Broken Quotes - Page 27

• I still have your pocket watch, my dear father. Like me, it is broken, but stubborn, and still keeps going.

  Arno Hintjens

  Father, Pockets, Watches

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• My love is like some raven at my window with a broken wing.

  Bob Dylan

  Love Is, Wings, Ravens

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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• something in me had got broken, but not so broken I didn't remember what it was.

  Mark Lawrence

  Remember

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.45, Penguin

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• I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something.

  K'naan

  Thinking, Artist, Always Trying

  "Discovery: K’Naan" by Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 27, 2012.

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• Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. It looked as if it had once been a large house of entertainment; but the roof had fallen in, in many places, and the stairs were steep, rugged, and broken. There was a huge fire-place in the room into which they walked, and the chimney was blackened with smoke; but no warm blaze lighted it up now. The white feathery dust of burnt wood was still strewed over the hearth, but the stove was cold, and all was dark and gloomy.

  Charles Dickens

  Uncles, Heart, Dark

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.429

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• I have had my share of sorrows-more than the common lot, perhaps, but I have borne them ill. I have broken where I should have bent; and have mused and brooded, when my spirit should have mixed with all God's great creation.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Should Have, Sorrow

  Charles Dickens (1858). “Hard Times”, p.169

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• It is essential that we renew our covenants by partaking of the sacrament. When we do this with a sincere heart, with real intent, forsaking our sins, and renewing our commitment to God, the Lord provides a way whereby sins can be forgiven from week to week. Simply eating the bread and drinking the water will not bring that forgiveness. We must prepare and then partake with a broken heart and contrite spirit. The spiritual preparation we make to partake of the sacrament is essential to receiving a remission of our sins.

  Vaughn J Featherstone

  Spiritual, Real, Drinking

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• Trust is tough. Once trust has been broken by multiple people on multiple occasions, believing in anyone or anything becomes increasingly difficult. Much of the skepticism of our world can be traced back to broken trust.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Believe, Our World, People

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• The world is out of order. It's been broken since you came.

  Mira Grant

  Order, World

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• Learn to recognize the counterfeit coins that may buy you just a moment of pleasure,
  But then drag you for days like a broken man behind a farting camel.

  Hafez

  Men, Camels, Coins

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• A church without the broken is a broken church.

  Ed Stetzer

  Religious, Broken Spirit, Church

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• If you were mine, I would never have broken up with you, not in a million years.

  Jenny Han

  Years, Mines, Ifs

  Jenny Han (2014). “To All the Boys I've Loved Before”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• When we are broken because of increased hardship, we simply have to trust in the goodness of God.

  Steve Farrar

  Hardship, Goodness, Goodness Of God

  Steve Farrar (2009). “Battle Ready: Prepare to Be Used by God”, p.113, David C Cook

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• I don't fix anybody, because I don't think anybody's broken. I think what people have are patterns, and those can be changed. People quickly understand that what's controlling their thoughts and emotions are their values and rules, and they learn how to shift those.

  Tony Robbins

  Thinking, People, Patterns

  Playboy Interview, www.awaken.com. August 17, 2013.

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• America is a country that will not be broken by fear. And instead, America is a country blessed with citizens marked by goodwill and great resolve.

  Tom Ridge

  Country, Blessed, America

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• So to really be able to dive into what does it mean to be broken by an experience, and I developed it just through research and talking and understanding the truth of what it means to lose everything.

  Will Smith

  Mean, Talking, Understanding

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• The worst thing in the world when you feel broken is to have somebody coming at you with open-faced love.

  Jim Carrey

  World, Painful, Worst

  "Yes Man - Jim Carrey interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• [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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• 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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• Those who sit in a glass house do wrong to throw stones about them; besides, the American glass house is rather thin, it will break easily, and the interior is anything but a gainly sight.

  Emma Goldman

  Glasses, Sight, House

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.108, 谷月社

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• On those remote pages [of 'a certain Chinese encyclopedia'] it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to the Emperor, (b) embalmed ones, (c) those that are trained, (d) suckling pigs, (e) mermaids, (f ) fabulous ones, (g) stray dogs, (h) those that are included in this classification, (i) those that tremble as if they were mad, (j) innumerable ones, (k) those drawn with a very fine camel's hair brush, (l) others, (m) those that have just broken a flower vase, (n) those that resemble flies from a distance.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Dog, Distance, Flower

  "The Analytical Language of JohnWilkins" (1942) (translation by Ruth L. C. Simms)

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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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