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“Broken things are powerful."Things about to break are stronger still.The last shot from the brittle bow is truest.”

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Book:Parting Shots from My Brittle Bow: Reflections on American Politics and Life

Source: Parting Shots from My Brittle Bow: Reflections on American Politics and Life

“Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.”

Action Powerful Broken Unity Most Powerful Endeavour Discord Broken Down

Author:Sallust

“bubbles of false opinion will last whole ages, and deceive whole generations, till they are broken by some powerful breath, and even then how often they reunite, and again shine in the eyes of men, who hold them solid as cannon-balls!”

Men Whole Eye Age Lasts Powerful Opinion Generations Broken Balls Breaths Shining Bubbles Deceiving Cannons

Book:Memoir and Letters

Source: Memoir and Letters

“The outrages of the powerful, the insolence of the rich, scorn of the proud, and malice of the uncharitable, all beating against the broken spirit of the unfortunate.”

Spirit Powerful Poverty Rich Broken Proud Unfortunate Scorn Malice Outrage Insolence Broken Spirit

Book:The letters of Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu: with some of the letters of her correspondents

Source: The letters of Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu: with some of the letters of her correspondents

“Goldman Sachs was one of those companies whose illegal activity helped destroy our economy and ruin the lives of millions of Americans. But this is what a rigged economy and a corrupt campaign finance system and a broken criminal justice is about. These guys are so powerful that not one of the executives on Wall Street has been charged with anything after paying, in this case of Goldman Sachs, a $5 billion fine.”

“The politics is broken up and down. And Trump may emerge from a reality TV world that is much more powerful than we think. And there is the prospect that this is where we are, which is an horrific thought.”

Thinking World Reality Powerful Broken Horrific

Author:David Brooks

“Years later, you can hear a song, and it brings you back right to that moment, what was happening at that time, whether it was a relationship or a difficult time, or maybe a great time in your life, and you had that album you were listening to. Twenty years later, you can put on that song you fell in love to or your heart was broken to, and you hear that song and it brings you right back there. I think music is the most powerful tool we have.”

Thinking Heart Moments Song Difficult Powerful Broken Listening Music Is Most Powerful Difficult Times

Author:Balthazar Getty

“The beautiful came to this city [Hollywood] in huge pathetic herds, to suffer, to be humiliated, to see the powerful currency of their beauty devalued like the Russian ruble or Argentine peso;to work as bellhops, as bar hostesses, as garbage collectors, as maids. The city was a cliff and they were its stampeding lemmings. At the foot of the cliff was the valley of the broken dolls.”

Beautiful Suffering Powerful Cities Feet Huge Broken Hollywood Bars Valleys Currency Garbage Pathetic Cliffs Dolls Herds Collectors Maids Humiliated Hostesses Lemmings

Author:Salman Rushdie

“I'm Sorry are two of the most powerful words in our language, especially when they are not flipped blithely over the shoulder but spoken from the heart. They help restore order, balance, harmony. They reduce pain. They heal broken friendship. If they were medecine, they'd be called a miracle.”

Ifs Heart Two Helping Pain Order Language Powerful Broken Balance Miracle Harmony Sorry Shoulders Heal Most Powerful I'm Sorry Flipped Powerful Words Friendship Broken

Author:Jerry Spinelli