Broken Quotes - Page 23

• We are strong where we were broken.

  Geneen Roth

  Strong

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• It is phenomenal how fast a little toot of smack will take away the agony of withdrawal and most other kinds of pain. What it cannot take away it makes meaningless. You may still have a broken arm, but somehow it doesn't matter so much. The same is true for angst and anxiety. It cancels pain so hidden that you were unaware of its existence until it disappeared.

  Edward Bunker

  Pain, Agony, Anxiety

  Edward Bunker (2012). “Mr Blue: Memoirs of a Renegade”, p.261, Oldcastle Books

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• Is there any reason why you should not have faith in God? Has God ever broken one of His promises? I defy any infidel or unbeliever to place a finger on a single promise of God ever made and failed to fulfill.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Promise, Have Faith, Reason Why

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• Every adviser told me to study the company, learn the business for the first 90 days and don't make any decisions. I couldn't resist seeing broken things and immediately taking action.

  Marcelo Claure

  Decision, Firsts, Action

  "The Plan to Fix Sprint". Interview with Ryan Knutson, www.wsj.com. October 25, 2015.

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• On the threshold of the moral world we meet the idea of Freedom, 'one of the weightiest concepts man has ever formed,' once a dogma, in the course of time a hypothesis, now in the eyes of many a fiction, yet we cannot do without it, even although we may be firmly convinced that our acts are determined by laws that cannot be broken.

  Havelock Ellis

  Eye, Men, Law

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• I didn't view my body as broken, I reasoned that a human being can never be broken. Technology is broken. Technology is inadequate.

  Hugh Herr

  Technology, Views, Body

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• Oh hearts! Nobody gets through life without a broken heart. The important thing is to break the heart so that when it mends it will be stronger than before.

  Robertson Davies

  Heart, Important, Stronger

  Robertson Davies (1992). “The Cornish Trilogy”, Penguin Group USA

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• In a time of polarized politics there's one thing that more than ninety percent of Americans agree on, that our government is broken, and broken because of the money in politics.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Government, Ninety, Money In Politics

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• All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.

  Victor Hugo

  Hatred, Suffering, Chains

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• Hindsight is an exact science. Hold fast to your dreams, for it dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Dream, Pain, Evil

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• To be a spiritual warrior, one must have a broken heart; without a broken heart and the sense of tenderness and vulnerability, your warriorship is untrustworthy.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Spiritual, Heart, Warrior

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• America's high schools are obsolete. By obsolete, I don't just mean that they're broken, flawed, or underfunded, though a case could be made for every one of those points. By obsolete, I mean our high schools-even when they're working as designed-cannot teach all our students what they need to know today.

  Bill Gates

  School, Mean, America

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• Tell the image makers and magazine sellers and the plastic surgeons that you are not afraid. That what you fear the most is the death of imagination and originality and metaphor and passion. Then be bold and LOVE YOUR BODY. STOP FIXING IT. It was never broken.

  Marion Woodman

  Love You, Passion, Imagination

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• [W]e will do what we like with the bourgeoisie. ... We give the orders; they do what they are told. Any resistance will be broken ruthlessly.

  Adolf Hitler

  Order, Giving, Bourgeoisie

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• When we are consciously aware of being used as broken bread and poured out wine, we have yet another level to reach - a level where all awareness of ourselves and what God is doing through us is completely eliminated. A saint is never consciously a saint - a saint is consciously dependent on God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Wine, Saint, Levels

  Oswald Chambers (2005). “My Utmost for His Highest”, Discovery House Pub

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• But as the old Confusion of tongues was laudable, when men who were of one language in wickedness and impiety, even as some now venture to be, were building the Tower; for by the confusion of their language the unity of their intention was broken up, and their undertaking destroyed; so much more worthy of praise is the present miraculous one. For being poured from One Spirit upon many men, it brings them again into harmony. And there is a diversity of Gifts, which stands in need of yet another Gift to discern which is the best, where all are praiseworthy.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Men, Diversity, Confusion

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• I took to writing as my medicine to help me stay afloat in acting career journey. I wrote about me breaking hearts, and my heart being broken. I wrote about my views whether they were liberal or conservative. I wrote about everything. I wrote about my life. When I did not have paper coming in as green backs, I'd use random pieces of paper for stories. It was like, I got no money, but I have paper to write. So I wrote.

  Omari Hardwick

  Heart, Writing, Journey

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I like writing songs all females can relate to - songs about when you're a chick and you get your heart broken and you go shopping.

  Nikka Costa

  Song, Writing, Heart

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• I've broken it down to three basic types of people in gangs. You have the first type, the most dangerous, which are the glory seekers. They just want to be popular, they want to be stars, and they can do that in gangbanging. Then you have the one that I think is the worst, which is the one that's expected to be in the gang. Then you have the ones that were like me; they had to be.

  Malik Yusef

  Stars, Thinking, People

  "Malik Yusef: Word on the Street". Interview with Andre Sternberg, www.motherjones.com. April 1, 2008.

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• George W. Bush in 2000 went to private financing for the nomination, but he accepted public funding in the general. And, quite frankly, so did - it was broken in 2008, when Barack Obama decided he wasn't going to do that.

  Mark Shields

  Nominations, Accepted, Funding

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's rough to be mugged all the time, to have your place broken into all the time. You can buy a building for very little, but then the building has a fire and you have no money, so you have to fix it all yourself.

  Francesca DiMattio

  Fire, Littles, Building

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I keep myself locked as a box when it matters, and broken open when it doesn't matter at all.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Matter, Boxes, Locked

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• I testify to you today that turning away from God brings broken covenants, shattered dreams, and crushed hopes. Such a quagmire of quicksand I plead with you to avoid. You are of a noble birthright. Eternal life in the kingdom of our Father is your goal.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Dream, Father, Goal

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• In this place of gracious uncertainty, we wait. For the broken places to be brought back together. For the meaning of our suffering to be revealed in his. For the righteous reign of a mighty God, whose goodness we will spend all eternity celebrating. We wait - with open, expectant hearts.

  Paula Rinehart

  Heart, Waiting, Suffering

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• ...education is a sacred thing, and the pledge to build a school is a commitment that cannot be surrendered or broken, regardless of how long it may take, how many obstacles must be surmounted, or how much money it will cost. It is by such promises that the balance sheet of one's life is measured.

  Greg Mortenson

  School, Commitment, Long

  Greg Mortenson (2009). “Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan”, p.60, Penguin

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