Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jimmy Rollins

Records are meant to be broken and it's good to have an opportunity to chase them. But I'm more focused on how we do as a team.

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.

Dan Jones

Real Madrid's top spot represents a remarkable transformation in the club's revenue generating capacity. It has broken the mold.

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.

People know that they can call us no matter what. Whether you've been robbed or had your car broken into, people are victimized by that.

I am deeply saddened by this tragedy. My broken heart goes out to the family involved for the loss of their son.

I am trying to connect broken parts of the system.

James Williams

Cause that will probably be broken this year.

But the horse hasn't broken down or anything dramatic like that so we will fight another day.

He's a warrior. We've seen him play through all kinds of things, broken ankles, everything. If he can walk, he can go. He will be out there.

Carl Jung

What if it can't be worked out? What if I'm—what if I'm broken for good?

Doc Rivers

I thought, for whatever reason, our spirit was broken in the third and fourth quarters.

I think the conditions played a big part. When I ran here the first time this year, it was gorgeous. I think with better conditions maybe I could have broken my record. I'm not disappointed with it because I see this as a tune-up for districts.

I think the analysts will now exclude more stuff than they would have otherwise. If I'm faced with all or none, I'm going to say all. If it's broken out, I'm going to be more reluctant to exclude the indirect costs.

This was one of those games where, if we had broken the ice with one and the way we were controlling things, we would have scored more. But getting that first one is tough.

Justin Miller

I was lost. I had never broken in a first baseman?s mitt and there was no one on the team who could tell us. After a while, we sort of figured it out.

Alice Sebold

Before, they had never found themselves broken together. Usually, it was one needing the other but not both needing each other, and so there had been a way, by touching, to borrow from the stronger one's strength.

Alice Munro

Lovers. Not a soft word, as people thought, but cruel and tearing.

Alice Hoffman

Love was like rain: it turned into ice, or it disappeared. Now you saw it, now you couldn't find it no matter how hard you might search. Love evaporated; obsession was realer; it hurt, like a pin in your bottom, a stone in your shoe. It didn't go away in the blink of an eye. A morning phone call filled with regret. A letter that said, Dear you, good-bye from me. Obsession tasted like something familiar. Something you'd known your whole life. It settled and lurked; it stayed with you.

Anne Lamott

Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared

Anne Lamott

Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places.

Anna Akhmatova

You thought I was that type: that you could forget me, and that I'd plead and weep and throw myself under the hooves of a bay mare, or that I'd ask the sorcerers for some magic potion made from roots and send you a terrible gift: my precious perfumed handkerchief. Damn you! I will not grant your cursed soul vicarious tears or a single glance. And I swear to you by the garden of the angels, I swear by the miracle-working ikon, and by the fire and smoke of our nights: I will never come back to you.

Albert Camus

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

Claire Danes

Huge events take place on this earth every day. Earthquakes, hurricanes, even glaciers move. So why couldn't he just look at me?

D. H. Lawrence

And then she realized that his presence was the wall, his presence was destroying her. Unless she could break out, she must die most fearfully, walled up in horror. And he was the wall. She must break down the wall. She must break him down before her, the awful obstruction of him who obstructed her life to the last. It must be done, or she must perish most horribly.

Chuck Hagel

What I think the White House does not yet understand and some of my colleagues, is the dam has broken on this (Iraq) policy.

Deborah Cox

I'm not supposed to miss you, I'm not supposed to care

Douglas Sirk

You have to think with the heart.

Douglas MacArthur

Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.

Dwight L. Moody

Is there any reason why you should not have faith in God? Has God ever broken one of His promises? I defy any infidel or unbeliever to place a finger on a single promise of God ever made and failed to fulfill.

Andy Stanley

Broken-hearted leaders change things that go beyond their generation.

Andre Gide

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.

Anais Nin

All of my creation is an effort to weave a web of connection with the world: I am always weaving it because it was once broken.