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A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: 'Sing for us soon again;' that is as much as to say. 'May new sufferings torment your soul.'

Soren Kierkegaard

If he gets the surgery, then he will probably be able to play baseball in the spring, ... I don't want him not to be able to play golf with his kids when he grows up because his knee is so torn up.

Robert Browning

Part of me, I'm torn on this event because I'm so excited for Dillon. I know as a golfer what it means for him, but as a college golf coach I'm kind of excited for this thing to be done. I'd like to get back to getting us all focused on college golf here. We have a team that should be the best in the Big Ten.

Pat Goss

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

Henry Ward Beecher

We've heard clearly from the people. They don't want the Boathouse torn down.

Sharon Fearey

I'll be thankful when it's done. Right now it's all torn up out here.

Tom Holden

Everybody we've heard wants to save the Grape Bowl. Nobody has told us they want it to be torn down. So far, the sentiment is that it's too much of a community asset to do anything except renovate it.

Richard Dean

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

Irvin S. Cobb

If the furrow is deep enough, and the plants are torn up and the roots are exposed and the sediment covers it, it can take decade or more to recover.

Jason Bennis

Even a bad one that's torn is worth $65,000.

Honus Wagner

I think I would call myself semi-retired at this point. I've been torn for a while. When I'm out here sometimes I want to be home. I can honestly say that when I'm home I don't want to be on tour.

Beth Daniel

It was dislocated and the whole joint was torn to pieces, ... But I kept playing on it.

Tom Nutten

Or you could just have a big object tossed in close to the star. It goes into orbit and it will get torn apart by the gravity of the star once it gets close enough.

Ben Zuckerman

Our imaginations seem to have been torn open . . . as by a charge of dynamite.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

I don't want to see that old house torn down.

George Deshotels

We're redoing a process that has been done before. It's an issue that hasn't been fixed. We built a 47,000-square-foot building that was torn down.

Clyde Melick

[A canopy over the entrance of the Biloxi Regional Medical Center was torn off by the wind.] We just laid down to try to get some sleep when the storm forces came through and it really ripped that canopy, ... You wouldn't believe the wind that came through here.

Susan Hood

I didn't want to see it torn to pieces. I wanted to see it put back the way it was.

Johnny Jones

I didn't want to get hurt. If I had torn my ACL it would have taken a while to recover. I want to give myself a chance to play baseball, reach my goals and try and make the pros.

Jonathan Cluff

During that first round of cancer treatment, he [David] was by my bedside the whole time. And, it was very difficult for him because we had an ill son. I think David has been through the wringer more than I have because he was torn in two directions for a while.

Amy Dulworth

Steven has torn his hamstring and he won't play again this season.

David O'leary

It was October when it happened to me. I was misdiagnosed by the MRI and at the end of the season, (someone else) looked at the same MRI and told me I had a torn labrum.

Robert Esche

They're emotionally torn up.

Howard Johnson

Most cheerleaders have knee problems. I had just gotten back from the doctor about two weeks before this happened with a bruised meniscus and tendonitis in my patella. A lot of the girls on the squad have irregular cartilage and torn ligaments.

Julia Allen

[EXTRA BASES:@ RHP Ryan Drese probably will have shoulder surgery Sept. 12 or 13, team doctor Bruce Thomas said. Drese could be sidelined three months, Thomas said, or as long as into early next season, depending on how badly torn his labrum is. ... RHP Esteban Loaiza will start Sunday against Philadelphia on short rest, with RHP Livan Hernandez pitching Monday's series opener against Florida. ...

Rick Short

It should probably just be torn down.

Vladimir Sungorkin

The reason we are performing this procedure instead of an m.r.i. is because we believe Penny has some torn cartilage.

Jim Barnett

She told me the [Butler School] had been torn down.

Larry Melman

We are emotional players, there were a lot of hard words said. We were very disappointed and it's normal that this happens in the locker room, and not because we hate each other; only we were just frustrated with what happened and we knew that we were going to be torn apart by the newspapers and by the people in the coming days.

Marko Jaric

Clemence will not play again this season. He has torn his hamstring and you are looking at 28 days out of action with such an injury which basically takes you up to the end of the season.

Steve Bruce

We are torn about helping HIV-positive people when the general population is also starving.

Iris Krebber

The American Muslim community is wealthy, educated and was recruited here to become doctors and scientists. In Europe you have immigrants who left war-torn countries and they still have legal second-class status in European countries.

Vincent Biondo

It's not in the same spot as before. They don't know if it's torn, if it's a sprain or strain, or whatever that is.

Norv Turner

A good example of that would be a derelict building that may need to be torn down. Of course, it will be the owner's choice to either repair the building or remove it.

Rick Fulmer

That building has been torn down now, but the order began meeting in a second building in 1913 above a grocery store.

Marvin Imel

The advances on MRI and CT scans changes things now, ... Guys had these problems 10 years ago and thought it was groin problem. Now they have the MRI and find out that they had a torn labrum the entire time.

