Quotes with broken

  • Yes, exes can be good friends, but after a certain time. Though no break-up is a good break-up, time heals everything, including broken friendships. It also depends on the kind of people they are, their mindsets and the reasons for the break ups.
  • 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.
  • And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle.
  • Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.
  • It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
  • I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens.
  • While Fidel Castro used to deliver his marathon seven-hour speeches in Havana, Cubans used to joke that if Spanish lacked a future tense, their leader would be speechless. He was only fluent in broken promises, they lamented.
  • By the mid-1990s, nearly everything in North Korea was worn out, broken, malfunctioning. The country had seen better days.
  • 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.
  • In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
+7

Quotes 1 till 20 of 96.

1 2 3 4 5 Next 
  • George Bernard Shaw A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
    - +
    +4
  • Mortimer J. Adler Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.
    Mortimer J. Adler
    American philosopher, educator, and popular (1902 - 2001)
    - +
    +1
  • William Shakespeare Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
    - +
    +1
  • Sir James Matthew Barrie I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
    - +
    +1
  • Samuel Johnson The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
    - +
    +1
  • Joseph Hall A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.
    Joseph Hall
    English bishop and satirist (1574 - 1656)
    - +
     0
  • George D. Prentice A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
    George D. Prentice
    American newspaper editor (1802 - 1870)
    - +
     0
  • Assata Shakur And if I know anything at all, it's that a wall is just a wall and nothing more at all. It can be broken down.
    Assata: An Autobiography (1987)
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
    - +
     0
  • Barry McGuire And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
    - +
     0
  • Tryon Edwards Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
    - +
     0
  • Abigail Adams Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
    - +
     0
  • William Shakespeare Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good;
    a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly;
    a flower that dies when it begins to bud;
    a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower,
    lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
    - +
     0
  • Mark Twain Better a broken promise than none at all.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
    - +
     0
  • Albert Camus Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
    - +
     0
  • Billy Mays Broken! Busted! Everybody has something to repair. Before buying new, let Mighty Putty fix it for you.
    Billy Mays
    American television direct-response advertisement salesperson (1958 - 2009)
    - +
     0
  • Barbara Demick By the mid-1990s, nearly everything in North Korea was worn out, broken, malfunctioning. The country had seen better days.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
    - +
     0
  • Ali ibn Abi Talib Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.
    Ali ibn Abi Talib
    Cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (601 - 661)
    - +
     0
  • Alice Duer Miller Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.
    Alice Duer Miller
    American writer (1874 - 1942)
    - +
     0
  • Bertolt Brecht Don't tell me peace has broken out, when I've just bought some new supplies.
    Mother Courage sc. 8
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
    - +
     0
  • Anton Chekhov Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
    - +
     0
1 2 3 4 5 Next 
All broken famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com

Popular subjects

Popular authors