Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ann Brashares

She went around with a broken heart, and she wasn't sure who'd broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly.

Ann Brashares

She'd cried over a broken heart before. She knew what that felt like, and it didn't feel like this. Her heart felt not so much broken as just ... empty. It felt like she was an outline empty in the middle. The outline cried senselessly for the absent middle. The past cried for the present that was nothing.

Andy Behrman

The guilt I felt for having a mental illness was horrible. I prayed for a broken bone that would heal in six weeks. But that never happened. I was cursed with an illness that nobody could see and nobody knew much about.

Andrea Gibson

A doctor once told me I feel too much. I said, so does god. that’s why you can see the grand canyon from the moon.

Amy Winehouse

I don't understand, Why do I stress the man, When there's so many bigger things at hand?

Aesop

Enemies' promises were made to be broken.

John Carroll

The crews responded quickly as the winds crossed into the state, but the damage is very widespread with lots of broken poles and downed trees.

What is broken about the way we are handling subpoenas to the media?

What is broken about the way we are handling matters involving subpoenas to the media? We rarely issue subpoenas to the media seeking information about confidential sources. And when we do, it is only after painstakingly careful review and meticulous adherence to our internal guidelines.

John Gay

We are frustrated with the broken immigration system. It doesn't match the economic reality.

We are failing as a country because our structures have broken down. We have left everything to the presidency and we have caused our people to zero in on what is at State House.

What you hear about mostly is her experiences in San Francisco, ... But the letters definitely give you an idea about what her family is to her. It actually was a very loving family. Certainly not some broken home or abuse.

Elizabeth Rodriguez

I grew up in a broken home, working class. My paternal grandmother raised me and my brother; my father was with us, and my mother lived in Jersey.

Lauren London

I was 16 and got my boyfriend's name tattooed on me. Don't do it. 'Cause it hurts. The moment you do it, the next month, the next year, you'll be broken up - trust me - and cover-ups hurt. You can show your love in other ways. Ink is not it. Write it on a piece of paper and mail it to him.

Abby Wambach

I don't care how many championships you've won or how many records you've broken - if you've had a hand in pushing forward not only a game but women in sport's movement, then I think that's pretty darn good.

The outlook for gold is positive and we have broken through some critical resistance levels.

Bobby Sands

They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken.

Brian Perkins

Would you love a man of a broken shell after the passing of a women's soul?

Brennan Manning

To be alive is to be broken; to be broken is to stand in need of grace.

Our capacity for wholeheartednes s can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted.

Antonio Porchia

Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.

Antonio Porchia

The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.

Antonio Porchia

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

Bruce Lee

Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.

Bruce Lee

It is better to live as a broken piece of jade, than to live as a useless clay.

Edmund Spenser

I hate the day, because it lendeth light To see all things, but not my love to see.

Eckhart Tolle

Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.

Eckhart Tolle

Do you really need to mentally label every sense perception and experience? Do you really need to have a reactive like/dislike relationship with life where you are in almost continuous conflict with situations and people? Or is that just a deep-seated mental habit that can be broken? Not by doing anything, but by allowing this moment to be as it is.

Edith Wharton

Life's just a perpetual piecing together of broken bits.

Arthur C. Clarke

Those meaningless and unanswerable questions the minds keep returning to, like a tongue exploring a broken tooth.

Anton Chekhov

To regard one's immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Disciples will not be weakened by suffering, worn down, and embittered until they are broken. Instead, they bear suffering, by the power of him who supports them. The disciples bear the suffering laid on them only by the power of him who bears all suffering on the cross. As bearers of suffering, they stand in communion with the Crucified.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

You’re going to leave me, aren’t you? … You’ve had enough of me, haven’t you? You’re probably so tired of all this crying and all these moods, and I’ve got to tell you, so am I. So am I. Sometimes it seems like my mind has a mind of its own, like I just get hysterical, like it’s something I can’t control at all. And I don’t know what to do, and I feel so sorry for you because you don’t know what to do either. And I’m sure you’re going to leave me now.