Broke Quotes - Page 28

• Gymnastics has made me strong. I feel like it broke me down to my lowest point, but at the same time, it has given me the greatest strength anyone could ask for.

  Shawn Johnson

  Strong, Gymnastics, Made

  "Gymnastic Gold: Interview with Shawn Johnson and Her Mom, Teri". Interview by Ilyssa Panitz, www.parents.com.

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• When I broke my knee, no one cared how I was; they just wanted me to get better and come back to gymnastics to win more medals for their country.

  Lavinia Agache

  Country, Gymnastics, Winning

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• Actually I was more of a breaker than a thrower - most of them putters. I broke so many of those that I probably became the world's foremost authority on how to putt without a putter.

  Tommy Bolt

  Golf, World, Authority

  Tommy Bolt, William C. Griffith (1969). “How to keep your temper on the golf course”

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• Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.

  Lord Byron

  Nature, Greatness, Men

  George Gordon Byron, “Monody On The Death Of The Right Hon. R. B. Sheridan”

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• I was thinkin if I cheated on my fears, broke up with my doubts, got engaged to my faith. I can marry my dreams.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Dream, Positivity, Doubt

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• Broke is normal. Why be normal?

  Dave Ramsey

  Motivational, Poverty, Normal

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• My sense of identity broke down and was replaced by something that is very hard to put into words. Awareness, Consciousness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Identity, Down And, Consciousness

  "Interview With Eckhart Tolle". Interview at Omega Institute, www.ecomall.com. Fall, 2003.

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• They say time is money but really it's not
  If we ever go broke, then time is all we got
  And we can't make that back, no you can't make that back

  J. Cole

  Rap, Time Is Money, Ifs

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• Resenting promotion is one of the greatest obstacles to success. People who have issues with selling and promotion are usually broke.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Issues, People

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Apr 01, 2013

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• The history of the cosmos
  is the history of the struggle of becoming.
  When the dim flux of unformed life
  struggled, convulsed back and forth upon itself,
  and broke at last into light and dark
  came into existence as light,
  came into existence as cold shadow
  then every atom of the cosmos trembled with delight.

  D. H. Lawrence

  God, Struggle, Dark

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.385, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There is a difference between being poor and being broke. Broke is temporary, and poor is eternal.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Differences, Poverty, Poor

  Robert Kiyosaki (2015). “Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!”, p.26, Robert Kiyosaki

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• I lost my daughter at 21. I had to give her up because I was broke, no place to take her, no money to take her. That was very traumatic.

  Joni Mitchell

  Mother, Daughter, Giving

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• This one guy, the worst guy in the music. The Yanni man. You know Yanni? First of all, anyone who looks like a magician and doesn't do magic, I don't like. I don't even like magic, I hate it. But I love the word, "Ta-da"! I love that word! I don't get to say it, right? I never do any magic. You just can't go around walking, "Ta-da!" "Ta-da!" "Ta-da!" The only time I can say it is when I do something really stupid or surprising. Like if I go out all night drinking and hitting strip clubs and I come home and I still got some money... "Ta-da!" I thought I was broke. Why does my jaw hurt?

  Dave Attell

  Hurt, Stupid, Hate

  "Comedy Central Presents: Dave Attell". Documentary, Comedy, July 10, 1999.

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• Australian troops had, at Milne Bay, inflicted on the Japanese their first undoubted defeat on land. Some of us may forget that, of all the allies, it was the Australians who first broke the invincibility of the Japanese army.

  William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

  Military, Army, Land

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• At the moment I put the bread and wine into those dark hands, once stained with the blood of cannibalism, now stretched out to receive and partake the emblems and seals of the Redeemer's love, I had a foretaste of the joy of glory that well nigh broke my heart to pieces. I shall never taste a deeper bliss, till I gaze on the glorified face of Jesus himself.

  John Gibson Paton

  Jesus, Heart, Wine

  John Gibson Paton (1907). “John G. Paton, missionary to the New Hebrides: An autobiography edited by his brother. New and complete illustrated edition: 1824-1907”

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• The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem ("It's simple; it's broke.") to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution.

  Verlyn Klinkenborg

  Real, Moving, Science

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• You may think I'm brave. But in the eyes of many people back in my country I am a coward. They think, this man gave so much freedom to his daughter, he broke all the traditions of our society.

  Ziauddin Yousafzai

  Mother, Country, Daughter

  "Ziauddin Yousafzai: learn from Malala, use your own voice to demand rights" by Anna Leach, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2014.

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• There is something in such laws that takes the breath away. They are not discoveries or inventions of the human mind, but exist independently of us. In a moment of clarity, one can at most discover that they are there and take them into account. Long before there were people on the earth, crystals were already growing in the earth's crust. On one day or another, a human being first came across such a sparkling morsel of regularity lying on the ground or hit one with his stone tool and it broke off and fell at his feet, and he picked it up and regarded it in his open hand, and he was amazed.

  M. C. Escher

  Spiritual, Lying, Discovery

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• In the eyes of history, religious toleration is the highest evidence of culture in a people. It was not until the Western nations broke away from their religious law that they became more tolerant, and it was only when the Muslims fell away from their religious law that they declined in tolerance and other evidences of the highest culture.

  Marmaduke Pickthall

  Religious, Eye, Law

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• Don't tell people you are broke. Guilting fans into buying your music never works.

  Ari Herstand

  Music, Powerful, People

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• "Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager." "Right, that's why I said tomorrow," he said. "I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow." I rolled my eyes. "I'm serious," he said."You don't even know me," I said. I grabbed the book from the center console. "How about I call you when I finish this?""But you don't even have my phone number," he said."I strongly suspect you wrote it in this book."He broke out into that goofy smile. "And you say we don't know each other."

  John Green

  Real, Book, Eye

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.29, Penguin

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• We knew the front door was always left open, but we broke in just to keep in practice. Doxy turned all the Washburn family photos to the wall so there wouldn't be any witnesses.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Wall, Humor

  Woody Allen (2007). “Mere Anarchy”, Random House Incorporated

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• I struck out with two men on base. I was so angry, so frustrated, I turned and without even thinking about it, snapped my bat over my thigh. The bat split right in half. Afterward, reporters asked me if it was the first time I'd ever broken a bat over my thigh. "I broke an aluminum bat over my knee in college," I said. (I was just kidding).

  Bo Jackson

  Baseball, College, Men

  Bo Jackson, Dick Schaap (1990). “Bo knows Bo: the autobiography of a ballplayer”, Doubleday Books

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• Nobody I ever broke bread with, and I see players all the time, talked about using their head running the football.

  Jim Brown

  Football, Running, Player

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• Don’t die without embracing the daring adventure your life is meant to be. You may go broke. You may experience failure and rejection repeatedly. You may endure multiple dysfunctional relationships. But these are all milestones along the path of a life lived courageously. They are your private victories, carving a deeper space within you to be filled with an abundance of joy, happiness, and fulfillment. So go ahead and feel the fear. Then summon the courage to follow your dreams anyway.

  Steve Pavlina

  Dream, Monday, Adventure

  "The Courage to Live Consciously". www.stevepavlina.com. October 27, 2004.

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