Best broken & looks Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come to the end of time. God sends a time of forced leisure, a time of sickness and disappointed plans, and makes a sudden pause in the hymns of our lives, and we lament that our voice must be silent and our part missing in the music which ever goes up to the ear of our Creator. Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time and not be dismayed at the rests. If we look up, God will beat the time for us.”

“Why does the longing for love have to be so acute, like a desperate thirst? Is it because love is wanting to be saved and we can never really be saved? Maybe love is really born of our fears. Love is the heart’s desire for a painkiller; a tearful plea for a great big epidural. Yes that’s it: love is the only anesthesia that really works. And so people with broken hearts are really those who are just coming to, and if you’ve ever seen someone come out of general anesthesia, you know that it looks a lot like the beginnings of a broken heart.”

People Ifs Knows Looks Heart Doe Bigs Desire Born Love Is Broken Longing Saved Desperate Thirst Fear Of Love Anesthesia Painkillers Maybe Love Epidurals

Author:Jonathan Hull

“There is a marvelous story of a man who once stood before God, his heart breaking from the pain and injustice in the world. "Dear God." he cried out, "look at all the suffering, the anguish and distress in your world. Why don't you send help?" God responded,"I did send help. I sent you." When we tell our children that story, we must tell them that each one of them was sent to help repair the broken world-and that it is not the task of an instant or of a year, but of a lifetime.”

“But on one man's soul it hath broken, / A light that doth not depart; / And his look, or a word he hath spoken, / Wrought flame in another man's heart.”

Men Looks Heart Soul Light Broken Burning Flames One Man Another Man

Author:Arthur O'Shaughnessy

“All snowmen look to the sky, knowing their death will be delivered by the horizon. Before dawn, their life becomes the darkest. The moment before the sun burns all. The Snowmen go mental. Kill or be killed. I only just escaped the violent puddles, the sticks and stones. The broken carrot noses.”

Looks Moments Sun Knowing Sky Broken Stones Sticks Violent Noses Dawn Horizon Carrots Puddles Sticks And Stones Snowman

Author:Craig Stone

“The mirror that Strindberg held up to Nature was a cracked one. It was cracked in a double sense -- it was crazy. It gave back broken images of a world which it made look like the chaos of a lunatic dream.”

World Looks Made Dream Crazy Broken Mirrors Chaos Lunatic Cracked Broken Images

Author:Robert Wilson Lynd

“Well, it's such a record that you can only compare it with Bob Beamon's long-jump world record set in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico. At that time it seemed that it would never be broken. Tendulkar's 50 Test centuries is one such records which doesn't look like being surpassed”

World Wells Looks Long Records Century Broken Tests Compare Mexico Bob Olympics Cricket World Records Tendulkar Long Jump

Author:Sunil Gavaskar

“Is this good for English football? In the short run, Chelsea's rise has broken up what was turning into an irritating Arsenal-Manchester United duopoly. But football leagues (look at Scotland, look at Spain) can get along OK with duopolies. A monopoly, however, is a disaster. Everyone else in the Premiership has to operate on some kind of business footing, and the terror stalking Highbury and Old Trafford is that Chelsea will be immune from financial discipline forever.”

“I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet, I was broken up with a month before, and she stayed up texting me all night and was helping me through it. Her text message looks like a song of hers. She's sort of become my fairy godmother.”

“One of my biggest heroes and people I was fortunate enough to be around is David Bowie. I look at his career, and he always had the balls to break things that weren't broken, to step away from something and try something new, at risk of failing.”

People Trying Looks Enough Steps Careers Break Failing Risk Broken Hero Balls Fortunate Something New Bowie

Author:Trent Reznor

“Bread of the world, in mercy broken, Wine of the soul, in mercy shed, By whom the words of life were spoken, And in whose death our sins are dead: Look on the heart by sorrow broken, Look on the tears by sinners shed; And be Thy feast to us the token That by Thy grace our souls are fed.”

World Looks Heart Soul Sin Grace Tears Broken Sorrow Mercy Wine Bread Sinner Feds Shed Communion Tokens

Book:The Poetical Works of Hemans, Heber and Pollok: Complete in One Volume

Source: The Poetical Works of Hemans, Heber and Pollok: Complete in One Volume

“I never thought I'd have children; I never thought I'd be in love, I never thought I'd meet the right person. Having come from a broken home - you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don't look for them.”

