Broken Quotes - Page 21

• At first the kid kicking the back of my airplane seat was enraging. Then I imagined it was a broken massage chair and I kinda liked it.

  Kristen Schaal

  Funny, Airplane, Humor

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• Everyone that works behind a desk wants to know how many bones I've broken and how much money I make. It seems that people who've never experienced the excitement of sport seem to think the only thing worth taking risks for is money.

  Travis Pastrana

  Sports, Thinking, People

  Source: dirtaction.com.au

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• One of my pet peeves is that when people are in their automobiles, I think they're exceptionally rude on the road. I would love to have the superpower to make their cars break down after they do something rude on the road so the freeways would be littered with these jackasses who have broken-down cars.

  Chris Carmack

  Thinking, Car, People

  "Nashville's Chris Carmack on The O.C. and the rules of the death row meal". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. September 22, 2015.

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• How do we create beauty in a broken world? How do we create a view of sustainability in an economy that is crashing? How do we reconfigure our lives, how do we pick up the pieces and create a meaningful life? So, yes, we have a different form of leadership but the questions remain the same.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Meaningful, Views, Different

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Social change can be seen as a mosaic, taking that which is broken and creating something new.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Creating, Mosaics, Social

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The fact that we all have broken pasts is something that I'm very attracted to, along with being able to turn your life around and do good with it.

  Minka Kelly

  Past, Facts, Able

  Source: collider.com

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• Don't fix what's not broken.

  Robert Atkins

  Broken Heart, Heart, Broken Promises

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• You open your heart knowing that there's a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Heart, Knowing

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• When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood.

  Daniel Webster

  Time, Eye, Blood

  Second Speech on Foote's Resolution, U.S. Senate, 26 Jan. 1830

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• My grand point in preaching is to break the hard heart, and to heal the broken one.

  John Newton

  Heart, Break, Preaching

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• All laws that are proper and correct, and all obligations entered into which are not violative of the constitution should be kept inviolate. But if they are violative of the constitution, then the compact between the rulers and the ruled is broken and the obligation ceases to be binding.

  John Taylor

  Law, Constitution, Should

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• With Stacy, it was interesting because you know he was within all this chaos, all these different lives that were so broken and so much anger and so much frustration and their skating came out of that, their different styles came out of that.

  John Robinson

  Anger, Frustration, Interesting

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• Maybe instead of strings it's stories things are made of, an infinite number of tiny vibrating stories; once upon a time they all were part of one big giant superstory, except it got broken up into a jillion different pieces, that's why no story on its own makes any sense, and so what you have to do in a life is try and weave it back together, my story into your story, our stories into all the other people's we know, until you've got something that to God or whoever might look like a letter, or even a whole word.

  Paul Murray

  Numbers, People, Once Upon A Time

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• You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.

  John Eldredge

  Swim, Demand, Arms

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• Every man carries a wound. I have never met a man without one. No matter how good your life may have seemed to you, you live in a broken world full of broken people.

  John Eldredge

  Men, People, World

  John Eldredge (2011). “Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul”, p.72, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because it holds out some promise of happiness. That promise enslaves us until we believe that God is more to be desired than life itself (Psalm 63:3). Which means that the power of sin's promise is broken by the power of God's.

  John Piper

  Believe, Mean, Heart

  John Piper (2012). “Future Grace, Revised Edition: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God”, p.1, Multnomah

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• Acting is like racing, you need the same concentration. You have to reach inside you and bring forth a lot of broken glass. That's painful.

  Steve McQueen

  Glasses, Racing, Acting

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• Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us.

  Henry Miller

  Hangover, People, Mind

  Henry Miller, Frank L. Kersnowski (1994). “Conversations with Henry Miller”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• The great barrier to worship among God's people is not that we are always seeking our own satisfaction, but that our seeking is so weak and half-hearted that we settle for little sips at broken cisterns when the fountain of life is just over the next hill.

  John Piper

  People, Half, Littles

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• It is not one man nor a million, but the spirit of liberty that must be preserved. The waves which dash upon the shore are, one by one, broken, but the ocean conquers nevertheless. It overwhelms the Armada, it wears out the rock. In like manner, whatever the struggle of individuals, the great cause will gather strength.

  Lord Byron

  Ocean, Struggle, Men

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• He became merely the broken statue of a beast, now without another's fear to animate it.

  John Connolly

  Fear, Beast, Statues

  John Connolly (2006). “The Book of Lost Things: A Novel”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

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• Speak not, move not, but listen, the sky is full of gold. No ripple on the river, no stir in field or fold, All gleams but naught doth glisten, but the far-off unseen sea. Forget days past, heart broken, put all memory by! No grief on the green hillside, no pity in the sky, Joy that may not be spoken fills mead and flower and tree.

  William Morris

  Memories, Flower, Moving

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• Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships.

  Virgil

  Broken Heart, Wise, Breakup

  'Aeneid' bk. 1, l. 203

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• God has ordained that our preaching become deeper and more winsome as we are broken, humbled, and made low and desperately dependent on grace by the trials of our lives.

  John Piper

  Grace, Trials, Made

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• Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the firsta dull man writing broken English, the seconda broken man writing dull English.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Writing, Men, Knights

  1941 The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, ch.1.

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