Best broken & thinking 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.”

“People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why.”

People Thinking Want Believe Has Beens Technology Progress Broken Areas Artificial Intelligence Artificial Robotics Nanotechnology

Author:Peter Thiel

“I think, in my life, there've been three times I've broken down into tears on a set because I was happy.”

Thinking Three Tears Broken Three Times Broken Down

Author:Stephen Tobolowsky

“I cannot perch among those who think that I am broken.”

Thinking Broken

Book:Seraphina

Source: Seraphina

“In an old song the Mother sings: 'My sleeping is my dreaming, my dreaming is my thinking, my thinking is my wisdom.' She is the bed we are born in, in which we sleep and dream, where we are healed, love and die. In her wisdom we remember day's broken images and carry them down into dreams where their motions roll into shadows and root, growing into stories.”

Thinking Stories Dream Remember Mother Song Dies Born Sleep Growing Broken Bed Shadow Roots Healed Old Song Sleep And Dream Broken Images

Author:Meinrad Craighead

“I think the key is never being satisfied with your skills and you have to constantly learn. I say this all the time, I sound like a broken record, but if you are not getting better in this sport you are getting worse”

Ifs Thinking Sports Sound Records Broken Keys Skills Satisfied Get Better

Author:Kenny Florian

“But there is no sole person for another's heart. Souls cannot be broken and then completed by another. That's not healthy, nor wise. There are infinite possibilities as there are infinite people and some matches are better than others...Just don't say that you'll die without the other one or that you'll never love again or that you're not whole-That's the stuff of Romeo and Juliet, hasty nonsense, and you know how well that turned out...Just don't be desperate about it. That's where souls go wrong, when they think they don't have choices. The heart must make choices.”

“So holy and so perfect is my love, And I in such a poverty of grace, That I shall think it a most plenteous crop To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps.”

Thinking Men Love Perfect Poverty Grace He Man Broken Holy Ears Harvest Crops Reap

Book:As You Like it

Source: As You Like it

“One is so apt to think of people's affection as a fixed quantity, instead of a sort of moving so with the tide, always going out or coming in but still fundamentally there: and I believe this difficulty in making allowance for the tide is the reason for half the broken friendships.”

People Thinking Believe Stills Reason Moving I Believe Half Broken Difficulty Affection Fixed Quantity Tides Going Out Allowance Friendship Broken

Author:Freya Stark

“I think your heart needs to be broken, and broken open, at least once to have a heart at all or to have a heart for others.”

Thinking Needs Heart Kindness Broken

Book:Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the Twelve Steps

Source: Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the Twelve Steps

“Dreams last so long Even after you're gone I know you love me And soon you will see You were meant for me And I was meant for you Go about my business, I'm doing fine Besides, what would I say if I had you on the line Same old story, not much to say Hearts are broken every day I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead I try to tell myself it'll be all right I just shouldn't think anymore tonight”

Ifs Thinking Knows Feels Trying Heart Long Stories Dream Lasts Song Lines Half Gone Alive Broken Fine Tonight I Know You Love Me

Author:Jewel

“You think if you work hard enough, you can fix the precious things you've broken - rather than being careful with them in the first place.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Hard Enough Hard Work Broken Careful Consideration Precious Things

Author:Guillermo del Toro

“There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes. GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG, The Reflections of Lichtenberg We become familiar with the outsides of men, as with the outsides of houses, and think we know them, while we are ignorant of so much that is passing within them.”

Thinking Knows Men Trying Character Purpose House Broken Training Reflection Every Man Passing Ignorant Familiar Passings Sheep Skeletons Draught

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking! ... I begin to feel, think, and be myself again. Instead of an awkward silence, broken by attempts at wit or dull common-places, mine is that undisturbed silence of the heart which alone is perfect eloquence.”

Source: Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners

“If you put a pistol against my head and ask which I think is worse, Muslims or Mexicans, I'd have to think a moment, then I'd say the Muslims because they've broken my balls.”

Ifs Thinking Moments Asks Broken Balls Pistols

Author:Oriana Fallaci

“We all have love stories that go terribly wrong; we all have horribly broken hearts. And somehow we endure. We're not destroyed by it. We endure and go on to do interesting things and have worthy lives, even though we carry our heartbreaks with us. That's a kind of personal story of mine that I don't think I would tell in memoir but I do think I can tell in fiction.”

Thinking Heart Kind I Can Stories Interesting Fiction Mines Broken Goes On Endure Worthy Love Story Memoir Destroyed Interesting Things Personal Stories

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“Plantinga has written a short, 5 page summary of his views on evolution and naturalism, and it’s lucid (for Plantinga) and goes straight to his main points. The workings of the man's mind sit there naked and exposed, and all the stripped gears and misaligned cogs and broken engines of his misperception are there for easy examination. Read it, and you'll wonder how a man so confused could have acquired such a high reputation; you might even think that philosophy has been Sokaled.”

Thinking Men Mind Has Beens Philosophy Might Easy Wonder He Man Broken Naked Reputation Confused Exposed Engines Examination Gears Cogs Misperception So Confused

Author:PZ Myers

“I maybe had a first love and had my heart broken, but reflecting on it, I don't think that was love. I think as I'm getting older and having more in-depth relationships, maybe I'll experience it. At the moment, I don't know, exactly, if I've been in love.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Firsts Heart Moments Broken My Heart Depth First Love Getting Older Reflecting Been In Love

Author:Selena Gomez

“There is something about big cities that turns me on, and for whatever mysterious reason, places like New York and Paris inspire me. I think it's because cities represent civilization, and as crime-ridden and broken down as some of them are, it's still better than skipping through a meadow.”

Thinking Stills Reason Bigs Turns Cities Crime New York Inspire Broken Civilization Mysterious Paris Meadows Big Cities Broken Down Turn Me

Author:Woody Allen

“Sometimes people think if someone has depression, that person must be a broken Mormon. We believe that righteousness is happiness, but what happens when people are righteous and they're not happy?”

People Ifs Thinking Believe Persons Sometimes Happens Broken Righteousness Righteous Not Happy

Author:Hank Smith

“You are right, none of us live enough, and sometimes I think it is because we mistake hurrah and hullabaloo for experience, we get a sock in the eye and think it is a broken heart.”

Thinking Heart Sometimes Enough Eye Mistake Broken Sock

Book:Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

Source: Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

“There are many ways that we grow, but there are two major ways: We shed what no longer works, or we're broken open. If we're unwilling to shed, then we will be broken open. Through shedding, we are worn down, just as nature is eroded to its beauty. I think that through suffering, human beings are eroded to our beauty.”

Ifs Thinking Way Humans Two Suffering Grows Human Beings Broken Majors Shed Worn Unwilling

Author:Mark Nepo

“I think that marriage vows should include an escape clause that says the contract is broken if one party ups and makes a big switch in religion or politics or aesthetic taste. I mean, these shifts just aren't fair, and we need an easier way out.”

Ifs Thinking Way Needs Should Mean Bigs Party Marriage Broken Easier Taste Fairs Contracts Aesthetic Vow Clauses Marriage Vows

Author:Jill McCorkle

“The company-as-a-machine model fits how people think about and operate conventional companies. And, of course, it fits how people think about changing conventional companies: You have a broken company, and you need to change it, to fix it.”

People Thinking Needs Courses Company Broken Fit Models Machines Conventional Need A Change You Need To Change

Author:Peter Senge

“We tend to think of divorced or complicated families as a modern invention, and that is not at all true. You only have to read the Greek myths to see broken homes, widows, divorce, stepchildren, children trying to get along with new parents.”

Thinking Trying Children Home Parent Modern Broken Complicated Divorce Myth Invention Greek Divorced Widows True You Greek Myth Broken Homes New Parents Stepchild Stepchildren

Author:Rick Riordan

“My home has a split personality. Some of the rooms are very French antique. Think Aubusson rugs, turquoise ceramic jugs, sandbag pillows, and broken birdcages. The other half is very Aztec. Neon ikat fabric pillows, vintage books piled up to the ceiling, and shutters from Bali.”

Thinking Book Home Rooms Half Broken Personality Splits Fabric Pillow Ceilings Other Half Vintage Antiques Neon Shutters Bali Split Personality Jugs Turquoise Ceramics Aztec

Author:Poppy Delevingne

“We were land-based agrarian people from Africa. We were uprooted from Africa, and we spent 200 years developing our culture as black Americans. And then we left the South. We uprooted ourselves and attempted to transplant this culture to the pavements of the industrialized North. And it was a transplant that did not take. I think if we had stayed in the South, we would have been a stronger people. And because the connection between the South of the 20's, 30's and 40's has been broken, it's very difficult to understand who we are.”

People Ifs Thinking Years Has Beens Culture Left Difficult Black Land Broken Connections Stronger South Developing Who We Are Pavement Transplants

Author:August Wilson

“I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something.”

Thinking Feels Trying Two Artist Culture Enjoy Position Broken Always Trying Mediation Two Cultures

Author:K'naan

“I don't fix anybody, because I don't think anybody's broken. I think what people have are patterns, and those can be changed. People quickly understand that what's controlling their thoughts and emotions are their values and rules, and they learn how to shift those.”

People Thinking Values Emotion Changed Broken Patterns Thoughts And Emotions

Author:Tony Robbins

“Adolescents' immature thinking makes it difficult for them to process the divorce. They tend to see things in black-and-white terms and have trouble putting events into perspective. They are absolute in their judgments and expect perfection in parents. They are likely to be self-conscious about their parent's failures and critical of their every move. They have the expectations that parents will keep them safe and happy and are shocked by the broken covenant. Adolescents are unforgiving.”

Source: Reviving Ophelia

“If you cloned JFK and Abraham Lincoln and made them president it wouldn't matter. Our system is just too corrupt and too broken. I think that science is corrupt and broken. I think health and nutrition. I think the economic systems, the international relations, the environment, everything, the engines of everything are broken.”

Ifs Thinking Made Matter President Environment Economic Broken Relation International Engines Nutrition International Relations Abraham Economic Systems Health And Nutrition

Author:Rainn Wilson

“I think that there's a difference between getting your heart broken and getting let down.”

Thinking Heart Differences Broken Heart Broke Let Down

Author:Taylor Swift

“We confide in each other and we really spend time together like a family. And since I'm the maknae, my unnies take care of me even more. I don't think we will be broken apart very easily.”

Thinking Care Together Broken Take Care End Times Spend Time Time Together Take Care Of Me

Author:Seohyun

“The revolting details of childbirth had been hidden from me with such care that I was as surprised as I was horrified, and I cannot help thinking that the vows most women are made to take are very foolhardy. I doubt whether they would willingly go to the altar to swear that they will allow themselves to be broken on the wheel every nine months.”

Thinking Made Helping Care Doubt Broken Months Details Nine Wheels Swear Vow Altars Childbirth Nine Months Foolhardy

Author:Suzanne Curchod

“You'd think a guy who has broken 35 bones in his body would have a high pain threshold, but mine is pretty low. I got hit in the shin with a golf ball once and it almost brought tears to my eyes. I've had broken bones that didn't hurt as bad.”

Thinking Body Eye Pain Guy Hurt Tears Mines Broken Lows Balls Golf Bones Threshold Golf Ball Broken Bone Pain Threshold

Author:Evel Knievel

“I think every time you get your heart broken, there's a little piece of it that chips away, and I don't think you ever get that piece back. But I think you're able to bandage it with time and with new people and other things that make you happy.”

People Thinking Heart Littles Able Pieces Broken Chips Make You Happy Heart Broke Bandages

Author:Demi Lovato

“We always say we are equal in front of death, but when you are rich, for example, and you have everybody taking care of you, I think that you suffer much less. It must be much more painful to die when you are poor than when you are rich. But when your heart is broken, you can be rich, poor, whatever - a broken heart, we are all equal in front of it. And I think there is no subject more serious.”

Thinking Heart Care Suffering Dies Poor Rich Subjects Fronts Example Serious Broken Equal Painful Rich Poor

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“In this state of total consumerism-which is to say a state of helpless dependence on things and services and ideas and motives that we have forgotten how to provide ourselves-all meaningful contact between ourselves and the earth is broken. We do not understand the earth in terms either of what it offers us or of what it requires of us, and I think it is the rule that people inevitably destroy what they do not understand.”

People Thinking Ideas States Earth Term Broken Offers Forgotten Meaningful Contact Motive Consumerism Helpless Dependence Overconsumption

Book:The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry

Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry

“Everyone that works behind a desk wants to know how many bones I've broken and how much money I make. It seems that people who've never experienced the excitement of sport seem to think the only thing worth taking risks for is money.”