Turner Stevenson

It was a matter of priorities. They had the school parking lots all torn up and had other commitments. They felt the necessity to take care of those projects first.

Tom Slater

Wardrobe is gone. Set dressing is gone. The sets have all been struck and torn down and hauled away. Nothing has been put into storage. Everything has been disposed of. And if the show comes back, they'll regroup for another year.

Johnny Griffin

When I heard it was going to be torn down, I wanted to jump on a plane and go there and save it.

Bruce Cohen

There were knives and forks stuck in its butt. Then I saw the back, all torn open, and the cow's head, rammed into its midsection, and the blood and entrails and gore.

Henry Stern

Most of the time (working to get a property repaired or torn down) takes about a year. It depends on the owner. Myrtle is an extreme case.

Pat Porter

The beach is really torn up.

Karl Tallman

The government is pretty much doing nothing to address this. The whole system from the top down is broken and pretty much needs to be torn down and rebuilt.

Paul Larsen

One ever feels his twoness-an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

W. E. B. Du Bois

He's essentially torn the connective tissue to the various structures of the brain. It's a very nasty head injury. The prognosis is pretty iffy.

Stephen Tyler

It's tough when you start the season as one of the strongest units on the team. Then we lose Andrew Cameron (torn ACL against Arizona) and now O.C. It's something we are going to have to fight through.

Marvin Philip

This was a magnificent company that the people who have seized it and used it as a platform from which to persecute and defame the people who built it have torn apart and destroyed, to the expense of the shareholder.

Conrad Black

The ACL has little, if any, ability to heal itself, and if it's torn it now leaves you with a functional disability. You can't run, jump or cut.

Angelo Colosimo

There are a lot of cross-currents in the market. We're still a market that's torn between (concern about) earnings and interest rates.

Tracy Eichler

There were over 1,000 deaths in South Carolina in 2004. That means there were 1,000 families torn apart like my family. It is just too many.

Robin Sweatman

If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world, and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

E. B. White

If there's anything I'm proud about from that season, it was not being deterred by appendicitis and a torn quad.

Brady Anderson

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Anna Letitia Barbauld

I don't disagree that if you're ill you should be able to get marijuana and decrease your pain, especially if you're critically ill. Our stand here is that we are torn between federal and state law. We don't want to violate federal law and go along with the state law, so we are making dispensaries illegal until they get the laws in order.

Mayor Michael Amabile

The pain is unspeakable. I literally feel as if my heart has been torn out, ... But being sad and having the pain and crying are gifts from God, to express the depths of who we are and what we feel.

Jill Kelly

It's torn my world apart.

Jon Penfold

We have to look to the future, if it carries on like this then we will end up like the gladiators of ancient Rome -- if you lose you get torn to pieces.

Andriy Shevchenko

If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void.

Levi Strauss

When I first did it, we just thought it was a sprained MCL. We didn't know the ACL was torn until a few weeks later. It started out as a partial tear, but I tear it more each game.

Monay Williams

We see the contestants sweating out their decision, wishing they had more time to choose, torn about the risk of losing what they've gained yet excited that they could win more.

Bob Kerzner

These attractions can open in six months, but it's questionable whether there will be any tourists there by then. It's going to be years before the New Orleans tourist industry comes back. Once engineers get inside a lot of those buildings, they'll discover damage that wasn't visible. A lot of buildings will have to be torn down or completely rebuilt.

Steve Baker

I was torn between research in biological sciences and becoming a teacher.

Monica Luechtefeld

We were weighing the pros and cons. I was torn.

Clark Kepler

It doesn't show that I have anything torn, by the test that the trainer did to my shoulder. He doesn't seem to think I have anything to worry about. It's just a deep bruise, I guess. We'll see what happens tomorrow. We're going to keep packing it in ice and getting therapy and try to get it going.

Bernie Williams

It'll probably be fairly congested. I think it will still be busy and a lot of roads torn up for construction because there are a lot of improvements that need to be made.

Glen Ahlert

They need everything in the front here torn down today. Everything in the back, after the NCAA, will come down next Monday.

Rick Freeman

Films are a kind of social memory. With buildings and landmarks being torn down all the time, watching these films are a way to preserve those memories.

Shirlene Noordin

We were passing through Hattiesburg, Miss. when we really started to see a lot of damage. It was pretty torn up, with power lines down everywhere.

Scott Norris

However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.

Muriel Rukeyser

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I felt like we were a family and our family was being torn apart, and I didn't want it torn apart any more.

Dane Fife

I am torn between the right of freedom of speech and how some groups have used it as a cover to preach hate of other groups and races.

Melvin Burruss

People think families like that are the exception, but they aren't. Unfortunately, great families are torn apart every day.

George Matthew Adams

We'll know for sure if it's a torn ACL on Friday. That's life and you have to adjust to the changes that happen in life. Tonight the kids showed a lot of fight and fortitude. We made the adjustments and didn't die. It's the first time we're come back from the depths like that in the third game.

