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“The Iraq War is the first war in history, in which there were huge demonstrations before the war was launched, not beginning five years later and then being broken up. All of these are changes, and the people who are writing in journals today lived through these changes.”

People Writing Years Firsts War Today Five Huge Broken Iraq Five Years Journal Demonstration Iraq War Broken Up Being Broken

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Today China is a first world economy, in terms of development. The U.S. may still be in first in GDP but it is a broken economy in reality.”

World Firsts May Stills Reality Today Term Economy Broken Development China Gdp World Economy

Author:Alejandro Castro Espin

“Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn't know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn't even smell like smoke.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Soul Mother Father Felt Sides Know How Broken Smell My Soul Smoke Destructive Abandoned

Author:Joyce Meyer

“When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth.”

Firsts Heart Broken Gains First Time Depth

Author:Sienna Miller

“Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place. Over the years, I had my heart broken so badly that if I didn't find a way to get all the pain out, I was going to lose my mind. I was crazy! Like, wanting to slash tires and smash car windows. Crazy! I was so hurt that I had to write.”

Ifs Way Writing Years Mind Firsts Heart Pain Loses Hurt Crazy Car Broken My Heart Window Tire Impetus Writing Poems So Hurt

Author:Jill Scott

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

Men Inspirational Firsts Conditions Broken Karma Links Earth Day Man And Nature

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“You!" he cried. "You never hated because you never lived. I know what you are all of you, from first to last--you are the people in power! You are the police--the great, fat smiling men in blue and buttons! You are the Law, and you have never been broken. But is there a free soul alive that does not long to break you, only because you have never been broken?”

People Knows Men Firsts Long Doe Soul Lasts Law Break Alive Broken Police Blue Fats Hated Cried Buttons

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“To be commanded to love God at all, let alone in the wilderness, is like being commanded to be well when we are sick, to sing for joy when we are dying of thirst, to run when our legs are broken. But this is the first and great commandment nonetheless. Even in the wilderness - especially in the wilderness - you shall love him.”

Firsts Wells Running Joy Faith Dying Broken Sick Legs God Love Wilderness Commandments Thirst

Author:Frederick Buechner

“The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.”

World Life Firsts Might Lost Ability Magic Broken Lays Broken World

Book:The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content): A Novel

Source: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content): A Novel

“The magician seemed to promise that something torn to bits might be mended without a seam, that what had vanished might reappear, that a scattered handful of doves or dust might be reunited by a word, that a paper rose consumed by fire could be made to bloom from a pile of ash. But everyone knew that it was only an illusion. The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.”

World Firsts Made Might Lost Bits Ability Fire Magic Broken Promise Paper Illusion Lays Rose Dust Ashes Torn Magician Handful Consumed Dove Reunited Broken World

Author:Michael Chabon

“The saddest part of a broken heart Isn't the ending so much as the start The tragedy starts from the very first spark Losing your mind for the sake of your heart”

Mind Firsts Heart Broken Losing Tragedy Sake Sparks Saddest Losing Your Mind

Author:Raymond E. Feist

“Something in the heart of most human beings simply cannot abide pain inflicted on the innocent, especially children. Even broken men serving in the worst correctional facilities will often first take out their own rage on those who have caused suffering to children. Even in such a world of relative morality, causing harm to a child is still considered absolutely wrong. Period!”

Men World Inspirational Firsts Humans Heart Children Stills Kids Pain Suffering Human Beings Worst Broken Periods Morality Harm Rage Innocent Serving Relative Facility Broken Man

Author:William P. Young

“This is why for thousands of years Christians have found the cross to be so central to life. It speaks to us of God's suffering, God's pain, God's broken heart. It's God making the first move and then waiting for our response.”

Years Firsts Heart Christian Pain Moving Suffering Found Speak Waiting Broken Crosses Response

Book:Sex God

Source: Sex God

“I am the middle sister. The one in between. Not oldest, not youngest, not boldest, not nicest. I am the shade of gray, the glass half empty or full, depending on your view. In my life, there has been little that I have done first or better than the one preceding or following me. Of all of us, though, I am the only one who has been broken.”

Firsts Littles Has Beens Done Views Half Middle Broken Empty Glasses Following Gray Shade Half Empty

Author:Sarah Dessen

“I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place.”

Knows Inspirational Firsts Hands Games Missing Serious Broken Basketball Lips Athlete Size Shoulders Teeth Knees Injury Toes Torn Softball Ankles

Author:Kobe Bryant

“Layla brought her arms around herself, no doubt because she was remembering the feel of another, stronger set. "I have wanted to, but he holds back. I hope...I believe it is because he wishes to mate me properly first, in ceremony." Payne felt the awful weight of premonition. "Beware, sister. You are a gentle soul." Layla got to her feet, her smile now saddened. "Yes, I am. But I would rather my heart be broken than unopened and I know that one must ask if one is to receive.”

Source: J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8

“Now I wish she'd never broken any of her rules. I understood why she held to them so hard. Once you broke the first one, they all broke, one by one, like firecrackers exploding in your face in a parking lot on the Fourth of July.”

Firsts Hard Faces Wish Broken Understood Broke Your Face Fourth July Parking Exploding Parking Lot Oleanders Firecracker

Author:Janet Fitch

“There's a hazardous sadness to the first sounds of someone else's work in the morning; it's as if stillness experiences pain in being broken.”

Ifs Firsts Pain Sound Morning Sadness Broken Stillness Being Broken

Book:Freedom: A Novel

Source: Freedom: A Novel

“For the most profound experiences in our lives and in the world words are worth nothing. Can you describe love Or death Can you describe what it really feels like the first time you see your child Or the first time your heart gets broken You can try...but it won't come close to describing what it really was or what it really felt like.”

World Feels Trying Firsts Heart Children Felt Our Lives Broken First Time Profound Your Children Describing

Book:The Final Testament

Source: The Final Testament

“It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.”

People Firsts Pain Wish Hurt Broken Hurt Me

Author:Veronica Roth

“...Time does not heal, It makes a half-stitched scar That can be broken and again you feel Grief as total as in its first hour. -Elizabeth Jennings”

Feels Firsts Doe Hours Grief Half Broken Heal Scar

Author:Kay Redfield Jamison

“How horrifying that morning when you wake up and your first thought is not of the person who has left. That’s when you know, I will never die of a broken heart.”

Knows Firsts Heart Persons Dies Left Morning Broken Wake Up

Book:Salt and Saffron

Source: Salt and Saffron

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