Quotes 81 till 100 of 107.
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The stone is broken, but the words are alive.
The Zookeepers Wife (2008) -
The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.
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The US has broken the second rule of war. That is, don't go fighting with your land army on the mainland of Asia. Rule One is don't march on Moscow. I developed these two rules myself.
In the House of Lords on American policy in Vietnam, 1962. -
The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.
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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.
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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
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There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be.
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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.
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They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken.
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Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.
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Washington is broken. Bailing out Wall Street with no strings attached while leaving middle class Arkansas taxpayers with the bill. Protecting insurance company profits instead of patients and lowering health costs.
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We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.
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We know that no algorithm can solve global poverty; no pill can cure a chronic illness; no box of chocolates can mend a broken relationship; no educational DVD can transform a child into a baby Einstein; no drone strike can end a terrorist conflict. Sadly, there is no such thing as 'One Tip to a Flat Stomach.'
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We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.
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When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.
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When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
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When peace has been broken anywhere, the peace of all countries everywhere is in danger.
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When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken.
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