Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mother Teresa

Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry for a piece of bread. Perhaps our children, husband, wife, are not hungry, or naked, or dispossessed, but are you sure there is no one there who feels unwanted, deprived of affection?

Mike Jackson

The system is broken, and we can fix it. It's not hard. We just have to do the work.

Peter Kreeft

Since we are [Christ's] body, we too are the bread that is broken for others. Our failures help heal other lives; our very tears help wipe away tears; our being hated helps those we love.

Peter Gabriel

Letting go, it's so hard The way it's hurting now To get this love untied So tough to stay with this thing 'cos if I follow through I face what I denied I'll get those hooks out of me And I'll take out the hooks that I sunk deep in your side Kill that fear of emptiness, that loneliness I hide.

Peter Russell

Sometimes we may find that our partner continues to seek satisfaction in ways that we cannot live with. Nevertheless, when we decide to go our own way, we still have a choice as to how we separate. We can separate with bad feelings, blaming the other's faults and unacceptable behaviour, or we can separate with forgiveness, love and understanding.

Phyllis McGinley

A lover would find life less broken apart after a misguided love affair if they could feel that they had been sinful rather than foolish.

Phyllis McGinley

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

Rachel Cohn

It broke the spell. It's not that I stopped being happy. I was still inexplicably, utterly happy. But suddenly the happiness had implications.

Terence McKenna

A singularity is a place where the rules are broken. A miracle is a singularity.

Shelby Lynne

I like rules that are broken.

Leonard Nimoy

A stallion must first be broken before it can reach its potential.

Lena Headey

There's nothing more exciting for an actor than a chance to lose, to be someone who has lost - especially if it's someone who starts off with a veneer of control. To be broken is wonderful.

Usain Bolt

It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.

Suzanne Collins

If he wants me broken, then I will have to be whole.

Suzanne Collins

The pain over my heart returns, and from it I imagine tiny fissures spreading out into my body. Through my torso, down my arms and legs, over my face, leaving it crisscrossed with cracks. One good jolt...and I could shatter into strange razor-sharp shards.

Stephen King

A broken spoon may be a fork in disguise.

Stephenie Meyer

I'd been broken beyond repair.

Shia LaBeouf

None of my friends were ever as broke as I was.

Shannen Doherty

The lesson that I learned is that you can't drop everything for one person. I've done that and that person has broken up with me, and I've had nothing.

Thora Birch

I think only stupid people have good relationships.

Ringo Starr

I've never broken a bone in my life, or in my body.

Tim Allen

If it ain't broke, you can probably still fix it.

Toni Morrison

I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

Tom Udall

The Senate as an institution is broken. We're not doing the work of the American people and the rules are being abused. The only way to get us back to the traditions where the Senate is doing the work of the American people is to change the rules.

Tom Perrotta

Once you'd broken through that invisible barrier that separates one person from another, you were connected forever, whether you liked it or not.

Tina Louise

It's a surer way to a woman's heart to be interested in what she's thinking than what she's wearing or not wearing.

Sylvia Plath

The moon, too, abases her subjects, but in the daytime she is ridiculous. Your dissatisfactions, on the other hand, arrive through the mailslot with loving regularity, white and blank, expansive as carbon monoxide. No day is safe from news of you, walking about in Africa maybe, but thinking of me.

Sylvia Plath

My thoughts are crabbed and sallow, My tears like vinegar, Or the bitter blinking yellow Of an acetic star. Tonight the caustic wind, love, Gossips late and soon, And I wear the wry-faced pucker of The sour lemon moon. While like an early summer plum, Puny, green, and tart, Droops upon its wizened stem My lean, unripened heart.

Rosario Dawson

It was funny actually because that was still during the time we were dating. He would get all these calls because supposedly before we broke up, we had already broken up in the trades, in the rags or whatever.

Rupert Brooke

I thought when love for you died, I should die. It's dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on.

Rumi

You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in absence.

Rumi

This that is tormented and very tired, tortured with restraints like a madman, this heart.

Rumi

If you don't try to fly and so break yourself apart, you will be broken open by death, when it's too late for all you could become.