Famous Quotes & Sayings

Haruki Murakami

What happens when people open their hearts?"... "They get better.

Kami Garcia

Maybe it needed to be broken. Sometimes things have to break before you can fix them.

Saint Augustine

When regard for truth has been broken down or even slightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

Winston Churchill

The Russians will try all the rooms in a house, enter those that are not locked, and when they come to one that cannot be broken into, they will withdraw and invite you to dine genially that same evening.

Zachary Quinto

I probably get eight straight hours of acting in an entire season or two seasons of Suits. It's broken into such small pieces.

Sara Teasdale

It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.

Samuel Johnson

Rash oaths, whether kept or broken, frequently produce guilt.

Virgil

Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships.

Vincent Van Gogh

Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the truly passionate painter who dares-and who has once broken the spell of 'you can't.'

Wayne Dyer

Know that no one is capable of making you upset without your consent.

Wallace Stegner

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

William Butler Yeats

Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned...

William Butler Yeats

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?

Walter Savage Landor

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.

Walter Scott

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

Yogi Berra

Records and achievements are made to be broken.

Yogi Berra

Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.

Winona Ryder

It's really good to be able to think about past loves without having a pit in my stomach, or cringing or feeling heart-broken, or like they hate you. Don't you think?

Willie Aames

It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.

Woodrow Wilson

Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken.

William J. Clinton

Nobody is right all the time and even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Will Estes

I try to date, but I take it so seriously. I am bad at having a casual relationship, so I kind of don't.

Will Durant

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

Sara Zarr

My whole life has been one big broken promise.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other; To mutter and mock a broken charm, To dally with wrong that does no harm.

Salma Hayek

My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!

Salman Rushdie

People don't like being around despair. Our tolerance for the truly hopeless, for those who are irredeemably broken by life is strictly limited. The sob stories we like are the ones that end before we're bored.

Ryan Reynolds

I've done things to my body, mechanically, that I'll never do again. I've done stunts that I shouldn't have done 10, 11, 12 times. I've broken a ton of bones on sets.

Wangari Maathai

When people can't use you, they ridicule what you represent. I was lucky that I understood that, because when one does not understand that, it is very easy to be broken and to be subdued.

Van Morrison

I like [George] Benson because I just like it. I like that kind of style. I don't like the broken up kind of style. I don't like where you play for 16 bars and then break it up into what somebody's version of what birds twittering sounds like, or what the sound of the city is, or what New York sounds like.

Vito Fossella

From the Bush Administration to the 9-11 Commission, there is an urgent and universally recognized need to change the broken formula through which Homeland Security grant money currently is allocated to our first responders.

Sarah Dessen

Some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic.

Sandra Bullock

You don't. It doesn't work. One day, you wake up, and you've learned how to store it, and you go to another part of the heart.