Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Paton

The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.

Chief Joseph

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

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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.

David Mitchell

The healthy can't understand the emptied, the broken.

Cai Guo-Qiang

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.

Buffalo Bill

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

Bruce Wilkinson

Imagine what your life will look like when you have broken the bondage of fear.

Bryan Davis

Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

To know the Creator and the God of all the universe is to revere Him. It is to bow down before Him in wonder and awesome fear.

Edward McKendree Bounds

The greatest value in trouble comes to those who bow lowest before the throne.

Beth Moore

When the stakes are high, bow down low.

Brendan Myers

I do not bow. I do not obey. I do not worship.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

And every dew-drop paints a bow.

Billy Collins

Emily Dickinson never developed. She remained loyal to her persona and to that same little metrical song that stood her in such good stead. She is a striking example of complexity within a simple package. Her rhymes are like bows on the package.

Ann Voskamp

Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.

Claes Oldenburg

Ox-Bow was a very free place, very open. You could do whatever you wanted to do.

Erasmus Darwin

With zealous step he climbs the upland lawn, And bows in homage to the rising dawn; Imbibes with eagle eye the golden ray, And watches, as it moves, the orb of day.

Albert Einstein

One lives one's life under constant tension, until it's time to go for good

Carl Jung

The greater the tension, the greater is the potential.

Orhan Pamuk

When something explosive is kept hidden away, a tension builds within that must ultimately be released.

James C. Collins

Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.

Howard Nemerov

History is where tensions were.

Josh Brown

I'm going to do something. There's a little tension between us.

Kanye West

Let the music defuse all the tension.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I am not afraid of the word tension.

Nadine Gordimer

The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.