Broken Quotes

Rule 1: All rules can be broken. Many (ex-legal and ethical) should be. Most people won't.

The outrages of the powerful, the insolence of the rich, scorn of the proud, and malice of the uncharitable, all beating against the broken spirit of the unfortunate.

An ancient proverb summed it up when a wizard is tired of looking for broken glass in his dinner, it ran, he is tired of life.

Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

I have not done anything wrong. I have not broken any laws. I have not violated any IRS rules or regulations and I have not provided false information to this or any other committee.

Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.

I'm going to get you a broken alarm clock so you'll get up in the morning.

God loves to take people from broken backgrounds and surprise them with possibilities.

Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.

Congratulstions on breaking my record. I always thought the record would stand until it was broken.

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise. I am Jack's Broken Heart.

If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.

The moment you go in, all connections with the outside world are broken; all bridges are broken. In fact, the whole world disappears.

I can't think of a major story that we have broken that was incorrect. But we have had to correct some things that were false; we have had to retract things.

Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.

Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the firsta dull man writing broken English, the seconda broken man writing dull English.

When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.

We're not in love-we're just trying to wash away the dirt.

Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange, extravagant and broken the monotony.

Social Security is a covenant that should not be broken.

A lot of my work goes to the center of where we belong--if there is any root to life -because nowadays the family is broken up, and people don't live in the same place for very long.

My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!

He'd stopped trying to bring her back. She only came back when she felt like it anyway, in dreams and lies and broken-down deja-vu.

If it's a broken part, replace it. If it's a broken arm then brace it. If it's a broken heart, then face it.

The fantasist in whom the reality barrier has broken down is unreliable, believing things when he should not, and telling things as true when they are not.

And the commercials would have sickened a goat raised on barbed wire and broken beer bottles.

It's really good to be able to think about past loves without having a pit in my stomach, or cringing or feeling heart-broken, or like they hate you. Don't you think?

Interest rates do not have to be identical across the whole euro area, but it is unacceptable if major differences arise from broken capital markets or concern about a euro area break-up.

O Thou, Far off and here, whole and broken, Who in necessity and in bounty wait, Whose truth is light and dark, mute though spoken, By Thy wide grace show me Thy narrow gate.

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

"It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. "It was the salmon."

I don't think Hank's home run record will ever be broken. There's no way.

I see people whose spirits are not broken, who continue to work for justice. That makes me feel alive, when I witness their work, and then I witness some of their dreams come to fruition.

It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears.

A broken fortune is like a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it has to sustain.

Actually, I've only been involved with one girl I worked with. It was Alyssa Milano. We didn't actually have an onscreen kiss - we're about to but it gets broken up.

Rash oaths, whether kept or broken, frequently produce guilt.

Records are made to be broken. It is in man's nature to continue to strive to do just that.

Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading.

God asks for men who are totally broken and who will follow Him even to death to work for Him.

When you start in that [model] business the rules are imposed upon you, but when you stay in the business long enough the rules could be broken.

It's not love's going hurts my days But that it went in little ways.

In New York in 1915 I bought at a hardware store a snow shovel on which I wrote in advance of the broken arm .

History is a promise that is always broken in the end

The only thing worse than finishing second is to be lying on the desert alone with your back broken. Either way, nobody ever finds out about you.

When a deposit bottle is broken, you don't get your nickel back.

The universal nature out of the universal substance, as if it were wax, now molds a horse, and when it has broken this up, it uses the material for a tree, then for a man, then for something else.

Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes.

Optimistic parents raise resilient children, but pessimistic parents raise broken offspring. Wherever there is darkness, show your children the light.

Proud of my broken heart since thou didst break it, Proud of the pain I did not feel till thee, Proud of my night since thou with moons dost slake it, Not to partake thy passion, my humility.