Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vito Fossella

From the Bush Administration to the 9-11 Commission, there is an urgent and universally recognized need to change the broken formula through which Homeland Security grant money currently is allocated to our first responders.

Tom Perrotta

Once you'd broken through that invisible barrier that separates one person from another, you were connected forever, whether you liked it or not.

Tina Louise

It's a surer way to a woman's heart to be interested in what she's thinking than what she's wearing or not wearing.

Rosa Parks

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.

Sunil Gavaskar

Well, it's such a record that you can only compare it with Bob Beamon's long-jump world record set in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico. At that time it seemed that it would never be broken. Tendulkar's 50 Test centuries is one such records which doesn't look like being surpassed

Sugata Mitra

It's quite fashionable to say that the education system's broken — it's not broken, it's wonderfully constructed. It's just that we don't need it anymore. It's outdated.

Shannen Doherty

The lesson that I learned is that you can't drop everything for one person. I've done that and that person has broken up with me, and I've had nothing.

Tom Shields

Moving on after a break up is a great way to get back on your feet and start feeling happy again.

Steve Martin

Love is a promise delivered already broken.

Steve Ballmer

The stock market has always had its own meter. Sometimes it's ahead of itself, sometimes it's behind itself. A broken watch is right twice a day.

Sigmund Freud

Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.

Thora Birch

I think only stupid people have good relationships.

Ringo Starr

I've never broken a bone in my life, or in my body.

Toni Morrison

I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

Tom Udall

The Senate as an institution is broken. We're not doing the work of the American people and the rules are being abused. The only way to get us back to the traditions where the Senate is doing the work of the American people is to change the rules.

Victoria Woodhull

When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.

Victor Hugo

All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.

Rupert Brooke

I thought when love for you died, I should die. It's dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on.

Rumi

You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in absence.

Rumi

This that is tormented and very tired, tortured with restraints like a madman, this heart.

Rumi

If you don't try to fly and so break yourself apart, you will be broken open by death, when it's too late for all you could become.

Rumi

Come, even if you have broken your vow one thousand times, come, yet again, come, come.

Steve Almond

It is in these moments of tender and ridiculous nostalgia that I know something inside me is still broken.

Stephen Crane

In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, ‘Is it good, friend?’ ‘It is bitter — bitter,’ he answered, ‘But I like it Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart.

Usain Bolt

It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.

Suzanne Collins

If he wants me broken, then I will have to be whole.

Suzanne Collins

The pain over my heart returns, and from it I imagine tiny fissures spreading out into my body. Through my torso, down my arms and legs, over my face, leaving it crisscrossed with cracks. One good jolt...and I could shatter into strange razor-sharp shards.

Susan Jeffers

Rejection never feels good, but it certainly hurts less when we are not needing something from the person who is rejecting us.

Sue Monk Kidd

When had my fear of broken plates gotten so grandiose? My desire for extravagant moments so small?

Robert Burns

But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou'd sae kindly, Had we never lou'd sae blindly, Never met - or never parted - We had ne'er been broken hearted

Robert Browning

On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.

Ricky Skaggs

I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened, I was so broken up. After that, I decided to seek God for my life and my next marriage.

T. S. Eliot

For you know only a heap of broken images