Broken Up Quotes - Page 3

• Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic.

  Earl Wilson

  Disappointment, Golf, Broken

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• No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.

  Yoko Ono

  Artist, Broken, Band

  "The Guardian profile: Yoko Ono" by Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2012.

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• I have used the words and expressions which my experiences from Minsk to Kharkov to the Don suggested to me. But I should have reserved those words and expressions for what came later, even though they are not strong enough. It is a mistake to use intense words without carefully weighing and measuring them, or they will have already been used when one needs them later. It's a mistake, for instance, to used the word frightful to describe a few broken up companions mixed into the ground: but it's a mistake that might be forgiven.

  Guy Sajer

  Strong, Mistake, Expression

  Guy Sajer (2000). “The Forgotten Soldier”, p.68, Potomac Books, Inc.

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• To be with a man who hasn't tried every line, who hasn't broken up with a woman every which way you can break up with them, is kind of nice.

  Uma Thurman

  Nice, Men, Broken

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• One of the problems of our youth is that the family unit is broken up. When we'd sit down to dinner together as a family, we'd learn about each other. We had something people don't get today.

  Paul Prudhomme

  People, Broken, Together

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• I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet, I was broken up with a month before, and she stayed up texting me all night and was helping me through it. Her text message looks like a song of hers. She's sort of become my fairy godmother.

  Ariana Grande

  Song, Sweet, Artist

  "Ariana Grande On Collaborating With Nathan Sykes And Recording One Of The Best Album’s This Year". Interview with Dana Mathews, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

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• Experiments in the visual arts (the invention of new ways of seeing things), are made because, due to the way the apparatus that makes up the mind is made, old processes and patterns have continually to be broken up in order to make it possible to perceive the new aspects and arrangements of evolving consciousness. The great enemy of intelligence is complacency.

  John Dos Passos

  Art, Order, Broken

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• Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with the tongue-where their purpose is to merely entertain, not instruct; they have to be limbered up, broken up, colloquialized and turned into common forms of premeditated talk-otherwise they will bore the house and not entertain it.

  Mark Twain

  Broken, House, Purpose

  Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.166, Univ of California Press

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• Is this good for English football? In the short run, Chelsea's rise has broken up what was turning into an irritating Arsenal-Manchester United duopoly. But football leagues (look at Scotland, look at Spain) can get along OK with duopolies. A monopoly, however, is a disaster. Everyone else in the Premiership has to operate on some kind of business footing, and the terror stalking Highbury and Old Trafford is that Chelsea will be immune from financial discipline forever.

  Matthew Engel

  Soccer, Football, Running

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• Contradict yourself. In order to live, you must remain broken up.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Order, Broken

  Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited

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• There are mythologies that are scattered, broken up, all around us. We stand on what I call a terminal moraine of shattered mythic systems that once structured society. They can be detected all around us. You can select any of these fragments that activate your imagination for your own use. Let it help shape your own relationship to the unconscious system out of which these symbols have come.

  Joseph Campbell

  Relationship, Broken, Imagination

  "Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor".

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• The framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom, and forbearance in its formation, and surrounded it with so many guards and securities, if it was intended to be broken by every member of the Confederacy at will.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Broken, Exhausted

  Letter to his son, G. W. Custis Lee, January 23, 1861.

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• I conceived, developed and applied in many areas a new geometry of nature, which finds order in chaotic shapes and processes. It grew without a name until 1975, when I coined a new word to denote it, fractal geometry, from the Latin word for irregular and broken up, fractus. Today you might say that, until fractal geometry became organized, my life had followed a fractal orbit.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Latin, Order, Names

  "Encyclopedia of World Biography" edited by Thomson Gale, 1997.

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• But I tell you - and mark my words - you will come some day to a craggy pass in the channel, where the whole of life's stream will be broken up into whirl and tumult, foam and noise: either you will be dashed to atoms on crag points, or lifted up and borne on by some master-wave into a calmer current.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Broken, Foam, Atoms

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.120, Penguin

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• On the Hugh Grant romance rumours: We're not dating and I'm not pregnant. We have not kissed or touched. We have not fought and broken up.

  Sandra Bullock

  Broken, Dating, Romance

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• Anybody who's ever been broken up with, or had their heart stepped on or ripped out of them; you question everything you've based your whole life on. It's like, is anything real? Cause nothing 's more real than that, and now it's gone.

  Kristen Stewart

  Real, Heart, Broken

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• If we must part for ever,
  Give me but one kind word to think upon,
  And please myself withal, whilst my heart's breaking!

  Thomas Otway

  Break Up, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

  "Best Plays".

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• If you were mine, I would never have broken up with you, not in a million years.

  Jenny Han

  Years, Broken, Mines

  Jenny Han (2014). “To All the Boys I've Loved Before”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called the Public, the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Family, Baby, Sweet

  Wyndham Lewis (1926). “The Art of Being Ruled”

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• A lot of my work goes to the center of where we belong--if there is any root to life -because nowadays the family is broken up, and people don't live in the same place for very long.

  Arthur Miller

  Roots, Long, People

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• Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.

  Morton Hunt

  Positive, Moving On, Break Up

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• The Iraq War is the first war in history, in which there were huge demonstrations before the war was launched, not beginning five years later and then being broken up. All of these are changes, and the people who are writing in journals today lived through these changes.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Writing, Years

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The day is refracted, and the next and the one after that, all of them broken up into a hundred juggled segments, each brilliant and self-contained so that the hours are no longer linear but assorted like bright sweets in a jar.

  Penelope Lively

  Sweet, Self, Broken

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• I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened, I was so broken up. After that, I decided to seek God for my life and my next marriage.

  Ricky Skaggs

  Marriage, Broken Heart, Looks

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• I came to join the Experience by going for an audition for Eric Burdon who was just forming the New Animals at that point, after the original Animals had broken up.

  Noel Redding

  Animal, Broken, Promise

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