Broken Quotes

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

Wise, Heart, Before

Often we women are risk averse. I needed the push. Now, more than ever, young women need more seasoned women to provide that encouragement, to take a risk, to go for it. Once a glass ceiling is broken, it stays broken.
Jennifer M. Granholm

Women, Young, Often

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

Strength, May, Through

If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.
Charles Horton Cooley

Good, Character, Words

I know what it's like to have my heart broken. It is not adorable.
Rashida Jones

Heart, Adorable

My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species.
Joni Mitchell

Heart, Stupidity, Face

No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.
Yoko Ono

Person, Band, Size

Fame means when your computer modem is broken, the repair guy comes out to your house a little faster.
Sandra Bullock

Means, Guy, House

I'd crawl over broken glass for Elle MacPherson or Cindy Crawford.
Jon Bon Jovi

Glass, Crawl, Cindy

Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.
Jerry B. Jenkins

Family, Seem, Heartbreak

The whole ecosystem of celebrity has broken down for writers. If you go back to the '50s, '60s, and '70s, writers were on TV a lot, and they were allowed to misbehave a lot.
James Wolcott

Down, Whole, Writers

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

Men, Daily, Dying

You can't pay enough money to... cure that feeling of being broken and confused.
Winona Ryder

Money, Feeling, Confused

How many of you have broken no laws this month? That's the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee - with physics and mathematics, not with laws - that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications.
John Gilmore

Society, Real, Give

I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass.
Christopher Columbus

Boy, Glass, Crew

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.
Eugene O'Neill

God, Lives, Grace

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.
Thomas B. Macaulay

Government, Nothing, Words

Since 1994, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a plan to fix America's broken health care system. The American public, though, has paid the price for this silence as health care costs skyrocketed, millions went uninsured, and millions more grappled with financial insecurity and hardship.
Ron Wyden

Health, Insecurity, Care

The emphasis has been on rights, not responsibilities. When it comes to piecing together the fragments of broken lives, we have tended to place the entire burden on the state and its agencies.
Jonathan Sacks

Together, Place, Lives

Guys don't adapt as well as women do to getting their heart broken for the first time. It's tragic.
Jamie Foxx

Time, Women, Heart

Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife.
Iain Duncan Smith

School, Live, Addiction

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.
Iain Duncan Smith

Same, Kids, White

I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
Jack White

Music, Down, Left

Deadlines are meant to be broken. And I just keep breaking them.
Sarah McLachlan

Keep, Meant, Deadlines

Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.
Nate Silver

Election, Four, Precedent

Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.
Rand Paul

Done, Unhappy, Party

I've never really broken this down before, but, in movies, you almost have no connection to fans. And if you do TV, you're kind of connected, but they know you as the TV name not your real name. If you do radio, there's more of a bond there. And then if you do a podcast it's like you're literally inside of your fans.
Adam Carolla

Movies, Real, Down

It's not just songs and glamour. It's sweat, blood, broken toes, and mistakes... It's life.
Mary J. Blige

Life, Mistakes, Blood

We're learning how important it is both to preserve sibling relationships if they work and repair them if they're broken. We're also learning a lot about nonliteral siblings - stepsiblings, half-siblings - and the surprising power they can have.
Jeffrey Kluger

Work, Power, Learning

The characters in the book grow up with us. My voice has broken as well.
Rupert Grint

Book, Voice, Grow

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