Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Hirshfield

Neither a person entirely broken nor one entirely whole can speak. In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.

Jane Fonda

If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you've been broken.

Jamie Bell

It must be hard to be a female in a David Mackenzie movie. I feel like women in his films are portrayed a certain way - like broken people.

Lance Gross

I really started dreaming... and broke out of my shyness when I got to Howard University. My first acting class was an Intro to Acting class with Professor Bay, who really broke me out of my shell, encouraged me to follow my dreams and make them a reality.

We held the formation for about 4.3 seconds before it broke apart. It had to be perfect to succeed.

Richard Boucher

We heard that Castro fell. I guess you'd have to check with the Cubans to find out what's broken about Mr. Castro. We, obviously, have expressed our views about what's broken in Cuba.

Dick Vermeil

We didn't work any harder or any different. As we said all along, that one game that we broke down last week was a tribute to the New York Giants, but that was not us when you've gone 20 games in a row without giving up a 100-yard rusher. The 20 was a lot better reflection than the one as far as the kind of defensive football team you are.

The fact that oil broke close to US$60 today caused a drop in S&P 500 energy stocks.

Paul Saffo

The creative IT department is going to be where it's broken up so that IT people are out on the front lines.

Tony McCoy

When I was 18, I broke my leg, and my shin came right through - like I had two knees.

Mary Landrieu

The people of our states have survived storms before. That was not what put us under. It was the levee system that broke in New Orleans.

I was the understudy to the understudy in a year-two production of 'Big Chief Red Feather.' The boy who had the lead broke his arm, and then the understudy got chicken pox. And I loved it. I got to wear the most feathers in my headdress.

Arthur C. Clarke

Those meaningless and unanswerable questions the minds keep returning to, like a tongue exploring a broken tooth.

Anton Chekhov

To regard one's immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Disciples will not be weakened by suffering, worn down, and embittered until they are broken. Instead, they bear suffering, by the power of him who supports them. The disciples bear the suffering laid on them only by the power of him who bears all suffering on the cross. As bearers of suffering, they stand in communion with the Crucified.

Brian Perkins

Would you love a man of a broken shell after the passing of a women's soul?

Brennan Manning

To be alive is to be broken; to be broken is to stand in need of grace.

Our capacity for wholeheartednes s can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted.

Antonio Porchia

Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.

Antonio Porchia

The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.

Antonio Porchia

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

Bruce Lee

Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.

Bruce Lee

It is better to live as a broken piece of jade, than to live as a useless clay.

Edmund Spenser

I hate the day, because it lendeth light To see all things, but not my love to see.

Deb Caletti

Sometimes that´s all you need…, to know it´s not broken. To know you’re still whole and that you’ll heal.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Though we are incomplete, God loves us completely. Though we are imperfect, He loves us perfectly. Though we may feel lost and without compass, God's love encompasses us completely. ... He loves every one of us, even those who are flawed, rejected, awkward, sorrowful, or broken.

Diana Krall

You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart.

Diana Gabaldon

If she was broken, she would slash him with her jagged edges, reckless as a drunkard with a shattered bottle.

Arthur Miller

When a deposit bottle is broken, you don't get your nickel back.

Ayn Rand

She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken.

Ben Feldman

You are already broke and don't even know it.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

You’re going to leave me, aren’t you? … You’ve had enough of me, haven’t you? You’re probably so tired of all this crying and all these moods, and I’ve got to tell you, so am I. So am I. Sometimes it seems like my mind has a mind of its own, like I just get hysterical, like it’s something I can’t control at all. And I don’t know what to do, and I feel so sorry for you because you don’t know what to do either. And I’m sure you’re going to leave me now.

Ashlee Simpson

When you see someone you love with somebody else, your heart kind of falls to the ground.