Broke Quotes

• We came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt.

  Hillary Clinton

  Yale, White, House

  "Multi-millionaire Hillary tells ABC she was 'dead broke' (and deflects on Benghazi)" by Howard Kurtz, www.foxnews.com. June 10, 2014.

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• I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation.

  Mike Todd

  Inspirational, Attitude, Divorce

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

  Mark Twain

  Change, Loyalty, Courage

  Speech, Hartford, Conn., 1884

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• If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

  Bert Lance

  Scrapbooking, Statistics, Ifs

  Quoted in Wash. Post, 23 Dec. 1976.

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• I had so many beliefs against being a singer or what it takes. There was a lot of pain associated with that. The rejection of it all. I lived in a rejection state of mind. Not because of my voice; the mike never rejected me. It was harboring all those bad memories of being broke. It teaches you your worth. Nothing good comes from that.

  Ester Dean

  Pain, Memories, Voice

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• Most Christians pray to be blessed. Few pray to be broken.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Christian, Religious, Prayer

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• When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it.

  Ken Kesey

  Powerful, Ghouls, Firsts

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• Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.

  Scott Adams

  Believe, People, Normal

  Scott Adams (1996). “The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions”

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• Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Witty, Laughter

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• We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Inspiration, Humor

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• I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

  e. e. cummings

  Witty, Art, Money

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• The children almost broken by the world become the adults most likely to change it.

  Frank Warren

  Change, Children, Broken

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• To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken it will enter the regions of childhood vision and dream.

  Giorgio de Chirico

  Dream, Art, Escaping

  "Letters of the great artists - from Ghiberti to Gainsborough" by Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, (p. 231), 1963.

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• Ambulances were cool. “You just want to fondle my extraneous body parts,” I said to the EMT as I picked up a silver gadget that looked disturbingly like an alien orifice probe, broke it, then promptly put it back, hoping it wouldn’t leave someone’s life hanging in the balance because the EMT couldn’t alien-probe his orifices.

  Darynda Jones

  Balance, Gadgets, Body

  Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.128, Macmillan

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• Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke.

  Chuck Jones

  Sunshine, Light, Trying

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• I'm at a very frustrating point in my career because I'm not a millionaire. Like, people assume because you're in movies or TV, you're rich. I'm not rich, but I'm far from broke. I'm what you call a 'thousandaire.'

  Aries Spears

  Funny, Careers, People

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• Either you play the game or let the game play you and be that broke sucka talkin bout I stayed true

  J. Cole

  Games, Play

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• I was supposed to be on the Tonight Show but I broke my shoulder instead.

  Rip Taylor

  Tonight, Shoulders, Shows

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• One common adage...that is completely wrongheaded is: You can't go broke taking profits. That's precisely how many traders do go broke. While amateurs go broke by taking large losses, professionals go broke by taking small profits.

  William Eckhardt

  Loss, Common, Traders

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• Amateurs go broke taking large losses, professionals go broke taking small profits.

  William Eckhardt

  Loss, Profit

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• When ABBA broke up, I assumed our music would fall into oblivion so in the early 90's with BJRN AGAIN becoming popular and when U2 invited Benny and I on stage to sing Dancing Queen, I just assumed we were being sent up. But now I see they were paying tribute to us

  Bjorn Ulvaeus

  Queens, Fall, Dancing

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• Believe things will work out. How was I ever to know that the girl who broke my heart in university would lead to my soulmate? How was I to know that the ‘dream job’ I was rejected from out of college would lead me to a year of entrepreneurship and adventure in Spain? How was I to know that taking a miserable job back in the states would be just the push I needed to vow to never do something I wasn’t passionate about again? Everything works out. I mean everything. As long as you believe it will. When you do, you will find the silver lining. That will take you to the next level.

  Steve Jobs

  Girl, Dream, Soulmate

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• The Russians are liars - you can't trust them. At Potsdam they agreed to everything and broke their word. It's too bad the second world power is like this, but that's the way it is, and we must keep our strength.

  Harry S. Truman

  Liars, World, Way

  "The Memoirs of Richard Nixon". Book by Richard Nixon, 1978.

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• The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern wars in the utter ruthlessness with which it was fought... Europe and large parts of Asia and Africa became one vast battlefield on which after years of struggle not armies but nations broke and ran. When all was over, Torture and Cannibalism were the only two expedients that the civilized, scientific, Christian States had been able to deny themselves: and they were of doubtful utility.

  Winston Churchill

  Christian, War, Struggle

  "The World Crisis, Volume I: 1911-1914". Book by Winston Churchill, 1923.

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• Before the civil war, Pottibakia was a normal member of the Comity of Nations. She erected tariff walls, broke treaties, persecuted minorities, obstructed at conferences unless she was convinced there was no danger of a satisfactory solution; then she strained every nerve in the cause of peace.

  E. M. Forster

  Wall, War, Nerves

  "The Life to Come (and Other Stories)". Book by E. M. Forster, 1972.

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