Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rod McKuen

I cannot speculate on what our cluttered mind will save- sleepy Sundays, or a nosebleed after love. I know only the dying heart needs the nourishment of memory to live beyond too many winters.

Sarah McLachlan

Deadlines are meant to be broken. And I just keep breaking them.

Wendell Berry

Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is how ordinary, how commonly attainable, health is. We lose our health -- and create profitable diseases and dependencies -- by failing to see the direct connections between living and eating, eating and working, working and loving.

Yoko Ono

Kill all the men you have slept with. Put the bones in a box and send it into the sea with flowers.

Yann Martel

How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?

William Osler

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.

Robert Atkins

Don't fix what's not broken.

Rob Pike

There's nothing in computing that can't be broken by another level of indirection.

Richard M. Nixon

History is a pathetic junkyard of broken treaties.

Richard Flanagan

In the end you're not made or broken by prizes. Your relationship is with your readers, not a prize, and you just have to keep on honoring that.

Richard Rohr

Until we learn to love others as ourselves, it's difficult to blame broken people who desperately try to affirm themselves when no one else will.

Tullian Tchividjian

We are broken people living in a broken world with other broken people. We all need grace.

Sylvia Plath

The moon, too, abases her subjects, but in the daytime she is ridiculous. Your dissatisfactions, on the other hand, arrive through the mailslot with loving regularity, white and blank, expansive as carbon monoxide. No day is safe from news of you, walking about in Africa maybe, but thinking of me.

Sylvia Plath

My thoughts are crabbed and sallow, My tears like vinegar, Or the bitter blinking yellow Of an acetic star. Tonight the caustic wind, love, Gossips late and soon, And I wear the wry-faced pucker of The sour lemon moon. While like an early summer plum, Puny, green, and tart, Droops upon its wizened stem My lean, unripened heart.

Rosario Dawson

It was funny actually because that was still during the time we were dating. He would get all these calls because supposedly before we broke up, we had already broken up in the trades, in the rags or whatever.

Rupert Brooke

I thought when love for you died, I should die. It's dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on.

Rumi

You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in absence.

Rumi

This that is tormented and very tired, tortured with restraints like a madman, this heart.

Rumi

If you don't try to fly and so break yourself apart, you will be broken open by death, when it's too late for all you could become.

Rumi

Come, even if you have broken your vow one thousand times, come, yet again, come, come.

Ross MacDonald

We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete.

Roger Mahony

The church also does not condone a broken immigration system in the U.S., one that too easily can lead to the exploitation, abuse and even death of immigrants.