Famous Quotes & Sayings

I was just as upset when I saw the inside of this building as I was when I saw the damage in my own neighborhood after the hurricane. It looked like a funnel came down inside the building. There was insulation, ceiling tiles, wires and other debris everywhere. It just broke my heart.

Justin Miller

I was lost. I had never broken in a first baseman?s mitt and there was no one on the team who could tell us. After a while, we sort of figured it out.

Alice Sebold

Before, they had never found themselves broken together. Usually, it was one needing the other but not both needing each other, and so there had been a way, by touching, to borrow from the stronger one's strength.

Alice Munro

Lovers. Not a soft word, as people thought, but cruel and tearing.

Alice Hoffman

Love was like rain: it turned into ice, or it disappeared. Now you saw it, now you couldn't find it no matter how hard you might search. Love evaporated; obsession was realer; it hurt, like a pin in your bottom, a stone in your shoe. It didn't go away in the blink of an eye. A morning phone call filled with regret. A letter that said, Dear you, good-bye from me. Obsession tasted like something familiar. Something you'd known your whole life. It settled and lurked; it stayed with you.

Anne Lamott

Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared

Anne Lamott

Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places.

Anna Akhmatova

You thought I was that type: that you could forget me, and that I'd plead and weep and throw myself under the hooves of a bay mare, or that I'd ask the sorcerers for some magic potion made from roots and send you a terrible gift: my precious perfumed handkerchief. Damn you! I will not grant your cursed soul vicarious tears or a single glance. And I swear to you by the garden of the angels, I swear by the miracle-working ikon, and by the fire and smoke of our nights: I will never come back to you.

Albert Camus

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

Claire Danes

Huge events take place on this earth every day. Earthquakes, hurricanes, even glaciers move. So why couldn't he just look at me?

D. H. Lawrence

And then she realized that his presence was the wall, his presence was destroying her. Unless she could break out, she must die most fearfully, walled up in horror. And he was the wall. She must break down the wall. She must break him down before her, the awful obstruction of him who obstructed her life to the last. It must be done, or she must perish most horribly.

Will Rogers

We'll show the world we are prosperous, even if we have to go broke to do it.

Chuck Hagel

What I think the White House does not yet understand and some of my colleagues, is the dam has broken on this (Iraq) policy.

Chuck Hagel

What I think the White House does not yet understand ? and some of my colleagues ? the dam has broke on this policy, ... The longer we stay there, the more similarities (to Vietnam) are going to come together.

Deborah Cox

I'm not supposed to miss you, I'm not supposed to care

Douglas Sirk

You have to think with the heart.

Douglas MacArthur

Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.

Dwight L. Moody

Is there any reason why you should not have faith in God? Has God ever broken one of His promises? I defy any infidel or unbeliever to place a finger on a single promise of God ever made and failed to fulfill.

Andy Stanley

Broken-hearted leaders change things that go beyond their generation.

Andre Gide

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.

Anais Nin

All of my creation is an effort to weave a web of connection with the world: I am always weaving it because it was once broken.

Ann Aguirre

Sometimes broken things heal crooked. The pieces didn’t fit anymore.

Ann Aguirre

We're broken in complementary ways, thus rendering our damage comprehensible to each other.

Ann Aguirre

He has to take me as I am, broken bits and all.

Annie Proulx

...all them things I don't know could get you killed if I come to know them

Drew Houston

You can’t focus on what everyone else is doing — it has to be about what’s really broken and what you can do to fix it.

Anne Sexton

... and my love stays bitterly glowing, spasms of it will not sleep, and I am helpless and thirsty and need shade but there is no one to cover me- not even God.

Anne Sexton

You who have inhabited me in the deepest and most broken place, are going, going

I was pretty scared. I thought I broke my arm,

Antonio Banderas

I was playing with a soccer team in Spain until I broke my foot-badly. That's when I started seriously getting into acting.

I was part of the generation that pushed the Internet. In fact, I broke as an artist in the U.S.A. because of the Internet.

George Romero

I was mugged once, which really scared me, and we had a manually controlled elevator in the building. This guy jumped me, he had broken the door... the glass of the street door and he had a big sliver of that and held it to my throat. That was the scariest thing that ever happened to me. He just wanted my credit cards.

I was apologizing to my family for having to watch that. The pain that's in your stomach, it's like a broken heart. I don't ever want to feel that again.