Broken Quotes - Page 15

Laws which can be broken without any wrong to one's neighbor are a laughing-stock; and such laws, instead of restraining the appetites and lusts of mankind, serve rather to heighten them. Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata [we always resist prohibitions, and yearn for what is denied us].

Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to every morning.

Fame means when your computer modem is broken, the repair guy comes out to your house a little faster.

We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first, broken tiles, / then proud doors... and each new day / gleams / like an empty / plate.

Your love taught me to grieve and I have been needing, for centuries a woman to make me grieve for a woman, to cry upon her arms like a sparrow for a woman to gather my pieces like shards of broken crystal

Though lovers be lost love shall not.

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

I'm known to have a hottie open, I keep the shotty smokin, Front and get half the bones in your body broken.

Only in the shattering can the rebuilding occur

I was baptized into Christ. I died when He died. Sin’s power over me has been broken, in Jesus’ name!

We need to fix our souls. Our souls are broken in this nation. We have lost our way. And it begins with inspiration. It begins with leadership.

There is nothing as whole, or as perfect, as a broken heart.

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.

If no tender words are spoken, no tender hearts can be broken.

If we do not defend ourselves none will defend us; if we yield we will be more and more pressed as we recede; and if we submit we will be trampled under foot. I hold concession or compromise to be fatal. If we concede an inch, concession would follow compromise, until our ranks would be so broken that effectual resistance would be impossible.

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added.

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

What happens when people open their hearts?"... "They get better.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police yet - it's gone.

Humanity is good. Some people are terrible and broken, but humanity is good. I believe that.

God can never entrust His Kingdom to anyone who has not been broken of pride, for pride is the armour of darkness itself.

...occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window and have the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I would finally look like I felt.

The most important part of vehicle maintenance is clean windows, so if you are broken down you will enjoy the beauty of the view.