Feels Looks Kind Children Persons Home Certain Accepting Broken Tales Fairy Fairy Tale Right Person Broken Homes

Author:Angelina Jolie

“As I ran for president, I hoped that one child would come out of the ghetto like I did, could look at me walk across the stage with governors and senators and know they didn't have to be a drug dealer, they didn't have to be a hoodlum, they didn't have to be a gangster. They could stand up from a broken home, on welfare, and they could run for president of the United States.”

Knows Looks Children States Home Running President Walks United United States Stage Broken Drug Ran Welfare Governors Senators Look At Me Ghetto Dealer Gangsters Drug Dealers Broken Homes

Author:Al Sharpton

“Apparently on the screen I look tall, ageless, and damned close to omniscient-delivering jeopardy-laden warnings through gritted teeth. But when people see me on the street, they say 'by God, this kid is 5 foot 5, he's got a broken nose, and looks about as foreboding as a bank teller on a lunch break.'”

People Looks Kids Break Feet Streets Broken Screens Teeth Noses Tall Lunch Warning Delivering Jeopardy Omniscient Foreboding Ageless Lunch Break

Author:Rod Serling

“I have seen an entire family lifted out of poverty and into affluence by the simple boon of a broken leg. I have had people come to me on crutches, with tears in their eyes, to bless this beneficient institution. In all my experiences of life, I have seen nothing so seraphic as the look that comes into a freshly mutilated man's face when he feels in his vest pocket with his remaining hand and finds his accident ticket all right.”

People Men Feels Looks Hands Eye Faces Simple Poverty Tears Broken Institutions Legs Accidents Pockets Bless Tickets Affluence Crutches Boon Vests Broken Leg

Book:Mark Twain Speaking

Source: Mark Twain Speaking

“Do not be afraid of large patterns, if properly designed they are more restful to the eye than small ones: on the whole, a pattern where the structure is large and the details much broken up is the most useful...very small rooms, as well as very large ones, look better ornamented with large patterns.”

Ifs Wells Looks Whole Eye Rooms Design Broken Structure Patterns Details Interior Design Broken Up Restful Small Rooms

Author:William Morris

“Maybe instead of strings it's stories things are made of, an infinite number of tiny vibrating stories; once upon a time they all were part of one big giant superstory, except it got broken up into a jillion different pieces, that's why no story on its own makes any sense, and so what you have to do in a life is try and weave it back together, my story into your story, our stories into all the other people's we know, until you've got something that to God or whoever might look like a letter, or even a whole word.”

People Knows Trying Looks Made Different Whole Stories Bigs Might Together Life Is Numbers Pieces Broken Letters Infinite Tiny Giants Strings Once Upon A Time Back Together Broken Up

Author:Paul Murray

“The surest way to know our gold, is to look upon it and examine it in God's furnace, where he tries it that we may see what it is. If we have a mind to know whether a building stands strong or not, we must look upon it when the wind blows. If we would know whether a staff be strong, or a rotten, broken reed, we must observe it when it is leaned on and weight is borne upon it. If we would weigh ourselves justly we must weigh ourselves in God's scales that he makes use of to weigh us.”

Ifs Knows Way Trying Mind Looks May Use Strong Building Wind Broken Gold Weight Blow Scales Look Up Staff Rotten Reeds Furnaces Stand Strong

Author:Jonathan Edwards

“The term "bend sinister" means a heraldic bar or band drawn from the left side (and popularly, but incorrectly, supposed to denote bastardy). This choice of title was an attempt to suggest an outline broken by refraction, a distortion in the mirror of being, a wrong turn taken by life, a sinistral and sinister world. The title's drawback is that a solemn reader looking for "general ideas" or "human interest" (which is much the same thing) in a novel may be led to look for them in this one.”

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Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“I know too much; I've seen people at their worst, at their most desperate and selfish, and this knowledge makes me wary. So I am learning to pretend, to smile, to nod, to display empathy I do not feel. I am learning to pass, to look like everyone else, even though I feel broken inside.”

People Knows Feels Looks Too Much Worst Broken Empathy Selfish Desperate Display Broken Inside

Author:Christina Baker Kline

“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

“Life is all about evolution. What looks like a mistake to others has been a milestone in my life. Even if people have betrayed me, even if my heart was broken, even if people misunderstood or judged me, I have learned from these incidents. We are human and we make mistakes, but learning from them is what makes the difference.”

“People who leave their cars on the street with tape covering their broken windows are obviously too trusting. I mean, when your car did have glass for a window, someone broke into it. How is tape any more of a deterrent? What are the thieves going to say? Ooh, that like looks like duct tape, we can't beat that. Let's look for one with scotch or masking.”

