Broken Quotes - Page 16

• You can't break what's broken already.

  LeAnn Rimes

  Break

  "LeAnn Rimes, Eddie Cibrian Affair: Singer Cries Over Her ‘Broken’ First Marriage", www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2012.

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• This is what happens with a breakthrough.  The first ones through the door often get bruised if not broken.  Eventually, with a little political acumen and racial sensitivity and a lot of hard work, a smooth new place can emerge.

  Gwen Ifill

  Hard Work, Doors, Political

  Gwen Ifill (2009). “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama”, p.17, Anchor

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• I'm one-hundred-fifty miles off Cape Horn, both autopilots are broken, and my boat is drifting toward one of the nastiest chunks of ocean on the face of the earth.

  Abby Sunderland

  Ocean, Capes, Earth

  "Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas". Book by Abby Sunderland and Lynn Vincent, 2011.

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• It is only the happy who are hard, Gilles. I think perhaps it is better for the world if - if one has a broken heart. One is quick to recognise it, elsewhere. And one has time to think about other people, if there is nothing left to hope for any more.

  Helen Waddell

  Heart, Thinking, Compassion

  Helen Waddell (1965). “Peter Abelard”

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• So with Easter. It was fun, as a child, to bound down the stairs to find seasonal sweet-treats under each plate, but again, with the passing of time, and the shadow of death over our broken family circle, I've seen Easter as highest necessity. If hope is to flourish, it had better be true.

  Gerhard E Frost

  Sweet, Easter, Children

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• I believe in solitude broken like bread by poetry.

  Anne Hebert

  Believe, Poetry, Solitude

  Anne Hébert, Alan Brown (1975). “Poems”, Don Mills, Ont. : Musson Book Company

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• Years later, you can hear a song, and it brings you back right to that moment, what was happening at that time, whether it was a relationship or a difficult time, or maybe a great time in your life, and you had that album you were listening to. Twenty years later, you can put on that song you fell in love to or your heart was broken to, and you hear that song and it brings you right back there. I think music is the most powerful tool we have.

  Balthazar Getty

  Song, Powerful, Heart

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• Man is a long time coming. Man will yet win. Brother may yet line up with brother: This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers.There are men who can't be bought.

  Carl Sandburg

  Brother, Winning, Men

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Harvest Poems: 1910-1960”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I define a good person as somebody who is fully conscious of their own limitations. They know their strengths, but they also know their shadow - they know their weaknesses. In other words, they understand that there is no good without bad. Good and evil are really one, but we have broken them up in our consciousness. We polarize them.

  John Bradshaw

  Evil, Shadow, Weakness

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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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• The company-as-a-machine model fits how people think about and operate conventional companies. And, of course, it fits how people think about changing conventional companies: You have a broken company, and you need to change it, to fix it.

  Peter Senge

  Thinking, People, Needs

  "Learning for a Change". Interview with Alan M. Webber, www.fastcompany.com. April 30, 1999.

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• Don't worry, Evie; my heart isn't broken, only bruised.

  Gillian Shields

  Heart, Worry, Bruised

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• Life breaks us all, but you're stronger in the places that were broken. Or you can essentially crumble, give up, and, you know, waste your life.

  Jillian Michaels

  Giving Up, Stronger, Waste

  Source: movieweb.com

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• How many of us have had our hearts broken for whatever reason yet find the courage to continue to reach out for love. Emotional vulnerability is true strength to me.

  Michelle J. Howard

  Heart, Emotional, Reason

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Your pot broken seemes better then my whole one.

  George Herbert

  Pot, Whole

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.328

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• And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn't seem broken at all.

  Jodi Lynn Anderson

  Heart, And Love, Expected

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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, Lines

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• There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher.

  A. Scott Berg

  Editors, Leap Of Faith, Fiction And Nonfiction

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• ...the law which is never to be broken is never required.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Law

  Andrew Carnegie (2006). “The Gospel of Wealth Essays and Other Writings”, p.22, Penguin

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• My home has a split personality. Some of the rooms are very French antique. Think Aubusson rugs, turquoise ceramic jugs, sandbag pillows, and broken birdcages. The other half is very Aztec. Neon ikat fabric pillows, vintage books piled up to the ceiling, and shutters from Bali.

  Poppy Delevingne

  Book, Home, Thinking

  "10 Questions: Poppy Delevingne" by Yale Breslin, www.elle.com. October 9, 2012.

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• It is not easy to explain why God permits evil; but it is impossible for an atheist to explain the existence of goodness. How could a spiritless, soul-less, cross-less, Godless universe become the center of faith, purity, sacrifice, and martyrdom? How can decency be the decent thing if there is no God? Since God is love, why should we be surprised that want of it should end in pain, hate, broken hearts, and war?

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Atheist, Pain, Hate

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• Ah! happy day they whose hearts can break
  And peace of pardon win!
  How else may man make straight his plan
  And cleanse his soul from Sin?
  How else but through a broken heart
  May Lord Christ enter in?

  Oscar Wilde

  Heart, Winning, Men

  The Ballad of Reading Gaol pt. 5, st. 14 (1898)

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• I was 21 and homeless - such a broken, lost woman.

  Lykke Li

  Homeless, Lost

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• The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

  Carl Bernstein

  Government, Branches, Three

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• To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will most certainly be wrung and possibly broken ... The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Love Is, Heaven

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