Shattered Quotes - Page 12

• Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls - family, health, friends, integrity - are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.

  Gary W. Keller

  Motivation, Integrity, Glasses

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• There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have lain aloof in newspapers and other neglected reading, enter like an earthquake into their own lives--when the slow urgency of growing generations turns into the tread of an invading army or the dire clash of civil war, and grey fathers know nothing to seek for but the corpses of their blooming sons, and girls forget all vanity to make lint and bandages which may serve for the shattered limbs of their betrothed husbands.

  George Eliot

  Girl, Husband, War

  George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.689, Oxford Paperbacks

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• You always hear about fashion's success stories. How a starlet lost an earring one night and by the next morning, the entire country was wearing one earring. Or how sweaters made a comeback in a drugstore, or a First Lady influenced how we dressed during her reign. But what about the losers? The fashions that came and went out the same day? The hopes and dreams of designers that were shattered by the sound of fifty million women ... laughing themselves to death.

  Erma Bombeck

  Country, Dream, Fashion

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank”, p.107, Open Road Media

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• Overall his period in office can only be characterised as a decade of missed opportunities in which the hopes of the British people for a new kind of politics were shattered [on Tony Blair]

  Menzies Campbell

  Opportunity, People, Office

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• How then can we account for the persistence of the myth that inside the empty nest lives a shattered and depressed shell of a woman--a woman in constant pain because her children no longer live under her roof? Is it possible that a notion so pervasive is, in fact, just a myth?

  Lillian B. Rubin

  Children, Pain, Persistence

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• Take what the old-church
  found in Mithra's tomb,
  candle and script and bell,
  take what the new-church spat upon
  and broke and shattered.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Poetry, Church, Iconoclasm

  Hilda Doolittle (1998). “Trilogy”, New Directions Publishing

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• Goodbye,
  you who are, for me, the postmarks again
  of shattered towns--Xenia, Burnt Cabins,
  Hornell--
  their loneliness
  given away in poems, only their solitude kept.

  Galway Kinnell

  Goodbye, War, Loneliness

  Galway Kinnell, “The Correspondence School Instructor Says Goodbye To His Poetry Students”

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• In an easy cause anyone can be eloquent; the slightest strength is enough to break what is already shattered.

  Ovid

  Causes, Easy, Enough

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• Congress' dynastic politics has shattered the hopes & aspirations of people. Congress hides behind the veil of secularism whenever its governance falters and its misconduct is exposed. This will no longer go unchallenged. The younger generation will not accept these actions of Congress!

  Narendra Modi

  People, Politics, India

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• When your world has shattered, ain't nothing else matters. It ain't over, it's only love and that's all.

  Bryan Adams

  Sadness, World, Matter

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• There have been three times. Once I got in a car accident and shattered my finger. A few years ago I didn't feel like being alive. That's all I can say.

  Jack White

  Years, Car, Three

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• Because pieces of your heart clearly weigh more when they're sitting shattered at the bottom of your stomach.

  Heather Brewer

  Heart, Sitting, Pieces

  Heather Brewer (2011). “First Kill”, p.128, Penguin

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• Tonight, I ask for your prayers for all those who grieve, for the children whose worlds have been shattered, for all whose sense of safety and security has been threatened. And I pray they will be comforted by a power greater than any of us, spoken through the ages in Psalm 23: "Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me."

  George W. Bush

  Prayer, Children, Grieving

  9/11 Address to the Nation, delivered 11 September, Oval Office, Washington, D.C.

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• And we carry onWhen our lives come undoneWe carry onCause there's promise in the morning sunWe carry onAs the dark surrenders to the dawnWe were born to overcomeWe carry onBeyond the picket fences and the oil wellsThe happy endings and the fairy talesIs the reality of shattered lives and broken dreamsWe carry on

  Tim McGraw

  Morning, Dark, Reality

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• The last batter to hit, blast shattered your hip,
  Smash any splitter or fastball-that'll be it.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Rap, Hip Hop, Lasts

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• . . . hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are. Being one place and wanting to be somewhere else . . . . Wanting life to be different from what it is. That's also called leaving without leaving. Dying before you die. It's as if there is a part of you that so rails against being shattered by love that you shatter yourself first.

  Geneen Roth

  Inspiring, Journey, Somewhere Else

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• For over two weeks, the defenders of Wake Island held off a vastly superior force of Japanese ships and troops, inspiring the whole nation with their plucky spirit and sacrifice. Unfortunately, Navy leaders at Pearl Harbor, struggling to protect what was left of the shattered Pacific Fleet, canceled a relief mission, allowing the island and its defenders to fall without support. Wake damaged the long-standing trust between the Corps and the Navy, a memory that still rankles Marines and shames sailors.

  Tom Clancy

  Memories, Struggle, Fall

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• I have passed in ignorance through a cycle of many rebirths, seeking the builder of the house. Continuous rebirth is a painful thing. But now, housebuilder, I have found you out. You will not build me a house again. All your rafters are broken, your ridge-pole shattered. My mind is free from active thought, and has made an end of craving.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Pain, Ignorance

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• Through countless births in the cycle of existence
  I have run, not finding
  although seeking the builder of this house;
  and again and again I faced the suffering of new birth.
  Oh housebuilder! Now you are seen.
  You shall not build a house again for me.
  All your beams are broken,
  the ridgepole is shattered.
  The mind has become freed from conditioning:
  the end of craving has been reached.

  Gautama Buddha

  Running, Buddhist, Broken

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• When I was nine or 10, I had jumped off of a bunk bed and shattered and dislocated my shoulder. That was on the same arm as the cast was on, which I didn't really put together until I was really starting to feel a little uncomfortable in my shoulder area, and then I was like, "Oh, this cast is on that arm. That's what that is about."

  Ashley Rickards

  Together, Bed, Arms

  "Ashley Rickards Exclusive Interview AWKWARD". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 19, 2011.

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• I'm finding that people reading the book [The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star] are saying, "You came from one background, I came from this background - you were a rock star, I was a CEO. I didn't have a heroin/coke problem, but I had a pill problem. But I also fell from grace, didn't know how to get recovery, and I am now in recovery." People tell me that their kids read it and told them they'll never do drugs - "This book really shows me where it goes."

  Nikki Sixx

  Stars, Book, Reading

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If civilization is to survive, the principles of the Prince of Peace must be restored. Shattered trust between nations must be revived. Most important of all, the will for peace on the part of peace-loving nations must express itself to the end that nations that may be tempted to violate their agreements and the rights of others will desist from such a cause. There must be positive endeavors to preserve peace. America hates war. America hopes for peace. Therefore, America actively engages in the search for peace.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Peace, Hate, War

  "Quarantine the Aggressor". Franklin D. Roosevelt's speech on the world situation in Chicago, Illinois, October 5, 1937.

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• Philosophy would do well to desist from issuing any further injunctions about the need to re-establish the meaningfulness of existence, the purposefulness of life, or mend the shattered concord between man and nature. It should strive to be more than a sop to the pathetic twinge of human self-esteem. Nihilism is not an existential quandary but a speculative opportunity.

  Ray Brassier

  Self Esteem, Philosophy, Opportunity

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• Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

  John Green

  Stars, Real, Reading

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.33, Penguin

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• Love is the only force that can erase the differences between people, that can heal relationships shattered by bitterness....I f the world is to be improved, the process of love must make a change in the hearts of men. It can do so when we look beyond self to give our love to God and others, and do so with all our heart, with all our soul, and with all our mind.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Heart, Love Is, Men

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