Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Lauryn Hill

As painful as this thing has been I just can't be with no one else. See I know what we've got to do. You let go, and I'll let go too. 'Cause no one's hurt me more than you And no one ever will.

Laini Taylor

He wanted to tell her that everything he had done he had done because he was broken, because watching her die had destroyed him, but there was no way to say it that didn’t sound like he was trying to pin the blame outside himself

Lisa See

i would rather be married to broken jade than flawless clay

Johnny Depp

Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent.

John Selden

Marriage is a desperate thing.

James Russell Lowell

It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.

James Russell Lowell

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

James Q. Wilson

Police ought to protect communities as well as individuals.... Just as physicians now recognize the importance of fostering health rather than simply treating illness, so the police - and the rest of us - ought to recognize the importance of maintaining, intact, communities without broken windows.

James Q. Wilson

A particular rule that seems to make sense in the individual case makes no sense when it is made a universal rule and applied to all cases. It makes no sense because it fails to take into account the connection between one broken window left untended and a thousand broken windows.

James Q. Wilson

Window-breaking does not necessarily occur on a large scale because some areas are inhabited by determined window-breakers whereas others are populated by window-lovers; rather, one unrepaired broken window is a signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs nothing.

James Q. Wilson

One unrepaired broken window is a signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs nothing.

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.

Henry Rollins

To get a human through a life, lives of broken bones, knock-me-over-with-a-feather susceptibility to myriad viruses, and whatever else might befall someone will cost money.

Henry Rollins

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

Henry Rollins

I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do.

Henry Adams

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

Henry Adams

You say that love is nonsense. I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.

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 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.

This has broken the daily record for marriage registration in the city.

Henry Ward Beecher

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

Eric Kripke

It's hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again.

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.

You don't have to spend time fixing the old broken system. You've got to spend time building and developing a performing system from scratch.

Friedrich Schiller

Courage, ne'er by sorrow broken! Aid where tears of virtue flow; Faith to keep each promise spoken! Truth alike to friend and foe!

George Gilder

Poverty is less a matter of income than of prospects. While the incomes of the poor have steadily risen through Great Society largesse, their prospects have plummeted as families have broken into dependent fragments.

Joichi Ito

I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too.

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.

Vandalism costs... cover items such as graffiti removal, broken swings, burned equipment and broken equipment in general.

We know that Jake can pitch with a broken rib. He pitched with a broken rib (Tuesday). So would it be risky for him to go out and perform well? Yeah. Is it going to do any long-term damage? Probably not.