Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Haggis

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

Julian Baggini

Rules matter, and to be rules they need to be universal in form: always do this, never do that. But it is foolish to rule out in advance the possibility that an occasion might arise when normal rules just don't apply. Rules are not there to be broken, but sometimes break them we must.

Julian Assange

If you see the rhetoric from coming out of the Democrats is that they're pro-civil liberties, and an important part of civil liberties is respect for the First Amendment and the rule of law, and that has broken down under the Obama administration, and Hillary Clinton was part of that process.

Keith Urban

...And now you've lost the only thing that ever made you feel alive...

Keith Richards

My life is full of broken halos.

Kim Harrison

Of course I’m shielding her, you broken feather!

Marshall Herskovitz

The pilot system in television is utterly broken. It's a huge waste of money.

Mark Twain

I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.

Mark Twain

Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with the tongue-where their purpose is to merely entertain, not instruct; they have to be limbered up, broken up, colloquialized and turned into common forms of premeditated talk-otherwise they will bore the house and not entertain it.

Ned Vizzini

I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.

Publilius Syrus

The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.

Poppy Montgomery

Every rule should be broken at least one time.

Leonardo da Vinci

Black is like a broken vessel, which is deprived of the capacity to contain anything.

Paul Prudhomme

One of the problems of our youth is that the family unit is broken up. When we'd sit down to dinner together as a family, we'd learn about each other. We had something people don't get today.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.

Leon Redbone

I'm sad and blue, about nobody but you. I told you that I loved you right from the start, you told me the same and now you try to break my little heart.

LeAnn Rimes

You can't break what's broken already.

Lauren Oliver

I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds; they repair the broken skin.

Larry Wall

And in the limiting case where the optimizer is completely broken because it's not implemented yet, we get to work around that too. Optionally...

Lillian Smith

I broke every barrier I could to see things as they are.

Paul Merson

As the saying goes, 'you don't fix something if it isn't broken'

Kazuo Ishiguro

I do not think I responded immediately, for it took me a moment or two to fully digest these words of Miss Kenton. Moreover, as you might appreciate, their implications were such as to provoke a certain degree of sorrow within me. Indeed- why should I not admit it? - at that moment, my heart was breaking.

Margaret Atwood

Love is the pursuit of shadows ...

Kelly Clarkson

Now all that's left of me, is what I pretend to be. So together, but so broken up inside.

Katie Davis

Adoption is a redemptive response to tragedy that happens in this broken world.

At the same time, they broke into our pastures and turned loose 35 or 40 head of horses. We got them all back in.

Wayne Gretzky

That second goal sort of broke our back. Lenny probably would like to have that one back and keep it a 1-0 game. The intensity level from their team was a lot higher tonight than when we played them a few weeks ago in Phoenix.

Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.

Jarome Iginla

The last couple of minutes they broke it open,

Marty Meehan

We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system.

Pink

We're not broken, just bent, and we can learn to love again.

Paulo Coelho

When I had my sheep, I was happy, and I made those around me happy. People saw me coming and welcomed me, he thought. But now I'm sad and alone. I'm going to become bitter and distrustful of people because one person betrayed me. I'm going to hate those who have found their treasure because I never found mine. And I'm going to hold on to what little I have, because I'm too insignificant to conquer the world.

Paulo Coelho

What was broken will never be the same again.