Broken Quotes

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter.

The fishes are also employed for the same purpose on any yard, which happens to be sprung or fractured. Thus their form, application, and utility are exactly like those of the splinters applied to a broken limb in surgery.

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.

When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time; but one link in the chain of affection broken, and every thing seems altered.

A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.

A promise must never be broken.

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

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.

I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all.

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

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

I'd crawl over broken glass for Elle MacPherson or Cindy Crawford.

I think relationships are broken up because of the media.

There was a taboo as a result of the Holocaust that people respected that anti-Semitism was an ugly thing and should be avoided. Now that taboo seems to have been broken with impunity.

I've been heartbroken. I've broken hearts. That's part of life, and its part of figuring out who you are so you can find the right partner.

For the longest time, you just sound like a broken record, but you have to be consistent when teaching kids.

When a gust of wind hits a broken bone, you feel it.

But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially.

The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow.

My heart got broken so many times because I put so much pressure on it. And then... I got blindsided.

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.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

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.

All records are not made to be broken.

Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.

For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out my newsreader was broken, and hadn't posted at all.

For me, I wanted somebody that got me musically, that understood that I'm an artist and this is who I am. I'm not going to be like another artist on your label, probably - hopefully. I found all those things with the Broken Bow group.

When my world record got broken in 1999, it hurt a little bit, to say the least. But I was in a leg brace at the time and I had just had knee surgery and I couldn't do anything about it.

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.

I grew up among farmers in Illinois and so you always have to have the tools you might need in the eventuality of a flat tire or a broken window.

No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.

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

I'm just looking for an angel with a broken wing.

The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things.

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

According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

I came to join the Experience by going for an audition for Eric Burdon who was just forming the New Animals at that point, after the original Animals had broken up.

There have been nine Super Bowls in New Orleans, and not all of them have brought the best of luck to NFL Films. We got robbed twice there, got food poisoning, and my hotel room was broken into on the day the Bears played the Patriots in January 1986.

The emphasis has been on rights, not responsibilities. When it comes to piecing together the fragments of broken lives, we have tended to place the entire burden on the state and its agencies.

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

I think we've broken story after story that the rest of the media refused to break even when they had the story because they were scared of the story, or they just didn't think it was appropriate.

Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.

You know, at the end of the day, the only thing you have is trust and honor in this world. That's all you have. All you have is your reputation built on trust and your personal honor. When you don't have that anymore, well, you know, there you go. Trust was broken.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

The Senate as an institution is broken. We're not doing the work of the American people and the rules are being abused. The only way to get us back to the traditions where the Senate is doing the work of the American people is to change the rules.

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

I was just 20 years old when I wrote Broken Arrow.

You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my brothers or the neighborhood kids. We used broken bats and plastic golf balls and played for hours and hours.

The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.

Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.

Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.

Mostly I do Iyengar. I like anything that's hard enough to make me cry in class. I like to be pushed over my limit and broken down a little bit.

Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.

Our current tax system is broken.

Moshing and broken glass just don't go together.

My first movie was this independent that I did on the Erie Canal in 1995, called Erie, that I don't know if you could even get, actually with Felicity Huffman. And then from that I did this film that was eventually called The Broken Giant later that fall. And then I kind of started getting into doing pilots.

The principal or highest part of the mountain having changed its direction to east and west, I ascended it in such manner as to leave its most elevated ranges to the south and travelled north west over a very rough and broken country generally covered with snow.

Don't fix what's not broken.

Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.

The only thing that preoccupies me is that France has broken down, and we need to start up the engine again - all the way. But not so as to run into a wall.

Before I left the 'Star' last year to write books full-time, I welcomed catastrophe. It was material. Missed planes, broken pipes, dead lawns, digestive disorders, you name it, if it was something that had gone horribly wrong, it was worth banging out 600 words about.

We need to save and strengthen and fix Medicare. Seniors realize Medicare is broken.

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken souls.

There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher.

In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken.

The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.

Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.

It's not just songs and glamour. It's sweat, blood, broken toes, and mistakes... It's life.