Steinbeck (1989). “Steinbeck: A Life in Letters”, p.160, Penguin
  • [My mother] is the greatest hero I'll ever know because she kept us all together, she made sure we all graduated college. She always believed in us no matter what we do. My older brother Joel became an art teacher; my brother Rip ultimately became a television producer and singer and actor himself.

    Mother   Teacher   Art  
    "Billy Crystal Finds Fun In Growing Old (But Still Can't Find His Keys)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 29, 2013.
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