Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Lothrop Motley

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

Elyn Saks

No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness

Emanuel Cleaver

Social Security is a covenant that should not be broken.

Elizabeth Gilbert

That's just your ego, trying to make sure it stays in charge. This is what ego does. It keeps you feeling separate, keeps you with a sense of duality, tries to convince you that you're flawed and broken and alone instead of whole.

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.

Louise Penny

Things are strongest where they're broken.

Lorene Scafaria

There's this part of Judaism that I like. Tikun Alum. It said that the world is broken into pieces and everyone has to find it.

Gael Garcia Bernal

In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken.

Gabrielle Zevin

The truth is, sometimes too much can happen in a relationship, and then there's nothing anyone can do or say. It's broken.

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.

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.

Luis Gutierrez

It is so difficult to, day in and day out, hear these incredibly painful stories of the destructive nature of our broken immigration system.

Matthieu Ricard

Anyone who enjoys inner peace is no more broken by failure as he is inflated by success. He is able to fully live his experiences in the context of a vast and profound serenity, since he understands that experiences are ephemeral and that it is useless to cling to them.

Meg Ryan

I love what you might call brutal elegance. Where form and function are really obvious. There is nothing easily broken in this house.

Matthew Quick

I feel like I’m broken—like I don’t fit together anymore. Like there’s no more room for me in the world or something. Like I’ve overstayed my welcome here on Earth, and everyone’s trying to give me hints about that constantly. Like I should just check out.

Matthew Dowd

The president broke his bond with the public. Once that bond was broken, he no longer had the capacity to talk to the American public. State of the Union addresses? It didn't matter. Legislative initiatives? It didn't matter. P.R.? It didn't matter. Travel? It didn't matter.

Mark Shields

George W. Bush in 2000 went to private financing for the nomination, but he accepted public funding in the general. And, quite frankly, so did - it was broken in 2008, when Barack Obama decided he wasn't going to do that.

Frank Martin

The gate wasn't unlocked. It was broken or taken off.

The gasoline price has broken records repeatedly in 2005, but until September 9 it did not exceed the true all-time high.

The market has been in a lateral consolidation for the last six to eight weeks, and we're seeing a continuation of that. Having broken through some technical resistance levels, it is appropriate that there has been some profit-taking. But the general trend of the market remains positive longer-term.

The market is looking better. The mentality is good. They're buying on the dips. Maybe we've finally broken out of the downtrend. It's not just the hedge funds. You're seeing mutual fund money coming in. You're seeing the individual investor start to come back in.

Joyce Carol Oates

It must happen to everyone. The last time you make love, you can't know it will be the last.

Joyce Carol Oates

She thought that this man was her savior, that he had come to her at a time in her life when her life demanded completion, an end, a permanent fixing of all that was troubled and shifting and deadly. And yet it was absurd to think this. No person could save another. So she drew back from him and released him.