Broke Quotes - Page 28

• How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish over-careful fathers Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care, Their bones with industry.

  William Shakespeare

  Money, Father, Fall

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.476, Wordsworth Editions

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• So to the lyre of Orpheus they struck with their oars, The furious water of the sea, and the surge broke into waves. Here and there the dark brine gushed with foam, Roaring terribly through the strength of the mighty men.

  Barry S. Strauss

  Dark, Men, Sea

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• I'd fallen in love with a woman but she broke up with me and I was devastated. Six months later, I went into a suicidal depression from the break-up of the relationship, but I resolved to not do what my friends had done. And so I reached out for help

  Aron Ralston

  Suicide, Suicidal, Six Months

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• We are all descended from cavemen who broke the skulls of their enemies with rocks for fun or profit. But that hardly mitigates the crimes of a man who does the same thing today. I see no problem judging the behavior of the Islamic State and its apologists from the vantage point of the West's high horse, because we've earned the right to sit in that saddle.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Horse, Fun, Islamic

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• I broke my nose in gym when a ball hit me. I took a girl to her debutante ball the next week wearing a tux and a big, honking bandage. Not the romantic night she had in mind.

  Wentworth Miller

  Girl, Night, Next Week

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• I had just sat down at a table with Star [Jones] and, bam, it just popped all over Star's shoes. Star was like, 'What is that!?' I said, 'My water broke!'

  Holly Robinson Peete

  Stars, Shoes, Water

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• Last good pratfall I did, I broke bones in both hands. I still feel it when people shake my hand.

  Chevy Chase

  Hands, People, Lasts

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• These broke rappers always rappin bout a pink truck. I'm only happy when I'm hoppin out the Brinks truck.

  Nicki Minaj

  Money, Rapper, Truck

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• Found a dead body when I was 12, saved the Enterprise a few times, Ran the Axis of Anarchy, broke up Penny and Leonard. Currently running the non-lethal weapons lab at Global Dynamics.

  Wil Wheaton

  Running, Axes, Google

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• I nearly broke out laughing when the wrteched soothsayer warned Caesar: "Beware the Ides of April." I thought it a miracle (and a relief) that no one in the udience had snickered or yelled out a correction. How could such an error be made by an actor? Had my ears deceived me?

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Errors, Laughing, Miracle

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• He just got his neck broke one time, I'm not tryna break his neck again, that's not what I fight for. I fight to have fun, not to hurt nobody.

  Roy Jones Jr.

  Hurt, Fun, Motivation

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• We are going to put out a boxed set thing, but I don't want to do it yet. I want to wait until we're 45 and we're bitter and broke. Then, we'll put out the comprehensive Ween boxed set.

  Gene Ween

  Waiting, Want, Bitter

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• He broke through the barriers of the skies.

  William Herschel

  Science, Sky, Memorial

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• My sister was so promiscuous she broke her ankle in the glove compartment of a car.

  Phyllis Diller

  Sex, Car, Ankles

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• Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move.

  Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

  Fear, Moving, Home

  Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1992). “Georgia Scenes”, p.27, J.S. Sanders Books

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• I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments.

  John P. Marquand

  Inspirational, Ten Commandments, Knows

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• People say that time heals all wounds, and maybe they're right. But whit if the wounds don't heal correctly, like when cuts leave behind nasty scars, or when broken bones mend together, but aren't as smooth anymore? Does it mean they're really healed? Or is it that the body did what it could to fix what broke.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Mean, Cutting, People

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• I was so sentimental about you I'd break any one's heart for you. My, I was a damned fool. I broke my own heart, too. It's broken and gone. Everything I believe in and everything I cared about I left for you because you were so wonderful and you loved me so much that love was all that mattered. Love was the greatest thing, wasn't it?

  Ernest Hemingway

  Love, Believe, Heart

  "To Have and Have Not". Book by Ernest Hemingway. Chapter 21, 1937.

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• I saw how, when my brother smoked reefer, it made my mother cry. He was 16 at the time. And I saw that she broke down and cried. I never wanted to hurt my mother, so I kept away from drugs.

  Ving Rhames

  Mother, Brother, Hurt

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• They always say the hottest love has the coldest end.

  Drake

  Sad, Break Up, Broken Heart

  Song: July

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• Rich people take advice from people who are richer than they are. Poor people take advice from their friends, who are just as broke as they are.

  T. Harv Eker

  People, Advice, Rich

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• I looked a hundred times and all I saw was dust. The sun broke through and flecks of gold filled the air.

  Mark Nepo

  Air, Dust, Gold

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.204, Conari Press

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• I broke down. I hid under the bed because I was afraid that somebody was going to come for me. I don’t know who that someone was but I was just so scared. Not a single person at any level of government took any note of me. No one checked to see if I had a place to live or food to eat, and at 14, I found myself basically on my own.

  Diane Guerrero

  Government, Bed, Levels

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The rock & roll industry is very incestuous, and we have all been close at one time or another. A lot of beautiful music and a lot of beautiful times came from that. A lot of pain, too, because, inevitably, different relationships broke up.

  Joni Mitchell

  Beautiful, Pain, Rocks

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• I'd rather be tired than broke!

  Mark Cuban

  Tired

  "Caught on Camera: Actors, Politicians Fall Asleep on the Job". abcnews.go.com.

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