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“For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.”

People Trying Faces Ability Forever Expression Broken Awkward Cracked Trust Others

Book:No Longer Human

Source: No Longer Human

“In piano, if you try to force hitting this key and that key, it's very broken. It's not pretty. When you're in archery, you can't try to force it step-by-step-by-step. Then the shot doesn't flow and it's not a good shot. If you just let the performance flow, it's really beautiful.”

Ifs Trying Beautiful Force Steps Broken Keys Shots Flow Performances Piano Hitting Really Beautiful Archery Not Pretty

Author:Miranda Leek

“Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on creating hungers which its wares never satisfy, and thus it adds to the frustrations and broken minds of our times.”

“There are two basic rules which should never be broken. Be subtle. And don't, for God's sake, try to do business with anyone who's having a bad game.”

Should Trying Two Games Broken Golf Sake Subtle Bad Games

Book:The Punch book of golf

Source: The Punch book of golf

“Happy children should not try to be artists. You have to be born with a broken heart and a sense of loneliness inside. I never had a happy moment as a child myself.”

Should Trying Heart Children Moments Artist Born Loneliness Broken Happy Children Happy Moments

Book:Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights: Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee

Source: Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights: Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee

“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

“Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative purpose to daydreaming, even to boredom. The best ideas come to us when we stop actively trying to coax the muse into manifesting and let the fragments of experience float around our unconscious mind in order to click into new combinations. Without this essential stage of unconscious processing, the entire flow of the creative process is broken.”

“If a painting contains no abstraction nor impressionistic elements, it is a kite that will never fly. But if the painting completely breaks the connection between human feeling and the object portrayed, the kite string has been broken. I try to keep the line unbroken.”

Ifs Trying Humans Has Beens Feelings Lines Break Objects Painting Broken Elements Connections Strings Abstraction Unbroken Kites

Author:Wu Guanzhong

“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

“I didnt like being reminded about how self-absorbed i was. I wanted to be over this, done with this. I didnt want to live in a broken world or a broken me. I wasnt trying to weasel out of anything. I just wasnt in the mood of being on the earth that night. I get like that sometimes when it rains, or when i see certain sad movies.”

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Book:Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

Source: Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

“Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together. They are much more like you than you would believe. So try not to compare your insides to their outsides.”

People Trying Believe Seems Together Like You Broken Scared Compare Screwed Up Clingy

Author:Anne Lamott

“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.”

Men Trying Character Purpose Broken Training Every Man Sheep Skeletons Draught

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“I try to catch at many a tuneLike petals of light fallen from the moon,Broken and bright on a dark lagoon,But they float away - for who can holdYouth, or perfume or the moon's gold?”

Trying Light Dark Broken Moon Gold Fallen Perfume Floats Petals Lagoons

Book:Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale

Source: Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale

“What I believe is so magnificent, so glorious, that it is beyond finite comprehension. To believe that the universe was created by a purposeful, benign Creator is one thing. To believe that this Creator took on human vesture, accepted death and mortality, was tempted, betrayed, broken, and all for love of us, defies reason. It is so wild that it terrifies some Christians who try to dogmatize their fear by lashing out at other Christians, because tidy Christianity with all answers given is easier than one which reaches out to the wild wonder of God's love, a love we don't even have to earn.”

“One of my biggest heroes and people I was fortunate enough to be around is David Bowie. I look at his career, and he always had the balls to break things that weren't broken, to step away from something and try something new, at risk of failing.”

People Trying Looks Enough Steps Careers Break Failing Risk Broken Hero Balls Fortunate Something New Bowie

Author:Trent Reznor

“God, I feel like hell tonight. Tears of rage I cannot fight. I'd be the last to help you understand... Nothing's true and nothing's right so let me be alone tonight 'cause you can't change the way I am... I have a face I cannot show, I make the rules up as I go. It's try and love me if you can. Are you strong enough to be my man? When I've shown you that I just don't care, when I'm throwing punches in the air, when I'm broken down and I can't stand will you be man enough to be my man?”

“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

“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

“Pornography does not inspire violence, but you can break a leg trying to imitate it.”

Trying Doe Break Violence Inspire Broken Legs Pornography Break A Leg

Author:Mason Cooley

“Don't worry about this world; it is not broken. And don't worry about others. You worry more about them than they do. There are people waging war; there are people on the battlefield who are more alive than they've ever been before. Don't try to protect people from life; just let them have their experience while you focus upon your own experience.”

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Author:Esther Hicks

“There's no really other way to learn writing than by writing. So accelerate that as much as you can. The more you write, the better you'll get. What also helps, though, is walking away from broken stuff. Not everything's going to work. Killing two years of your life trying to resuscitate a dying novel, I don't know. Why not just write a different one? You'll have more ideas. You can't help having ideas.”

