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• Do not be afraid of large patterns, if properly designed they are more restful to the eye than small ones: on the whole, a pattern where the structure is large and the details much broken up is the most useful...very small rooms, as well as very large ones, look better ornamented with large patterns.

  William Morris

  Eye, Small Rooms, Design

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• With Stacy, it was interesting because you know he was within all this chaos, all these different lives that were so broken and so much anger and so much frustration and their skating came out of that, their different styles came out of that.

  John Robinson

  Anger, Frustration, Interesting

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• Maybe instead of strings it's stories things are made of, an infinite number of tiny vibrating stories; once upon a time they all were part of one big giant superstory, except it got broken up into a jillion different pieces, that's why no story on its own makes any sense, and so what you have to do in a life is try and weave it back together, my story into your story, our stories into all the other people's we know, until you've got something that to God or whoever might look like a letter, or even a whole word.

  Paul Murray

  Numbers, People, Once Upon A Time

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• I couldn't allow myself to think about her very long; if I had I would have jumped off the bridge. It's strange. I had become so reconciled to this life without her, and yet if I thought about her only for a minute it was enough to pierce the bone and marrow of my contentment and shove me back again into the agonizing gutter of my wretched past.

  Henry Miller

  Broken Heart, Past, Thinking

  Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr

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• You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.

  John Eldredge

  Swim, Demand, Arms

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• Every man carries a wound. I have never met a man without one. No matter how good your life may have seemed to you, you live in a broken world full of broken people.

  John Eldredge

  Men, People, World

  John Eldredge (2011). “Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul”, p.72, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Adoption is a redemptive response to tragedy that happens in this broken world.

  Katie Davis

  Adoption, Tragedy, World

  Katie J. Davis, Beth Clark (2012). “Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• A Christian is not a person who believes in his head the teachings of the Bible. Satan believes in his head the teachings of the Bible! A Christian is a person who has died with Christ, whose stiff neck has been broken, whose brazen forehead has been shattered, whose stony heart has been crushed, whose pride has been slain, and whose life is now mastered by Jesus Christ.

  John Piper

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

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• Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because it holds out some promise of happiness. That promise enslaves us until we believe that God is more to be desired than life itself (Psalm 63:3). Which means that the power of sin's promise is broken by the power of God's.

  John Piper

  Believe, Mean, Heart

  John Piper (2012). “Future Grace, Revised Edition: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God”, p.1, Multnomah

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• Acting is like racing, you need the same concentration. You have to reach inside you and bring forth a lot of broken glass. That's painful.

  Steve McQueen

  Glasses, Racing, Acting

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• Stop falling in love with everything that lets you down, even if your hands are shaking and your faith is broken, even as the eyes are closing, do it with a heart wide open. Say what you need to say.

  John Mayer

  Falling In Love, Heart, Eye

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• Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us.

  Henry Miller

  Hangover, People, Mind

  Henry Miller, Frank L. Kersnowski (1994). “Conversations with Henry Miller”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• The great barrier to worship among God's people is not that we are always seeking our own satisfaction, but that our seeking is so weak and half-hearted that we settle for little sips at broken cisterns when the fountain of life is just over the next hill.

  John Piper

  People, Half, Littles

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• The very longing for contentment that ought to drive us to simplicity of life and labors of love contents itself instead with the broken cisterns of prosperity and comfort.

  John Piper

  Simplicity, Contentment, Comfort

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.129, Multnomah

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• The surest way to know our gold, is to look upon it and examine it in God's furnace, where he tries it that we may see what it is. If we have a mind to know whether a building stands strong or not, we must look upon it when the wind blows. If we would know whether a staff be strong, or a rotten, broken reed, we must observe it when it is leaned on and weight is borne upon it. If we would weigh ourselves justly we must weigh ourselves in God's scales that he makes use of to weigh us.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Strong, Blow, Wind

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• At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown ties had been pretty much broken. The theme of Farmer Takes a Wife appealed to people. Everybody was homesick. And it sold and sold and sold.

  John Gould

  Moving, Ties, People

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• It is not one man nor a million, but the spirit of liberty that must be preserved. The waves which dash upon the shore are, one by one, broken, but the ocean conquers nevertheless. It overwhelms the Armada, it wears out the rock. In like manner, whatever the struggle of individuals, the great cause will gather strength.

  Lord Byron

  Ocean, Struggle, Men

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• He became merely the broken statue of a beast, now without another's fear to animate it.

  John Connolly

  Fear, Beast, Statues

  John Connolly (2006). “The Book of Lost Things: A Novel”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

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• A lot of my clients say they don't deserve to mope about their sad little memories while children are starving in India. I say that just because your broken arm isn't as serious as someone else's gut wound, that doesn't mean your injury isn't excruciating or doesn't require attention. If you want to help the Indian children, or make the world a better place in any other way, you have to start by becoming whole yourself.

  Martha Beck

  Memories, Children, Mean

  Martha Beck (2008). “Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live”, p.145, Harmony

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• Speak not, move not, but listen, the sky is full of gold. No ripple on the river, no stir in field or fold, All gleams but naught doth glisten, but the far-off unseen sea. Forget days past, heart broken, put all memory by! No grief on the green hillside, no pity in the sky, Joy that may not be spoken fills mead and flower and tree.

  William Morris

  Memories, Flower, Moving

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• Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships.

  Virgil

  Broken Heart, Wise, Breakup

  'Aeneid' bk. 1, l. 203

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• Fine colour implies a unified relationship, in which each part is subordinate to the whole, and the transitions between them are felt to be as precious and beautiful as the colours themselves. In fact, the colours themselves must be continuously modified and broken as part of the transition.

  Kenneth Clark

  Beautiful, Transition, Facts

  Kenneth Clark (1973). “The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art”

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• God has ordained that our preaching become deeper and more winsome as we are broken, humbled, and made low and desperately dependent on grace by the trials of our lives.

  John Piper

  Grace, Trials, Made

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• Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the firsta dull man writing broken English, the seconda broken man writing dull English.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Writing, Men, Knights

  1941 The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, ch.1.

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• The term "bend sinister" means a heraldic bar or band drawn from the left side (and popularly, but incorrectly, supposed to denote bastardy). This choice of title was an attempt to suggest an outline broken by refraction, a distortion in the mirror of being, a wrong turn taken by life, a sinistral and sinister world. The title's drawback is that a solemn reader looking for "general ideas" or "human interest" (which is much the same thing) in a novel may be led to look for them in this one.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Taken, Mean, Ideas

  "Bend Sinister" by Vladimir Nabokov, (p. 6), 1963.

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