Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Eggers

Maybe he was more than the sum of his broken parts.

Anthony Burgess

Each man kills the thing he loves.

Andy Stanley

Broken-hearted leaders change things that go beyond their generation.

Andre Gide

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.

Anais Nin

All of my creation is an effort to weave a web of connection with the world: I am always weaving it because it was once broken.

Ann Aguirre

Sometimes broken things heal crooked. The pieces didn’t fit anymore.

Ann Aguirre

We're broken in complementary ways, thus rendering our damage comprehensible to each other.

Ann Aguirre

He has to take me as I am, broken bits and all.

Annie Proulx

...all them things I don't know could get you killed if I come to know them

Anne Sexton

... and my love stays bitterly glowing, spasms of it will not sleep, and I am helpless and thirsty and need shade but there is no one to cover me- not even God.

Anne Sexton

You who have inhabited me in the deepest and most broken place, are going, going

Alice Sebold

Before, they had never found themselves broken together. Usually, it was one needing the other but not both needing each other, and so there had been a way, by touching, to borrow from the stronger one's strength.

Abraham Verghese

According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn't speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did. Still, it's an apt metaphor for our profession. But there's another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family. Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

Abraham Verghese

We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

Abraham Lincoln

Bad promises are better broken than kept.

Amy Lowell

Love is a game-yes? I think it is a drowning.

Amy Lee

We've all fallen, but at the same time we're not broken. There is the hint that we are going to get up again.

Ally Carter

Two days after my dad's funeral, my mom went on a mission. I never understood it until then--that sometimes a spy doesn't need a cover so much as she needs a shield.

Allen Ginsberg

It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ann Brashares

She went around with a broken heart, and she wasn't sure who'd broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly.

Ann Brashares

She'd cried over a broken heart before. She knew what that felt like, and it didn't feel like this. Her heart felt not so much broken as just ... empty. It felt like she was an outline empty in the middle. The outline cried senselessly for the absent middle. The past cried for the present that was nothing.

Andy Behrman

The guilt I felt for having a mental illness was horrible. I prayed for a broken bone that would heal in six weeks. But that never happened. I was cursed with an illness that nobody could see and nobody knew much about.

Andrea Gibson

A doctor once told me I feel too much. I said, so does god. that’s why you can see the grand canyon from the moon.

Amy Winehouse

I don't understand, Why do I stress the man, When there's so many bigger things at hand?

Aesop

Enemies' promises were made to be broken.

John Carroll

The crews responded quickly as the winds crossed into the state, but the damage is very widespread with lots of broken poles and downed trees.

We can't comment about an ongoing investigation. That wasn't on past public record at this point. I have no comment about that. We allege that he broke a number of conditions.

We were able to get some good kickoff returns tonight and were able to set the wedge. James hit it hard and broke it like he should.

E. B. White

When her support system broke down here in Michigan, ... she was faced with some tough decisions.

When he realized he was getting duped he actually broke down and started to cry. He thought these guys were friends and helping him get the pictures off the Internet.

What is broken about the way we are handling subpoenas to the media?

What is broken about the way we are handling matters involving subpoenas to the media? We rarely issue subpoenas to the media seeking information about confidential sources. And when we do, it is only after painstakingly careful review and meticulous adherence to our internal guidelines.

We suspect that high winds broke the pipe that holds the ramp.