Broken Quotes - Page 17

It's not a cry you can hear at night. It's not somebody who has seen the light. It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah.

Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up. The earth must be broken to bring forth life. If the seed does not die there is no plant. Bread results from the death of wheat. Life lives on lives. Our own life lives on the acts of other people. If you are lifeworthy, you can take it.

My grand point in preaching is to break the hard heart, and to heal the broken one.

Earth is ancient now, but all knowledge is stored up in her. She keeps a record of everything that has happened since time began. Of time before time, she says little, and in a language that no one has yet understood. Through time, her secret codes have gradually been broken. Her mud and lava is a message from the past. Of time to come, she says much, but who listens?

No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief.

When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken.

The act of forgiveness is the act of returning to present time. And that's why when one has become a forgiving person, and has managed to let go of the past, what they've really done is they've shifted their relationship with time.

The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.

Women have broken through the glass ceiling, and they're now more and more in the power seats.

You can't pay enough money to... cure that feeling of being broken and confused.

Even more, I had never meant to love him. One thing I truly knew - knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest - was how love gave someone the power to break you

I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.'

The kingdom of heaven is comprised of the broken, the fatherless, the poor, the starving. Nothing that could create good ratings for NBC.

I'm just looking for an angel with a broken wing.

There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.

There is a light within every soul; it only needs the clouds that overshadow it to be broken for it to beam forth.

All so convinced that you're following your heart cause your mind don't control what it does sometimes.

Success by its very nature demands a period of overcoming, a process by which we become strong in broken places.

I believe every space and comma is a living part of the poem and has its function, just as every muscle and pore of the body has its function. And the way the lines are broken is a functioning part essential to the life of the poem.

It is better to live as a broken piece of jade, than to live as a useless clay.

We say that money talks, but it speaks a broken, poverty-stricken language. Hearts talk better, clearer, and with wider intelligence.

Our greatest joy and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others.

Comfort me with apples, for I am sick of love.

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.

But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter