Broken Quotes

The smoking flax before it burst to flame Was quenched by death, and broken the bruised reed.

I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.

If I am feeling broken, I can pick up one of [Ivy Compton-Burnett] books and the next morning I can write again. It puts my mechanism back.

Let's fix what's broken about Obamacare, but let's not throw it away and give it all back to the insurance companies and the drug companies.

The shame is not in having sported, but in not having broken off the sport. [Lat., Nec luisse pudet, sed non incidere ludum.]

As long as we abide in Christ, our action is from Him, not from our own corrupt and broken nature.

My ceiling's broken, my car's got a puncture and we've just lost two matches. But I've got my health and I'll ask the big man upstairs why he didn't give us a point.

There's never been a rule of human behavior that hasn't been broken by someone, somewhere, sometime, in some circumstance mundane or spectacular. To be human is to transcend the rules.

I like to deal with things I heard about, ... People are always getting their house broken into around the holidays. That's when the crime rate goes up.

Talking about straws and camels' backs is just one way of approaching things. If you have enough camels, no backs need be broken.

Why couldn't she have gotten another Edger or some dimwit from the Broken for a passenger? No, she got Lord Leather Pants here.

What is he doing here?" Curran growled. "He's Roland's Warlord. He's here for me." He was here for the woman who had broken his master's blade. "Tough luck. You're mine.

Her imagination painted Georgie twenty years later, sitting in leg irons before some Broken psychiatrist. "Well, you see, it all started with bubbles.

But sticking to rules just because they're there does not make them right. You need to learn when the rules should be broken.

Plexi, plexi, bend don't shatter. Once you're broken, shape won't matter.

I follow, always, because its the only time when our hearts beat in perfect harmony, the only time when Im certain, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that we are one person broken in two.

'Heartbreak Heard Around the World' is about me and my girl, and I'm just going through a broken-heart stage in a relationship, and I'm just kind of expressing my love for her.

So many low income people have seen so many failed promises broken and seen so many quacks and sporadic medicines offered to them that building trust takes a lot of time, takes a lot of patience.

When systems are broken, it's an opportunity for invention and innovation.

There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.

Pan, who and what art thou?" he cried huskily. "I'm youth, I'm joy," Peter answered at a venture, "I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

Just because your leg might heal doesn't mean it doesn't feel broken. It doesn't mean that a car hitting your body doesn't hurt like the same it would hurt if a car hit your body.

It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.

You play a couple of shows, and these label guys come - and they leave halfway through a show. Then the phone calls just stop. And your heart is broken.

It must be hard to be a female in a David Mackenzie movie. I feel like women in his films are portrayed a certain way - like broken people.

Not only has President Bush broken his word on funding, he has not put in the effort required to turn this excellent idea into a lifesaving reality.

Coldplay was unknown, and we played them over and over and over again, and they were really loyal to us. They went on M2 way after they had broken and become famous, because they remembered us.

Open your heart to a baseball team and you're liable to get it broken.

Neither a person entirely broken nor one entirely whole can speak. In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.

I will find a way to you if it kills me if it kills me if it kills me (I think it might kill me).

I keep myself locked as a box when it matters, and broken open when it doesn't matter at all.

I lay there, stretched out, looking at the one star visible through the tiny window of the room. Only connect. How can you do that when the connections are broken?

The Broken Destiny series will be a trilogy, with each book releasing about a year apart.

If it's broken, it can be fixed.

I shrug him off. 'Can't you just go away?" There's a moment. It has a sound in it, as if something very small got broken.

It hurts and hurts to have him this close. I feel sick with it.

It's scary how easy promises were broken.

He knows what I'm about to say--he always does. He is my best friend, my soul mate. In a perfect world, full of roses and sunshine we'd be together, but this is full of broken.

No. I just never wanted to throw them away. Even if they were broken. I still loved them.

Because I make films about eating disorders and sexual assault, people always come up to me and are like, "Are you okay?" like I'm a broken-down shell of a woman.

My hands are small, but they're not yours, they are my own... I am never broken.

If you do not give your children freedom, when they grow up, they will break away from the family, and then your hearts will be broken.

The worst thing in the world when you feel broken is to have somebody coming at you with open-faced love.

Some things can be both real and imaginary at the same time, . . . some lies can be true, . . . broken faith may be restored.

You can't go through life without your heart being bruised or broken. Otherwise, you're not truly, fully, a person.

do you fix a wheel that isn't broken, or do you wait until the cart collapses?

Here's what no one ever tells you about love: it hurts, having your heart broken

I could think whatever I wanted to, but realized that any promises I made myself were destined to be broken.

What is right, in the end, is not always what it seems to be, and some rules are better broken.

The corporations own the elections and they're manipulating the masses. We have to come up with a new system, because this one is broken. That's why I work very hard to create new patterns.