Broken Down Quotes - Page 2

• I was once stranded on a broken-down boat in shark-infested waters in the middle of the Indian Ocean for five days before we were rescued while doing a 'Vogue' shoot.

  Helena Christensen

  Ocean, Sharks, Broken

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

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• It is, however, an argument of no weight to say that natural bodies are first generated or compounded out of those things into which they are at the last broken down or dissolved.

  William Harvey

  Science, Broken, Weight

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• I think, in my life, there've been three times I've broken down into tears on a set because I was happy.

  Stephen Tobolowsky

  Thinking, Broken, Tears

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. August 2, 2011.

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• But today, just a few years into the twenty-first century, we already find ourselves in a different and precarious position. As revolutions in communications and technology have broken down barriers across the world, it has given more power to both our competitors and our enemies.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Communication, Technology

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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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• 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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• 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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• In my view, Jan Masaryk was thoroughly corrupt, who bumped himself off because he saw at last where his moral cowardice and ideological 'Playboyery' had led him. I vividly remember visiting him in Washington, fat, slightly tight, coming into the room looking like a broken-down butler with his master, the little Communist, Clementis, - and saying in a loud voice: 'Has anyone seen an Iron Curtain? I haven't.' Well, he has now.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Suicide, Voice, Iron

  "Like it was: The Diaries of Malcolm Muggeridge". Book by Malcolm Muggeridge, p. 255, 1981.

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• We are in a crisis today because the practical consensus between the left and the right, linking economic efficiency with social protection, has broken down

  Andre Glucksmann

  Broken, Today, Protection

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• The fantasist in whom the reality barrier has broken down is unreliable, believing things when he should not, and telling things as true when they are not.

  Simon Blackburn

  Believe, Reality, Broken

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• We can no longer speak of a bourne from which no traveler e'er returns. The middle wall of partition has been broken down and the boundary become but an invisible line by the resurrection of Christ. That He who died has been raised again and ever lives in the form of a complete humanity is the fundamental fact in the revelation of the Christian doctrine of immortality.

  B. B. Warfield

  Christian, Easter, Wall

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• New York is the dirtiest, largest, ugliest, broken-down city in the world-but it's the only one.

  Isaac Stern

  New York, Cities, Broken

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• If a teacher told me to revise, I thought that meant my writing was a broken-down car that needed to go to the repair shop. I felt insulted. I didn't realize the teacher was saying, 'Make it shine. It's worth it.' Now I see revision as a beautiful word of hope. It's a new vision of something. It means you don't have to be perfect the first time. What a relief!

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Beautiful, Teacher, Writing

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• Christmas is a season of such infinite labour, as well as expense in the shopping and present-making line, that almost every woman I know is good for nothing in purse and person for a month afterwards, done up physically, and broken down financially.

  Fanny Kemble

  Christmas, Shopping, Broken

  Fanny Kemble (1890). “Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters, Forming a Sequel to Record of a Girlhood, and Records of Later Life”

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• I know firsthand how alone you can feel when you’re being broken down in a relationship and forced to defend it or stay silent. Just being able to send a text message is anonymous and safe. Mary Kay and I believe that everyone deserves a safe, healthy relationship that makes you stronger and better and I want to make sure people know how to get the help they need.

  Debby Ryan

  Believe, People, Broken

  "Jessie Star Debby Ryan Named Voice of Dating Abuse Prevention Campaign" by Danica Lo, www.glamour.com. February 17, 2015.

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• Any philosophic explanation of Quality is going to be both false and true precisely because it is a philosophic explanation. The process of philosophic explanation is an analytic process, a process of breaking something down into subjects and predicates. What I mean (and everybody else means) by the word 'quality' cannot be broken down into subjects and predicates. This is not because Quality is so mysterious but because Quality is so simple, immediate and direct.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Mean, Simple, Broken

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than--broken down.

  Tennessee Williams

  Wall, Sight, People

  Tennessee Williams (1961). “Period of Adjustment”, p.19, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Gingrich was a far more volatile and aggressive individual than Boehner, but the institutional norms of self-restraint, and perhaps even self-interest, have broken down under the pressure of an increasingly abnormal Republican Party.

  George Packer

  Party, Self, Broken

  "Darkness in Washington" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. October 3, 2013.

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• God, I feel like hell tonight. Tears of rage I cannot fight. I'd be the last to help you understand... Nothing's true and nothing's right so let me be alone tonight 'cause you can't change the way I am... I have a face I cannot show, I make the rules up as I go. It's try and love me if you can. Are you strong enough to be my man? When I've shown you that I just don't care, when I'm throwing punches in the air, when I'm broken down and I can't stand will you be man enough to be my man?

  Sheryl Crow

  Strong, Fighting, Men

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• When I got the job on 'Lost,' I was a broke university student living in the crappiest part of town, with a duct-taped back window on a broken-down car. I existed on peanut butter and tea.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Jobs, University Students, Car

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• Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.

  Sallust

  Powerful, Broken, Unity

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• ... life is broken down into these stages: you're born and you don't know how anything works; gradually you find out how everything works; technology evolves and slowly there are a few things you can't work; at the end, you don't know how anything works.

  Rita Rudner

  Technology, Broken, Life Is

  Rita Rudner (2008). “I Still Have It . . . I Just Can't Remember Where I Put It: Confessions of a Fiftysomething”, p.1, Crown Archetype

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• When regard for truth has been broken down or even slightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

  Saint Augustine

  Broken, Doubtful, All Things

  Saint Augustine (2010). “Treatises on Various Subjects (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 16)”, p.78, CUA Press

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• There is something about big cities that turns me on, and for whatever mysterious reason, places like New York and Paris inspire me. I think it's because cities represent civilization, and as crime-ridden and broken down as some of them are, it's still better than skipping through a meadow.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Thinking, Civilization

  "Woody Allen by Moonlight". Interview with Uzoamaka Maduka, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 16, 2011.

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• I am one of the world's dreadful technophobes. I was on the internet, but it's broken down and I've unplugged it.

  Gerald Seymour

  Broken, World, Down And

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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