Julia Hudson

I'm thrilled to be a part of Mississippi Rising, ... as it will raise much-needed funds for the recovery efforts that lie ahead. Mississippi's gown may be torn and tattered, but she will prevail.

Sela Ward

It's feeling better but I haven't been throwing yet. With a slightly torn ligament, you can't rush that. We've got to make sure it's 100 percent before getting back out there.

David Dejesus

The hotel, I don't think, actually had any physical damage. The (hotel) sign was torn down and trees everywhere were torn down.

Leslie Pixley

Tire debris and wheel shrapnel resulted in damage to the No. 2 engine, puncture of three fuel tanks, and severance of several hydraulic lines and electrical wires. Additionally, a large hole was torn in the top wing skin which covers the wheel well area.

James King

This is a goal we put up on the board at the beginning of the year. It's a goal Sara has had for four years. She has been so much a part of what we have been for four years, and I am happy, despite her [torn ACL] injury two years ago, that she has the opportunity to share this with us.

Kyle Mccaughn

Further examination along with an MRI confirmed that Steve has torn ligaments in his right wrist and that surgery is necessary. We anticipate the recovery time to be between six and seven months.

Matt Sokolowski

I'm kind of torn on that one.

Larry Mize

I wanted to throw up. Her intestine was pulled away from the wall of her stomach. That had to be repaired. Her spleen is damaged. She has two fractured ribs. Her pancreas was torn in half.

Cheryl Luker

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

Anthony Burgess

My sophomore year I had a real bad sprained ankle and was out for a few games. Then last year I tore my ACL. I didn't know it was torn at first. I tried to come back, but I couldn't do it.

Artez Foster

We would like the current structure torn down and use some of the old structure as part of the new one. This would save the community time and money.

Bryan Clifton

One could speculate that in countries that are war-torn, those services might diminish.

Christopher P. Howson

In a nutshell, ... half the city wanted the freeway restored, and half wanted it torn down, and it was difficult to find a solution.

Jeff Weiss

It's all uncharted waters with what we're dealing with right now. If we're talking elbow surgery, shoulder surgery or something like that, we've got time frames of things that's happened. This thing here is an unknown. How many people have you heard of that's torn an artery?

Craig Dingman

Right now, she's struggling with the trauma of having the child torn loose from her arms and possibly placed in foster care while she goes back to jail.

Daniel Sammons

I knew I popped something [the first time]. Not only did I feel the pop, I heard the pop. I could feel something not there in my knee. I didn't know it was a torn ACL, but I knew I did something. It kind of felt like when you wake up in the morning and you feel like your leg is asleep.

Kris Jenkins

It's the latest game featuring war-torn Germany, where shooters hunt Nazis and supernatural beings during World War II. The new game promises unmatched exploration, action and espionage.

Todd Hollenshead

There are some veins that essentially are torn at the time of head injury. Over time, that blood accumulates ... and puts pressure on the brain.

Sanjay Gupta

I wrestled with this, even over the last few days, as I sat and stood and walked in Louisiana, where I saw people ravaged, lives torn. I thought about the fact that we need a man that's strong enough to bring us through 9/11 but compassionate enough that if Katrina hits, will make sure that poor people are not the scapegoats of a natural disaster.

Al Sharpton

It's possible they were formed by some object getting tossed in too close to Saturn and it got torn apart by gravity.

Ben Zuckerman

It hurts all the time, as anyone with a torn rotator cuff knows.

Andrea Mitchell

I lost a point but if you consider where we played against whom we played, then this would have been the result you expected. The way we lost is really disappointing, especially as we had one man more and we were holding them 1-1 right to the end. But you can't say that inside we're really torn apart.

Urs Schoenenberger

We lost our point guard to a torn-up knee in the semifinal game. If we had her, we might have had a chance. Who knows?

Farris Lowery

I was pitching all of 2002 with a torn rotator cuff. In spring training of 2003, I actually felt my shoulder rip. From that day until about a month ago, it's been a living nightmare. I wouldn't wish it on anybody.

Steve Karsay

There are still so many places in Gulf Shores that haven't been repaired or torn down from Ivan last year. I guess some places would be better off if they blew away...I don't think their owners can afford to repair them.

Tina Shipp

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

A torn rotator cuff is a cancer for a pitcher and if a pitcher gets a badly torn one, he has to face the facts, it's all over baby.

Don Drysdale

His family is torn, too. But they can go visit him. The only thing we have is a tombstone.

James Camm

We can't disassemble it. We can't force it up because then if a train comes along we have torn up the railroad equipment. The only thing we can do is carefully direct traffic around the arms.

Eric Poteet

This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses. Should he tell her? Should he not tell her? He's torn, Georgie. This is drama.

Fred Wood

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

E. B. White

We have torn off his mask in front of the world to show him as he really is -- a small-time Balkan dictator unable to bear the slightest defeat.

Zoran Djindjic

They were telling us there could be a crash landing, the landing gear could be torn off, and that there could be a fire. The gravity of the situation was much worse than any of us assumed.

Zachary Mastoon