People Looks Mean Streets Car Broken Beats Window Glasses Broke Tape Thieves Covering Scotch Deterrent Duct Tape Broken Windows

Author:Aaron Karo

“There's disgust with what people called a broken political system, and they're really angry at elites, whether it's the Republican establishment or particularly the media who they feel look down on them, tell them they're bigots.”

People Feels Looks Political Media Broken Republican Angry Establishment Elites Disgusting Political Systems Bigots

Author:Mara Liasson

“Kind looks, kind actions, kind words, and a lovely, holy deportment towards them will bind our children to us with bands that cannot easily be broken; while abuse and unkindness will drive them from us, and break asunder every holy tie that should bind them to us and to the everlasting covenant in which we are all embraced.”

Should Looks Kind Children Action Break Broken Holy Band Abuse Our Children Lovely Ties Everlasting Covenant Kind Words Unkindness

Author:Brigham Young

“The act of looking is brave. Especially if you look at things you can't handle. I think that most people do not look. If you're really paying attention you could have your heart broken twelve times a day. Most of the time we aren't looking.”

People Ifs Thinking Looks Heart Attention Broken Brave Handle Pay Attention Twelve Heart Broke

Author:Laurel Nakadate

“I was not very strong growing up, and my uncle used to look at me, like, This kid is not growing up, he is growing tall but he can be broken like a banana.”

Looks Kids Used Strong Growing Up Growing Broken Tall Very Strong Uncles Look At Me Congo Bananas

Author:Dikembe Mutombo

“I am double jointed in my elbow. So I can turn it all the way around and then bend it so it looks like it's broken.”

Way Looks I Can Turns Broken Elbows

Author:Gigi Hadid

“If you look back to the anti-intervention movements, what were they? Let's take the Vietnam War - the biggest crime since the Second World War. You couldn't be opposed to the war for years. The mainstream liberal intellectuals were enthusiastically in support of the war. In Boston, a liberal city where I was, we literally couldn't have a public demonstration without it being violently broken up, with the liberal press applauding, until late 1966.”

Ifs World Years Looks War Cities Support Crime Movement Broken Late Presses War Of The Worlds Vietnam Mainstream Boston Intervention Demonstration Vietnam War Second World War Broken Up

Author:Noam Chomsky

“It always felt like the price of being a writer was that you would - even in the most terrible moments, there was a little phantom version of you sitting on your shoulder with a notebook going, I can use this. OK, look at the way that the light is glinting off the broken plastic on the road next to the blood. You can use this. And it was always a very strange feeling.”

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Author:Neil Gaiman

“I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here. If they like their jobs. Or us. And I wonder how smart they were when they were fifteen. Not in a mean way. In a curious way. It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report due on top of that. Or wondering who did the heart breaking. And wondering why.”

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition

“When you do your research write down whatever interests you. Whatever stimulates your imagination. Whatever seems important. A story is built like a stone wall. Not all the stones will fit. Some will have to be discarded. Some broken and reshaped. When you finish the wall it may not look exactly like the wall you envisioned, but it will keep the livestock in and the predators out. (pg. 144)”

Writing Looks May Important Stories Seems Interest Imagination Broken Wall Fit Research Built Stones Predator Discarded Livestock Stone Walls

Author:Roland Smith

“I start to see that I surround myself with broken people; more broken than me. Ah, yes, let me count your cracks. Let's see, one hundred, two... yes, you'll do nicely. A cracked companion makes me look more whole, gives me something outside myself to care for. When I'm with whole, healed people I feel my own cracks, the shatters, the insanities of dislocation in myself.”

People Giving Feels Looks Two Whole Care My Own Broken Hundred Let Me Give Me Insanity Companion Cracks Surround Healed Cracked Dislocation

Book:Sickened

Source: Sickened

“Stranger, pause and look; From the dust of ages Lift this little book, Turn the tattered pages, Read me, do not let me die! Search the fading letters finding Steadfast in the broken binding All that once was I!”

Looks Littles Book Age Dies Turns Broken Findings Pages Letters Let Me Stranger Dust Lifts Pauses Binding Fading Steadfast

Book:The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection

Source: The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection

“Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing.”

Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

“There are legions of us, I realized. The mothers who have broken babies, and spend the rest of our lives wondering if we should have spared them. And the mothers who have let their broken babies go, who look at our children and see instead the faces of the ones they never met.”

