Broken Quotes - Page 5

• Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

  Charles Kingsley

  Friendship, Best Friend, Glasses

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

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Karma, Men

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• The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Broken Heart, Dream, Silence

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.73, The Floating Press

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• A promise must never be broken.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Trust, Integrity, Commitment

  Alexander Hamilton (1903). “Works”

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• The act of forgiveness is the act of returning to present time. And that's why when one has become a forgiving person, and has managed to let go of the past, what they've really done is they've shifted their relationship with time.

  Caroline Myss

  Broken Heart, Forgiveness, Letting Go

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• My heart has never been broken, I've never broken anyone else's.

  Mariah Carey

  Broken Heart, Heart, My Heart

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• Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Broken Heart, Faith

  Richard J. Connors, Warren Buffett (2010). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.172, John Wiley & Sons

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• Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.

  Gene Tierney

  Broken Heart, Cures, Feels

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• There's a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Wine, Drunk

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.388, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Rupert Brooke

  Break Up, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

  Rupert Brooke (2010). “Collected Poems”, p.55, The Oleander Press

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

  Douglas MacArthur

  Lazy, Rules And Regulations, Laziness

  "MacArthur Close-Up". Book by William Addleman Ganoe, 1962.

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

  Nelson Algren

  Broken Heart, Cities, Broken Promises

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• When a man you like switches from what he said a year ago, or 4 years ago, he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough to change his mind with changing conditions. When a man you don't like does it, he is a liar who has broken his promises.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Change, Broken Heart, Liars

  Franklin P. Adams (''F.P.A.'') (1944). “Nods and Becks”

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• The violence had broken out in both sides, but our philosophy as a party was very, very clear.

  John Hume

  Broken Heart, Philosophy, Party

  "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievment Interview, www.achievement.org. June 08, 2002.

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• It's really good to be able to think about past loves without having a pit in my stomach, or cringing or feeling heart-broken, or like they hate you. Don't you think?

  Winona Ryder

  Broken Heart, Hate, Past

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• Today I divide my day between being actor, producer and distributor, and the monotony is broken.

  Ajay Devgan

  Broken Heart, Promise, Today

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• The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.

  John Burroughs

  Men, Miracle, Literature

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

  Eugene O'Neill

  God, Faith, Men

  Eugene O'Neill (1926). “The great god Brown: The fountain, The moon of the Caribbees, and other plays”

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• It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Broken Heart, Courage, Growing Up

  "Ginnifer Goodwin and John Krasinski Interview SOMETHING BORROWED". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 4, 2011.

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• Love is a promise delivered already broken.

  Steve Martin

  Broken Heart, Love Is, Promise

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• You want me to act like we've never kissed, you want to forget; pretend we've never met , and I've tried and I've tried, but I haven't yet... You walk by, and I fall to pieces.

  Patsy Cline

  Relationship, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

  Song: I Fall to Pieces

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

  Quintilian

  Broken Heart, Evil, Broken Promises

  "Institutio Oratoria". Textbook by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, I, 3, 3,

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• The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

  William Butler Yeats

  God, Time, Oxen

  Poems (1895) "The Countess Cathleen" act 4

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• How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

  Oscar Wilde

  Sad, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

  The Ballad of Reading Gaol pt. 5, st. 14 (1898)

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• Brains are like hearts - they go where they are appreciated.

  Robert McNamara

  Love, Leadership, Broken Heart

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