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Author:Stephen Graham Jones

“Maybe instead of strings it's stories things are made of, an infinite number of tiny vibrating stories; once upon a time they all were part of one big giant superstory, except it got broken up into a jillion different pieces, that's why no story on its own makes any sense, and so what you have to do in a life is try and weave it back together, my story into your story, our stories into all the other people's we know, until you've got something that to God or whoever might look like a letter, or even a whole word.”

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Author:Paul Murray

“The surest way to know our gold, is to look upon it and examine it in God's furnace, where he tries it that we may see what it is. If we have a mind to know whether a building stands strong or not, we must look upon it when the wind blows. If we would know whether a staff be strong, or a rotten, broken reed, we must observe it when it is leaned on and weight is borne upon it. If we would weigh ourselves justly we must weigh ourselves in God's scales that he makes use of to weigh us.”

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Author:Jonathan Edwards

“A breakup is like a broken mirror . It is better to leave it alone than hurt yourself trying to fix it .”

Trying Hurt Broken Mirrors Breakup

Author:Linda Wisdom

“Often, we try to repair broken things in such a way as to conceal the repair and make it “good as new.” But the tea masters understood that by repairing the broken bowl with the distinct beauty of radiant gold, they could create an alternative to “good as new” and instead employ a “better than new” aesthetic. They understood that a conspicuous, artful repair actually adds value. Because after mending, the bowl's unique fault lines were transformed into little rivers of gold that post repair were even more special because the bowl could then resemble nothing but itself.”

Way Trying Littles Values Lines Special Masters Broken Unique Understood Rivers Gold Add Faults Alternatives Tea Posts Aesthetic Transformed Bowls Radiant Mending Repairing Broken Things

Author:Teresita Fernandez

“I made a mistake and I'll work in the season to be better. It's part of life to be a man and don't try to hide something if it's broken.”

Ifs Men Trying Made Mistake Broken Seasons Be A Man Made A Mistake Parts Of Life I Made A Mistake

Author:Miguel Cabrera

“If you don't know how it works, find out. If you're not sure if it will work, try it. If it doesn't make sense, play with it until it does. If it's not broken, break it. If it might not be true, find out.”

Ifs Knows Trying Doe Play Might Break Know How Broken Being True Make Sense Not Sure

Author:Seth Godin

“Stupidity is an immovable object: you can't try to attack it wiithout being broken by it.”

Trying Objects Broken Stupidity Being Broken

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“Almost everything wrong with our health care system comes from government interference with the free market. If the health care system is broken, then fix it. Don't try to invent a new one premised on all the bad ideas that are causing problems in the first place.”

Ifs Trying Firsts Ideas Problem Government Care Broken Health Care Free Market Interference Bad Ideas Health Care System

Author:Ann Coulter

“The Russians will try all the rooms in a house, enter those that are not locked, and when they come to one that cannot be broken into, they will withdraw and invite you to dine genially that same evening.”

Trying House Rooms Broken Evening Invites Locked Dine

Author:Winston Churchill

“You're full of insecurities in your 20s - most of the time your heart's being broken, you're having a difficult time finding out who the hell you are, and I was trying to do that in the full glare of the public.”

Trying Heart Difficult Hell Broken Findings Insecurity Difficult Times Glare Being Broken

Author:Kim Wilde

“I have been trying to heal my body from surgeries over the last five years - from my broken leg, tonsillectomy, wisdom teeth, eagle syndrome and hip. Needless to say, it's been a very painful process.”

Trying Years Has Beens Body Lasts Process Five Broken Painful Legs Heal Teeth Hips Five Years Surgery Eagles Syndromes Last Five Years Broken Leg

Author:John Michael Montgomery

“We try to bargain with God...I will follow you but don't touch my children, or my husband, don't give me cancer...We are afraid our surrender to God will unleash evil. But evil will come, because evil will come. We live in a broken world.”

World Giving Trying Children Evil Broken Husband Give Me Cancer Surrender Gods Will My Children My Husband Bargains Surrender To God Broken World

Author:Kay Warren

“You see ... a man like me, a cautious man, has his life all figured out according to a pattern, and then the pattern flies apart. You run around for quite a while trying to repair it, until one day you straighten up again with an armful of broken pieces, and you see that the world has gone on without you and you can never catch up with your old life, and you must begin all over again.”

Men World Trying Running Gone Pieces Broken One Day Patterns Like Me Without You Cautious Old Life Broken Pieces

Author:Peter Matthiessen

“You try to hold on to some notions you might have had before, that this will somehow work out, this is a spell that will lift or be broken.”

