Famous Quotes & Sayings

Her building was still standing, but everything around her was destroyed. There's no electricity, the windows are broken and she wants to move up here too.

Gov. Schwarzenegger broke his promise to protect injured workers. He has not fixed workers' compensation, as he claims, but has made things worse for Californians injured on the job.

For the first time this year, our interior defense broke down. That's an indication that you are a little shook. You quit doing things that got you there.

Giotto di Bondone

The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars.

Geraldine McCaughrean

[Peter Pan] has never broken his terrible habit of eavesdropping. So, maybe that wasn't the rustle of pages you heard while this story lasted, but Peter Pan himself, listening in. In exchanged for a story of yours, he might show you his most prized possession: James Hooks' map of Neverland. In exchange for a smile, he may show you Neverland itself.

Gilbert Parker

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.

George Herbert

Your pot broken seemes better then my whole one.

Jerry B. Jenkins

Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.

Giacomo Casanova

Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Renewed friendships require more care than those that have never been broken.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

Asafa Powell

If I thought about (the record), I would have broken it but the key is to have fun. (The fans) are crazy out here. It's like I was in Jamaica. I'm excited to see the people. The fans are what fuel me.

Jonathan King

If I'd broken them, I'd have deserved on-going payment, but since I didn't manage to, the future depended on their own endeavors.

John Nash

If he had broken the law, or was more culpable, perhaps. It was an accident. It wasn't an intentional violation.

Joschka Fischer

If (entry talks) are broken off and the shards are lying on the floor, then it will become damn costly for us,

Phil Jackson

I felt they were self-directed out there. They knew what they wanted to run. They broke down the double-teams and I didn't have to burn timeouts to explain it to them. That was satisfying to me.

I decided he would come back with another curve ball. It broke right over the inside part of the plate.

I certainly didn't think that we would get back together after we broke up in the '80s, but there you go.

I can only remember two times in the first half where we executed the offense the way we do in practice. We collectively panicked. You can dig yourself a hole, but if you're disciplined, you can dig your way out. But we got rattled and just broke down. The thing I'm most disappointed in is we didn't give ourselves a chance to win. So much of it was us stopping ourselves.

I couldn't take the news last night. We all broke down and we cried. They're saying he's a lunatic. He's not a terrorist.

I am of the mind if something isn't broken then don't try and fix it.

I feel healthy. It's plain and simple. I've been struggling with injuries. Two broken legs the past three years doesn't help. I went through a full season in pain last year and just suffered. Going into the summer, I knew I had to get better or else I probably wouldn't be ski racing after this year. I just couldn't handle it.

He's not imposing to other players until he hits -- then he's imposing. He hit a guy in center ice, with his shoulder, a clean hit. The guy had his head down, and he ended up with a broken jaw and a concussion.

John Gilmore

How many of you have broken no laws this month? That's the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee - with physics and mathematics, not with laws - that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications.

Jackson Pollock

I continue to get further away from the usual painters tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added.

Carrie: Honey, if it hurts so much, why are we going shopping?Samantha: I have a broken toe, not a broken spirit.

Jack White

I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.

James Frey

There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.

J. R. R. Tolkien

After some time he felt for his pipe. It was not broken, and that was something. Then he felt for his pouch, and there was some tobacco in it, and that was something more. Then he felt for matches and he could not find any at all, and that shattered his hopes completely.

Isaac Marion

There’s not really such thing as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people, there’s just like…humanity. And it gets broken sometimes.

Before the election, that information (that scientists were making public) could have been the straw that broke the camel?s back.

Charles Darwin and I and you broke off from the family tree from chimpanzees about five million years ago. They're still our closest genetic kin. We share 98.8 percent of the genes. We share more genes with them than zebras do with horses. And we're also their closest cousin. They have more genetic relation to us than to gorillas.

Edgar Prado

Hopefully he's back. He broke sharp and was right with those horses from the go. ... He never gave up. I was very happy with his race.