Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Paton

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

We want the people of Clarksdale to know we are neither broke nor nasty.

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.

Bruno Schulz

As we manipulate everyday words, we forget that they are fragments of ancient and eternal stories, that we are building our houses with broken pieces of sculptures and ruined statues of gods as the barbarians did.

Carl Icahn

And I'm convinced, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that you can work with the unions because the unions want to survive. If they are confronted simply with the question: "Do you want this company to survive or do you want it to be broken up?" they will listen. It's their livelihood.

The one thing that we did today is that we broke their will,

Mitch Daniels

We've already broke ground on three new plants and plan several more in the coming years,

J. J. Johnson

We struggled for a little while. Our team chemistry had broke down, but we got it back.

Mark Cuban

I learned how to become wealthy because I asked the right questions when I was broke.

Edith Wharton

Life's just a perpetual piecing together of broken bits.

We actually gave him a raise. That had been building up for a month or so. It wasn't scripted, unfortunately; he just got a little carried away. That wasn't his bass, so he was a little bummed out that he broke someone else's guitar.

Deb Caletti

Sometimes that´s all you need…, to know it´s not broken. To know you’re still whole and that you’ll heal.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Though we are incomplete, God loves us completely. Though we are imperfect, He loves us perfectly. Though we may feel lost and without compass, God's love encompasses us completely. ... He loves every one of us, even those who are flawed, rejected, awkward, sorrowful, or broken.

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.

Diana Gabaldon

If she was broken, she would slash him with her jagged edges, reckless as a drunkard with a shattered bottle.

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?

C. S. Lewis

Cobbles and kettledrums! ...I hope this madness isn't going to end in a moonlit climb and broken necks.

Will Rogers

When everybody has got money they cut taxes, and when they're broke they raise 'em. That's statesmanship of the highest order.

When he found out, he had a broken heart. He gave up.

Charlotte Bronte

But I tell you--and mark my words--you will come some day to a craggy pass in the channel, where the whole of life's stream will be broken up into whirl and tumult, foam and noise: either you will be dashed to atoms on crag points, or lifted up and borne on by some master-wave into a calmer current...

Charlotte Bronte

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

Cheryl Cole

It's the broken plans you have made that are the hardest to get over.

Charlaine Harris

When you've been really beaten, you realize that you are just an envelope of skin, an easily penetrated envelope that holds together a lot of fluids and some rigid structures, which in their turn can simply be broken and invaded.

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.

Bikram Choudhury

You are never too old or too broken. It is never too late to begin, or to start all over again.