Broken Quotes - Page 2

• The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Broken Heart, Motivation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

  Jessamyn West

  Broken Heart, Forever, Bones

  Jessamyn West (1979). “The life I really lived: a novel”, Harcourt

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• Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.

  Yogi Berra

  Broken Heart, Baseball, Congratulations

  Yogi Berra (1998). “The Yogi Book”, p.75, Workman Publishing

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• My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I looked for help in the dangers before me.

  John Woolman

  Broken Heart, Desire, Helping

  John Woolman (2013). “journal”, p.91, Lulu.com

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• Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; love me no more, but love my love of thee.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Broken Heart, Heartbreak, Unrequited Love

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.220, Delphi Classics

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• If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.

  Abraham Cahan

  Broken Heart, Men, Laughing

  Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Broken Heart, Food, Eggs

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.264, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

  John F. Kennedy

  Children, Adversity, Home

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• I've never had my heart broken.

  Sally Field

  Broken Heart, Broken Promises, My Heart

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• It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Order, Able, Belly

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

  Frank McCourt

  Inspirational, Optimistic, Shoes

  Frank McCourt (1999). “Angela's Ashes: A Memoir”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Writing, Habit, Summing Up

  W. Somerset Maugham (2010). “The Summing Up”, p.179, Random House

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• I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Mom, Home

  The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.

  Alice Miller

  Graduation, Heart, College

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• And I shall find some girl perhaps, and a better one than you, With eyes as wise, but kindlier, and lips as soft, but true, and I dare say she will do.

  Rupert Brooke

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

  Rupert Brooke (2010). “Collected Poems”, p.103, The Oleander Press

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• We are not in Afghanistan for the sake of the education policy in a broken 13th-century country. We are there so the people of Britain and our global interests are not threatened.

  Liam Fox

  Broken Heart, Country, People

  "Liam Fox calls for faster UK troop withdrawal from Afghanistan" by David Batty, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2010.

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• The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

  H. G. Wells

  Friendship, Broken Heart, Work

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.1733, Delphi Classics

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• I don't think Hank's home run record will ever be broken. There's no way.

  David Justice

  Broken Heart, Running, Home

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• I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken.

  Lucinda Williams

  Broken Heart, Song, Writing

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• I had a Southern accent but I had broken it so hard.

  Josh Lucas

  Southern, Accents, Hard

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• However, in recent years our nation has seen a sizable influx of illegal immigration that at best highlights some alarming inadequacies and at worst indicates a broken system.

  Spencer Bachus

  Broken Heart, Years, Immigration

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• Our greatest joy and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others.

  Stephen Covey

  Relationship, Broken Heart, Pain

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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• And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle.

  Barry McGuire

  Real, Party, Down And

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• Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

  Publilius Syrus

  Glasses, Glitter, Fortune

  "Sentences". Collection by Publilius Syrus. Maxim 280,

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• Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.

  Anais Nin

  Sad, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

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