Broken Quotes - Page 18

• [T]he House of Maidens was for little girls whose whole duty in life was to spill things, break things, and forget things . . . until they had spilled, broken, and forgotten everything they could, and thus made room in their lives for a little wisdom.

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Girl, House, Littles

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.194, Ballantine Books

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• While on that old grey stone I sat
  Under the old wind-broken tree,
  I knew that One is animate,
  Mankind inanimate phantasy.

  William Butler Yeats

  Reality, Wind, Tree

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.161, Wordsworth Editions

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• My father and I were always on the most distant terms when I was a boy--a sort of armed neutrality, so to speak. At irregular intervals this neutrality was broken, and suffering ensued; but I will be candid enough to say that the breaking and the suffering were always divided up with strict impartiality between us--which is to say, my father did the breaking, and I did the suffering.

  Mark Twain

  Father, Boys, Suffering

  Mark Twain (2014). “Short Stories And Sketches (Annotated Edition)”, p.395, Jazzybee Verlag

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• There would be more than ocean-water broken
  Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken.

  Robert Frost

  God, Ocean, Light

  David A. Sohn, Richard Tyre, Robert Frost (1969). “Frost: The Poet and His Poetry”

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• The old brown hen and the old blue sky,
  Between the two we live and die
  The broken cartwheel on the hill.

  Wallace Stevens

  Life, Country, Blue

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.359, Vintage

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• I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an animal, aplant, an inanimate object, indeed lost to us until the day, which for some never arrives, when we find that we pass near the tree, or come to possess the object which is their prison. Then they quiver, call us, and as soon as we have recognized them, the spell is broken. Freed by us, they have vanquished death and return to live with us.

  Marcel Proust

  Death, Animal, Tree

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• A sleeping man holds in a circle around him the thread of the hours, the order of years and of worlds. He consults them instinctively upon awaking and in one second reads in them the point of the earth that he occupies, the time past until his arousal; but their ranks can be mingled or broken.

  Marcel Proust

  Time, Sleep, Men

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• By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways as there are floating fancies or fashions, the whole chain and continuity of the commonwealth would be broken. No one generation could link with the other. Men would become little better than the flies of a summer.

  Edmund Burke

  Change, Summer, Fashion

  Edmund Burke (2005). “Burke, Select Works”, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• The triumph of morality: A thief who has broken into a bedroom claims his sense of shame had been outraged, and by threatening theoccupants with exposure of an immoral act he blackmails them into not bringing charges for burglary.

  Karl Kraus

  Triumph, Thieves, Morality

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• Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even merely ignored or inadequately observed, no one would feel safe about anything, whether his own possessions, the inheritance he expects from his father, or the bequests he makes to his children.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Children, Father, Law

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• The sceptics, a kind of nomads, despising all settled culture of the land, broke up from time to time all civil society. Fortunately their number was small, and they could not prevent the old settlers from returning to cultivate the ground afresh, though without any fixed plan or agreement.

  Immanuel Kant

  Agreement, Land, Numbers

  Immanuel Kant (1915). “Critique of Pure Reason: In Commemoration of the Centenary of Its First Publication”

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• I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken,
  I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children,
  And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
  It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

  Bob Dylan

  Children, Rain, Fall

  'A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall' (1963 song)

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• Men throw broken things away, but God never uses anything until he first breaks it.

  Adrian Rogers

  Men, Use, Firsts

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• ... no one knows anything about a strike until he has seen it break down into its component parts of human beings.

  Mary Heaton Vorse

  Breaking Down, Strikes, Labor

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• Seems like just yesterday, you were a part of me. I used to stand so tall, I used to be so strong; your arms around me tight, everything felt so right - unbreakable, like nothing could go wrong. Now I can't breathe. No, I can't sleep; I'm barely hanging on. Here I am, once again, I'm torn into pieces. Can't deny it, can't pretend, just thought you were the one. Broken up, deep inside, but you won't get to see the tears I cry.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Strong, Lost Love, Sleep

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• You want to be free and break new ground, speak your mind, fear no man, have the neighbours acknowledge that you're a good man; and at the same time you want to be a success, make money, join the country club, get the votes and kick the other man in the teeth and off the ladder.

  Christina Stead

  Success, Country, Ambition

  Christina Stead (2012). “I'm Dying Laughing: The Humourist”, p.39, Open Road Media

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• Holmstrom has broken an Olympic record by being cross checked 46 times in one game!

  Harry Neale

  Games, Records, Crosses

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• I have a toothache today. I never seem to be able to rise above a toothache. It makes me want to howl, break things, pull noses, tweak ears, screech.

  John Colton

  Pain, Rose, Noses

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• If you cloned JFK and Abraham Lincoln and made them president it wouldn't matter. Our system is just too corrupt and too broken. I think that science is corrupt and broken. I think health and nutrition. I think the economic systems, the international relations, the environment, everything, the engines of everything are broken.

  Rainn Wilson

  Thinking, President, Matter

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I think that there's a difference between getting your heart broken and getting let down.

  Taylor Swift

  Heart, Thinking, Differences

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• We confide in each other and we really spend time together like a family. And since I'm the maknae, my unnies take care of me even more. I don't think we will be broken apart very easily.

  Seohyun

  Thinking, Together, Care

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• Prayer is talking to something or anything with which we seek union, even if we are bitter or insane or broken. (In fact, these are probably the best possible conditions under which to pray.) Prayer is taking a chance that against all odds and past history, we are loved and chosen, and do not have to get it together before we show up.

  Anne Lamott

  Prayer, Past, Odds

  Anne Lamott (2013). “Help, Thanks, Wow”, p.8, Hachette UK

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• I know i am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering.

  Mother Teresa

  Touching, Suffering, Body

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• The young break rules for fun. The old for profit.

  Mason Cooley

  Fun, Age, Youth

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• My safe, safe psychosis is broken.
  It was hard.
  It was made of stone.
  It covered my face like a mask.
  But it has cracked.

  Anne Sexton

  Psychosis, Safe, Stones

  Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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