Broken Quotes - Page 23

• My first record had just broken, and these guys wanted my autograph. I thought, Oh, god, they recognize me. Turns out they thought I was Heidi Fleiss.

  Sheryl Crow

  Guy, Firsts, Records

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• I do not know how bad a life has to break in order to kill.
  I have never been so hungry that I willed hunger.
  I have never been so angry as to want to control a gun over a pen.
  Not really. Even as a woman, as a Palestinian, as a broken human being.
  Never this broken.

  Suheir Hammad

  Gun, Order, Want

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• It is phenomenal how fast a little toot of smack will take away the agony of withdrawal and most other kinds of pain. What it cannot take away it makes meaningless. You may still have a broken arm, but somehow it doesn't matter so much. The same is true for angst and anxiety. It cancels pain so hidden that you were unaware of its existence until it disappeared.

  Edward Bunker

  Pain, Agony, Anxiety

  Edward Bunker (2012). “Mr Blue: Memoirs of a Renegade”, p.261, Oldcastle Books

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• Is there any reason why you should not have faith in God? Has God ever broken one of His promises? I defy any infidel or unbeliever to place a finger on a single promise of God ever made and failed to fulfill.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Promise, Have Faith, Reason Why

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• On the threshold of the moral world we meet the idea of Freedom, 'one of the weightiest concepts man has ever formed,' once a dogma, in the course of time a hypothesis, now in the eyes of many a fiction, yet we cannot do without it, even although we may be firmly convinced that our acts are determined by laws that cannot be broken.

  Havelock Ellis

  Eye, Men, Law

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• I didn't view my body as broken, I reasoned that a human being can never be broken. Technology is broken. Technology is inadequate.

  Hugh Herr

  Technology, Views, Body

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• All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.

  Victor Hugo

  Hatred, Suffering, Chains

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• Hindsight is an exact science. Hold fast to your dreams, for it dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Dream, Pain, Evil

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• America's high schools are obsolete. By obsolete, I don't just mean that they're broken, flawed, or underfunded, though a case could be made for every one of those points. By obsolete, I mean our high schools-even when they're working as designed-cannot teach all our students what they need to know today.

  Bill Gates

  School, Mean, America

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• Tell the image makers and magazine sellers and the plastic surgeons that you are not afraid. That what you fear the most is the death of imagination and originality and metaphor and passion. Then be bold and LOVE YOUR BODY. STOP FIXING IT. It was never broken.

  Marion Woodman

  Love You, Passion, Imagination

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• I took to writing as my medicine to help me stay afloat in acting career journey. I wrote about me breaking hearts, and my heart being broken. I wrote about my views whether they were liberal or conservative. I wrote about everything. I wrote about my life. When I did not have paper coming in as green backs, I'd use random pieces of paper for stories. It was like, I got no money, but I have paper to write. So I wrote.

  Omari Hardwick

  Heart, Writing, Journey

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I like writing songs all females can relate to - songs about when you're a chick and you get your heart broken and you go shopping.

  Nikka Costa

  Song, Writing, Heart

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• George W. Bush in 2000 went to private financing for the nomination, but he accepted public funding in the general. And, quite frankly, so did - it was broken in 2008, when Barack Obama decided he wasn't going to do that.

  Mark Shields

  Nominations, Accepted, Funding

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's rough to be mugged all the time, to have your place broken into all the time. You can buy a building for very little, but then the building has a fire and you have no money, so you have to fix it all yourself.

  Francesca DiMattio

  Fire, Littles, Building

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I testify to you today that turning away from God brings broken covenants, shattered dreams, and crushed hopes. Such a quagmire of quicksand I plead with you to avoid. You are of a noble birthright. Eternal life in the kingdom of our Father is your goal.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Dream, Father, Goal

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• In this place of gracious uncertainty, we wait. For the broken places to be brought back together. For the meaning of our suffering to be revealed in his. For the righteous reign of a mighty God, whose goodness we will spend all eternity celebrating. We wait - with open, expectant hearts.

  Paula Rinehart

  Heart, Waiting, Suffering

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• I am a futility. The life of prayer begins with that. And God is not a comfort, to be offered like Kleenex. God is a poisoned sea, with broken syringes washing up on the beach. God is shopping malls stretching to the horizon and warplanes in the sky. God is a flat tire in a rainstorm and beer cans in the ditch, a bottle shattered on a highway and the taste of gunmetal in your mouth.

  Tim Farrington

  Beach, Prayer, Beer

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• When our heart is broken, we can't hear it. And when we can't hear our heart, we can't hear God.

  Melody Beattie

  Heart

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• Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it, the vase will never be same again.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Trust, Vases, Never Trust

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• If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Grief, Heart, Moon

  Ellen Glasgow (1935). “Vein of Iron”

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• New York is the perfect town for getting over a disappointment, a loss, or a broken heart.

  Shirley MacLaine

  New York, Disappointment, Heart

  Shirley MacLaine (1975). “You Can Get There From here”

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• Lord, for the erring thought
  Not unto evil wrought:
  Lord, for the wicked will
  Betrayed, and baffled still:
  For the heart from itself kept,
  Our thanksgiving accept.
  For ignorant hopes that were
  Broken to our blind prayer:
  For pain, death, sorrow, sent
  Unto our chastisement:
  For all loss of seeming good,
  Quicken our gratitude.

  William Dean Howells

  Gratitude, Prayer, Pain

  William Dean Howells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of William Dean Howells (Illustrated)”, p.9085, Delphi Classics

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• The habits of a lifetime when everything else had to come before writing are not easily broken, even when circumstances now often make it possible for writing to be first; habits of years - responses to others, distractibility, responsibility for daily matters - stay with you, mark you, become you. The cost of discontinuity (that pattern still imposed on women) is such a weight of things unsaid, an accumulation of material so great, that everything starts up something else in me; what should take weeks take me sometimes months to write; what should take months, takes years.

  Tillie Olsen

  Writing, Responsibility, Years

  Tillie Olsen (2014). “Silences”, p.48, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• You are right, none of us live enough, and sometimes I think it is because we mistake hurrah and hullabaloo for experience, we get a sock in the eye and think it is a broken heart.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Mistake, Heart, Eye

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.34, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have gone through a divorce, lost a job, or broken up with someone. But these experiences carry with them feelings. Depression, instead, is flat, hollow, and unendurable. ... You're frightened, and you're frightening, and you're 'not at all like yourself but will be soon,' but you know you won't.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Depression, Jobs, Divorce

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.133, Pan Macmillan

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