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broken tragedy cry-the-beloved-country
The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again. Alan Paton
broken-heart sick broken-promises
It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises. Chief Joseph
broken people stories
Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
broken people empowering
Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
broken healthy
The healthy can't understand the emptied, the broken. David Mitchell
broken unity important
For me it's really important that the work here displays an aesthetic of decay along with the sunken boat with the broken ceramic pieces. They form a unity in showing the power of destruction, the beauty of destruction, whether it's from nature- because the boat has sunk- or through other forces. It's really the beauty of decay and death that holds a power here. Cai Guo-Qiang
broken-heart government broken-promises
Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government. Buffalo Bill
broken looks imagine
Imagine what your life will look like when you have broken the bondage of fear. Bruce Wilkinson
broken bird too-late
Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late. Bryan Davis
business soul prosperity
Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity. Charles Dickens
business fighting men
An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers. Charles Caleb Colton
business men morality
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions. Charles Dickens
business clever men
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you Charles Dickens
business law brain
Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, "if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me?" Charles Stross
business past derivatives
It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future. Alan Greenspan
business colleagues depends
...our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business. Alan Greenspan
business years risk
What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn't be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so. Alan Greenspan
business greatness views
I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well. Alan Greenspan
growing-up women thinking
... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably a bitterly disappointed woman. A game of chess will cure such a conceit forever. The woman that knows the most, thinks the most, feels the most, is the most. Intellectual affection is the only lasting love. Love that has a game of chess in it can checkmate any man and solve the problem of life. Charles Dickens
growing-up people needs
Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment. Alan Watts
growing-up book comic
I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic. Alan Ritchson
growing late critique
A lot of the critique of our growing mechanization was actually at its strongest, and arguably at its most perceptive, during the late '60s. Alan Moore
growing bigs distrust
There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now owned by big conglomerates. Alan Moore
growing-up school boys
Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school. Alan Moore
growing-up hands world
A world grows up around me. Am I shaping it, or do its predetermined contours guide my hand? Alan Moore
growing-up tired talking
Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben, I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about. I always woke up before the plane landed. Alan Bradley
growing middle standing-still
Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying. Alan Arkin
half linux firsts
I was Computer Shopper's linux columnist for more than half a decade, from the late 90s onwards. Yes, I know about Linux. (My first review of a Linux distro in the press was published in late 1996.) Charles Stross
half empty gods-will
If I empty out half of my life, God can only fill half...God will fill as much of us as we allow Him to fill. Aiden Wilson Tozer
half safe matter
There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that's plutonium. David R. Brower
half intensity played second slow
We started slow today. In the second half we played with better intensity than we did in the first half. Linda Flohr
halfway michigan respecting seven state ten
We are at the turn, we are halfway around the track. It's just about respecting Michigan State and approaching like we have the other seven (Big Ten games). Kristy Curry
halftime hard played struggled
We struggled a little and they made it very hard to penetrate the middle. We made some adjustments at halftime and played better. Jim Mott
half pulled second
We started off slow, ... but in the second half we really pulled away. Robert Bates
half missing three top
We started each half missing a wide-open lay-up, and that kind of set the tone. My top three scorers couldn't find the basket. Dean Montzingo
half period second spent team wears
We spent the whole second period in the box. It wears half the team down. We can't be doing that. It kills us. Jeff Carter
people may medical
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander. Charles Caleb Colton
people solitude multitudes
A multitude of people and yet solitude. Charles Dickens
people governing whole
My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable. Charles Dickens
people words-of-wisdom selfishness
Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness. Charles Dickens
people words-of-wisdom want
Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything. Charles Dickens
people next cleanliness
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion. Charles Dickens
people scary alive
I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon. Charles Dickens
people enemy
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own Charles Dickens
people romance wonder-woman
Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows? Charles Soule
talking judging mind
It has been well observed that the tongue discovers the state of the mind no less than that of the body; but in either case, before the philosopher or the physician can judge, the patient must open his mouth. Charles Caleb Colton
talking world human-nature
There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme! Charles Caleb Colton
talking people realizing
People often say to me, 'I understand what you are talking about intellectually, but I don't really feel it, I don't realize it,' and I am apt to reply, 'I wonder whether you do understand it intellectually, because if you did you would also feel it.' Alan Watts
talking listening ordinary
We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're listening, is eternity. Alan Watts
talking topics los-angeles
If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation. Alan Rickman
talking bored actors
What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves. Alan Rickman
talking people signing
I genuinely like the people I meet at signings or the bits of public talking that I do. Alan Moore
talking today economy
I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about. Alan Greenspan
talking way communicate
It was repugnant, but it was the only way to communicate. Alain Resnais