Broken Quotes
Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.
I hate to be a broken record - my parents have a lot to do with that too, because that's how they live their lives.
My heart is broken,” she goes. “It’s turned to a piece of stone. I’m no good. That’s what’s as bad as anything, that I’m no good anymore.
The love we most cherish will, of necessity, bring us pain. Because that love is like the setting of a body with broken bones. But I want to stage the setting. I want to direct all scenes.
I never learned the rules in the first place. To change the game is at the heart of what Virgin stands for, so the company culture has always been: "Don't sweat it: rules were meant to be broken."
Routine is supposed to be the great deadener of souls; how much worse is the half-completed task, the broken round, the unfulfilled routine?
In the end you're not made or broken by prizes. Your relationship is with your readers, not a prize, and you just have to keep on honoring that.
I believe our concept of romantic love is irrational, impossible to fulfill and the cause of many broken homes. No human being can maintain that rarefied atmosphere of 'true love'.
Who can undo What time hath done? Who can win back the wind? Reckon lost music from a broken lute? Renew the redness of a last year's rose? Or dig the sunken sunset from the deep?
There would be more than ocean-water broken Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken.
With the half of a broken hope for a pillow at night That somehow the right is the right And the smooth shall bloom from the rough: Lord, if that were enough?
When you die of sorrow it's as if you've broken all the bones in your body, bruised yourself all over, cracked your skull. That's sorrow.
Build your life around 5 key priorities: The Big 5. Any more and you'll suffer from Broken Focus Syndrome.
I had me jaw broken, and so my chin stuck way out. That's how I became tough - I learned to pick up anything and fight back.
You try to hold on to some notions you might have had before, that this will somehow work out, this is a spell that will lift or be broken.
What's weird about the cinema business is that you have to have a thick skin while remaining vulnerable as an artist. It comes with time. You get dumped, your heart gets broken.
What does Obama mean keep working on closing Gitmo? It's a broken promise. Obama said we were gonna close Gitmo the first day he was in office and it never happened.
Hollywood is full of very liberal people, but it still has an infrastructure that needs to be broken.
I wouldnt mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.
My father thought a novel was a broken short story. There's something to that. Many of my favorite novels are novellas. The authors of brief things must reckon with the precision of language.
Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain; and how shall we do that for others, which we are seldom able to do for ourselves.
Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other; To mutter and mock a broken charm, To dally with wrong that does no harm.
You don't. It doesn't work. One day, you wake up, and you've learned how to store it, and you go to another part of the heart.
O lovely chance, what can I doTo give my gratefulness to you?You rise between myself and meWith a wise persistency;I would have broken body and soul,But by your grace, still I am whole.
And trying to break it down this way, to minor and major offenses, maybes and what-ifs, was like arguing over the origin of cracks in a broken egg. It was done. How it happened didn't matter anymore.
She had worried that she would break if her heart broke, but she wasn't broken. she had lost everything, but she was not lost. It seemed a worthwhile thing to know.
War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.
No more than six words on a slide. Ever. There is no presentation so complex that this rule needs to be broken.
Blaming the system is soothing because it lets you off the hook. But when the system is broken, we wonder why you were relying in the system in the first place.
The borders and boundaries of hip-hop have been broken all over the world. There's a great scene everywhere you go.
I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.
The most beautiful heart of all is the one that can still love even while it bleeds, and especially after its been broken into thousands of pieces.
You should be more careful. You could have broken your neck or as big as you are landed on someone and killed them. (Tory)
My first record had just broken, and these guys wanted my autograph. I thought, Oh, god, they recognize me. Turns out they thought I was Heidi Fleiss.
A silk dress in four sections, and shoes with high heels that would have broken the heart of John Calvin.
When you live for the fight, for the blood, the relationships you form are tenuous and easily broken.
It is in these moments of tender and ridiculous nostalgia that I know something inside me is still broken.
The stock market has always had its own meter. Sometimes it's ahead of itself, sometimes it's behind itself. A broken watch is right twice a day.
When had my fear of broken plates gotten so grandiose? My desire for extravagant moments so small?