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“America has a broken spirit, that the people that are saying, "Please help me, please let me keep my home, please let me keep my car, please recognize me as a vital human being," they are falling on deaf ears.”

People Humans Helping Home America Spirit Fall Human Beings Car Broken Please Ears Let Me Help Me Deaf Deaf Ears Broken Spirit Saying Please

Author:Suze Orman

“When you've been battered down and battered down and battered down, your spirit gets broken.”

Spirit Broken Down And Battered

Author:Suze Orman

“I want to see a new system. I believe that the credit scoring system is broken. That's my belief.”

Want Believe Belief I Believe Broken Credit

Author:Suze Orman

“I've never broken a bone in my life, or in my body.”

Body Broken Bones

Author:Ringo Starr

“I am like a broken puppet whose eyes have fallen inside.”

Eye Broken Fallen Puppets

Book:All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms

Source: All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms

“We may avoid the laws of man, but there are greater laws that can't be broken.”

Men May Law Greater Broken

Author:Earl Nightingale

“By admitting they have no contingency plan to assist the millions that may lose subsidies, the administration confirms how the misguided law is unworkable for the American people. I’m committed to working with my Republican colleagues on how Congress can respond to help those hurt by Obamacare’s broken promises.”

“Healthcare system is broken without lifetime employment.”

Broken Lifetime Employment Healthcare

Author:Barack Obama

“I used to have horrible cars that would always end up broken down on the highway. When I tried to flag someone down, nobody stopped. But if I pushed my own car, other drivers would get out and push with me. If you want help, help yourself - people like to see that.”

People Ifs Want Ends Helping Used My Own Car Broken Horrible Drivers Flags Highways Help Yourself Broken Down Asking For Help

Author:Chris Rock

“I've died 3 times, I've been shot in the back, stabbed once in my arm, stabbed 2 times in my back, run over by a truck, been poisoned, broke both of my arms, nose (3 times broken), ribs, both legs, but a broken heart hurt me the most.”

Heart Running Hurt Broken Arms Shots Died Legs Broke Noses Truck Hurt Me Ribs Heart Hurts

Author:Steve Kaufman

“Let me tell you something: You can live in a broken home, you can play with a broken toy, but you cannot love with a broken heart.”

Heart Play Home Broken Let Me Toys Broken Homes

Book:Hunting Unicorns

Source: Hunting Unicorns

“Over-consumption is a cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It converts us into materialists. We become less able to ask the moral questions.”

Able Spiritual Humanity Asks Moral Broken Eating Mass Distance Cancer Consumption Bleeding Overconsumption

Author:Richard J. Foster

“There is an Arabic proverb which says that "Peace comes from understanding, not agreement." Agreements are more easily broken than made; but understanding never. It is urgent, therefore, and in the interest of peace, that there be better understanding among nations. As people we are one, seeking the same goal. As nations, we lose each other down the different paths we choose to fulfill our national objectives. that is why we must understand each other better.”

People Made Different Nations Understanding Goal Interest Loses Path Broken Seeking Objectives Agreement Urgent Different Paths

Author:King Hussein I

“My ceiling's broken, my car's got a puncture and we've just lost two matches. But I've got my health and I'll ask the big man upstairs why he didn't give us a point.”

Men Giving Two Bigs Asks Lost Car Broken Ceilings Upstairs Puncture

Author:Ian Holloway

“Alas!... what is it, valiant knight, save an offering of sacrifice to a demon of vain glory, and a passing through the fire of Moloch? What remains to you as a prize of all the blood you have spilled, of all the travail and pain you have endured, of all the tears which your deeds have caused, when death hath broken the strong man's spear, and overtaken the speed of his war-horse?”

Source: Heroes of the Scottish Highlands: Ivanhoe, Waverley and Rob Roy (3 Unabridged Illustrated Classics): Historical Novels from the Author of The Pirate, The Heart of Midlothian, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, The Bride of Lammermoor and Anne of Geierstein

“That little hypocrites and half-crazed people dare to imagine that on their account the laws of nature are constantly broken; such an enhancement of every kind of selfishness to infinity, to impudence, cannot be branded with sufficient contempt. And yet Christianity owes its triumph to this pitiable flattery of personal vanity.”

Source: Twilight of the Idols and the Antichrist

“We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.”

Heart Broken Sorrow Clown

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,

“A lot of people think that in order to be an addict you must come from a broken home or from the other side of the tracks. Both of those excuses couldn't be farther from the truth. I come from a family that has a lot of love for one another and I was raised in a middle to upper class neighborhood.”

