Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henri Nouwen

Ministry is a very confronting service. It does not allow people to live with illusions of immortality and wholeness. It keeps reminding others that they are mortal and broken, but also that with the recognition of this condition, liberation starts.

Henri Nouwen

Our life is full of brokenness - broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful except by returning again and again to God's faithful presence in our lives.

Hjalmar Schacht

The repeated announcements that the Russian resistance was definitely broken have been proved to be untrue.

Helen Prejean

If you are going to do something for the poor, the abused, or the imprisoned, above all be faithful. People with broken lives often come from lives with broken promises.

Helen Rowland

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Henry Ward Beecher

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Helene Cixous

Only when you are lost can love find itself in you without losing its way.

Naomi Wolf

The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon them.

Orson Welles

I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.

Ornette Coleman

I wasn't so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard. That's why I'm broke.

Olympia Brown

The Old Testament teems with prophecies of the Messiah, but nowhere is it intimated that that Messiah is to stand as a God to be worshipped. He is to bring peace on earth, to build up the waste places--to comfort the broken-hearted, but nowhere is he spoken of as a deity.

Michael C. Hall

Marriage, children-you never expect it to end in tragedy. Unless you're me.

Melanie Rawn

The future is not set in stone, and even if it was, stone can be broken.

Mason Cooley

Reason cannot break out of its own loop.

Michael Chabon

Along the way, he or she discovers that the world has been broken for as long as anyone can remember. Everyone, sooner or later, gets a thorough schooling in brokenness. The question becomes what to do with the pieces?

Michelle Williams

I don't know what my version of a relationship or marriage is yet, because the typical model seems a little broken to me.

Michel Foucault

The constitution of madness as a mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, affords the evidence of a broken dialogue, posits the separation as already effected, and thrusts into oblivion all those stammered, imperfect words without fixed syntax in which the exchange between madness and reason was made. The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue of reason about madness, has been established only on the basis of such a silence.

Marie Lu

I scream for everything that has gone wrong. I scream for everything broken in our lives.

The ice broke off and they started floating out and the ice was getting smaller and smaller as it melted. We had to get rescue personnel out there.

The European markets will play catch-down this morning. Sentiment finally broke down after disappointing earnings releases and a further increase in the price of oil.

The guys found that the concession and two storage buildings were broken into. There were food products dumped in the parking lot, tipped-over planters and damage to a wood railed fence and the in-line hockey field.

Erik Estrada

I had a major motorcycle accident on CHIPs that gave me a 50-50 chance to live. I broke a lot of bones and fractured ribs and broken wrists.

Eric Thomas

If you take the knowledge out of my head and take the experiences that I have, I'm broke. I'm nothing.

The combination of strong growth in the U.S., euro zone and Japan at the same time is bearish for bonds, so it is not surprising that yields in all three regions have either just broken out of their recent ranges or are not far from doing so.

The first time, he was knocked off the post. The second time someone broke him off the post and threw him down the river. A member of the road safety team was out fishing and saw Smiley Sid floating down the river.

The city is broke and I'm sure some of you businesses are feeling the same angst.

The chain of cultural memory has broken down. I get kids in my class whose mothers and fathers didn't have a clue about cooking, and they're lost. There's a gap and it's just part of the culture.

The communication has not completely broken down, but the talks have.

Rainer Maria Rilke

We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.

Seal

Fearless people,Careless needle.Harsh words spoken,And lives are broken.

Michael Penn

Knowing when it is over is the beginning of a new life and the end of an old one.

Michael Phelps

Records are always made to be broken no matter what they are. Anybody can do anything that they set their mind to.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.