Famous Quotes & Sayings

I broke down while at Oxford, was rejected by a record number of medical tribunals during the War, and finally got permission to leave Oxford and do civilian work till the War ended.

We did some good things, but let it slip away from us towards the end of the first half. We still were only down 12 points. We came out in the second half with no life and our defense broke down.

Abraham Verghese

According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn't speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did. Still, it's an apt metaphor for our profession. But there's another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family. Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

Abraham Verghese

We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

Abraham Lincoln

Bad promises are better broken than kept.

Amy Lowell

Love is a game-yes? I think it is a drowning.

Amy Lee

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.

Ally Carter

Two days after my dad's funeral, my mom went on a mission. I never understood it until then--that sometimes a spy doesn't need a cover so much as she needs a shield.

Allen Ginsberg

It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ann Brashares

She went around with a broken heart, and she wasn't sure who'd broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly.

Ann Brashares

She'd cried over a broken heart before. She knew what that felt like, and it didn't feel like this. Her heart felt not so much broken as just ... empty. It felt like she was an outline empty in the middle. The outline cried senselessly for the absent middle. The past cried for the present that was nothing.

Andy Behrman

The guilt I felt for having a mental illness was horrible. I prayed for a broken bone that would heal in six weeks. But that never happened. I was cursed with an illness that nobody could see and nobody knew much about.

Andrea Gibson

A doctor once told me I feel too much. I said, so does god. that’s why you can see the grand canyon from the moon.

Amy Winehouse

I don't understand, Why do I stress the man, When there's so many bigger things at hand?

Aesop

Enemies' promises were made to be broken.

John Carroll

The crews responded quickly as the winds crossed into the state, but the damage is very widespread with lots of broken poles and downed trees.

The decision destroyed my confidence, which has always been fragile. I need people to support and back me ? and I was mentally broken by being left out by England.

Abraham Cahan

If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.

We've broken through some support levels. Today is a positive sign that we're trying to stop the free fall. I think it's something we can build upon.

We've broken them so many times I can't count.

Chad Michael Murray

I've been going on Twitter every week going, 'Guys, you have to watch '2 Broke Girls' because it's incredible.

Leo Fitzpatrick

I had no money. I just figured out hustles to get by, like maybe selling my clothes. I wanted to travel around and be broke and live in sketchy apartments.

Luke Harding

On 30 June 2010, the FSB broke into my office again. They unplugged the Internet, opened the window and left the phone off the hook, placing it next to my laptop. The message was clear: we are still here.

When they do a few workouts, they realize the elliptical machines are broken and there are not enough treadmills.

When the war first broke out, I was commissioned to paint dozens of the 'Support our Troops' banners. Now, I only have two. It's like no one wants to be reminded that we are at war. It is life as usual.

Travis finally broke out of it. He hasn't been playing particularly well, and Claxton was a warrior all night.

Rod Smith

You know the saying 'break glass in case of emergency,' ... We broke the glass and he came through. All of a sudden I looked up and saw his back. I was like 'Run, run.'

When I saw that on television, it just broke my heart because I know what those miners go through.

Henry Hudson

These natives are a very good people; for when they saw that I would not remain, they supposed that I was afraid of their bows; and, taking their arrows, the broke them in pieces and threw them into the fire.

Matt Moore

People always look at me just, 'Oh, he's going to get broken in half,' and blah, blah, blah,

Our initial information is that there was a tunnel collapse and a fire broke out in one of the train carriages.

Pakistani civilians, including children, were killed. Principles cannot be broken in the name of (fighting) terrorism.

Over the years, we've gone broke several times. The first time, 80 people contributed $50 out of their pocket.