Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Kamara

Statistics are there to be broken.

Chris Hayes

We ask the education system to expiate the sins of the rest of the society and then condemn it as hopelessly broken when it doesn't prove up to the task.

George Tenet

You know, at the end of the day, the only thing you have is trust and honor in this world. That's all you have. All you have is your reputation built on trust and your personal honor. When you don't have that anymore, well, you know, there you go. Trust was broken.

George Steiner

The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.

Franz Boas

My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma

Jeanette Winterson

I keep myself locked as a box when it matters, and broken open when it doesn't matter at all.

Jim Carrey

The worst thing in the world when you feel broken is to have somebody coming at you with open-faced love. It becomes incredibly painful.

Jet Li

There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.

Jennifer Weiner

... somehow I couldn't stop. I had turned into someone that I would have pitied in another life; someone who searched for signs, who analyzed patterns, who went over every word in a conversation looking for hidden meanings, secret signals, the subtext that said, Yes, I still love you, of course I still love you.

Jennifer Weiner

Is it still there?" I asked, staring at his head, bent over, as he wedged the stethoscope beneath my left breast. And then, before I could stop myself, "Does it sound broken?

Jeff Abbott

If it's broken, it can be fixed.

Jeremy Grantham

Remember that history always repeats itself. Every great bubble in history has broken. There are no exceptions.

Jean de La Fontaine

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Goenawan Mohamad

History is a promise that is always broken in the end

Harper Lee

I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society.

Horace Bushnell

As long as we abide in Christ, our action is from Him, not from our own corrupt and broken nature.

Hope Solo

My family doesn't do happy endings. We do sad endings or frustrating endings or no endings at all. We are hardwired to expect the next interruption or disappearance or broken promise.

Gene Tierney

Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.

George Edward Woodberry

"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.

Feist

Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene its not one-on-one, its a one-on-12. Its very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

Federico Garcia Lorca

But hurry, let's entwine ourselves as one, our mouth broken, our soul bitten by love, so time discovers us safely destroyed.

Evel Knievel

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.

Eve Ensler

Stop trying to fix your body. It was never broken.

Francine Pascal

Love was more than blind. It was deaf and dumb, too. It was catatonic. It was vegetative.

John Nash

If he had broken the law, or was more culpable, perhaps. It was an accident. It wasn't an intentional violation.

Joschka Fischer

If (entry talks) are broken off and the shards are lying on the floor, then it will become damn costly for us,

Phil Jackson

I felt they were self-directed out there. They knew what they wanted to run. They broke down the double-teams and I didn't have to burn timeouts to explain it to them. That was satisfying to me.

I decided he would come back with another curve ball. It broke right over the inside part of the plate.

I certainly didn't think that we would get back together after we broke up in the '80s, but there you go.

I can only remember two times in the first half where we executed the offense the way we do in practice. We collectively panicked. You can dig yourself a hole, but if you're disciplined, you can dig your way out. But we got rattled and just broke down. The thing I'm most disappointed in is we didn't give ourselves a chance to win. So much of it was us stopping ourselves.

I couldn't take the news last night. We all broke down and we cried. They're saying he's a lunatic. He's not a terrorist.

I am of the mind if something isn't broken then don't try and fix it.

Crude oil has broken out of a six-week trading range.