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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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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Better a broken promise than none at all.

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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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Our current tax system is broken.

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

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

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Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

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Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.

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O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

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As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass or does it come in like honey?

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Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening and we are dead serious about ending business as usual in Washington.

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Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak our broken system. I'll shut it down.

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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.

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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.

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We are not in Afghanistan for the sake of the education policy in a broken 13th-century country. We are there so the people of Britain and our global interests are not threatened.

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I was tempted my junior year to go out of college and forgo my eligibility. I had broken several world records. I did have a lot of people telling me that I should go pro.

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My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I looked for help in the dangers before me.

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I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place.

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I've said for a long time, clearly the - a, a critical key to success in the region is going to be Pakistan and our relationship with Pakistan, which was one that was broken in the late '80s and which we've worked hard to restore.

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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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Finding that financial independence away from a broken relationship is probably one of the most powerful places a woman can get to.

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When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.

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But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially.

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Slowly, but with no doubt or hesitation whatever, and in something of a solemn expectancy, the two animals passed through the broken tumultuous water and moored their boat at the flowery margin of the island.

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There was no indication of panic. The broken files marched back in steady step. The effort was nobly made and failed from the blows that could not be fended.

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General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off.

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Americans are rightly concerned about the security and the integrity of the nation's borders because the system is broken. Some are concerned about the possibility of terrorists crossing our borders and coming into our cities.

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Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.

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The repeated announcements that the Russian resistance was definitely broken have been proved to be untrue.

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My command, less than ten thousand, had found the battle on the Plank road in retreat, little less than a panic. In a few hours we changed defeat to victory, the broken divisions of the Third Corps rallying in their rear.

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People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why.

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Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.

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You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.

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Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

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The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing.

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A promise must never be broken.

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Broken! Busted! Everybody has something to repair. Before buying new, let Mighty Putty fix it for you.

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Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.

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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.

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The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.

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My looks haven't prevented me from playing prostitutes or people broken by life. But when they need a token blonde with big breasts, that's OK, too. It's part of the game.

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Republicans have offered dozens of comprehensive healthcare plans many of which achieve comprehensive healthcare reform without breaking what's working in healthcare. We want to fix what's broken in healthcare.

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The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me... People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted.

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Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of real light (electric light) at crucial junctures in the room's composition.

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The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new 'Jackass' movie, I know that I'm going to wind up with at least two broken bones. I don't know when it's going to happen, but you can't contemplate how you're going to fall and what's going to happen.

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Jesus didn't say, 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said, 'Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.' It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself.

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Living in a community with very wounded people, I came to see that I had lived most of my life as a tightrope artist trying to walk on a high, thin cable from one tower to the other, always waiting for the applause when I had not fallen off and broken my leg.

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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.

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To get a human through a life, lives of broken bones, knock-me-over-with-a-feather susceptibility to myriad viruses, and whatever else might befall someone will cost money.

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In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This new state of bandlessness was, at first, traumatic. When your group breaks up, a lot of broken parts hit the ground.

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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

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I've had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow.

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In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one's hopes in a pile of broken crockery.

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If I could only have one grooming tool, it would be floss. I don't want to have broken Cheetos in my teeth. To protect myself from the sun, I can find shade under a tree. To moisturize my skin, I could get really sweaty and then just rub it on myself. But how are you going to clean between your teeth without floss?

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We came into a broken world. And we're the cleanup crew.

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Sometimes I had to spend a whole day mixing a boiling mass with a heavy iron rod nearly as large as myself. I would be broken with fatigue at the day's end. Other days, on the contrary, the work would be a most minute and delicate fractional crystallization, in the effort to concentrate the radium.

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Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

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Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall.

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Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them.

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The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

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On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.

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If you grow up in show business, you look beyond the looking glass. So, all of the surface facades get broken.

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I think my all time favourite song would be between 'Slow Dancing in a Burning Room' and 'Dreaming with a Broken Heart' by John Mayer.

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If the system is broken, my inclination is to fix it rather than to fight it. I have faith in the process of the law, and if it is carried out fairly, I can live with the results, whatever they may be.

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I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

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No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.

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The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.

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Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

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I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.

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I am happy that the urgency to reform our broken criminal justice system has found allies all across the political spectrum.

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I have seen things in my life that have broken me in spirit.

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When I was a young boy, during the aftermath of World War II, Germany was broken and in ruins. Many people were hungry, sick, and dying. I remember well the humanitarian shipments of food and clothing that came from the Church in Salt Lake City.

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I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.

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