Famous Quotes & Sayings

Franz Boas

My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma

Jeanette Winterson

I keep myself locked as a box when it matters, and broken open when it doesn't matter at all.

Jim Carrey

The worst thing in the world when you feel broken is to have somebody coming at you with open-faced love. It becomes incredibly painful.

Jet Li

There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.

Jennifer Weiner

... somehow I couldn't stop. I had turned into someone that I would have pitied in another life; someone who searched for signs, who analyzed patterns, who went over every word in a conversation looking for hidden meanings, secret signals, the subtext that said, Yes, I still love you, of course I still love you.

Jennifer Weiner

Is it still there?" I asked, staring at his head, bent over, as he wedged the stethoscope beneath my left breast. And then, before I could stop myself, "Does it sound broken?

Jeff Abbott

If it's broken, it can be fixed.

George Herbert

A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.

Christopher Columbus

I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass.

Chris Kamara

Statistics are there to be broken.

Chris Hayes

We ask the education system to expiate the sins of the rest of the society and then condemn it as hopelessly broken when it doesn't prove up to the task.

George Tenet

You know, at the end of the day, the only thing you have is trust and honor in this world. That's all you have. All you have is your reputation built on trust and your personal honor. When you don't have that anymore, well, you know, there you go. Trust was broken.

George Steiner

The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.

Gene Tierney

Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.

George Edward Woodberry

"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.

Feist

Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene its not one-on-one, its a one-on-12. Its very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

Federico Garcia Lorca

But hurry, let's entwine ourselves as one, our mouth broken, our soul bitten by love, so time discovers us safely destroyed.

Evel Knievel

There are a lot of myths about my injuries. They say I have broken every bone in my body. Not true. But I have broken 35 bones. I had surgery 14 times to pin and plate. I shattered my pelvis. I forget all of the things that have broke.

Eve Ensler

Stop trying to fix your body. It was never broken.

Francine Pascal

Love was more than blind. It was deaf and dumb, too. It was catatonic. It was vegetative.

Jean de La Fontaine

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Goenawan Mohamad

History is a promise that is always broken in the end

Harper Lee

I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society.

Horace Bushnell

As long as we abide in Christ, our action is from Him, not from our own corrupt and broken nature.

Hope Solo

My family doesn't do happy endings. We do sad endings or frustrating endings or no endings at all. We are hardwired to expect the next interruption or disappearance or broken promise.

He's the kind of person, unlike so many others, that will step forward and help. He's the kind of person who pulls over when he sees someone's car is broken down. This is a case of good intentions misinterpreted and an example of why people don't help each other anymore.

Carmelo Anthony

He's looking good - better than what I thought he (would) coming back from a broken hand. He's looking real good.

George Bernard Shaw

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

George Bernard Shaw

It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Shaul Mofaz

broken the track that was supposed to give the diplomatic process a chance.

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Broken down per person in the U.S., the cost so far is $277 per person, making the Iraq War the most expensive military effort in the past 60 years,

Broken down per person in the United States, the cost so far is $US727, making the Iraq war the most expensive military effort in the past 60 years.