Broken Quotes - Page 24

• bubbles of false opinion will last whole ages, and deceive whole generations, till they are broken by some powerful breath, and even then how often they reunite, and again shine in the eyes of men, who hold them solid as cannon-balls!

  Sara Coleridge

  Powerful, Eye, Men

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.103

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• One of my biggest heroes and people I was fortunate enough to be around is David Bowie. I look at his career, and he always had the balls to break things that weren't broken, to step away from something and try something new, at risk of failing.

  Trent Reznor

  Hero, Careers, People

  "Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails". Interview with Kyle Ryan, music.avclub.com. September 16, 2009.

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• I had the halfway house. I can't tell how many nights I spent around my kitchen table, soothing broken hearts.

  Kirstie Alley

  Heart, Night, House

  "The Best TV Show That's Ever Been" by Brian Raftery, www.gq.com. September 27, 2012.

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• When we don't get what we want, there's a legitimate grieving, and then the spiritual journey truly begins, because not getting what we want breaks our self-reference; and once that is broken, we are aware that we are a part of a larger whole. It changes everything.

  Mark Nepo

  Spiritual, Journey, Grieving

  "Journey to the Sacred: An Interview With Mark Nepo". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Unfulfilled dreams, ongoing relational tension, the loss of friendships, a hard marriage, rebellious teenagers, the death of loved ones, remaining sinful patterns - whatever it is for you - live long enough, lose enough, suffer enough, and the idealism of youth fades, leaving behind the reality of life in a broken world as a broken person.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Dream, Teenager, Loss

  Tullian Tchividjian (2013). “One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World”, p.208, David C Cook

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• A Caske and an ill custome must be broken.

  George Herbert

  Ill

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.316

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• Red has been praised for its nobility of the color of life. But the true color of life is not red. Red is the color of violence, or of life broken open, edited, and published. Or if red is indeed the color of life, it is so only on condition that it is not seen. Once fully visible, red is the color of life violated, and in the act of betrayal and of waste.

  Alice Meynell

  Betrayal, Color, Red

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• The only tool we have to fix the problems of this country - the democratic process - is itself broken. Which is why nothing will fundamentally change until we solve the problem of money in politics.

  Arianna Huffington

  Country, Tools, Politics

  Arianna Huffington (2004). “Fanatics & Fools: How Politicians are Betraying the American People”, Miramax Books

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• There shall be poets! When woman's unmeasured bondage shall be broken, when she shall live for and through herself, man--hitherto detestable--having let her go, she, too, will be poet! Woman will find the unknown! Will her ideational worlds be different from ours? She will come upon strange, unfathomable, repellent, delightful things; we shall take them, we shall comprehend them.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Men, World, Different

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• It is you men who make war! ... We, who have children, would never make it! Why should a woman be broken up in pain, to give her child life, only to see him carried away from her, to make food for guns?

  Phyllis Bottome

  Pain, Children, War

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.167, Northwestern University Press

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• I am unable, mentally incapable, of relating the dead thing, the broken body refusing to divulge why or where the occupant has gone, to the thing that was alive.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Grief, Gone, Alive

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• Hearts were made for being broken. There's really no way around it if you want to be a human being.

  Alice Hoffman

  Heart, Want, Way

  Alice Hoffman (2002). “Blue Diary”, p.200, Penguin

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• It is the swimmer who first leaps into the frozen stream who is cut sharpest by the ice; those who follow him find it broken, and the last find it gone. It is the men or women who first tread down the path which the bulk of humanity will ultimately follow, who must find themselves at last in solitudes where the silence is deadly.

  Olive Schreiner

  Cutting, Men, Ice

  Olive Schreiner (1998). “Woman and Labor”, p.112, Courier Corporation

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• The Old Testament teems with prophecies of the Messiah, but nowhere is it intimated that that Messiah is to stand as a God to be worshipped. He is to bring peace on earth, to build up the waste places--to comfort the broken-hearted, but nowhere is he spoken of as a deity.

  Olympia Brown

  Comfort, Earth, Waste

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• Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from sin, to constitute repentance.

  Orville Dewey

  Heart, Sorrow, Sin

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• My life was incoherent to me. I felt it quivering, spitting out broken teeth.

  Paula Fox

  Teeth, Felt

  Paula Fox (2013). “Borrowed Finery: A Memoir”, p.174, Henry Holt and Company

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• None of us ever escape the first few years of our lives. They make a mould into which we are cast, and though it may be broken, and we turned loose, some remnant of it, some intangible evil or lovely thing or both, will remain with us, like the odor to a flower, or the smoothness to a piece of ivory. It is part of the immortality of youth.

  Lizette Woodworth Reese

  Flower, Years, Ivory

  Lizette Woodworth Reese (1929). “A Victorian Village: Reminiscences of Other Days”

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• It's natural for humans to suppress urges, for when our desires are left unchecked they lead to broken relationships, prison time, and forest fires.

  Amy Sedaris

  Prison Time, Fire, Desire

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• Life is legal tender, and individual character stamps its value. We are from a thousand mints, and all genuine. Despite our infinitely diverse appraisements, we make change for one another. So many ideals planted are worth the great gold of Socrates; so many impious laws broken are worth John Brown.

  Louise Imogen Guiney

  Character, Law, Gold

  Louise Imogen Guiney (1897). “Patrins, to which is added An inquirendo into the wit & other good parts of His late Majesty King Charles the Second”

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• A book becomes a mirror, with the author's face shining over it. Talent only gives an imperfect image,--the broken glimmer of a countenance. But the features of genius remain unruffled. Time guards the shadow. Beauty, the spiritual, Venus,--whose children are the Tassos, the Spensers, the Bacons,--breathes, the magic of her love, and fixes the face forever.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Spiritual, Children, Book

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• A silk dress in four sections, and shoes with high heels that would have broken the heart of John Calvin.

  Stephen Leacock

  Fashion, Heart, Shoes

  Stephen Leacock (2015). “Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich”, p.139, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Although care must be taken not to kill or injure anyone while these persons are being taken into custody, resistance must be broken!

  Otto Skorzeny

  Taken, Care, Custody

  "The Race for Rome". Book by Dan Kurzman, 1975.

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• Truth and fidelity are the pillars of the temple of the world; when these are broken, the fabric falls, and crushes all to pieces.

  Owen Feltham

  Crush, Fall, Fabric

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• Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave. It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and the forms that have been tossed on its chafing waves lie quiet forevermore. There the child nestles as peacefully as ever it lay in its mother's arms, and the workman's hands lie still by his side, and the thinker's brain is pillowed in silent mystery, and the poor girl's broken heart is steeped in a balm that extracts its secret woe, and is in the keeping of a charity that covers all blame.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Girl, Mother, Children

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• Once Im in the ring, Im there to win no matter what it takes. Nobody and nothing can stop me, my will cannot be broken

  Ruslan Provodnikov

  Winning, Matter, Rings

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