Famous Quotes & Sayings

The FBI should use its resources to investigate credible threats to national security instead of spending time tracking Americans who criticize government policy, or monitoring groups that have not broken the law.

The chain of cultural memory has broken down. I get kids in my class whose mothers and fathers didn't have a clue about cooking, and they're lost. There's a gap and it's just part of the culture.

The communication has not completely broken down, but the talks have.

Neale Donald Walsch

Do not dismantle the house, but look at each brick, and replace those which appear to be broken, which no longer support the structure.

Miguel Indurain

Sooner or later a rider will emerge who will win more Tours. In every sport we have seen how the records eventually get broken and cycling is no exception.

Kellan Lutz

I've never broken a bone in my body, even though I've done some extreme things.

Naomi Wolf

The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon them.

The guys found that the concession and two storage buildings were broken into. There were food products dumped in the parking lot, tipped-over planters and damage to a wood railed fence and the in-line hockey field.

Henry Rollins

To get a human through a life, lives of broken bones, knock-me-over-with-a-feather susceptibility to myriad viruses, and whatever else might befall someone will cost money.

Henry Rollins

I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do.

James Russell Lowell

It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.

James Q. Wilson

Police ought to protect communities as well as individuals.... Just as physicians now recognize the importance of fostering health rather than simply treating illness, so the police - and the rest of us - ought to recognize the importance of maintaining, intact, communities without broken windows.

James Q. Wilson

A particular rule that seems to make sense in the individual case makes no sense when it is made a universal rule and applied to all cases. It makes no sense because it fails to take into account the connection between one broken window left untended and a thousand broken windows.

James Q. Wilson

Window-breaking does not necessarily occur on a large scale because some areas are inhabited by determined window-breakers whereas others are populated by window-lovers; rather, one unrepaired broken window is a signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs nothing.

James Q. Wilson

One unrepaired broken window is a signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs nothing.

Friedrich Schiller

Courage, ne'er by sorrow broken! Aid where tears of virtue flow; Faith to keep each promise spoken! Truth alike to friend and foe!

George Gilder

Poverty is less a matter of income than of prospects. While the incomes of the poor have steadily risen through Great Society largesse, their prospects have plummeted as families have broken into dependent fragments.

Luis Gutierrez

It is so difficult to, day in and day out, hear these incredibly painful stories of the destructive nature of our broken immigration system.

The Innocence Project is thrilled to be the beneficiary of the band's generosity. The wave of post conviction DNA exonerations sends a message to all of us that the criminal justice system is broken and desperately needs to be fixed. Thank you Nine Inch Nails for joining us in the quest for meaningful justice.

The ultimate goal is to do as President Bush has urged a couple of days ago, to urge Congress to come to grips with solving the broken down immigration plan. We've talked with workers and they're responding positively, they want to communicate the seriousness of their purpose. Workers want to continue to produce a product and service that helps our economy.

The truth is that no internal reviews or congressional hearings will change the Secret Service's broken management culture. It needs better leadership.

Frank Martin

The gate wasn't unlocked. It was broken or taken off.

The gasoline price has broken records repeatedly in 2005, but until September 9 it did not exceed the true all-time high.

Eric Kripke

It's hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again.

The idea is that whenever you have a broken nerve connection, you can supply the electrical impulse to complete the circuit.

Debbie Ford

Divorce is a time of change. It really rocks a foundation of most people's lives. When we have our heart broken or our dreams taken away from us, it is a time of growth and change.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

We still have a broken system. The only thing that changed was me.

Everyone knew it was biologically questionable to shift all the recovery to federal land. The state's never done its share, and now we're really in a panic mode. ... It's not just about the owl. It's about broken promises.

There was a question of lameness in this horse a few days prior. There is a feeling that this may be a broken pelvis. This is purely a precautionary measure as we've tried to take all along. We've tried to take extra measures.

(Against Oakland), they went to a three-wide receiver set rather than going to two tight ends and hammering folks. They spread people out, and it was on a broken play that (David) Carr found (Reggie Swinton) for a touchdown.

Daniel Vettori

It's not broken ? it's just bruised in a nasty spot ? but I'm not sure whether he will join us in the morning.

It's gotta be a pain. I've never heard of a guy toughening it out with two broken thumbs. That's amazing.

Bill Vaughan

Consumers are smart enough to know that they don't 'drive' health care when it comes to treating a premature baby, cancer in a spouse or a child's broken bones.