People Thinking Home Order Sides Class Middle Broken Raised Track Excuse Neighborhood Addict Upper Class Broken Homes

Author:Jason Peter

“The first thing that has to be broken down is your relationship to authority. Your insecurity could possibly be the wedge that opens up your perspective on what you think is possible for you to do.”

Thinking Firsts Broken Perspective Authority Insecurity Our Relationship Broken Down Wedges

Author:Ross Bleckner

“A new breeze is blowing, and a nation refreshed by freedom stands ready to push on. There is new ground to be broken, and new action to be taken. There are times when the future seems thick as a fog; you sit and wait, hoping the mists will lift and reveal the right path. But this is a time when the future seems a door you can walk right through into a room called tomorrow.”

Seems Action Nations Waiting Walks Rooms Path Taken Doors Ready Broken Tomorrow Lifts Thick Fog Breeze Mist Right Path

Author:George H. W. Bush

“A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided - it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never a dollar again.”

Ifs Secret Broken Bills Dollars Cease Dollar Bills

Author:Josh Billings

“Friendship is like earthenware, once broken, it can be mended; love is like a mirror, once broken that ends it.”

Ends Love Is Broken Mirrors Love Is Like

Book:Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day

Source: Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day

“We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe in America. How else is the world to take America seriously, when democracy at home is daily being outraged, free speech suppressed, peaceable assemblies broken up by overbearing and brutal gangsters in uniform; when free press is curtailed and every independent opinion gagged? Verily, poor as we are in democracy, how can we give of it to the world?”

Ifs World Giving Firsts War Home America Poor Opinion Democracy Broken Safe Speech Independent Presses Free Speech Brutal Uniforms Assembly Gangsters Outraged Broken Up Free Press Overbearing

Author:Emma Goldman

“I'm one of those people that if its something to eat I'm going to eat the whole thing, If I'm going to be in love I'm going to love you all the way and if my heart's broken, it's just shattered all to pieces.”

People Ifs Way Heart Whole Pieces Love You Broken My Heart Shattered

Author:Dolly Parton

“Training a child is exactly like training a puppy; a little heedless inattention and it is out of hand immediately; the great thing is not to let it acquire bad habits that must afterward be broken.”

Children Littles Hands Broken Habit Training Great Things Acquire Puppy Bad Habits Inattention

Book:Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home

Source: Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home

“Disasters will always come and go, leaving their victims either completely broken or steeled and seasoned and better able to face the next crop of challenges that may occur.”

May Able Faces Next Challenges Broken Victim Leaving Disaster Hard Times Steel Crops Comes And Goes Makes You Stronger

Book:Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom

Source: Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom

“A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries.”

Broken Mere Schedules Procession

Book:Murder by the Book

Source: Murder by the Book

“After absorbing the news of today, one expects to face a world consisting entirely of strikes, crimes, power failures, broken water mains, stalled trains, school shutdowns, muggers, drug addicts, neo-Nazis, and rapists. The fact is that one can come home in the evening, on a lucky day, without having encountered more than one or two of these phenomena.”

World Two Facts Home Today School Faces Water Crime Broken Drug Lucky News Train Strikes Evening Coming Home Nazi Addict Absorbing Drug Addict Muggers Lucky Day Power Failure

Author:Barbara Tuchman

“The kind of sermon which is likely to break the hearer's heart is that which first has broken the preacher's heart, and the sermon which is likely to reach the heart of the hearer is the one which has come straight from the heart of the preacher.”

Firsts Heart Kind Break Broken Preacher Sermons

Book:The Soul Winner

Source: The Soul Winner

“I made a mistake and I'll work in the season to be better. It's part of life to be a man and don't try to hide something if it's broken.”

