Broken Quotes - Page 28

• When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion.

  Laurence Sterne

  Names, Joy, Religion

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing the Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent., Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Sermons, Letters, &c. With a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.599

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• Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even merely ignored or inadequately observed, no one would feel safe about anything, whether his own possessions, the inheritance he expects from his father, or the bequests he makes to his children.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Children, Father, Law

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• There are knives that glitter like altars
  In a dark church
  Where they bring the cripple and the imbecile
  To be healed.
  
  There's a woden block where bones are broken,
  Scraped clean--a river dried to its bed

  Charles Simic

  Block, Dark, Knives

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• Adolescents' immature thinking makes it difficult for them to process the divorce. They tend to see things in black-and-white terms and have trouble putting events into perspective. They are absolute in their judgments and expect perfection in parents. They are likely to be self-conscious about their parent's failures and critical of their every move. They have the expectations that parents will keep them safe and happy and are shocked by the broken covenant. Adolescents are unforgiving.

  Mary Pipher

  Moving, Divorce, Black And White

  Mary Pipher (2005). “Reviving Ophelia”, p.120, Penguin

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• No one knows the colour of a flower
  till it is broken.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Flower, Knowledge, Colour

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.381, New Directions Publishing

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• ... no one knows anything about a strike until he has seen it break down into its component parts of human beings.

  Mary Heaton Vorse

  Breaking Down, Strikes, Labor

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• Self-expression is not enough; experiment is not enough; the recording of special moments or cases is not enough. All of the artshave broken faith or lost connection with their origin and function. They have ceased to be concerned with the legitimate and permanent material of art.

  Jane Heap

  Art, Self, Expression

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• Put in hours and hours of planning, figure everything down to the last detail, then what? Burglar alarms start going off all overthe place for no sensible reason. A gun fires of its own accord and a man is shot. And a broken-down old house no good for anything but chasing kids has to trip over us. Blind accidents. What can you do against blind accidents?

  Ben Maddow

  Kids, Fate, Gun

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• Holmstrom has broken an Olympic record by being cross checked 46 times in one game!

  Harry Neale

  Games, Records, Crosses

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• As they say, when a man begins to have bad luck, even clabber can break his head.

  Jacques Roumain

  Hard Times, Men, Luck

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• If you cloned JFK and Abraham Lincoln and made them president it wouldn't matter. Our system is just too corrupt and too broken. I think that science is corrupt and broken. I think health and nutrition. I think the economic systems, the international relations, the environment, everything, the engines of everything are broken.

  Rainn Wilson

  Thinking, President, Matter

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Though our private desires are ever so confused, though our private requests are ever so broken, and though our private groanings are ever so hidden from men, yet God eyes them, records them, and puts them upon the file of heaven, and will one day crown them with glorious answers and returns.

  Thomas Brooks

  Confused, Eye, Men

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• Prayer is talking to something or anything with which we seek union, even if we are bitter or insane or broken. (In fact, these are probably the best possible conditions under which to pray.) Prayer is taking a chance that against all odds and past history, we are loved and chosen, and do not have to get it together before we show up.

  Anne Lamott

  Prayer, Past, Odds

  Anne Lamott (2013). “Help, Thanks, Wow”, p.8, Hachette UK

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• I know i am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering.

  Mother Teresa

  Touching, Suffering, Body

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• Men are in a restless pursuit after satisfaction and earthly things. They have no forethought for their eternal state, the present hour absorbs them. They turn to another and another of earth's broken cisterns, hoping to find water, where not a drop was ever discovered yet.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Water, Earth

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• Why should not our whole life and its scenery be actually thus fair and distinct? All our lives want a suitable background. They should at least, like the life of the anchorite, be as impressive to behold as objects in a desert, a broken shaft or crumbling mound against a limitless horizon.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Solitude, Crumbling

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.17, Yale University Press

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• I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.

  Mark Twain

  Smoking, Months, Principles

  Mark Twain, Milton Meltzer (2002). “Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography”, p.266, University of Missouri Press

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• The young break rules for fun. The old for profit.

  Mason Cooley

  Fun, Age, Youth

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• My safe, safe psychosis is broken.
  It was hard.
  It was made of stone.
  It covered my face like a mask.
  But it has cracked.

  Anne Sexton

  Psychosis, Safe, Stones

  Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Delicate, gracious, and eloquent, John Brandi's poems reveal that he remains an extraordinary profound poet of prayer and praise. His is the most honorable and heroic of ambitions - to dress our broken world in the clothes of language, trust, and hope.

  David St. John

  Prayer, Ambition, Clothes

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• Pornography does not inspire violence, but you can break a leg trying to imitate it.

  Mason Cooley

  Break A Leg, Inspire, Trying

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• To learn a vocation, you also have to learn the frauds it practices and the promises it breaks.

  Mason Cooley

  Practice, Promise, Break

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• Would that our harsh judgments could be restrained, our impatience checked, our selfishness broken down, our passions controlled, our waste of time and life in worthless or unworthy objects corrected, by the thought that there is One in whose hands we are, who cares for us with a parent's love, who will judge us hereafter without the slightest tinge of human' infirmity, the All-Merciful and the All-Just.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Passion, Hands, Judging

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 357, 1895.

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• Even a friendly conversation which cannot be at any given moment be broken off voluntarily with complete arbitrariness has something illiberal about it. An artist, however, who is able and wants to express himself completely, who keeps nothing to himself and would wish to say everything he knows, is very much to be pitied.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Artist, Wish, Friendly

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• The opening of large tracts by the ice-cutters commonly causes a pond to break up earlier; for the water, agitated by the wind, even in cold weather, wears away the surrounding ice.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Ice, Wind

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.193, Cosimo, Inc.

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