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“Then his heart, now broken into a thousand pieces, slowly began to turn to ice.”

Heart Turns Pieces Broken Thousand Ice Heartbroken

Author:Michelle Rowen

“Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.”

Heaven Black Broken Wall Battle Thousand Moon Silent Midnight Purple Half Moon

Author:Joaquin Miller

“Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned.”

Pieces Broken Thousand

Book:Waiting for the Barbarians

Source: Waiting for the Barbarians

“Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned. If no individual or institution possesses the authority to act without of everybody else in the room, then nobody is at fault if anything goes wrong.”

Ifs Individual Rooms Pieces Broken Thousand Authority Institutions Faults Anything Goes

Book:Waiting for the Barbarians

Source: Waiting for the Barbarians

“Life is legal tender, and individual character stamps its value. We are from a thousand mints, and all genuine. Despite our infinitely diverse appraisements, we make change for one another. So many ideals planted are worth the great gold of Socrates; so many impious laws broken are worth John Brown.”

Character Law Life Is Values Individual Broken Thousand Ideals Gold Genuine Despite Brown Diverse Stamps Mint John Brown

Book:Patrins, to which is added An inquirendo into the wit & other good parts of His late Majesty King Charles the Second

Source: Patrins, to which is added An inquirendo into the wit & other good parts of His late Majesty King Charles the Second

“I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken, I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children, And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.”

Children Hard Hands Young Fall Saws Broken Thousand Ten Gun Rain Tongue Young Children Talkers Portents

Author:Bob Dylan

“A particular rule that seems to make sense in the individual case makes no sense when it is made a universal rule and applied to all cases. It makes no sense because it fails to take into account the connection between one broken window left untended and a thousand broken windows.”

Made Seems Individual Left Cases Failing Particular Broken Thousand Window Connections Universal Accounts Make Sense Broken Windows

Book:Thinking about Crime

Source: Thinking about Crime

“Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again, come, come.”

Ifs Inspirational Matter Wisdom Spiritual Positive Broken Lovers Thousand Despair Leaving Vow Wanderers Caravans Inspirational Sufi Sufi Mystic

Author:Rumi

“Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.”

Ifs Needs Heart Mean Broken Thousand Decided Retelling

Book:Night

Source: Night

“But because of his telling, many who did not believe have come to believe, and some who did not care have come to care. He tells the story, out of infinite pain, partly to honor the dead, but also to warn the living - to warn the living that it could happen again and that it must never happen again. Better than one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all. (vi)”

Ifs Needs Believe Heart Mean Stories Happens Care Pain Broken Honor Thousand Decided Infinite Retelling

Book:Night

Source: Night

“Could a body broken and blood spilled two thousand years ago restore my own damaged life?”

Years Two Body My Own Blood Broken Thousand Years Ago Thousand Years

Author:Frederica Mathewes-Green

“Being in a hurry. Getting to the next thing without fully entering the thing in front of me. I cannot think of a single advantage I've ever gained from being in a hurry. But a thousand broken and missed things, tens of thousands, lie in the wake of all the rushing.... Through all that haste I thought I was making up time. It turns out I was throwing it away.”

Thinking Lying Turns Next Fronts Broken Thousand Advantage Throwing Entering Haste Rushing Making Up

Author:Ann Voskamp

“I will not go on, I thought. I won't. I will throw my soul to the wind and blow into a thousand pieces. I will wash up on a shore somewhere like bleached and broken driftwood. I will dry out in the sun until I-and any gift I ever had-shrivel into the sand.”

Soul Sun Pieces Wind Broken Goes On Thousand Blow My Soul Dry Sand Shore Driftwood

Book:Just One Wish

Source: Just One Wish