Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lucinda Williams

I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken.

Michael C. Hall

Marriage, children-you never expect it to end in tragedy. Unless you're me.

Melanie Rawn

The future is not set in stone, and even if it was, stone can be broken.

Mason Cooley

Reason cannot break out of its own loop.

Michael Chabon

Along the way, he or she discovers that the world has been broken for as long as anyone can remember. Everyone, sooner or later, gets a thorough schooling in brokenness. The question becomes what to do with the pieces?

Michelle Williams

I don't know what my version of a relationship or marriage is yet, because the typical model seems a little broken to me.

Michel Foucault

The constitution of madness as a mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, affords the evidence of a broken dialogue, posits the separation as already effected, and thrusts into oblivion all those stammered, imperfect words without fixed syntax in which the exchange between madness and reason was made. The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue of reason about madness, has been established only on the basis of such a silence.

Marie Lu

I scream for everything that has gone wrong. I scream for everything broken in our lives.

Mignon McLaughlin

A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.

John Wilmot

Now piercèd is her virgin zone; She feels the foe within it. She hears a broken amorous groan, The panting lover's fainting moan, Just in the happy minute.

John Woolman

My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I looked for help in the dangers before me.

John Perkins

No matter how many toys we amass we leave them behind when we die, just as we leave a broken environment, an economy that only benefits the richest, and a legacy of empowering greed over goodness. It is now time to commit to following a new path.

Mitch Albom

Silence is worse when you know it won't be broken.

Miguel de Cervantes

The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.

Neil Gaiman

Even the proudest spirit can be broken with love.

Michael Behe

For example, both humans and chimps have a broken copy of a gene that in other mammals helps make vitamin C. ... It's hard to imagine how there could be stronger evidence for common ancestry of chimps and humans. ... Despite some remaining puzzles, there's no reason to doubt that Darwin had this point right, that all creatures on earth are biological relatives.

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...

Lajos Kossuth

I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators.

Paul Merson

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

Patti Davis

Christopher Reeve understood that everything begins with hope. His vision of walking again, his belief that he would be able to in his lifetime, towered over his broken body.

Patsy Cline

You want me to act like we've never kissed, you want to forget; pretend we've never met , and I've tried and I've tried, but I haven't yet... You walk by, and I fall to pieces.

Sitting Bull

As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.

Mercy Otis Warren

The waves have rolled upon me, the billows are repeatedly broken over me, yet I am not sunk down.

Jodi Picoult

But there is a different between mending someone who's broken and finding someone who makes you complete.

Jodi Picoult

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

Jodi Picoult

do you fix a wheel that isn't broken, or do you wait until the cart collapses?

Jodi Picoult

What is right, in the end, is not always what it seems to be, and some rules are better broken.

John Green

No headboards were broken.

John Green

Even with everything broken and decided inside her she couldn't quite allow herself to disappear for good.