Trying Might Broken Notion Work Out Lifts Spells

Author:Ron Suskind

“Also Ho Chi Minh City is broken up into districts so it's much like little cities within the city, in your home district folks take the time to smile and wave as you pass by or even try to have a little chat.”

Trying Littles Home Cities Broken Folks Wave Broken Up

Author:Doug Rice

“Unlike many Sixties rockers,[Bob] Dylan sang about getting old, about broken dreams. His return to roots music pointed the way for many of his contemporaries to forsake trying to sound 'current' and to instead make music that would stand the test of time.”

Way Trying Dream Sound Broken Return Roots Tests Currents Bob Sixty Getting Old Dylan Forsake Rockers Broken Dreams Test Of Time

Author:Jay Michaelson

“I think the one advantage to a failed - recovering, but a pretty broken - economy, and a lot of broken promises, is that we've pulled the veils from our eyes way earlier than most people do, and realize "Hey, you know what, maybe I should try do this thing that I really care about, and why not spend the time now during my best years to get into knitting, or coding, or swamp boat sailing." And there's this resource called the Internet that's going to provide you with a stage and a library for all of those things.”

“It's time to question laws that senselessly expand the concept of self-defense and sow dangerous conflict in our neighborhoods. These laws try to fix something that was never broken. There has always been a legal defense for using deadly force if - and the 'if' is important - if no safe retreat is available. But we must examine laws that take this further by eliminating the common sense and age-old requirement that people who feel threatened have a duty to retreat, outside their home, if they can do so safely.”

“That is something I try to stress to the wrestlers nowadays - there is an epidemic of spot monkeys in the business. They often are so concerned with the fans' reactions that they're willing to kill themselves, while I am trying to help them move past that. It is not about the move, it's about the moment you create, and that's what I'm doing through my broken brilliance.”

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Author:Matt Hardy

“The money in the stabilization fund, $130 billion which I call an insurance bailout, is put in to try to cure the adverse selection that Obamacare created by making insurance too expensive. Healthy people didn't buy it. They tried to fix this by forcing young people to buy it through an individual mandate. Even that didn't work. So the way the Republicans fix it is they don't actually fix it. They subsidize it. So we have to fix what went wrong with Obamacare, not just recapitulate something that's broken.”

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Author:Rand Paul

“I get anxious but worry doesn't really do any good. If something is broken or in trouble, you've got to bend down, pick it up and fix it. Worry just makes us get wrinkles. So try not worrying.”

Trying Worry Trouble Broken Anxious Not Worrying

Author:Gavin Friday

“Of course, our immigration system isn't broken. The enforcement of our immigration system is broken. The president Barack Obama, the Democrat Party, and several in the Republican Party are trying to break the immigration system. The system itself is not broken; it's just fine. It's just being ignored.”

Trying President Party Break Broken Republican Democrat Immigration Barack Ignored Republican Party President Barack Obama Being Ignored

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I always come from a female perspective and a strong music base, trying to keep a positive slant on things. It's important for you to do what you love and not let anyone bring you down, and I keep that message throughout. I like writing songs all females can relate to - songs about when you're a chick and you get your heart broken and you go shopping.”

Writing Trying Heart Important Song Strong Broken Perspective Female Heart Broke

Author:Nikka Costa

“I gravitate towards sort of broken characters who try to be better people.”

People Trying Character Broken

Author:Matthew Perry

“The remedy for life's broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don't try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive.”

Trying Book Class Pieces Broken Forgiving Heal Breakup Remedy Workshops Broken Pieces After Breakup Breakups And Moving On

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. I write about gratitude because I am thankful - for all of it.”

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Author:Kristin Armstrong

“I was worn out, broken: He had taken almost everything. But he'd been all I'd had, all this time. And when the police led him away, I pulled out of the hands of all these loved one, sobbing, screaming, everything hurting, to try and make him stay.”

Trying Hands Hurt Taken Broken Police Loved Ones Worn Worn Out Sobbing

Book:Dreamland

Source: Dreamland

“It was the month of May and there was warm sunshine dripping through the holes between the clouds, like the sky was a broken blue bowl and a child was trying to keep honey in it.”

Trying May Children Sky Broken Months Blue Clouds Warm Holes Sunshine Honey Bowls Dripping

Book:Little Bee: A Novel

Source: Little Bee: A Novel

“They wouldn’t have believed me, and if they had they would have wanted me to explain. And I had no explanation, no answers. When you’re on a battleground, you don’t have the luxury of time to dwell on the various historical factors and sociopolitical influences that caused the war. You just keep your head down and try to survive it, to shove the pages back in the book, close the covers and pretend that nothing’s broken, nothing’s wrong.”

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Book:Good in Bed

Source: Good in Bed