Ifs Men Trying Made Mistake Broken Seasons Be A Man Made A Mistake Parts Of Life I Made A Mistake

Author:Miguel Cabrera

“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”

Ifs Love Inspirational Dream Life Is Poetry Dies Change Freedom Business Knowledge Positive Thinking Inspirational Life Broken Bird Wings Educational African American Novelists Your Dreams Broken Heart Dreamer American Dream Fulfilling Follow Your Dreams Black History Chase Your Dreams Dreams Do Come True Hopes And Dreams I Had A Dream Dreams And Reality Essayists Just A Dream Dreams You Have Hold Fast Columnists Black History Month Dare To Dream Small Dreams Dreams And Goals Broken Dreams Following Dreams Achieving Dreams Black History Month Inspirational Life Dream Dream Reality Following My Dreams African American History Achieving Your Dreams Inspirational Dream Life Is A Dream Dreams And Aspirations Hopes Dreams Black History Inspirational Life And Dreams Harlem Renaissance Fulfilling Dreams African American Inspirational Dreaming About You Never Stop Dreaming Broken Wings Bird Flying Cute Dream Dreams And Passion Hopes In Life Dream Chasing Fulfilling Your Dreams

Author:Langston Hughes

“Law Number XLIV: Aircraft flight in the 21st century will always be in a westerly direction, preferably supersonic, crossing time zones to provide the additional hours needed to fix the broken electronics.”

Law Hours Numbers Century Broken Needed Flight Zone 21st Century Crossings Aircraft Electronics Time Zones

Author:Norman Ralph Augustine

“It feels real good to look at some of the guys who have played before me, then come in and break a record. But records are made to be broken.”

Feels Looks Made Real Guy Break Records Broken

Author:Chris Johnson

“Look, how many stories have I broken? Hundreds. How many have proved to be untrue? There isn't one.”

Looks Stories Broken Untrue

Author:Jude Law

“Space seems broken and diverse because of the many forms in it. Remove the forms and pure space remains. So, too with the Omnipresent Self.”

Self Seems Form Space Broken Pure Remains Remove Diverse

Author:Adi Shankara

“Better a broken heart than a hardened one.”

Heart Broken Uplifting Broken Heart Be Kind Hardened Soft Heart

Author:Dalia Mogahed

“If you don't know how it works, find out. If you're not sure if it will work, try it. If it doesn't make sense, play with it until it does. If it's not broken, break it. If it might not be true, find out.”

Ifs Knows Trying Doe Play Might Break Know How Broken Being True Make Sense Not Sure

Author:Seth Godin

“Stupidity is an immovable object: you can't try to attack it wiithout being broken by it.”

Trying Objects Broken Stupidity Being Broken

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.”

Ideas Compassion Broken Okay

Author:Natasha Lyonne

“You've got to admit you're broken before you can be made whole.”

Made Whole Broken Wholeness Brokenness Spiritual Healing Spiritual Transformation

Author:LeCrae

“Sometimes we get our hearts broken, only to have the right person come along to mend them.”

Heart Persons Sometimes Broken Right Person Heart Broke

Book:The Shoemaker's Wife

Source: The Shoemaker's Wife

“I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.”

Broken Cameras Various Heavy Fallen Unconscious Snakes Limbs

Author:Bear Grylls

“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.”

Way Believe Body I Believe Lines Space Broken Essentials Function Muscles

Book:The poet in the world

Source: The poet in the world

“Drink has shed more blood, hung more crepe, sold more homes, plunged more people into bankruptcy, armed more villains, slain more children, snapped more wedding rings, defiled more innocence, blinded more eyes, dethroned more reason, wrecked more manhood, dishonored more womanhood, broken more hearts, blasted more lives, driven more to suicide and dug more graves than any other evil that has cursed the world.”

“New York establishment isn't really a literary establishment. It's just a collection of broken down old newspaper hacks who pass judgment on books that they have not even read, with assuredness of Jehova.”

Book New York Broken Judgment Newspapers Collections Establishment Hacks Broken Down

Author:James Purdy

“Most journalists are broken down alcoholics.”

Broken Journalist Alcoholics Broken Down

Author:James Purdy

“Broken people misuse their power while people who have values don't use their powers in a way that harms.”

People Way Use Values Broken Harm Misuse

Author:Mark Pellegrino

“I was keen on sports-that's how my nose got this way. It's not actually broken; the nose was just pushed up a little bit and moved over. It's an aquiline nose, quite Irish.”

Way Littles Bits Sports Broken Little Bit Moved Noses Over It

Author:John Hurt

“Stalin and Mao killed over 80 million and did not make omelets despite the broken eggs.”

Millions Broken Despite Eggs Mao Omelets

Author:Victor Davis Hanson

“What I mean (and everybody else means) by the word 'quality' cannot be broken down into subjects and predicates. This is not because Quality is so mysterious but because Quality is so simple, immediate and direct.”

Ifs Mean Simple Quality Situation Subjects Broken Direct Mysterious What If Broken Down Hypothetical Zen Motorcycle Maintenance

Author:Robert M. Pirsig