Shatter Quotations

Our mass movement will shatter this communal, fascist and autocratic center.

A war, with its attendant human suffering, must, when that evil is unavoidable, be made to fragment more than buildings: It must shatter the foundations of thought and re-create. Only in this way does every individual share in the cataclysm and understand the purpose of sacrifice.

Yes, I did shatter my leg, and it really changed my life, in a way. It wasn't much fun, but it did open me up, and as we all know intuitively, adversity can develop resources.

Like Honeycrisp, SweeTango has much larger cells than other apples, and when you bite into it, the cells shatter rather than cleaving along the cell walls, as is the case with most popular apples. The bursting of the cells fills your mouth with juice. Chunks of SweeTango snap off in your mouth with a loud cracking sound.

My impression was, he's walking as though he's made of glass, and if you should touch him he would just shatter apart. I don't know if it was an act or what, but it sure was effective.

Sex, a lot of money, violence, ... I have to shatter those images when I'm out there -- there are no naked women behind me. All I can do is let them hear my lyrics, which help them see they care about themselves.

Our mass movement will shatter this communal, fascist and autocratic center (federal government),

I will gladly give him that record. I thought 19 was a lot, but Colt is going to shatter that. He is a tough guy.

To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret.

The artist must summon all his energy, his sincerity, and the greatest modesty in order to shatter the old cliches that come so easily to hand while working, which can suffocate the little flower that does not come, ever, the way one expects.

I've broken my wrist, dislocated toes and shoulders, gotten stitches, you name it. However, the worst was a severely bruised femur. I got body checked into an open gate while playing hockey. The doctor couldn't believe I didn't shatter my femur.

These data shatter the illusion of a fair distribution of per-pupil spending in California. We cannot continue to turn a blind eye to the glaring inequity in the distribution of teacher talent and teacher dollars.

Pretty amazing. There have been a lot of pretty good Ashland teams. And we should shatter that thing with all the games we have left.

Evangelical Christian politicians who cheat often raise questions about hypocrisy, especially if they preached piety in public and disregarded it in private. When Jewish politicians fall, they shatter different expectations, particularly that American Jews need to work together to preserve respectability and fireproof against anti-Semitism.

A fast way to demolish relationships, shatter credibility and disrespect yourself is by not following through when you say you are going to do something.

It seems he never bothered to put it back after the most recent explosion. He says the windows will shatter again, and he'll have to measure the frames again, so why bother putting it away?

They were all cracking beers open and just enjoying themselves because they didn't have to go to work. I was waiting for a bullet to come through and shatter all over us. I was smoking my brains out too.

It's a movie, I just don't know what they're so afraid of. Whatever preconceived notions you have, you need to set them aside, the film will shatter those notions. It really isn't what people are imagining in their head. It's a lot more encompassing.

Ah Love! Could thou and I with Fate conspire/ To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire,/ Would not we shatter it to bits - and then/ Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!

. . . even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties, in my definitions, I did not break. The shattering of my sureties did not shatter me. Stability comes from inside, not outside....

You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, / But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.