Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. R. R. Tolkien

After some time he felt for his pipe. It was not broken, and that was something. Then he felt for his pouch, and there was some tobacco in it, and that was something more. Then he felt for matches and he could not find any at all, and that shattered his hopes completely.

Isaac Marion

There’s not really such thing as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people, there’s just like…humanity. And it gets broken sometimes.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Renewed friendships require more care than those that have never been broken.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

Herbert Marcuse

The precarious ontological link between Logos and Eros is broken, and scientific rationality emerges as essentially neutral.

Esther Hicks

All is well. You did not come here to fix a broken world. The world is not broken. You came here to live a wonderful life. And if you can learn to relax a little and let it all in, you will begin to see the universe present you with all that you have asked for.

Ernest Hemingway

Love is something that hangs up behind the bathroom door and smells of Lysol.

Ernest Hemingway

Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places.

Ernest Hemingway

Life breaks all of us but some of us get stronger in the broken places.

Ernest Hemingway

The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.

Ernest Hemingway

I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.

Erwin Schrodinger

The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.

Flannery O'Connor

He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing that he had forgotten had happened to him.

Henry Miller

I couldn't allow myself to think about her very long; if I had I would have jumped off the bridge. It's strange. I had become so reconciled to this life without her, and yet if I thought about her only for a minute it was enough to pierce the bone and marrow of my contentment and shove me back again into the agonizing gutter of my wretched past.

Jean Chatzky

Buy experiences, not things. Spending on experiences makes people happier than spending on things. Things get broken and go out of style. Experiences get better every time you talk about them.

Gary Bauer

Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken souls.

Christina Baker Kline

She knows too well what it's like to tamp down your natural inclinations, to force a smile when you feel numb....The expression of emotion does not come naturally, so yo learn to fake it. To pretend. To display an empathy you don't really feel. And so it is that you learn to pass, if you're lucky, to look like everyone else, even though you're broken inside.

Christina Baker Kline

And so it is that you learn how to pass, if you're lucky, to look like everyone else, even though you're broken inside.

George Herbert

A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.

Christopher Columbus

I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass.

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.