Broken Quotes

Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there is nothing more foolish than to sacrifice a friendship to politics.

The fact that we all have broken pasts is something that I'm very attracted to, along with being able to turn your life around and do good with it.

The world is out of order. It's been broken since you came.

Washington is broken. I know what it takes to get this country back, and will work with good Democrats and good Republicans to do that.

Britney [Spears]'s actually kind of like a broken-down shell of a human being, that's what makes her so endearing and compelling.

Miriam realizes she is a broken vessel, pieces of her scattered everywhere. She has been finding those pieces, in their many forms, and bringing them together so she can be whole again.

Maybe, just maybe, two broken people could manage to create something whole.

My spirit had been broken a bit over the years by my having to work on films I didn't love. Hollywood's a surreal place, and it really is an assault on your spirit.

Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.

Or-but this more rarely happened-she would be convulsed with a rage of grief, and sob out her love for her mother, in broken words, and seem intent on proving that she had a heart, by breaking it.

Go get your heart broken.

To me, a forever love is a bond that can't be broken.

Jackson plays a broken guitar because he’s in love with it, and doesn’t want to fix it, I think. It’s so broken.

Once she'd been a victim- helpless, used, and broken. Now, she was a warrior.

the ice was not only broken; it was shivered into a million fragments

The child who ran weeping to you with a cut finger is now brought home, smiling gamely, with a broken collarbone and incredible contusions- 'it wasn't Jezebels fault, Dad.'

Sometimes broken people stay broken.

Long time I been on my own, but now really I'm alone. I survive the killing, the starving, all the hate of the Khmer Rouge, but I think maybe now I will die of this, of broken heart.

The choices we make when we're broken are sometimes the most awful of all our choices.

I’m a deeply broken person, and broken institutions fascinate me.

At one level it's clear that the dam has broken. There's an inevitable move to use the Internet as a distribution medium and that's not going to stop.

My life was incoherent to me. I felt it quivering, spitting out broken teeth.

It gave me a sharp kind of sadness to think that no matter how much I loved him and tried to put him back together again, he might stay broken forever.

I now have a greater compassion than I have ever had before to know what it is to have the pain of a broken marriage. And I'm not saying I have an answer or solution for everyone.

McLuhanism and the media have broken the back of the book business; they've freed people from the shame of not reading. They've rationalized becoming stupid and watching television.

Her heart had already been broken many times over, and yet she still believed she was destined to meet the man of her life.

Let there be no illusions. The Communion is broken and fragmented. The Communion will break.

Since we are [Christ's] body, we too are the bread that is broken for others. Our failures help heal other lives; our very tears help wipe away tears; our being hated helps those we love.

Our economy is broken. I'm not a politician, but neither is Donald Trump. He is a builder, and it's time to rebuild America.

I wanted impossible things. I wanted my life with her before it all turned bad. What I had been given had been taken away and now I was even less than before.

Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died.

A lover would find life less broken apart after a misguided love affair if they could feel that they had been sinful rather than foolish.

Instead, our system of "corrections" is about arm's-length revenge and retribution, all day and all night. Then its overseers wonder why people leave prison more broken than when they went in.

Be present to those who, living in the midst of a society burdened by poverty and corruption, are broken in spirit, tempted to give up, to leave school and to live on the streets.

Every rule should be broken at least one time.

The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.

Well does he sleep who knows not that his sleep has been broken.

If you put a pistol against my head and ask which I think is worse, Muslims or Mexicans, I'd have to think a moment, then I'd say the Muslims because they've broken my balls.

And yet.. even if you had been right, it would only have been by accident. A broken clock is right two times a day.

A broken clock is right two times a day.

History is an omlette. THe eggs are already broken.

We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.

God makes us as broken bread and poured-out wine to please Him. Beware of competing calls once the call of God grips you.

A child of broken mind, the fear that I hide behind.

I have been Merlin wandering in the woods Of a far country, where the winds waken Unnatural voices , my mind broken By a sudden acquaintance with man's rage.

We are all of us, gods and mortals, made up of many pieces, some of them broken, some of them scarred, but none of them the total sum of who we are.

You know," I said to Michael, "my girlfriend took him down with a broken tree branch." "Too bad she isn't here," he said.

I cannot perch among those who think that I am broken.

Regret couldn't fix what he's broken. Apologies couldn't bring back what he's lost. What we'd lost.

That's the ultimate kind of broken. The kind of damage you never recover from.