“But veteran lawmakers torn apart by PTSD don't have a choice about being Exhibit A in the case against Washington politics. When you see what can happen to a page or a junior congressman, it passes on in a very real way, not in a history-class sense, that reality of what political power really is, .. Who are we to impose this emotional albatross on public servants? As a nation, we pretend to elect our leaders. It seems unjust to make them a special class to suffer for our sins over wrongheaded laws, or pay a continuing emotional price for securing their future careers.” WayRealRealitySeemsHappensLawPoliticalSufferingChoicesNationsSinPayLeaderClassCareersCasesSpecialEmotionalPagesServantContinuingUnjustTornVeteranPtsdJuniorsExhibitsPolitical PowerCongressmanPublic ServantsLawmakersTorn ApartAlbatrossHistory ClassFuture Careers Author:Leon Kass
“At home I've got 1,500 cook books and the spines have all gone, the pages are all torn - it's chaos.” BookHomeGonePagesChaosCooksTornSpine Author:Heston Blumenthal
“Zuniga Hides the Evidence ... Like the craven coward he is, Markos Zuniga, rising young star of the Democrats, has now removed the page at Daily Kos where he wrote "Screw them" about the four Americans torn apart and hung from a bridge in Fallujah.” YoungStarsFourPagesEvidenceDemocratBridgesRisingCowardHungTornScrewsTorn Apart Author:Charles Foster Johnson
“Imagine a smashed stained-glass window, a page torn from a Bible, or a snippet of choral singing. You would still recognize their religious roots, wouldn't you? In 1915, Coca-Cola designed a bottle so unique that if it were smashed into thousands of pieces, from a single shard of glass you'd still be able recognize the brand. We call such a device a Smashable. It can be anything from a color to a sound, from a pattern to a smell to an icon.” IfsStillsAbleSoundReligiousPiecesImagineColorPagesUniqueSingingRootsWindowGlassesPatternsSmellBrandsDevicesBottlesTornIconsCoca ColaStained GlassStained Glass WindowsShards Of Glass Author:Martin Lindstrom
“It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.” BookNovelPagesHistoricalTornCaptivityInquisitionHistory BooksBabylonHistorical NovelsSpanish Inquisition Author:Elie Wiesel
“But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her then, although her pages speak of nothing but love for him?” BookHappensCareSpeakPagesTornHer Beauty Author:Pearl S. Buck
“Amanda took the torn page from Maniac. To her, it was the broken wing of a bird, a pet out in the rain.” BrokenPagesBirdRainWingsPetTornManiacsAmandaBroken Wings Book:Maniac Magee Source: Maniac Magee
“It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but couldn't be torn if the pages all held together.” IfsBookTogetherFeltObjectsPagesTornRipped Book:Wide Awake Source: Wide Awake