Famous Quotes & Sayings

Naomi Wolf

The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon them.

Olympia Brown

The Old Testament teems with prophecies of the Messiah, but nowhere is it intimated that that Messiah is to stand as a God to be worshipped. He is to bring peace on earth, to build up the waste places--to comfort the broken-hearted, but nowhere is he spoken of as a deity.

Michael C. Hall

Marriage, children-you never expect it to end in tragedy. Unless you're me.

Melanie Rawn

The future is not set in stone, and even if it was, stone can be broken.

Mason Cooley

Reason cannot break out of its own loop.

Michael Chabon

Along the way, he or she discovers that the world has been broken for as long as anyone can remember. Everyone, sooner or later, gets a thorough schooling in brokenness. The question becomes what to do with the pieces?

Michelle Williams

I don't know what my version of a relationship or marriage is yet, because the typical model seems a little broken to me.

Michel Foucault

The constitution of madness as a mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, affords the evidence of a broken dialogue, posits the separation as already effected, and thrusts into oblivion all those stammered, imperfect words without fixed syntax in which the exchange between madness and reason was made. The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue of reason about madness, has been established only on the basis of such a silence.

Marie Lu

I scream for everything that has gone wrong. I scream for everything broken in our lives.

The guys found that the concession and two storage buildings were broken into. There were food products dumped in the parking lot, tipped-over planters and damage to a wood railed fence and the in-line hockey field.

Erik Estrada

I had a major motorcycle accident on CHIPs that gave me a 50-50 chance to live. I broke a lot of bones and fractured ribs and broken wrists.

The combination of strong growth in the U.S., euro zone and Japan at the same time is bearish for bonds, so it is not surprising that yields in all three regions have either just broken out of their recent ranges or are not far from doing so.

The chain of cultural memory has broken down. I get kids in my class whose mothers and fathers didn't have a clue about cooking, and they're lost. There's a gap and it's just part of the culture.

The communication has not completely broken down, but the talks have.

Rainer Maria Rilke

We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.

Seal

Fearless people,Careless needle.Harsh words spoken,And lives are broken.

Michael Penn

Knowing when it is over is the beginning of a new life and the end of an old one.

Michael Phelps

Records are always made to be broken no matter what they are. Anybody can do anything that they set their mind to.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.

Neil Gaiman

Even the proudest spirit can be broken with love.

John Piper

God has ordained that our preaching become deeper and more winsome as we are broken, humbled, and made low and desperately dependent on grace by the trials of our lives.

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.

Seth Godin

No more than six words on a slide. Ever. There is no presentation so complex that this rule needs to be broken.

Seth Godin

Blaming the system is soothing because it lets you off the hook. But when the system is broken, we wonder why you were relying in the system in the first place.

Sitting Bull

As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.

Mercy Otis Warren

The waves have rolled upon me, the billows are repeatedly broken over me, yet I am not sunk down.

Michael Behe

For example, both humans and chimps have a broken copy of a gene that in other mammals helps make vitamin C. ... It's hard to imagine how there could be stronger evidence for common ancestry of chimps and humans. ... Despite some remaining puzzles, there's no reason to doubt that Darwin had this point right, that all creatures on earth are biological relatives.

The idea is that whenever you have a broken nerve connection, you can supply the electrical impulse to complete the circuit.

The Florida legislature has the opportunity to fix our broken legal system by passing reform legislation to stop abusive lawsuits and inject personal responsibility back into our courts. Florida citizens want to see fairness in our courts, not more junk lawsuits. Now is the time for citizens to urge their elected officials to take action.