Broken Quotes

The terrible shock of his sentence had in some way broken that wall which separates us from the mystery of things beyond and which we call life.

~ Victor Hugo

Of course I’m shielding her, you broken feather!

~ Kim Harrison

Broken boys are dangerous, but broken men are lovely.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Whether it's raising the minimum wage, fixing our broken immigration system or supporting an economic climate that gives our businesses that chance to succeed, I hope to continue to fight these important battles on behalf of my constituents.

~ Joseph P. Kennedy Iii

As a foreigner, I used to think all of Michigan was a post-apocalyptic wasteland of burning buildings, trashed cars, abandoned factories and broken dreams. But now I know that's just Detroit. It's only the Democrat-controlled areas that are a disaster.

~ Milo Yiannopoulos

The failure of the White House and Congress to seriously address the nation's fiscal situation is certain to broaden the belief among many voters that the U.S. political system is broken.

~ Ron Fournier

It's hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again.

~ Eric Kripke

Many well-meaning intelligent people have argued since the May 17, 1954, decision of the United States Supreme Court outlawing segregation in the public schools that communication between the races has broken down.

~ Benjamin E. Mays

Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of real light (electric light) at crucial junctures in the room's composition.

~ Dan Flavin

Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done.

~ Barack Obama

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

~ Leo Tolstoy

For the longest time, you just sound like a broken record, but you have to be consistent when teaching kids.

~ Heidi Klum

I've been heartbroken. I've broken hearts. That's part of life, and its part of figuring out who you are so you can find the right partner.

~ Heidi Klum

The heart will break, but broken live on.

~ Lord Byron

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

~ Walter Scott

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Of course! It takes a lot of strength to mend a broken heart. Channelising energies into your work helps, but also to be able to accept situations for what they are instead of questioning them helps immensely.

~ Deepika Padukone

The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.

~ John Burroughs

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

~ Tryon Edwards

I've had my heart broken, and it's the hardest thing. Everyone says, 'Give it time, you'll feel better in the morning.' But you don't. You feel like it's never, ever going to heal - especially during the first few weeks.

~ Mollie King

I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

~ Toni Morrison

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

~ Jonathan Swift

We must fix our broken immigration system. That means stopping illegal immigration. And it means welcoming properly vetted legal immigrants, regardless of their race or religion. Just like we have for centuries.

~ Nikki Haley

We just feel like history repeats itself. You ain't never going to see nothing brand new you're only going to see when records are broken. And we're here to just set records and set trends and follow the footsteps that have been shown to us.

~ Quavo

When I saw that Wrestlemania had broken an indoor attendance record, I just walked into a wrestling office, Championship Wrestling in Florida, during the offseason, and they introduced me to Hiro Matsuda, who became my mentor... and the rest is history!

~ Lex Luger

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

~ Abigail Adams

There's nothing more exciting for an actor than a chance to lose, to be someone who has lost - especially if it's someone who starts off with a veneer of control. To be broken is wonderful.

~ Lena Headey

Jesus didn't say, 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said, 'Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.' It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself.

~ Henri Nouwen

The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.

~ Erwin Schrödinger

You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart.

~ Diana Krall

Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it.

~ Sherrod Brown

Even moderates, they can see in Trump the potential to have logjams broken and things finally get done. This makes some conservatives and some liberals furious, nervous, and me nervous a little bit, because I'm a pretty pure conservative. So that's a potential of his leadership.

~ Jeff Sessions

Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them.

~ P. J. O'rourke

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

~ Miguel De Cervantes

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

~ William Osler

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

~ Will Durant

I once choked on a chip at a friend's birthday when I was seven and had to be sent home, as I'd broken my collarbone coughing.

~ Stella Young

Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been ruined in the editing room.

~ Joe Dante

Religious people... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless. Yet too often, they will not extend that spirit to our fellow creatures.

~ Matthew Scully

Getting a divorce is always horrible because you feel you've failed. Everyone hates to give up on a marriage. You think your family's broken up.

~ Jerry Hall