Broken Down Quotes

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

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• Violence is essentially wordless. and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.

  Thomas Merton

  Communication, Broken, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.7, New Directions Publishing

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• All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Motivational, Men, Broken

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• He'd stopped trying to bring her back. She only came back when she felt like it anyway, in dreams and lies and broken-down deja-vu.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Dream, Lying, Broken

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.288, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I’m not just taking trips down memory lane; I’m broken down on it.

  Pete Wentz

  Memories, Broken, Lanes

  Pete Wentz, James Montgomery (2013). “Gray”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. Oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly.You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don’t really resent it.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Art, Clever, Love You

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• Adults had the notion that juveniles needed to suffer. Only when they had suffered enough to wipe out most of their naturally joyous spirits and innocence were they staid enough to be considered mature. An adult was essentially a broken-down child.

  Piers Anthony

  Children, Broken, Suffering

  Piers Anthony (2002). “Centaur Aisle”, p.7, Del Rey

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• What actually happens when you die is that your brain stops working and your body rots, like Rabbit did when he died and we buried him in the earth at the bottom of the garden. And all his molecules were broken down into other molecules and they went into the earth and were eaten by worms and went into the plants and if we go and dig in the same place in 10 years there will be nothing exept his skeleton left. And in 1,000 years even his skeleton will be gone. But that is all right because he is a part of the flowers and the apple tree and the hawthorn bush now.

  Mark Haddon

  Flower, Garden, Skeletons

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  "I used to think the world was broken down by tribes," I said. "By black and white. By Indian and white. But I know that isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: The people who are assholes and the people who are not."

  Sherman Alexie

  Black And White, Thinking, Two

  "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian". Book by Sherman Alexie, September 12, 2007.

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• Dean's California--wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors.

  Jack Kerouac

  Lonely, Land, California

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• If you identify with a mental position, then if you are wrong, your mind-based sense of self is seriously threatened with annihilation. So you as the ego cannot afford to be wrong. To be wrong is to die. Wars have been fought over this, and countless relationships have broken down.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, War, Self

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.44, New World Library

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• The tennis ball doesn't know how old I am. The ball doesn't know if I'm a man or a woman or if I come from a communist country or not. Sport has always broken down these barriers.

  Martina Navratilova

  Sports, Country, Men

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• I know pretty well what evidence is, and I tell you, such evidence as that for the resurrection has never broken down yet.

  John Singleton Copley

  Broken, Resurrection, Evidence

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• A dream written down with a date becomes a goal. A goal broken down into steps becomes a plan. A plan backed by action makes your dreams come true.

  Greg Reid

  Inspirational, Dream, New Year

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• The old structure of the West as a synthesis of classical culture, Christianity, and the impulses of peoples entering history for the Žfirst time has broken down. A new unity, however, has not yet emerged. We stand in this transitional period, this ‘interregnum’ which leaves its mark on every spiritual activity. The Conservative Revolution is conditioned by it, and at the same time sees itself as an attempt to overcome it.

  Armin Mohler

  Spiritual, Broken, Unity

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• Inform all the troops that communications have completely broken down.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Life, Wisdom, Communication

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• The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government should never interfere with business or go into business itself, is called Laisser-faire by economists and politicians. It has broken down so completely in practice that it is now discredited; but it was all the fashion in politics a hundred years ago, and is still influentially advocated by men of business and their backers who naturally would like to be allowed to make money as they please without regard to the interest of the public.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Fashion, Money, Men

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• The new painting has broken down every distinction between art and life.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Art, Broken, Painting

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• Everything in life should be approached as a project. Every project can be broken down into just three things: Action Steps, Backburner Items, and References.

  Scott Belsky

  Broken, Three, Steps

  Scott Belsky (2010). “Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality”, p.8, Penguin

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• The most important part of vehicle maintenance is clean windows, so if you are broken down you will enjoy the beauty of the view.

  Dan Eldon

  Views, Broken, Important

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• An idea can only become a reality once it is broken down into organized, actionable elements.

  Scott Belsky

  Reality, Ideas, Broken

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• The majority of the diseases which the human family have been and still are suffering under, they have created by ignorance of their own organic health, and work perseveringly to tear themselves to pieces, and when broken down and debilitated in body and mind, send for the doctor and drug themselves to death.

  Ellen G. White

  Health, Ignorance, Doctors

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• I do hereby assert and declare that in four years from the date hereof, every sectarian and religious denomination in the United States shall be broken down, and every Christian shall be gathered unto the Mormonites, and the rest of the human race shall perish. If these things do not take place, I will hereby consent to have my hand separated from my body.

  Martin Harris

  Christian, Religious, Race

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• Our entire judicial system in Liberia has broken down because of the many years of lawlessness, indiscipline and warfare. We need more training to get more qualified judges. We need infrastructural reforms. All of our laws need to be re-examined by a law reform commission.

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

  Years, Law, Broken

  Source: www.irinnews.org

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• Love comes again
  Just when I've broken down I found
  Love can come again
  You've got to believe that.

  Tiesto

  Believe, Broken, Found Love

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