broken quotes

We are all broken, that’s how the light gets in.

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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

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The world breaks everyone, and afterwards many are strong at the broken places.

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It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.

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It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.

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The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

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People think, because we're young, we aren't complex, but that's not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

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You can't pay enough money to... cure that feeling of being broken and confused.

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I think relationships are broken up because of the media.

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One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

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Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.

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Better a broken promise than none at all.

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The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow.

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A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

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Don't fix what's not broken.

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America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken.

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I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

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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.

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Sooner or later a rider will emerge who will win more Tours. In every sport we have seen how the records eventually get broken and cycling is no exception.

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My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write.

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It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.

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A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying long-time-no-see.

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Over the years, I've made many sacrifices to win two Olympic gold medals and put together winning streaks that will never be broken.

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It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.

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Our immigration system is a broken system that needs to be fixed. We need reform that provides hardworking people of good character with a real path towards citizenship.

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I bet some of you feel sorry for me. Well don't. Having an artificial leg has its advantages. I've broken my right knee many times and it doesn't hurt a bit.

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This is a good sign, having a broken heart It means we have tried for something

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Our current tax system is broken.

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Their humble dwellings were of their own rearing; it was they themselves who had broken in their little fields; from time immemorial, far beyond the reach of history, had they possessed their mountain holdings.

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When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth.

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I maybe had a first love and had my heart broken, but reflecting on it, I don't think that was love. I think as I'm getting older and having more in-depth relationships, maybe I'll experience it. At the moment, I don't know, exactly, if I've been in love.

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I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened, I was so broken up. After that, I decided to seek God for my life and my next marriage.

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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

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Social Security is a covenant that should not be broken.

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The principal or highest part of the mountain having changed its direction to east and west, I ascended it in such manner as to leave its most elevated ranges to the south and travelled north west over a very rough and broken country generally covered with snow.

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We've had drive-by shootings. I've been spat on, slapped, shot at. One guy tried to stab me with a broken beer bottle. But the way we look at it, if people do the worst they can, we'll still wake up in glory.

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The characters in the book grow up with us. My voice has broken as well.

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Buckwheat may be planted later than any similar crop, and often does well on old meadows or waste land that can be broken after the more exacting crops are planted.

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People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.

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There are a lot of myths about my injuries. They say I have broken every bone in my body. Not true. But I have broken 35 bones. I had surgery 14 times to pin and plate. I shattered my pelvis. I forget all of the things that have broke.

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We've broken the code base into logical chunks, called modules, and the foundation staff delegate authority for the modules to people with the most expertise.

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The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

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In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.

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I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too.

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Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

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And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle.

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To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.

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You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart.

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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.

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I had just broken up with my wife so I was searching for another way to live.

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It was funny actually because that was still during the time we were dating. He would get all these calls because supposedly before we broke up, we had already broken up in the trades, in the rags or whatever.

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Class action lawsuits are an important part of our legal system. All citizens should have the right to band together and settle grievances with bigger companies, but that system is broken and it needs fixing.

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Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.

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Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.

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In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State.

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Well, we're trying to patch and fix and put a cast on a broken system here. You can call it what you want, but we'll continue to purchase power in a private market.

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I had a Southern accent but I had broken it so hard.

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Christopher Reeve understood that... everything begins with hope. His vision of walking again, his belief that he would be able to in his lifetime, towered over his broken body.

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It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary.

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I came to join the Experience by going for an audition for Eric Burdon who was just forming the New Animals at that point, after the original Animals had broken up.

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I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life.

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I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all.

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There are a lot of stereotypes to be broken which I think a lot of us are doing. What I do is, as soon as people try to pin me down to one kind of part, I'll play a very different kind of role, so it explodes that stereotype.

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The violence had broken out in both sides, but our philosophy as a party was very, very clear.

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Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

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I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass.

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I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when it is broken, and the wine when it is drunken, put me in remembrance how that for my sins the body of Christ was broken, and his blood shed on the cross.

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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.

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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?

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I think we've broken story after story that the rest of the media refused to break even when they had the story because they were scared of the story, or they just didn't think it was appropriate.

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Someone has broken your heart. I knew there was something about you. That's it, isn't it?' A little, Sara said, suddenly self-conscious. I'm sorry.' It happens. She shrugged, straining for nonchalance. Maybe,' he said. 'But if it's your destiny, what can you do but accept it.

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

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I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken.

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The fishes are also employed for the same purpose on any yard, which happens to be sprung or fractured. Thus their form, application, and utility are exactly like those of the splinters applied to a broken limb in surgery.

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Senator Hillary Clinton is attacking President Bush for breaking his campaign promise to cut carbon dioxide emissions, saying a promise made, a promise broken. And then out of habit, she demanded that Bush spend the night on the couch.

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A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter.

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They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken.

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I was a big fan of Super Troopers, so working with the Broken Lizard guys was so much fun.

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If Japan had been near to either England or France, war would have broken out long ago.

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Of course I've had a bunch of broken bones, sprains and I've had five or six concussions, with three serious ones. I also got a real heavy duty blood clot and internal bleeding from where I was shot in the stomach with a beanbag bullet that the police use for crowd control. I've also had six stitches in my head.

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If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that's broken apart, I think that's probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area.

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Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.

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Would you love a man of a broken shell after the passing of a women's soul?

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

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There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog.

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President Obama inherited a broken country mired in two wars, a financial crisis, a mortgage mess and more than we all probably even know about and has in my opinion brought us back from the brink. But I still see my friends in no better shape and the gap widening.

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My heart got broken so many times because I put so much pressure on it. And then... I got blindsided.

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At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

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For each book, the time is also broken up.

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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.

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The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears.

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I've broken my nose, I've broken ribs. You name it. In fact, we just got back from South America, and I fell over a monitor speaker on the stage and almost ended up in the front row of the audience. I managed to sprain my wrist on that one but luckily nothing was broken.

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We cannot afford to have any large section of the business world in doubt whether they have broken the laws or not, and we cannot let the laws become a dead letter through vagueness. In this view it is clear that an administrative commission can render invaluable service.

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Extreme nationalism and Bolshevism have broken up the old world, a new world is in the making. It is literally true that old things are passing away; all things may become new, granted we have wise, unselfish, and determined guides.

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With Stacy, it was interesting because you know he was within all this chaos, all these different lives that were so broken and so much anger and so much frustration and their skating came out of that, their different styles came out of that.

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We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete.

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It is so much easier to be nice, to be respectful, to put yourself in your customers' shoes and try to understand how you might help them before they ask for help, than it is to try to mend a broken customer relationship.

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For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out my newsreader was broken, and hadn't posted at all.

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