Broken Quotes - Page 58

All the broken hearts in the world still beat

Ignorance has been well represented under the similitude of a dungeon, where, though it is full of life, yet darkness and silence reign. But in society the bars and locks have been broken; the dungeon itself is demolished; the prisoners are out; they are in the midst of us. We have no security but to teach and renovate them.

With his decision to use force against the violent extremists of the Islamic State, President Obama ... is stepping once again - and with understandably great reluctance - into the chaos of an entire civilization that has broken down. Arab civilization, such as we knew it, is all but gone. The Arab world today is more violent, unstable, fragmented and driven by extremism - the extremism of the rulers and those in opposition-than at any time since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire a century ago.

I've had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow.

A soul that is ruined in the bud will frequently return to the springtime of its beginning and its promise-filled childhood, as though it could discover new hopes there and retie the broken threads of life. The shoots grow rapidly and eagerly, but it is only a sham life that will never be a genuine tree.

You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect.

The precarious ontological link between Logos and Eros is broken, and scientific rationality emerges as essentially neutral.

The only thing worse than finishing second is to be lying on the desert alone with your back broken. Either way, nobody ever finds out about you.

I couldn't allow myself to think about her very long; if I had I would have jumped off the bridge. It's strange. I had become so reconciled to this life without her, and yet if I thought about her only for a minute it was enough to pierce the bone and marrow of my contentment and shove me back again into the agonizing gutter of my wretched past.

Whatever has not come under the sway of man is wild. In this sense original and independent men are wild - not tamed and broken by society.

I speak of God's love and grace and redemption and freedom, but when I say "in the context of this community," it is heard differently. To be with people so obviously broken, so obviously handicapped, and here to discover real joy and peace - that makes the Word of God come alive.

Ministry is a very confronting service. It does not allow people to live with illusions of immortality and wholeness. It keeps reminding others that they are mortal and broken, but also that with the recognition of this condition, liberation starts.

Holmstrom has broken an Olympic record by being cross checked 46 times in one game!

The new painting has broken down every distinction between art and life.

It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know that panic would have broken loose had they been able to compare notes.

When you start in that [model] business the rules are imposed upon you, but when you stay in the business long enough the rules could be broken.

History is a promise that is always broken in the end

It was not possible for us to produce the same optimism and the same kind of humour or irony. Actually, it was not irony. Lichtenstein is not ironic but he does have a special kind of humour. That's how I could describe it: humour and optimism. For Polke and me, everything was more fragmented. But how it was broken up is hard to describe.

To place any dependence upon militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff.

We need to acknowledge that the death penalty is broken beyond repair.

Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken.

I was told that my diet was so poor that I could not repair the bones that were broken and operated on. So I have just had an Xradiograph taken; and lo! perfectly mended solid bone so beautifully white that I have left instructions that, if I die, a glove stretcher is to be made of me and sent to you as a souvenir

If you can keep as silent as a broken gong, then you have attained, when you know no anger.

In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken.

If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.