Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Bowen

Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.

Ahmed Ben Bella

Algeria is not breaking up.

Alanis Morissette

You live, you learn, you love, you learn, you cry, you learn, you lose, you learn, you bleed, you learn, you scream, you learn

David R. Ellis

I think my biggest break though came probably on Patriot Games because it was the biggest, longest second unit up to that point. It was like five months of shooting and a huge crew.

Barney Ross

The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something.

Edward Everett

In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original elements, - into hostile atoms, whose only movement was that of mutual repulsion.

Cher

Men are a luxury, not a necessity.

Charlaine Harris

The sweetest part of being a couple is sharing your life with someone else. But my life, evidently, had not been good enough to share.

Chaim Potok

I get up around 6:30. I work from about 8:00 to 1:00, take a break for lunch, work again until about 5:00, and then go for a long walk and have dinner. Then, if my wife and I have no previous plans, we decide what to do for the evening.

David Justice

I don't think Hank's home run record will ever be broken. There's no way.

Abigail Adams

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

Buffalo Bill

Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.

Diana Krall

You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart.

Chief Joseph

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.

Charles Simeon

The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears.

Bo Sanchez

My child,you are broken. Unless you know that you are broken yourself,it will be severely laborious to love the broken people around you. You will be harsh and exacting towards them. But because you want others to like you, you will always attempt to hide your weaknesses from others. Let me strip away your masks,so that you may know who you really are.And when this truth sets you free,then shall you be free to genuinely love. Before this occurs,your love will be offered by the flask,not by the torrents of a river.

Bess Myerson

To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.

Bertolt Brecht

Boy Meets Girl, So What?

Dennis Quaid

If we never felt sorrow, we'd never recognize bliss.

Dominic Monaghan

I have been heartbroken once and it has affected all my relationships from there on. But now I look at it as a occupational hazard. If you are in the meat market at some point you are gonna get mad cows disease.

Alan Moore

The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.

Diana Gabaldon

I wept bitterly, surrendering momentarily to my fear and heartbroken confusion, but slowly I began to quiet a bit, as Jamie stroked my neck and back, offering me the comfort of his broad, warm chest. My sobs lessened and I began to calm myself, leaning tiredly into the curve of his shoulder. No wonder he was so good with horses, I thought blearily, feeling his fingers rubbing gently behind my ears, listening to the soothing, incomprehensible speech. If I were a horse, I'd let him ride me anywhere.

Dennis Brown

Certain songs by hearing the rhythm, it tells you that is either a love song or you might be heartbroken or the songs give you the vibes and you just know that certain songs are militant that you have to write.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

They themselves mocked Africa, trading stories of absurdity, of stupidity, and they felt safe to mock, because it was a mockery born of longing, and of the heartbroken desire to see a place made whole again.

Daniel Handler

That night it felt that somehow by flicking them off the roof, the matches would burn down everything, the sparks from the tips of the flames, torching the world and all the heartbroken people in it.

Daniel Handler

I am heartbroken, but I have been heartbroken before, and this might be the best for which I can hope.

Blake Jenner

I'm the guy who will persist in his path. I'm the guy who will make you laugh. I'm the guy who strives to be open. I'm the guy who's been heartbroken. I'm the guy who has been on his own, and I'm the guy who's felt alone. I'm the guy who holds your hand, and I'm the guy who will stand up and be a man. I'm the guy who tries to make things better. I'm the guy who's the whitest half Cuban ever. I'm the guy who's lost more than he's won. I'm the guy who's turn, but never spun. I'm the guy you couldn't see. I'm that guy, and that guy is me.