Ifs Should Looks Children Faces Mother Wonder Our Lives Broken Baby Mets Should Have Our Children I Realized Legion

Book:Handle with Care: A Novel

Source: Handle with Care: A Novel

“Because I don’t feel broken when you look at me. (Acheron) How could you feel broken? (Tory) I was shattered as a child and thrown away, like a piece of trash no on wanted. But you don’t treat me like that. You see in me the human bit and you touch that part of me. You make me feel whole and wanted. (Acheron)”

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Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“I think you can love a person too much. You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what's wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bone. You spend all your time and energy making it right, and all the while, you are falling apart yourself. You don't even realize what you look like, how far you've deteriorated, because you only have eyes for someone else.”

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Book:Handle with Care: A Novel

Source: Handle with Care: A Novel

“Don't be very frightened, Marilla. I was walking the ridge-pole and I fell off. I suspect I have sprained my ankle. But, Marilla, I might have broken my neck. Let us look on the bright side of things.”

Looks Might Sides Broken Walking Necks Suspects Frightened Ankles Bright Side Ridges

Book:Anne of Green Gables

Source: Anne of Green Gables

“...occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window and have the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I would finally look like I felt.”

Looks Felt Walks Broken Window Suicide Ribbons Self Harm

Book:Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

“Frankly, our ancestors don't seem much to brag about. I mean, look at the state they left us in, with the wars, the broken planet. Clearly, they didn't care about what would happen to the people who came after them.”

People Looks Mean War States Seems Happens Care Left Planets Broken Ancestor Brag Mockingjay

Book:Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)

Source: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)

“She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's just broken dawn.”

Looks Enough Black Broken Skins Dawn Pale Corpses Outlines Eyeliner

Book:Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“I felt I was drawing close to that age, that place in life, where you realize one day what you'd told yourself was a Zen detachment turns out to be naked fear. You'd had one serious love relationship in your life and it had ended in tragedy, and the tragedy had broken something inside you. But instead of trying to repair the broken place, or at least really stop and look at it, you skated and joked. You had friends, you were a decent citizen. You hurt no one. And your life was somehow just about half of what it could be.”

Trying Looks Age Turns Felt Realizing Hurt Half Serious Broken Citizens One Day Tragedy Drawing Naked Decent Detachment Love Relationship Place In Life

Author:Roland Merullo

“Perhaps he could still weave together the broken threads of his life. And yet, I wanted him here now. I needed him here. In the darkness, if I sat very still, I could almost feel his presence by me, quite near, but not too near. Didn't I promise to keep you safe, he would say softly. I have never broken a promise. Don't look so worried, Jenny. And yet, he would be careful. Careful not to move too close. Careful not to frighten me. Waiting still. I am your shelter. Don't be afraid.”

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Author:Juliet Marillier

“He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it. And in spite of this he felt that then, when his love was stronger, he could, if he had greatly wished it, have torn that love out of his heart; but now when as at that moment it seemed to him he felt no love for her, he knew that what bound him to her could not be broken.”

Source: Anna Karenina (English German bilingual Edition illustrated): Anna Karenina (Englisch Deutsch zweisprachige Ausgabe illustriert)

“From the end of the bar, the bartender threw a sidelong look at him, so Clarence pulled out a broken Bluetooth headset and fixed it to his ear. "I learned this trick while traveling with Mikey," Clarence told Nick. "Makes my brand of crazy the same as everyone else's.”

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Author:Neal Shusterman

“I couldn't look at her. I'd been jealous and hurt, and I had dragged Liv into the middle of my own broken mess of a life. All because I thought Lena didn't love me anymore. But I was stupid, and I was wrong. Lena loved me so much, she was willing to risk everything to save me. I had given up on Lena, after she had refused to give up on me. I owed her my life. It was as simple as that.”

Giving Looks Given Hurt My Own Simple Risk Middle Stupid Willing Broken Giving Up Mess Jealous Given Up Save Me I Was Stupid

Author:Kami Garcia

“Because I don’t feel broken when you look at me.”

Feels Looks Broken Look At Me

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Look at me, he said to her. His arms and legs jerked. Look at me. You got your wish. I have learned how to love. And it’s a terrible thing. I’m broken. My heart is broken. Help me. The old woman turned and hobbled away. Come back, thought Edward. Fix me”

Looks Heart Said Helping Wish Broken Arms My Heart Terrible Legs Help Me I Have Learned Look At Me Terrible Things Old Woman How To Love Arms And Legs My Heart Is Broken

Author:Kate DiCamillo

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