Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Atwood

Love was like a steamroller. There was no avoiding it; it went over you and you came out flat.

Margaret Atwood

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

Leonardo da Vinci

Black is like a broken vessel, which is deprived of the capacity to contain anything.

Publilius Syrus

The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.

Mitch Albom

Silence is worse when you know it won't be broken.

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.

Gary Bauer

Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken souls.

Christina Baker Kline

She knows too well what it's like to tamp down your natural inclinations, to force a smile when you feel numb....The expression of emotion does not come naturally, so yo learn to fake it. To pretend. To display an empathy you don't really feel. And so it is that you learn to pass, if you're lucky, to look like everyone else, even though you're broken inside.

Christina Baker Kline

And so it is that you learn how to pass, if you're lucky, to look like everyone else, even though you're broken inside.

Christian Louboutin

I wanted to create something that broke rules and made women feel confident and empowered.

Jeremy Grantham

Remember that history always repeats itself. Every great bubble in history has broken. There are no exceptions.

Jean de La Fontaine

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Goenawan Mohamad

History is a promise that is always broken in the end

Fran Lebowitz

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw. The second you meet someone that you're going to fall in love with you deliberately become a moron. You do this in order to fall in love, because it would be impossible to fall in love with any human being if you actually saw them for what they are.

George Washington

To place any dependence upon Militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff ... If I was called upon to declare upon Oath , whether the Militia have been most serviceable or hurtful upon the whole; I should subscribe to the latter.

George Packer

It's a cliche that the Senate is broken, and like most cliches, it's true.

George Michael

It's the ones who resist that we most want to kiss, wouldn't you say?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.

Franz Boas

My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma

Jeanette Winterson

I keep myself locked as a box when it matters, and broken open when it doesn't matter at all.

Jim Carrey

The worst thing in the world when you feel broken is to have somebody coming at you with open-faced love. It becomes incredibly painful.

Jet Li

There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.

Jennifer Weiner

... somehow I couldn't stop. I had turned into someone that I would have pitied in another life; someone who searched for signs, who analyzed patterns, who went over every word in a conversation looking for hidden meanings, secret signals, the subtext that said, Yes, I still love you, of course I still love you.

Jennifer Weiner

Is it still there?" I asked, staring at his head, bent over, as he wedged the stethoscope beneath my left breast. And then, before I could stop myself, "Does it sound broken?

Jeff Abbott

If it's broken, it can be fixed.

Chris Kamara

Statistics are there to be broken.

Chris Hayes

We ask the education system to expiate the sins of the rest of the society and then condemn it as hopelessly broken when it doesn't prove up to the task.

George Tenet

You know, at the end of the day, the only thing you have is trust and honor in this world. That's all you have. All you have is your reputation built on trust and your personal honor. When you don't have that anymore, well, you know, there you go. Trust was broken.

George Steiner

The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.

Gene Tierney

Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.