Broken Quotes - Page 29

National Socialism is what Marxism might have been if it could have broken its absurd and artificial ties with a democratic order.

There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher.

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.

It is, however, an argument of no weight to say that natural bodies are first generated or compounded out of those things into which they are at the last broken down or dissolved.

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

If you share in a heart-felt sorrow, you can lighten the load of a friend. Sometimes facing the burden together can mend two broken hearts in the end.

I felt that the decrepit state of these once magnificent buildings, with their broken gutters, walls blackened by rainwater, crumbling plaster revealing the coarse masonry beneath it, windows boarded up or clad with corrugated iron, precisely reflected my own state of mind.

What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your fingers, until your fingers are broken?

I'm truly sorry man's dominion has broken Nature's social union.

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

Dysfunctional muscles are generally not diseased, aging, or broken. They are starved of motion.

Take away leisure and Cupid's bow is broken

I just hope people see that if God can do something beautiful with my broken pieces, then God truly has a plan for each and everyone of us.

Of course I was wearing make-up, I never went anywhere without red lipstick for 25 years! It was a form of self-preservation for me to continue to wear lipstick even though my face was broken.

Every great cause was initiated by someone whose heart was broken.

Your dreams aren’t made, or broken, by anyone but you.

I know of people who don't believe it, but depression is an illness, but unlike, say, a broken leg, you don't know when it'll get better.

Poetry is not a code to be broken but a way of seeing with the eyes shut.

I had to get over [him]. For months now, a stone had been sitting on my heart. I'd shed a lot of tears over [him], lost a lot of sleep, eaten a lot of cake batter. Somehow, I had to move on. [Life] would be hell if I didn't shake loose from the grip he had on my heart. I most definitely didn't want to keep feeling this way, alone in a love affair meant for two. Even if he'd felt like The One. Even if I'd always thought we'd end up together. Even if he still had a choke chain on my heart.

Don't focus on the good old days, look forward towards the good new days.

But there is a different between mending someone who's broken and finding someone who makes you complete.

The only currency that will heal every culture is ceaseless love. To be a minister, we must walk like Jesus, talk like Jesus, and be like Jesus for a broken and dying world.

My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write.

For this my mother wrapped me warm, And called me home against the storm, And coaxed my infant nights to quiet, And gave me roughage in my diet, And tucked me in my bed at eight, And clipped my hair, and marked my weight, And watched me as I sat and stood: That I might grow to womanhood To hear a whistle and drop my wits And break my heart to clattering bits.

Hearts get infiltrated. Promises get broken. Rules get shattered. Love gets ugly.