Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Popenoe

The American family is not simply changing; it is getting weaker. . . . Family decline drives some of our most urgent social problems. . . . The heart of the family problem lies in the steady breakup of the two-parent home.

Catherine Helen Spence

After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.

Beyonce Knowles

You're everything I thought you never were and nothing like I thought you could've been.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Sweet love, sweet thorn, when lightly to my heart. I took your thrust, whereby I since am slain, And I lie disheveled in the grass apart, A sodden thing bedrenched by tears and rain.

William Shakespeare

There lives within the very flame of love A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

Djuna Barnes

None of us suffers as much as we should, or loves as much as we say. Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.

We're looking at a target price on this of $30 and that's right in the neighborhood of where it's at now. It's possible that you could get a little more upside from it, but if you look at the businesses on a cash-flow valuation basis, a breakup wouldn't create that much more value than what we've seen.

Alanis Morissette

Breakups are a horrible thing for almost everybody I know. For someone who is a love addict, it's debilitating.

The reality is, J&J probably doesn't care, ... It has the money to pay whatever breakup fee is involved. I don't see somebody else walking in here and picking up Guidant.

Elizabeth Bishop

Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

Adele

I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.

Adele

I find it quite difficult to think that there's, you know, about 20 million people listening to my album that I wrote very selfishly to get over a breakup. I didn't write it being that it's going to be a hit.

Adele

I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I'm done with being a bitter witch.

Kat Edmonson

For 'Way Down Low', I was particularly inspired by a breakup I was going through and a transition I was making from Austin to New York.

Scott Stapp

My first single is called 'The Great Divide,' and that's also what I'm thinking of calling the album. And in no way is it a reference to the breakup of my former band,

Brittany Murphy

I just always have to cry out a breakup, and then I can make peace with it pretty quickly.

When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.

Amanda Seyfried

It changes you a little bit every time you either break someone's heart or get your heart broken.

Ally Condie

Isn't it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light and view from every angle-it suddenly seems a lot safer to lock them in a box, far from the light of day and throw away the key. It's not an act of bitterness. It's an act if self-preservation. It's not always a bad idea to stay behind the window and look out at life instead, is it?

Alexander Lukashenko

I look at Obama, a young man, a good-looking person. That is my first impression, I feel sorry for him. He looks 100 percent like Lukashenko, when I came to power after the breakup of the Soviet Union

Drew Barrymore

I think a breakup can be the beginning of a friendship. That's not me trying to make everything OK - it's me saying, "No, we love each other. Let's not pretend we don't."

Dorothy Dix

The reason husbands and wives do not understand each other is because they belong to different sexes.

Don Henley

It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers.

Dinaw Mengestu

You see, at the beginning we weren't fighters. We weren't yellers or throwers, even if we eventually came to be. It would take time and much deeper wounds for us to get to that point.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The Soviet Union came apart along ethnic lines. The most important factor in this breakup was the disinclination of Slavic Ukraine to continue under a regime dominated by Slavic Russia. Yugoslavia came apart also, beginning with a brutal clash between Serbia and Croatia, here again 'nations' with only the smallest differences in genealogy; with, indeed, practically a common language. Ethnic conflict does not require great differences; small will do.

David Byrne

We do express our emotions, our reactions to events, breakups and infatuations, but the way we do that - the art of it - is in putting them into prescribed forms or squeezing them into new forms that perfectly fit some emerging context. That’s part of the creative process, and we do it instinctively; we internalize it, like birds do. And it’s a joy to sing, like the birds do.

Angie Everhart

[Marla, Shar and I] all have had very public breakups, so I think people know they can relate with us in one way or another. And this is one of the few reality shows where they didn't have the cameras right in people's faces. Like when we were sitting around the table talking with the divorced people, the cameras were way back. And we just listened. Sometimes people just need an ear.

Andy Rooney

For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed hot woman of 40 +, there is a balding, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of himself with some 22-year-old waitress.

When we finish the season, I tell all the players at our breakup dinner there are three things they need to do to improve. They need to get with a golf professional and fine-tune (their game), they need to practice and they need to compete. That's the way to improve and get better in the future.

Tim Hudson

I think home a week, gone a week is a good breakup of the schedule. What's going to stink is we're only home for five days. You kind of wear it when the schedule isn't in your favor.

Bette Midler

I've always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.

Chelsea Handler

Hulk Hogan's wife has filed for divorce. This is the most devastating breakup since Pam Anderson and Tommy Lee. And then Pam Anderson and Kid Rock. And soon, Pam Anderson and Rick Salomon.

Microsoft did a whole bunch more things wrong after the consent decree. A breakup is not as preposterous today as it was back then.