Broke Quotes - Page 12

• When you're going broke, it's best to have a great time.

  Diane Kochilas

  Great Times

  4 Copy quote

• When I came to the United States in 1975 I was eleven, and within a few months my voice broke. I recited commercials like a parrot and I got yelled at quite often. My older brother one night said, "You speak so much English when you're not supposed to, that's why your vocal chords shattered. Now you sound like a duck." I thought it was true. I went from this sweet-voiced Vietnamese kid who spoke Vietnamese and French to this craggy-voiced teenager.

  Andrew Lam

  Sweet, Brother, Teenager

  "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Malcolm X broke with the N.O.I. in March 1964, and in that last 11 chaotic months, he spent most of the time outside of the United States. Nevertheless, he built two organizations in the spring of 1964. First, Muslim Mosque Incorporated, which was a religious organization that was largely based on members of the N.O.I. who left with him. It was spearheaded by James 67X or James Shabazz, who was his chief of staff. Then secondly was the Organization of Afro-American Unity.

  Manning Marable

  Religious, Spring, Organization

  Source: historynewsnetwork.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• George Kennan is another extreme case. He was the American consul in Berlin until the war between Germany and the United States broke out in December 1941. And until then he was writing pretty supportive statements back stressing that we shouldn't be so hard on the Nazis if they were doing something we didn't agree with - basically repeating the idea that they were people we could do business with.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Stress, Writing

  Source: thehumanist.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• At some point a few years ago Japan unilaterally stopped those talks and broke off contacts with us. It was not we who broke off contacts with Japan, it was the Japanese side that broke off contacts with us.

  Vladimir Putin

  Japan, Years, Sides

  Source: www.rt.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I tell people if it aint broke don't fix it.

  Keith Sweat

  People, Ifs

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think that so many people don't understand how easy it is to be broke, how easy it is to find yourself in a situation where you're in an absolutely foreign place.

  Regina Spektor

  Thinking, People, Finding Yourself

  "Regina Spektor: 'I See My Family ... In Everybody'". Interview with Audie Cornish, kosu.org. October 3, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Caterpillar was quite important because that was the first manufacturing industry that used Reaganite strike-breaking techniques. They illegally called in scabs to break a major strike. It was reported pretty well in the Chicago Tribune, who pointed out something very interesting. They said that the workers got very little support in Peoria when scabs illegally broke the strike, and that was particularly striking because that whole community had been built up by the union - it was a union-based community.

  Noam Chomsky

  Interesting, Support, Community

  Source: www.iww.org

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• We always need to create and re-create but if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

  Clive Rowe

  Needs, Ifs

  Interview with Ryan Ormonde, www.londoncalling.com. November 21, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When AIDS emergency broke out and was killing millions in Africa, the Global Fund was created so that a level of generosity would show up and buy the medicines to save those lives.

  Bill Gates

  Medicine, Generosity, Levels

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My mother loved my father. From my view, she let him get away with too much. It broke my heart to see him in an old people's home and stop being strong and lose his voice.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Mother, Strong, Father

  Source: www.motherjones.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• People sometimes say I broke an oath of secrecy - one of the early charges leveled against me. But it's a fundamental misunderstanding, because there is no oath of secrecy for people who work in the intelligence community. You are asked to sign a civil agreement, called a Standard Form 312, which basically says if you disclose classified information, they can sue you; they can do this, that and the other. And you risk going to jail.

  Edward Snowden

  Jail, Agreement, People

  Source: www.thenation.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was born a Zionist, because I didn't have a choice about that. It was the ether of my family life, but I certainly broke with it as I asked more questions about it. And that doesn't mean I want to see the destruction of a people, it means I want to see a state structure that might embody more substantially the basic principles of democracy.

  Judith Butler

  Mean, People, Choices

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The people I respect all died broke and despairing. They didn't leave a lot of hammered iron behind them like Donald Trump has done.

  Kinky Friedman

  Iron, People, Done

  Source: www.axs.com

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• We cannot continue to get caught up in having material abundance and yet be fundamentally and spiritually broke.

  T.I.

  Abundance, Caught, Materials

  Source: www.ebony.com

  30 Copy quote

  Show source

• Thousands of Americans have given their lives in Afghanistan and Iraq upholding their oaths and defending this nation. Chelsea Manning broke her oath and made it more likely that others would join the ranks of her fallen comrades. Her prison sentence may end in a few months' [time], but her dishonor will last forever.

  John McCain

  Iraq, Forever, May

  Source: www.truth-out.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I had very deep concerns about my financial status because I found that up until "Let's Dance" I was virtually broke again. I had been so irresponsible in how I dealt with my financial affairs. I take full responsibility for that.

  David Bowie

  Responsibility, Financial, Affair

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When we were covering the 2008 campaign I told my young African American colleagues that despite the historical significance of victory, Barack Obama was going to break their hearts. They didn't want to hear that, and they refused to believe it. Eighteen months later they started dropping by one by one to say, sadly: "He broke our hearts." A couple of them even wept.

  Bill Moyers

  Couple, Believe, Heart

  Source: progressive.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I got tired and embarrassed by the constant poverty of those years. I told Doug [ Brinkley] this is really going to be a horrible downer of a book [The Proud Highway] if all it's going to be is about being broke. I didn't like being reminded of desperation at all times.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Book, Tired, Years

  Source: www.fargonebooks.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Over the years, he disappeared - like a lot of our leaders disappear. [James Baldwin] was not assassinated, but somehow he went through those assassinations as if it was himself. I think that broke him as well.

  Raoul Peck

  Thinking, Years, Leader

  4 Copy quote

• Originally, I broke the story [The Gunslinger Born] into eight comic books, but when the editors at Marvel thought we should make it more compact, I managed to cut back to seven.

  Robin Furth

  Book, Cutting, Eight

  Source: www.graphicnovelreporter.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Remember how the first world war broke out. It broke out as a result of the desire to redivide the world.

  Joseph Stalin

  War, Desire, World

  85 Copy quote

• The situation is that in Germany capitalism has remained, classes and class struggle have remained which all the same will break into the open, which includes also the field of struggle of parties representing opposing classes just as it broke through in, let us say, Spain.

  Joseph Stalin

  Struggle, Party, Class

  17 Copy quote

• Harry Reid employed the so-called nuclear option, broke the Senate rules to change the Senate rules, lowered the threshold for confirmation from 60 votes to 51 votes. And it is a direct result of Harry Reid that we now have the most conservative Cabinet in decades.

  Ted Cruz

  Cabinets, Nuclear, Conservative

  Source: time.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Will Hillary [Clinton] survive or will the villains...? [James] Comey and the FBI and the Republicans, will they succeed? There isn't any coverage of whether or not Hillary actually broke the law. The media's not interested in whether or not she actually trafficked in classified data.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Media, Law, Data

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source