Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kelly Miller

Germany expected that at the most a day or so would see Belgian resistance broken and the dash on Paris begun. It was not safe to start such a forward rush with Belgium unconquered.

Rainbow Rowell

And when Eleanor smiled, something broke inside of him. Something always did.

Rainbow Rowell

That's the ultimate kind of broken. The kind of damage you never recover from.

Rainbow Rowell

I'd rather be broken than wasted.

Liam Fox

We are not in Afghanistan for the sake of the education policy in a broken 13th-century country. We are there so the people of Britain and our global interests are not threatened.

Laura Bell Bundy

I've always sort of felt a little bit like I was on the road less traveled, so if I come across a story about a person who broke the rules, or did things differently and succeeded, that's really inspiring to me.

Tennessee Williams

What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your fingers, until your fingers are broken?

Rick Riordan

Yes,' she said. 'The Great Prophecy has begun.' Pandemonium broke out.

Ross MacDonald

We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete.

Roger Mahony

The church also does not condone a broken immigration system in the U.S., one that too easily can lead to the exploitation, abuse and even death of immigrants.

Vito Fossella

From the Bush Administration to the 9-11 Commission, there is an urgent and universally recognized need to change the broken formula through which Homeland Security grant money currently is allocated to our first responders.

William Butler Yeats

Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned...

William Butler Yeats

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?

Walter Savage Landor

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.

Walter Scott

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

Yogi Berra

Records and achievements are made to be broken.

Yogi Berra

Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.

Winona Ryder

It's really good to be able to think about past loves without having a pit in my stomach, or cringing or feeling heart-broken, or like they hate you. Don't you think?

Willie Aames

It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.

Woodrow Wilson

Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken.

William J. Clinton

Nobody is right all the time and even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Will Estes

I try to date, but I take it so seriously. I am bad at having a casual relationship, so I kind of don't.

Will Durant

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

Sara Zarr

My whole life has been one big broken promise.

Saint Augustine

When regard for truth has been broken down or even slightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

Winston Churchill

The Russians will try all the rooms in a house, enter those that are not locked, and when they come to one that cannot be broken into, they will withdraw and invite you to dine genially that same evening.

Zachary Quinto

I probably get eight straight hours of acting in an entire season or two seasons of Suits. It's broken into such small pieces.

Wendell Berry

Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is how ordinary, how commonly attainable, health is. We lose our health -- and create profitable diseases and dependencies -- by failing to see the direct connections between living and eating, eating and working, working and loving.

Yoko Ono

Kill all the men you have slept with. Put the bones in a box and send it into the sea with flowers.

Yann Martel

How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?

William Osler

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.