Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Green

Even with everything broken and decided inside her she couldn't quite allow herself to disappear for good.

John Green

She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's just broken dawn.

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.

Mark Lawrence

something in me had got broken, but not so broken I didn't remember what it was.

Christina Baker Kline

She knows too well what it's like to tamp down your natural inclinations, to force a smile when you feel numb....The expression of emotion does not come naturally, so yo learn to fake it. To pretend. To display an empathy you don't really feel. And so it is that you learn to pass, if you're lucky, to look like everyone else, even though you're broken inside.

Christina Baker Kline

And so it is that you learn how to pass, if you're lucky, to look like everyone else, even though you're broken inside.

Fran Lebowitz

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw. The second you meet someone that you're going to fall in love with you deliberately become a moron. You do this in order to fall in love, because it would be impossible to fall in love with any human being if you actually saw them for what they are.

George Washington

To place any dependence upon Militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff ... If I was called upon to declare upon Oath , whether the Militia have been most serviceable or hurtful upon the whole; I should subscribe to the latter.

George Packer

It's a cliche that the Senate is broken, and like most cliches, it's true.

George Michael

It's the ones who resist that we most want to kiss, wouldn't you say?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.

Neale Donald Walsch

Do not dismantle the house, but look at each brick, and replace those which appear to be broken, which no longer support the structure.

Nancy Thayer

No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart.

Miguel Indurain

Sooner or later a rider will emerge who will win more Tours. In every sport we have seen how the records eventually get broken and cycling is no exception.

Jonathan Swift

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

Kellan Lutz

I've never broken a bone in my body, even though I've done some extreme things.

James Patterson

This time I wouldn't forget him, because I couldn't ever forgive him - for breaking my heart twice.

Ellen Pompeo

Desire leaves us heartbroken; it wears us out.

Ellen Pompeo

Losing love is like organ damage. It's like dying. The only difference is, death ends. This? It can go on forever.

All of the outages were weather-related - broken poles and power lines down. We expect all of the power to be up by 10 p.m.

And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: / And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.

Hermann Hesse

A soul that is ruined in the bud will frequently return to the springtime of its beginning and its promise-filled childhood, as though it could discover new hopes there and retie the broken threads of life. The shoots grow rapidly and eagerly, but it is only a sham life that will never be a genuine tree.

Henri Nouwen

We are not the healers, we are not the reconcilers, we are not the givers of life. We are sinful, broken, vulnerable people who need as much care as anyone we care for.

Henri Nouwen

Ministry is a very confronting service. It does not allow people to live with illusions of immortality and wholeness. It keeps reminding others that they are mortal and broken, but also that with the recognition of this condition, liberation starts.

Henri Nouwen

Our life is full of brokenness - broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful except by returning again and again to God's faithful presence in our lives.

Hjalmar Schacht

The repeated announcements that the Russian resistance was definitely broken have been proved to be untrue.

Helen Prejean

If you are going to do something for the poor, the abused, or the imprisoned, above all be faithful. People with broken lives often come from lives with broken promises.

Helen Rowland

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Henry Ward Beecher

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Helene Cixous

Only when you are lost can love find itself in you without losing its way.