Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rex Stout

Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.

Spencer Bachus

However, in recent years our nation has seen a sizable influx of illegal immigration that at best highlights some alarming inadequacies and at worst indicates a broken system.

Thomas Jefferson

The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens...must be broken, or it will break us.

Victoria Woodhull

When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.

Victor Hugo

All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.

Usain Bolt

It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.

Suzanne Collins

If he wants me broken, then I will have to be whole.

Suzanne Collins

The pain over my heart returns, and from it I imagine tiny fissures spreading out into my body. Through my torso, down my arms and legs, over my face, leaving it crisscrossed with cracks. One good jolt...and I could shatter into strange razor-sharp shards.

Stephen King

A broken spoon may be a fork in disguise.

Stephenie Meyer

I'd been broken beyond repair.

Richard Flanagan

In the end you're not made or broken by prizes. Your relationship is with your readers, not a prize, and you just have to keep on honoring that.

Richard Rohr

Until we learn to love others as ourselves, it's difficult to blame broken people who desperately try to affirm themselves when no one else will.

Tullian Tchividjian

We are broken people living in a broken world with other broken people. We all need grace.

Tupac Shakur

How many pistols smoking coming from a broken family?

Susan Jeffers

Rejection never feels good, but it certainly hurts less when we are not needing something from the person who is rejecting us.

Sue Monk Kidd

When had my fear of broken plates gotten so grandiose? My desire for extravagant moments so small?

Robert Burns

But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou'd sae kindly, Had we never lou'd sae blindly, Never met - or never parted - We had ne'er been broken hearted

Robert Browning

On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.

Ricky Skaggs

I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened, I was so broken up. After that, I decided to seek God for my life and my next marriage.

T. S. Eliot

For you know only a heap of broken images

Suze Orman

When you've been battered down and battered down and battered down, your spirit gets broken.

Robert Atkins

Don't fix what's not broken.

Rob Pike

There's nothing in computing that can't be broken by another level of indirection.

Richard M. Nixon

History is a pathetic junkyard of broken treaties.

Lil Wayne

Here’s my most funniest joke, I’m broke.

Leo Tolstoy

Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?

Lauren Hutton

I had always broken the rules.

Lauren Groff

Everything is cyclical. Historical eras go through times of intense cynicism, broken by periods of intense idealism.

Lewis B. Smedes

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.

Lewis H. Lapham

Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned.

Lewis H. Lapham

Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned. If no individual or institution possesses the authority to act without of everybody else in the room, then nobody is at fault if anything goes wrong.

Lewis Black

I was broke until I was 40. Really broke. I could get by, but I had nothing.

Lewis Carroll

"The horror of that moment," the King went on, "I shall never, never forget!" "You will, though," the Queen said, "if you don't make a memorandum of it."