Famous Quotes & Sayings

Goenawan Mohamad

History is a promise that is always broken in the end

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

I'm holding a teardrop for a friend Until his heartache and misery end.

Ian McDonald

There's never been a rule of human behavior that hasn't been broken by someone, somewhere, sometime, in some circumstance mundane or spectacular. To be human is to transcend the rules.

Her building was still standing, but everything around her was destroyed. There's no electricity, the windows are broken and she wants to move up here too.

Geraldine McCaughrean

[Peter Pan] has never broken his terrible habit of eavesdropping. So, maybe that wasn't the rustle of pages you heard while this story lasted, but Peter Pan himself, listening in. In exchanged for a story of yours, he might show you his most prized possession: James Hooks' map of Neverland. In exchange for a smile, he may show you Neverland itself.

Gilbert Parker

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.

Jerry B. Jenkins

Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.

He's not imposing to other players until he hits -- then he's imposing. He hit a guy in center ice, with his shoulder, a clean hit. The guy had his head down, and he ended up with a broken jaw and a concussion.

Jackson Pollock

I continue to get further away from the usual painters tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added.

Carrie: Honey, if it hurts so much, why are we going shopping?Samantha: I have a broken toe, not a broken spirit.

Mike Holmes

He may not have broken any law, but it seems to me there are some serious questions.

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.

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.

William Butler Yeats

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

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.

Rick Warren

Even a broken tree can bear fruit

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.

Yann Martel

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

Our clients look out their window and their neighbors are on the ground with guns to their heads. The next thing they know, their door gets broken open.

Records are made to be broken and one of these days someone will do it, ... I hope it never happens in my lifetime, but it is certainly possible.

Stanley Hauerwas

Part of what my work has always been about is to show that the apocalyptic character of the gospel makes the everyday possible. It gives us the time that lets us care for one another as we are ill, helps us care for one another as we experience broken relationships, and helps us take the time to worship God in a world of such violence.

In the broken nest there are no whole eggs

Toni Braxton

In a broken marriage, it can be challenging and tough to get that work/life balance. I love performing but I also love being a mum, and I hate having to choose between them.

Terry Gilliam

I read the reviews, my career is over. I'm a broken man. Crushed. Smashed.

Jake Plummer

I'm young. My finger was broken once in my career. Other than that I've had no broken bones. I'm a healthy kid. I'll heal fast. There's still a lot left in the season. That at least makes me happy knowing I can come back in three, four, five weeks and have an impact.

I know it sounds like a broken record, but don't take anything for granted. That's when you get beat.

I have such a soft spot for people who are broken because I was broken, ... I was really convinced that God didn't care about me anymore.

I hope it's only a sprain. We're just verifying there are no broken bones. In any case, we won't be looking for him to play for a while.

Harvey Brooks

I had to do something or the horses would have broken their legs.

Thomas Jefferson

I join you, therefore, in sincere congratulations that this den of the priesthood is at length broken up, and that a Protestant Popedom is no longer to disgrace the American history and character

I hope that Mr. Gold and Mr. Sharon will stop this broken record, assigning blame. Finger pointing will not save the lives of Israelis and Palestinians.

The fact that we were attacked, the fact that nobody seems to have known anything about it, is an indication to me that they haven't broken it, ... In my opinion, this is the worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history.