Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Gaiman

Even the proudest spirit can be broken with love.

John Piper

God has ordained that our preaching become deeper and more winsome as we are broken, humbled, and made low and desperately dependent on grace by the trials of our lives.

John Piper

The great barrier to worship among God's people is not that we are always seeking our own satisfaction, but that our seeking is so weak and half-hearted that we settle for little sips at broken cisterns when the fountain of life is just over the next hill.

John Piper

The very longing for contentment that ought to drive us to simplicity of life and labors of love contents itself instead with the broken cisterns of prosperity and comfort.

Mark Tobey

The Cubists used the figure, but they broke it up..

Mark Spitz

Life is true to form, records are meant to be broken

Mark Pellegrino

Broken people misuse their power while people who have values don't use their powers in a way that harms.

Marilyn Hacker

Did you love well what very soon you left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache. Never so full, I never was bereft so utterly. The winter evenings drift dark to the window. Not one work will make you, where you are, turn in your day, or wake from your night toward me. The only gift I got to keep or give is what I've cried, floodgates let down to mourning for the dead chances, for the end of being young, for everyone I loved who really died. I drank our one year out in brine instead of honey from the seasons of your tongue.

Seth Godin

No more than six words on a slide. Ever. There is no presentation so complex that this rule needs to be broken.

Seth Godin

Blaming the system is soothing because it lets you off the hook. But when the system is broken, we wonder why you were relying in the system in the first place.

Sitting Bull

As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.

Mercy Otis Warren

The waves have rolled upon me, the billows are repeatedly broken over me, yet I am not sunk down.

Michael Behe

For example, both humans and chimps have a broken copy of a gene that in other mammals helps make vitamin C. ... It's hard to imagine how there could be stronger evidence for common ancestry of chimps and humans. ... Despite some remaining puzzles, there's no reason to doubt that Darwin had this point right, that all creatures on earth are biological relatives.

The idea is that whenever you have a broken nerve connection, you can supply the electrical impulse to complete the circuit.

The Florida legislature has the opportunity to fix our broken legal system by passing reform legislation to stop abusive lawsuits and inject personal responsibility back into our courts. Florida citizens want to see fairness in our courts, not more junk lawsuits. Now is the time for citizens to urge their elected officials to take action.

The flood never broke a pane of glass. There was no real structural damage by the flood, just a lot of mud on the floors, but we got the chance to update the building and do some renovations that were needed.

You don't have to spend time fixing the old broken system. You've got to spend time building and developing a performing system from scratch.

Jake Gyllenhaal

When I was 19, I thought [Brokeback Mountain] was going to be the best movie ever made. And everyone was going to see it and it was just going to be incredible. And then nobody saw it and it didn't get bought at Sundance. And it was a really great experience. Humbling. And then it's since found its way.

Henry Rollins

To get a human through a life, lives of broken bones, knock-me-over-with-a-feather susceptibility to myriad viruses, and whatever else might befall someone will cost money.

Henry Rollins

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

Henry Rollins

I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do.

Henry Adams

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

Henry Adams

You say that love is nonsense. I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.

Patricia Briggs

Sometimes broken people stay broken.

Patricia Briggs

It is the way of mortals. They fling themselves at life and emerge broken.

Pablo Neruda

And what has become of it, where is that onetime love? Now it is the grave of a bird, a drop of black quartz, a chunk of wood eroded by the rain.

Pablo Neruda

my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping but I shall go on living.

Paula Fox

My life was incoherent to me. I felt it quivering, spitting out broken teeth.

Lee Child

Now they broke my toothbrush, I don't own anything.

Lauryn Hill

As painful as this thing has been I just can't be with no one else. See I know what we've got to do. You let go, and I'll let go too. 'Cause no one's hurt me more than you And no one ever will.

Laini Taylor

He wanted to tell her that everything he had done he had done because he was broken, because watching her die had destroyed him, but there was no way to say it that didn’t sound like he was trying to pin the blame outside himself

Laini Taylor

With the infinite patience of one who has learned to live broken, he awaited her return.

Lisa See

i would rather be married to broken jade than flawless clay