Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leo Tolstoy

Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?

Lauren Hutton

I had always broken the rules.

Lauren Groff

Everything is cyclical. Historical eras go through times of intense cynicism, broken by periods of intense idealism.

Lewis B. Smedes

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.

Lewis H. Lapham

Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned.

Lewis H. Lapham

Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned. If no individual or institution possesses the authority to act without of everybody else in the room, then nobody is at fault if anything goes wrong.

Lewis Carroll

"The horror of that moment," the King went on, "I shall never, never forget!" "You will, though," the Queen said, "if you don't make a memorandum of it."

Joseph Campbell

There are mythologies that are scattered, broken up, all around us. We stand on what I call the terminal moraine of shattered mythic systems that once structured society. They can be detected all around us. You can select any of these fragments that activate your imagination for your own use. Let it help shape your own relationship to the unconscious system out of which these symbols have come.

Joseph Campbell

Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up. The earth must be broken to bring forth life. If the seed does not die there is no plant. Bread results from the death of wheat. Life lives on lives. Our own life lives on the acts of other people. If you are lifeworthy, you can take it.

Jules Renard

Broken china lasts longer than unbroken.

Josh Billings

A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided - it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never a dollar again.

Karl Kraus

The triumph of morality: A thief who has broken into a bedroom claims his sense of shame had been outraged, and by threatening theoccupants with exposure of an immoral act he blackmails them into not bringing charges for burglary.

Josh Lucas

I had a Southern accent but I had broken it so hard.

Leonard Cohen

Maybe there's a god above but the only thing I learned from love was how to shoot at somebody who outdrew you.

Leonard Cohen

Why don't you try to do without him, why don't you try to live alone? Do you really need his hands for your passion? Do you really need his heart for your throne? Do you need his labor for your baby? Do you need his beast for the bone? Do you need to hold a leash to be a lady? I know that you can make it, you can make it on your own.

Louise Penny

Things are strongest where they're broken.

Lorene Scafaria

There's this part of Judaism that I like. Tikun Alum. It said that the world is broken into pieces and everyone has to find it.

Gael Garcia Bernal

In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken.

Gabrielle Zevin

The truth is, sometimes too much can happen in a relationship, and then there's nothing anyone can do or say. It's broken.

Harlan Coben

Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.

Gustave Flaubert

Stupidity is an immovable object: you can't try to attack it wiithout being broken by it.

John Lyly

The broken bone, once set together, is stronger than ever.

John Lothrop Motley

Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.

Elyn Saks

No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness

Emanuel Cleaver

Social Security is a covenant that should not be broken.

Elizabeth Gilbert

That's just your ego, trying to make sure it stays in charge. This is what ego does. It keeps you feeling separate, keeps you with a sense of duality, tries to convince you that you're flawed and broken and alone instead of whole.

Joel Osteen

Be sensitive to the needs of those around you. Live as a healer. Lift the fallen, restore the broken, and encourage the discouraged.

T. S. Eliot

For you know only a heap of broken images

Suze Orman

When you've been battered down and battered down and battered down, your spirit gets broken.

Tupac Shakur

How many pistols smoking coming from a broken family?

Richelle Mead

Seth and I had broken up twice and while I usually accepted that he had moved on, I knew that I would love him forever. For me, forever was a serious matter" - Georgina about

Victoria Woodhull

When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.

Victor Hugo

All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.