Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Wilde

When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.

Lykke Li

I was 21 and homeless - such a broken, lost woman.

Lucinda Williams

I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken.

Marshall Herskovitz

The pilot system in television is utterly broken. It's a huge waste of money.

Mark Twain

I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.

Mark Twain

Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with the tongue-where their purpose is to merely entertain, not instruct; they have to be limbered up, broken up, colloquialized and turned into common forms of premeditated talk-otherwise they will bore the house and not entertain it.

John Green

No headboards were broken.

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.

John Perkins

No matter how many toys we amass we leave them behind when we die, just as we leave a broken environment, an economy that only benefits the richest, and a legacy of empowering greed over goodness. It is now time to commit to following a new path.

Mitch Albom

Silence is worse when you know it won't be broken.

Miguel de Cervantes

The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.

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.

Justin Timberlake

Resolutions are just like rules. They're just made to be broken.

Tennessee Williams

What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your fingers, until your fingers are broken?

Ross MacDonald

We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete.