“When we read or hear how some professed Christian has turned defaulter, or lapsed into drunkenness, or slipped from the communion table into open disgrace, it simply means than a human arm has broken. The man has forsaken the everlasting arms.” MenHumansMeanChristianHe ManBrokenArmsTablesCommunionEverlastingDisgraceDrunkennessForsaken Author:Theodore L. Cuyler
“I had the halfway house. I can't tell how many nights I spent around my kitchen table, soothing broken hearts.” HeartI CanNightHouseBrokenTablesKitchenHalfwaySoothingKitchen Table Author:Kirstie Alley
“One day some people came to the master and asked: How can you be happy in a world of such impermanence, where you cannot protect your loved ones from harm, illness or death? The master held up a glass and said: Someone gave me this glass; It holds my water admirably and it glistens in the sunlight. I touch it and it rings! One day the wind may blow it off the shelf, or my elbow may knock it from the table. I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it - incredibly.” PeopleKnowsWorldMaySaidPhilosophyEnjoyWaterWindMastersBrokenOne DayProtectTablesGlassesBlowIllnessHarmRingsLoved OnesSunlightBeing HappyShelvesImpermanenceBrokennessElbowsBroken GlassGlistenEnjoy It While It Lasts Author:Ajahn Chah
“For example, when I was writing Leviathan, which was written both in New York and in Vermont - I think there were two summers in Vermont, in that house I wrote about in Winter Journal, that broken-down house... I was working in an out-building, a kind of shack, a tumble-down, broken-down mess of a place, and I had a green table. I just thought, "Well, is there a way to bring my life into the fiction I'm writing, will it make a difference?" And the fact is, it doesn't make any difference. It was a kind of experiment which couldn't fail.” ThinkingWayWritingWellsKindTwoFactsHouseDifferencesFictionFailingWrittenNew YorkExampleBuildingBrokenSummerTablesGreenWinterExperimentsMessMaking A DifferenceJournalBroken DownVermontShackLeviathan Author:Paul Auster
“A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.” WorldBookBigsUsedBrokenIdealsCatWindowTablesSticksBoundsHeavyFlatsSteadyThickVolumeFinestOld FashionedLeatherNoisyAtlas Author:Mark Twain
“From the sun did I learn this, when it goeth down, the exuberant one: gold doth it then pour into the sea, out of inexhaustible riches, -So that the poorest fisherman roweth even with golden oars! For this did I once see, and did not tire of weeping in beholding it. - Like the sun will also Zarathustra go down: now sitteth he here and waiteth, old broken tables around him, and also new tables half-written.” HalfSunWrittenSeaBrokenGoldTablesRichesGoldenTireWeepingPoorestFishermanOarZarathustraGoeth Book:The Works of Friedrich Nietzsche Source: The Works of Friedrich Nietzsche
“Elvis!" Min shoved herself off the couch to shoo him away. "Stay away from there. There's broken glass." "He did that on purpose," David said, outraged. "Yes, David, the cat is plotting against you." Min fished the base out of the water and glass shards and put it on the table. Then she went to get her wastebasket and began to put the glass pieces in it.” SaidPurposeWaterPiecesBrokenCatTablesGlassesCouchesOutragedBroken Glass Book:Bet Me Source: Bet Me
“She had of course, kept working. He liked to think she would have moved under the table to continue her task if a gun battle had broken out, but he wasn't sure.” IfsThinkingCoursesBrokenBattleGunTasksTablesMoved Book:Tempting Danger Source: Tempting Danger
“The universe always moves from an ordered state to a disordered one; that a glass may fall to the ground and shatter yet you never see a broken glass reassemble itself and then jump back on the table.” MayStatesMovingFallUniverseBrokenTablesGlassesBroken Glass Book:Lost in a Good Book Source: Lost in a Good Book