Broken Quotes - Page 17

• I feel very fortunate to have broken in with the Milwaukee Braves organization.

  Joe Torre

  Organization, Brave, Milwaukee

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• It is the broken heart that makes us human in the end.

  Melanie Rae Thon

  Heart, Ends, Humans

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• Hannah Tinti writes with uncommon grace and stunning insight. Her quirky tribe of outcasts will break into your dreams and steal your spirit. Surrender to them! Let your heart be broken! Only then will you know the tender thrill of their wild companionship. The Good Thief is pure delight. When you wake from this dream, you will wake bedazzled

  Melanie Rae Thon

  Dream, Writing, Heart

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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, Abnormal

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

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• My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

  Duke of Wellington

  Believe, Heart, Loss

  Letter from the field of Waterloo in June 1815. "The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: From Marathon to Waterloo" by Edward Shepherd Creasy, 1851.

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• We live in bodies that are fearfully and wonderfully made, yet they are not immune to illness and pain. We have hearts that are capable of experiencing great love, but sometimes they get broken.

  Adam Hamilton

  Pain, Heart, Great Love

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• My mothers dad dropped out of the eighth grade to work. He had to. By the time he was 30, he was a master electrician, plumber, carpenter, mason, mechanic. That guy was, to me, a magician. Anything that was broken, he could fix. Anybody anywhere in our community knew that if there was a problem, Carl was there to fix it.

  Mike Rowe

  Mother, Dad, Community

  "Cleaning up 'Dirty Jobs'". Interview with Stephen Samaniego, money.cnn.com. May 18, 2011.

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• I still have your pocket watch, my dear father. Like me, it is broken, but stubborn, and still keeps going.

  Arno Hintjens

  Father, Pockets, Watches

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• I had a nervous breakdown at 17 when my first love left me, and he was a typical bad boy, albeit a charismatic one, with a string of broken hearts trailing behind him.

  Caroline Leavitt

  Heart, First Love, Boys

  "Caroline Leavitt Throws Stones at Her Own Characters: An Interview". Interview with Meg Waite Clayton, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2013.

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• My love is like some raven at my window with a broken wing.

  Bob Dylan

  Love Is, Wings, Ravens

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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• something in me had got broken, but not so broken I didn't remember what it was.

  Mark Lawrence

  Remember

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.45, Penguin

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• Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. It looked as if it had once been a large house of entertainment; but the roof had fallen in, in many places, and the stairs were steep, rugged, and broken. There was a huge fire-place in the room into which they walked, and the chimney was blackened with smoke; but no warm blaze lighted it up now. The white feathery dust of burnt wood was still strewed over the hearth, but the stove was cold, and all was dark and gloomy.

  Charles Dickens

  Uncles, Heart, Dark

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.429

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• They enter, locking themselves in, descend the rugged steps, and are down in the Crypt. The lantern is not wanted, for the moonlight strikes in at the groined windows, bare of glass, the broken frames for which cast patterns on the ground. The heavy pillars which support the roof engender masses of black shade, but between them there are lanes of light.

  Charles Dickens

  Light, Glasses, Support

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Mystery of Edwin Drood”, p.91, Castrovilli Giuseppe

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• The man who now confronted Gashford, was a squat, thickset personage, with a low, retreating forehead, a coarse shock head of hair, and eyes so small and near together, that his broken nose alone seemed to prevent their meeting and fusing into one of the usual size.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Eye, Men

  Charles Dickens (1872). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.65

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• And from that hour his poor maimed spirit, only remembering the place where it had broken its wings, cancelled the dream through which it had since groped, and knew of nothing beyond the Marshalsea.

  Charles Dickens

  Dream, Character, Wings

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Little Dorrit”, p.620, Kartindo.com

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• The world is out of order. It's been broken since you came.

  Mira Grant

  Order, World

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• The only time I had what you would call life-threatening fear was when I was on the Moon. Towards the end of our stay, we got excited and we were going to do the high jump, and I jumped and fell over backwards. That was a scary time, because if the backpack got broken, I would have had it. But everything held together.

  Charles Duke

  Moon, Scary, Together

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• Learn to recognize the counterfeit coins that may buy you just a moment of pleasure,
  But then drag you for days like a broken man behind a farting camel.

  Hafez

  Men, Camels, Coins

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• A church without the broken is a broken church.

  Ed Stetzer

  Religious, Broken Spirit, Church

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

  Jenny Han

  Years, Mines, Ifs

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

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• When we are broken because of increased hardship, we simply have to trust in the goodness of God.

  Steve Farrar

  Hardship, Goodness, Goodness Of God

  Steve Farrar (2009). “Battle Ready: Prepare to Be Used by God”, p.113, David C Cook

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• Knew I how to pray, to intercede for your [broken] Foot were intuitive - but I am but a Pagan.

  Emily Dickinson

  Feet, Atheism, Praying

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• I don't fix anybody, because I don't think anybody's broken. I think what people have are patterns, and those can be changed. People quickly understand that what's controlling their thoughts and emotions are their values and rules, and they learn how to shift those.

  Tony Robbins

  Thinking, People, Patterns

  Playboy Interview, www.awaken.com. August 17, 2013.

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• The worst thing in the world when you feel broken is to have somebody coming at you with open-faced love.

  Jim Carrey

  World, Painful, Worst

  "Yes Man - Jim Carrey interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• ... we have broken down the self-respecting spirit of man with nursery tales and priestly threats, and we dare to assert, that inproportion as we have prostrated our understanding and degraded our nature, we have exhibited virtue, wisdom, and happiness, in our words, our actions, and our lives!

  Frances Wright

  Men, Self, Understanding

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures as delivered by Frances Wright: with three addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789. Second edition”, p.115

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