Broken Quotes
It is, however, an argument of no weight to say that natural bodies are first generated or compounded out of those things into which they are at the last broken down or dissolved.
The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.
When things fall apart, the broken pieces allow all sorts of things to enter, and one of them is the presence of God.
What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?
Of course I was wearing make-up, I never went anywhere without red lipstick for 25 years! It was a form of self-preservation for me to continue to wear lipstick even though my face was broken.
We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.
Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.
For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
But sometimes it's the sunshine that frightens us more than the big black shadows.
If ever I do escape, no one shall reproach me with having broken or violated my faith, not having given my word to any one, whosoever it may be.
I feel like role models today are not meant to be put on a pedestal. But more like angels with broken wings.
We've all fallen, but at the same time we're not broken. There is the hint that we are going to get up again.
It's amazing that more people have climbed Mount Everest than have broken the 4-minute mile.
Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.
He does not exist here, with me, but flesh that does not exist will never die, and promises unmade are never broken.
Fight, gentlemen of England! fight, bold yeomen! Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head! Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood; Amaze the welkin with your broken staves!
Broken people misuse their power while people who have values don't use their powers in a way that harms.
Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.
I know of people who don't believe it, but depression is an illness, but unlike, say, a broken leg, you don't know when it'll get better.
When the lights don't glow the same way that they used to and I finally get a moment to myself, I will realize you were everything I'm missing and you'll tell me you're in love with someone else.
There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken.
The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me... People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted.
We are all so broken. Pick up a person, shake them around and you'll hear the rattling of their broken pieces. Pieces our fathers broke, or our mothers, or our friends, strangers, or our loves.
Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.
Sleep is not on good terms with broken hearts. It will have nothing to do with them.
Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.
How many of us have had our hearts broken for whatever reason yet find the courage to continue to reach out for love. Emotional vulnerability is true strength to me.
You have to give to the world the thing that you want the most, in order to fix the broken parts inside you.
All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words.
Although care must be taken not to kill or injure anyone while these persons are being taken into custody, resistance must be broken!
Life is an infiltration course. We all try and get through it. We all try and get through it unscathed - maybe not hurt, not bruised. No bones broken, maybe a few hearts here and there.
The fastest way to heal a broken heart is to find someone better to love, and love more. Know that sometimes heartbreak happens just to push you to God.
We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children? Well, she and I were.
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.
National Socialism is what Marxism might have been if it could have broken its absurd and artificial ties with a democratic order.
