Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Woolman

My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I looked for help in the dangers before me.

Meg Ryan

I love what you might call brutal elegance. Where form and function are really obvious. There is nothing easily broken in this house.

Max Brooks

They didn't break me. I broke myself.

Matthew Quick

I feel like I’m broken—like I don’t fit together anymore. Like there’s no more room for me in the world or something. Like I’ve overstayed my welcome here on Earth, and everyone’s trying to give me hints about that constantly. Like I should just check out.

Matthew Dowd

The president broke his bond with the public. Once that bond was broken, he no longer had the capacity to talk to the American public. State of the Union addresses? It didn't matter. Legislative initiatives? It didn't matter. P.R.? It didn't matter. Travel? It didn't matter.

Mark Shields

George W. Bush in 2000 went to private financing for the nomination, but he accepted public funding in the general. And, quite frankly, so did - it was broken in 2008, when Barack Obama decided he wasn't going to do that.

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.

Peter Akinola

Let there be no illusions. The Communion is broken and fragmented. The Communion will break.

Marlee Matlin

I'm not broke. Like everybody else, I owe money.

Mariah Carey

My heart has never been broken, I've never broken anyone else's.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

I looked at her, and she was smiling like she was broken.

Maya Angelou

But from a distance. I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less.

Matthieu Ricard

Anyone who enjoys inner peace is no more broken by failure as he is inflated by success. He is able to fully live his experiences in the context of a vast and profound serenity, since he understands that experiences are ephemeral and that it is useless to cling to them.

Mark Lawrence

something in me had got broken, but not so broken I didn't remember what it was.

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.

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.

I guess it's the law of averages. We had the reputation for getting 3-year-olds ready and everyone kept rooting for us but we never broke through.

If there were 100 million music players shipping a year, which we think will happen by the end of the decade, people might go with Dell. Dell never broke out of the 'everybody else' category.

If there is a service and you have to pay for it, people are going to find a way around it and use something else. There are so many things out there; there is no reason to pay for it. From an artist's point of view, it kind of sucks, but from my point of view, I'm broke and I don't buy CDs.

I just continually reinforced to keep taking the open shots and they will come. And when they did it was in a two or three minute burst and we broke the game open.

Kurt Busch

I ran out of gas when I got into the garage area, and Jimmy Spencer ran into the back of my car. I was still in the car when he approached me with obvious anger. Words were exchanged, but I was still strapped in my seat with my helmet off when he struck me in the face. He broke my tooth and bloodied my nose.

I realized very early on . . . that (Marley) was going to be one of the most important singers in the world. He was the one that broke through and took reggae music global.