“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.” PoliticalCertainHouseBeliefNationsWhiteSituationBrokenCongressAddressesWhite HouseVotersPolitical Systems Author:Ron Fournier
“Black people loving and losing is something we don’t see enough of. We’re always in these heightened situations like something big is happening, something funny or something violent. And you know what? Sometimes we die of breast cancer or a broken heart. Things happen that are just not being explored cinematically. It’s time we reinvigorated that type of film.” PeopleKnowsHeartSometimesEnoughBigsHappensFilmDiesBlackSituationBrokenTypeLosingHappeningsCancerThings HappenViolentBreastsBlack PeopleLike SomethingBreast Cancer Author:Ava DuVernay
“Here's why I don't have time to 'play church': at the end of the day, when I was supposed to be discarded, and the tools came in to kill me, to crush my head or whatever you're supposed to do, the Lord took His hand, pushed in there, and pushed me back out of the way. And they thought they got me. But at the end of the day God had a plan for a broken situation.” WayEndsPlayHandsChurchSituationLordPlansBrokenToolsSupposed To BeCrushThe End Of The DayKill MeDiscarded Author:Fred Hammond
“It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.” WantHeartAsksRealizingMy OwnSituationCourageGrowing UpGrowingBrokenBroken Heart Author:Ginnifer Goodwin
“When you're more mature, you do start telling the truth, in odd situations. "I'm sorry, I've broken a glass here. Is that expensive? I'll pay for it. I'm sorry." And you do that so that people in the room might go, "What a strong personality that person has. I like to have sex with people with strong personalities."” PeoplePersonsMightStrongSexRoomsPaySituationBrokenPersonalitySorryGlassesOddExpensiveTelling The TruthMatureI'm SorryStrong PersonStrong Personality Author:Eddie Izzard
“We will come to understand the part a difficult circumstance has played in our lives. Hindsight makes so much clear. The broken marriage, the lost job, the loneliness have all contributed to who we are becoming. The joy of the wisdom we are acquiring is that hindsight comes more quickly. We can, on occasion, begin to accept a difficult situation's contribution to our wholeness while caught in the turmoil.” JobsJoyLostDifficultSituationAcceptingClearOur LivesLonelinessBrokenBecomingCircumstancesCaughtOccasionsContributionWho We AreWholenessTurmoilHindsightDifficult SituationsDifficult CircumstancesBroken Marriage Author:Karan Casey
“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.” IfsMeanSimpleQualitySituationSubjectsBrokenDirectMysteriousWhat IfBroken DownHypotheticalZen Motorcycle Maintenance Author:Robert M. Pirsig
“What you share about how you've overcome in some area in life, it helps someone else believe that they can make it through whatever situation. You can give them some insight into how to pick up the pieces from whatever's been broken.” GivingBelieveHelpingSituationPiecesShareBrokenPicksAreasOvercomingInsight Author:Shonlock
“One of the things is that I've been very comfortable in every situation starting ministry in the inner city and ministering in places - Washington, D.C., feeding the homeless, the hurting, going to broken boys and girls. So culturally I understood all different aspects of life - from extremely wealthy to extreme poverty, socioeconomic differences, ethnic differences.” DifferentGirlDifferencesHurtCitiesSituationBoysPovertyBrokenComfortableUnderstoodAspectStartingExtremesWealthyMinistryHomelessFeedingBoy And GirlAspects Of LifeInner CityExtreme Poverty Author:Paula White
“For most of my life, I believed that my father had broken many of my bones. They were emotional and psychological bones; things no one could see, things that caused me to limp through life clutching for and holding on to people and situations that often rendered me immobile.” PeopleFatherSituationEmotionalBrokenBonesPsychologicalHolding On Author:Iyanla Vanzant
“I sometimes end up in dangerous situations, and I come back to you broken and messed up, and you worry about me when I'm gone. It's like marrying a policeman.” EndsSometimesSituationWorryGoneDangerousBrokenPolicemenMarryingMessed UpDangerous Situations Book:The Time Traveler’s Wife Source: The Time Traveler’s Wife