Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paulo Coelho

What was broken will never be the same again.

Quintilian

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

Philip Yancey

Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world.

Mother Teresa

I know i am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering.

Victor Hugo

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

Sarah Dessen

Some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic.

Sandra Bullock

You don't. It doesn't work. One day, you wake up, and you've learned how to store it, and you go to another part of the heart.

Rod McKuen

I cannot speculate on what our cluttered mind will save- sleepy Sundays, or a nosebleed after love. I know only the dying heart needs the nourishment of memory to live beyond too many winters.

Sarah McLachlan

Deadlines are meant to be broken. And I just keep breaking them.

Sara Teasdale

It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.

Samuel Johnson

Rash oaths, whether kept or broken, frequently produce guilt.

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.

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?

Rudy Giuliani

St. Paul's Chapel stands - without so much as a broken window. Little miracle.

Samuel Johnson

Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain; and how shall we do that for others, which we are seldom able to do for ourselves.

Samuel Johnson

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

Samuel Johnson

Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.

Virgil

Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships.

Vincent Van Gogh

Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the truly passionate painter who dares-and who has once broken the spell of 'you can't.'

Wayne Dyer

Know that no one is capable of making you upset without your consent.

Wallace Stegner

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other; To mutter and mock a broken charm, To dally with wrong that does no harm.

Salma Hayek

My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!

Salman Rushdie

People don't like being around despair. Our tolerance for the truly hopeless, for those who are irredeemably broken by life is strictly limited. The sob stories we like are the ones that end before we're bored.

Ryan Reynolds

I've done things to my body, mechanically, that I'll never do again. I've done stunts that I shouldn't have done 10, 11, 12 times. I've broken a ton of bones on sets.

Wangari Maathai

When people can't use you, they ridicule what you represent. I was lucky that I understood that, because when one does not understand that, it is very easy to be broken and to be subdued.

Van Morrison

I like [George] Benson because I just like it. I like that kind of style. I don't like the broken up kind of style. I don't like where you play for 16 bars and then break it up into what somebody's version of what birds twittering sounds like, or what the sound of the city is, or what New York sounds like.

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.