Broken Quotes - Page 3

• As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass, or does it come in like honey?

  Eddie Condon

  Music, Glasses, Doe

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• We are not in Afghanistan for the sake of the education policy in a broken 13th-century country. We are there so the people of Britain and our global interests are not threatened.

  Liam Fox

  Broken Heart, Country, People

  "Liam Fox calls for faster UK troop withdrawal from Afghanistan" by David Batty, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2010.

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• However, in recent years our nation has seen a sizable influx of illegal immigration that at best highlights some alarming inadequacies and at worst indicates a broken system.

  Spencer Bachus

  Broken Heart, Years, Immigration

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• I don't think Hank's home run record will ever be broken. There's no way.

  David Justice

  Broken Heart, Running, Home

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• For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out my newsreader was broken, and hadn't posted at all.

  Graham Nelson

  Broken Heart, Care, Fortnight

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• Would you love a man of a broken shell after the passing of a women's soul?

  Brian Perkins

  Broken Heart, Men, Soul

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• I had always broken the rules.

  Lauren Hutton

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• The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.

  Xunzi

  Promise, Causes, Bounds

  Xunzi, John Knoblock (1988). “Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works”, p.137, Stanford University Press

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• You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.

  Roger McGough

  Broken Heart, Shoes, Promise

  'Comeclose and Sleepnow'

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• I came to join the Experience by going for an audition for Eric Burdon who was just forming the New Animals at that point, after the original Animals had broken up.

  Noel Redding

  Animal, Promise, Auditions

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• Life is true to form, records are meant to be broken

  Mark Spitz

  Sports, Records, Swimmer

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• The repeated announcements that the Russian resistance was definitely broken have been proved to be untrue.

  Hjalmar Schacht

  Resistance, Unfaithful, Announcements

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• They always say the hottest love has the coldest end.

  Drake

  Sad, Break Up, Broken Heart

  Song: July

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• I was just 20 years old when I wrote Broken Arrow.

  Neil Young

  Years, Arrows

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• St. Paul's Chapel stands - without so much as a broken window. Little miracle.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Miracle, Littles, Window

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• Love can be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

  Javan

  Sad, Break Up, Broken Heart

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• My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma

  Franz Boas

  Broken Heart, Parent, Dogma

  Franz Boas (1989). “A Franz Boas Reader: The Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883-1911”, p.41, University of Chicago Press

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• I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Love, Positive, Break Up

  Margaret Mitchell (2007). “Gone with the Wind”, p.1445, Simon and Schuster

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• Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Hate, War

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr”

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• The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

  Tennessee Williams

  Time, Nature, Flower

  Tennessee Williams (2008). “Camino Real”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

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• The heart was made to be broken.

  Oscar Wilde

  Moving On, Break Up, Broken Heart

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• It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Broken Heart, Heartbreak, Heartache

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.2806, e-artnow

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• A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.

  Laozi

  Broken Heart, Acceptance, Tree

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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  There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

  Washington Irving

  Strength, Sad, Sympathy

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• It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.

  Sara Teasdale

  Broken Heart, Wise, Wisdom

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.120, Рипол Классик

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