Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Kreeft

Since we are [Christ's] body, we too are the bread that is broken for others. Our failures help heal other lives; our very tears help wipe away tears; our being hated helps those we love.

Peter Gabriel

Letting go, it's so hard The way it's hurting now To get this love untied So tough to stay with this thing 'cos if I follow through I face what I denied I'll get those hooks out of me And I'll take out the hooks that I sunk deep in your side Kill that fear of emptiness, that loneliness I hide.

Peter Russell

Sometimes we may find that our partner continues to seek satisfaction in ways that we cannot live with. Nevertheless, when we decide to go our own way, we still have a choice as to how we separate. We can separate with bad feelings, blaming the other's faults and unacceptable behaviour, or we can separate with forgiveness, love and understanding.

Phyllis McGinley

A lover would find life less broken apart after a misguided love affair if they could feel that they had been sinful rather than foolish.

Phyllis McGinley

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

Madame de Stael

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

Haruki Murakami

He does not exist here, with me, but flesh that does not exist will never die, and promises unmade are never broken.

Haruki Murakami

What happens when people open their hearts?"... "They get better.

Harlan Coben

Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.

Gustave Flaubert

Stupidity is an immovable object: you can't try to attack it wiithout being broken by it.

John Lyly

The broken bone, once set together, is stronger than ever.

John Lothrop Motley

Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.

Josh Lucas

I had a Southern accent but I had broken it so hard.

Leonard Cohen

Maybe there's a god above but the only thing I learned from love was how to shoot at somebody who outdrew you.

Leonard Cohen

Why don't you try to do without him, why don't you try to live alone? Do you really need his hands for your passion? Do you really need his heart for your throne? Do you need his labor for your baby? Do you need his beast for the bone? Do you need to hold a leash to be a lady? I know that you can make it, you can make it on your own.

Jules Renard

Broken china lasts longer than unbroken.

Josh Billings

A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided - it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never a dollar again.

Karl Kraus

The triumph of morality: A thief who has broken into a bedroom claims his sense of shame had been outraged, and by threatening theoccupants with exposure of an immoral act he blackmails them into not bringing charges for burglary.

Kami Garcia

Maybe it needed to be broken. Sometimes things have to break before you can fix them.

Julie Powell

It's sad, but a relief as well, to know that two things so closely bound together can separate with so little violence.

John Piper

The great barrier to worship among God's people is not that we are always seeking our own satisfaction, but that our seeking is so weak and half-hearted that we settle for little sips at broken cisterns when the fountain of life is just over the next hill.

John Piper

The very longing for contentment that ought to drive us to simplicity of life and labors of love contents itself instead with the broken cisterns of prosperity and comfort.

Mark Spitz

Life is true to form, records are meant to be broken

Mark Pellegrino

Broken people misuse their power while people who have values don't use their powers in a way that harms.

Marilyn Hacker

Did you love well what very soon you left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache. Never so full, I never was bereft so utterly. The winter evenings drift dark to the window. Not one work will make you, where you are, turn in your day, or wake from your night toward me. The only gift I got to keep or give is what I've cried, floodgates let down to mourning for the dead chances, for the end of being young, for everyone I loved who really died. I drank our one year out in brine instead of honey from the seasons of your tongue.

Ovid

It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears.

Ovid

Take away leisure and Cupid's bow is broken

Martha Gellhorn

A broken heart is such a shabby thing, like poverty and failure and the incurable diseases which are also deforming. I hate it and am ashamed of it, and I must somehow repair this heart and put it back into its normal condition, as a tough somewhat scarred but operating organ.

Paul Scholes

Nobody has ever had to go off following one of my tackles and nobody has broken their leg.

Paul Haggis

I’m a deeply broken person, and broken institutions fascinate me.

Jodi Picoult

But there is a different between mending someone who's broken and finding someone who makes you complete.

Jodi Picoult

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

Jodi Picoult

do you fix a wheel that isn't broken, or do you wait until the cart collapses?