People Thinking Knows Want Seems Sports Behinds Know How Risk Broken Bones Excitement Desks Taking Risks

Author:Travis Pastrana

“One of my pet peeves is that when people are in their automobiles, I think they're exceptionally rude on the road. I would love to have the superpower to make their cars break down after they do something rude on the road so the freeways would be littered with these jackasses who have broken-down cars.”

People Thinking Would Be Break Car Broken Pet Rude Breaking Down Automobile Superpower Freeways Broken Down Jackasses Peeves Pet Peeve

Author:Chris Carmack

“What I really think is that our current model of copyright is fundamentally broken. We badly need to replace it with a different system for remunerating creators, which gets it the hell out of the face of the public (who were never aware of it to begin with in the pre-internet dead tree era). Unfortunately, the current copyright model is enshrined in international trade treaty law, making it almost impossible to work around.”

Thinking Needs Different Faces Law Hell Impossible Tree Broken Internet Models Trade International Currents Creator Eras Treaties Copyright International Trade Dead Trees Law Making

Author:Charles Stross

“I do have someone that I work with and she is amazing and I definitely don't have unmitigated abusive tendencies towards her. She is very sweet. I also know what that is like. I have heard my agent thinking he has hit mute on the phone before he, you know, physically unleashes broken glass and cellphones at his poor assistant. It is a tough job under the best of circumstances. I understand that.”

Thinking Knows Jobs Poor Heard Sweet Broken Circumstances Tough Glasses Phones Tendencies Agents Assistants Mute Abusive Cellphone Very Sweet Broken Glass

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“I've broken it down to three basic types of people in gangs. You have the first type, the most dangerous, which are the glory seekers. They just want to be popular, they want to be stars, and they can do that in gangbanging. Then you have the one that I think is the worst, which is the one that's expected to be in the gang. Then you have the ones that were like me; they had to be.”

People Thinking Want Firsts Three Stars Can Do Worst Dangerous Broken Type Glory Expected Like Me Gang Seekers

Author:Malik Yusef

“I think we've broken a lot of barriers and kind of shattered our "glass ceiling" that was there for women. There are so many great fighters and we've proved a lot of people wrong. A lot of the times our fights are the best fights on the card.”

People Thinking Kind Fighting Broken Glasses Cards Fighter Barriers Ceilings Shattered Glass Ceiling

Author:Miesha Tate

“A lot of people think that in order to be an addict you must come from a broken home or from the other side of the tracks. Both of those excuses couldn't be farther from the truth. I come from a family that has a lot of love for one another and I was raised in a middle to upper class neighborhood.”

People Thinking Home Order Sides Class Middle Broken Raised Track Excuse Neighborhood Addict Upper Class Broken Homes

Author:Jason Peter

“The first thing that has to be broken down is your relationship to authority. Your insecurity could possibly be the wedge that opens up your perspective on what you think is possible for you to do.”

Thinking Firsts Broken Perspective Authority Insecurity Our Relationship Broken Down Wedges

Author:Ross Bleckner

“Honestly, folks, I think my brain is broken.”

Thinking Brain Broken Folks Honestly

Author:Jon Stewart

“People think that the art market is about opportunists and hedge-fund managers getting broken art, but what really happened is that there was a new configuration of bourgeois values in the U.S. and an acceptance among the bourgeoisie of contemporary art as an idea. I think that bourgeois people are horrible.”

People Thinking Art Ideas Values Happened Acceptance Broken Horrible Contemporary Managers Fund Bourgeois Bourgeoisie Contemporary Art Opportunist Configuration Hedge Fund

Author:Liam Gillick

“Anybody who thinks that 'it doesn't matter who's President' has never been Drafted and sent off to fight and die in a vicious, stupid war on the other side of the world-or been beaten and gassed by Police for trespassing on public property-or been hounded by the IRS for purely political reasons-or locked up in the Cook County Jail with a broken nose and no phone access and twelve perverts wanting to stomp your ass in the shower. That is when it matters who is President or Governor or Police Chief. That is when you will wish you had voted.”

Source: Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness

“I think I really scored with my parents. All of my friends pretty much came from broken homes, and my parents are still together, but not only that, they're still in love and still write together.”

Thinking Writing Stills Home Together Parent Broken My Friends Broken Homes Still In Love

Author:Winona Ryder

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