Broken Quotes

The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.

But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially.

Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.

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.

I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all.

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.

I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.

President Obama inherited a broken country mired in two wars, a financial crisis, a mortgage mess and more than we all probably even know about and has in my opinion brought us back from the brink. But I still see my friends in no better shape and the gap widening.

The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.

Americans are rightly concerned about the security and the integrity of the nation's borders because the system is broken. Some are concerned about the possibility of terrorists crossing our borders and coming into our cities.

I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

If you will investigate all the Indian troubles, you will find that there is something wrong of this nature at the bottom of all of them, something relating to the supplies, or else a tardy and broken faith on the part of the general government.

All records are not made to be broken.

I had a Southern accent but I had broken it so hard.

I was tempted my junior year to go out of college and forgo my eligibility. I had broken several world records. I did have a lot of people telling me that I should go pro.

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

The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing.

It changes you a little bit every time you either break someone's heart or get your heart broken.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

I've never had my heart broken.

According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.

In Birmingham, Manchester or Liverpool there are white gangs that share the same backgrounds - they come from broken homes, completely dysfunctional, mums for the most part unable to cope, the fathers of these kids completely not in the scene.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.

It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.

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.

The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.

Make no mistake, if the payroll-tax cut is extended, it will become permanent. Social Security will become another welfare program as the tie between what someone pays and what they receive gets broken.

You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes.

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.