Broken Quotes - Page 29

• There is only one element that can break the Afrikaner, and that is the Afrikaner himself. It is when the Afrikaner, like a baboonshot in the stomach, pulls out his own intestines. We must guard against that.

  P. W. Botha

  Elements, Break, Stomach

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• Don't worry about this world; it is not broken. And don't worry about others. You worry more about them than they do. There are people waging war; there are people on the battlefield who are more alive than they've ever been before. Don't try to protect people from life; just let them have their experience while you focus upon your own experience.

  Esther Hicks

  Trust, War, People

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• Apology is both transactional, in that it restores what has been broken to what it was before, and transformational, in that it creates opportunities that didn't exist before.

  John Kador

  Apology, Opportunity, Has Beens

  John Kador (2010). “Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust (Large Print 16pt)”, p.23, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Nothing has stolen more dreams, dashed more hopes, broken up more families, and messed up more people psychologically than our propensity to disregard God's commands regarding sexual purity.

  Andy Stanley

  Dream, People, Purity

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• A good Dianetic auditor can take a broken-down, sorrow-drenched lady of thirty-eight and knock out her past periods of physical and mental pain and have on his hands somebody who appears to be twenty-five-and a bright, cheerful twenty-five at that.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Pain, Past, Eight

  L. Ron Hubbard (1987). “Self Analysis”, p.48, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of people have some concern with public affairs.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Skills, Numbers, People

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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• An old man, broken with the storms of state,
  Is come to lay his weary bones among ye;
  Give him a little earth for charity!

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Giving, Dying

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 4, sc. 2, l. 21

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• The truth and regularity of a character is not, in justice, to be looked upon as broken, from any one single act or omission which may seem a contradiction to it:Mthe best of men appear sometimes to be strange compounds of contradictory qualities.

  Laurence Sterne

  Character, Men, Omission

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• Lovers, when they are no longer in love, find it very hard to break up.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Break, Hard

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• It is with great disappointment and regret that after having the privilege of writing and performing the music of The Black Crowes over the last 24 years, I find myself in the position of saying that the band has broken up.

  Rich Robinson

  Music, Disappointment, Regret

  "Black Crowes have broken up, says Rich Robinson". www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2015.

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• I marvel at the many ways we, as black people, bend but do not break in order to survive. This astonishes me, and what excites me I write about. Everyone of us is a wonder. Everyone of us has a story.

  Kristin Hunter

  Writing, Order, People

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• Fight, gentlemen of England! fight, bold yeomen!
  Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head!
  Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood;
  Amaze the welkin with your broken staves!

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, War, Archer

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Isaac Reed (1801). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: Henry VI, pts. II-III. Dissertation, &c. Richard III”, p.487

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• The things I had were mine and some of them were broken, but they were real. They were so very far from nothing.

  Brenna Yovanoff

  Real, Mines

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• Be happy, we’re worth more broken.

  Stephanie Kallos

  Stephanie Kallos (2007). “Broken for You”, p.379, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I spoke at TED Global 2010 about the ways that video games engage the brain, and in particular, the idea of reward structures: how a challenge or task can be broken down and presented to make it as engaging as possible.

  Tom Chatfield

  Ideas, Games, Challenges

  "Can Video Games Alter Society.. in a Good Way?" by Tom Chatfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2013.

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• I believe we're at the verge of the greatest time to be alive in this world. But Washington is holding us back. How we tax, how we regulate. We're not embracing the energy revolution in our midst, a broken immigration system that has been politicized rather than turning it into an economic driver. We're not protecting and preserving our entitlement system or reforming for the next generation. All these things languish while we have politicians in Washington using these as wedge issues.

  Jeb Bush

  Believe, Issues, Generations

  "Transcript of the 2015 GOP debate (9 pm)". www.cbsnews.com. August 6, 2015.

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• However, you have to recognize that regulations will never be completely successful and they will always be full of holes. You must constantly be ready to fill new holes. Actually regulation should be kept to a minimum, but there has to be some cooperation between market participants and authorities - as was the case in the early postwar years. The Bank of England was a very successful regulator by cooperating with market participants. This cooperative spirit was broken by the market fundamentalists.

  George Soros

  Successful, Years, Regulation

  "'The Economy Fell off the Cliff'". Interview with Mathias Müller von Blumencron, Gregor Peter Schmitz and Gabor Steingart, www.spiegel.de. November 24, 2008.

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• I think every time you get your heart broken, there's a little piece of it that chips away, and I don't think you ever get that piece back. But I think you're able to bandage it with time and with new people and other things that make you happy.

  Demi Lovato

  Heart, Thinking, People

  "Demi Lovato's Second Chance". Interview with Glamour Magazine, www.glamour.com. November 29, 2011.

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• We always say we are equal in front of death, but when you are rich, for example, and you have everybody taking care of you, I think that you suffer much less. It must be much more painful to die when you are poor than when you are rich. But when your heart is broken, you can be rich, poor, whatever - a broken heart, we are all equal in front of it. And I think there is no subject more serious.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Heart, Thinking, Suffering

  "Marjane Satrapi: Superman is Boring, Batman is Hot, Dictators Are Clueless". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. August 13, 2012.

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• Fans decide what pop culture is. We can define ourselves. Music and the presentation of art nowadays is totally in our control, with the Internet specifically. You no longer need record labels. You no longer need movie distribution companies. You can just make it and put it online, and it will distribute itself to millions of people. The borders and everything have been broken down. It really is in the hands of the people.

  Laura Jane Grace

  Art, Hands, People

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• God is inviting you today to appropriately grieve your pains and losses and to acknowledge the world is seriously broken.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Pain, Loss, Grieving

  Source: www.lifeisstory.com

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• Even if we didn't have a single person in the USA in violation of immigration laws, we'd still have to do immigration reform, because our legal immigration system is broken. It's not good for anybody.

  Marco Rubio

  Usa, Law, Immigration

  Source: alter.newsweek.msnbc.com

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• When a peacekeeping operation is deployed, it is in support of a political process, it is part of an integrated approach. It is there to help when a state has broken down and to help that state regain some kind of balance. There is no quick fix.

  Jean-Marie Guehenno

  Support, Political, Balance

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It's easier to write about heartbreak after you've had your heart broken. You have more material to draw from, you can extrapolate from your own experiences and make reasonable assumptions about how your characters would feel and act.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Writing, Heart, Character

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• Whenever there's the experience of a broken heart, there's the experience of fear.

  Gary Zukav

  Heart

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.awaken.com. August 18, 2013.

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