Best broken & way Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The Senate as an institution is broken. We're not doing the work of the American people and the rules are being abused. The only way to get us back to the traditions where the Senate is doing the work of the American people is to change the rules.”

People Way Broken Tradition Institutions Senate

Author:Tom Udall

“It must be hard to be a female in a David Mackenzie movie. I feel like women in his films are portrayed a certain way - like broken people.”

People Way Feels Hard Film Certain Broken Female

Author:Jamie Bell

“Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.”

Way Artist Enemy Broken Ought Wholeness Ruined

Author:Ben Okri

“The man without a chin, no stamina, dead man, broken man, whatever. On your way to the top, you always get some criticism. Criticism is a great motivation. Failure is not an option to me.”

Men Way Motivation He Man Broken Criticism Chins Dead Man Stamina Failure Is Not An Option Broken Man

Author:Wladimir Klitschko

“Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver.”

Way Art Imagination Accepting Broken Formulas Worn Giver Closeness Kinship

Book:Crit Temp Alain Locke: A Selection of His Essays on Art and Culture

Source: Crit Temp Alain Locke: A Selection of His Essays on Art and Culture

“When you see something that is broken, fix it. When you find something that is lost, return it. When you see something that needs to be done, do it. In that way, you will take care of your world and repair creation.”

World Way Needs Done Care Action Lost Creation Broken Return Take Care

Book:Jewish Spirituality: A Brief Introduction for Christians

Source: Jewish Spirituality: A Brief Introduction for Christians

“Rattlesnakes are only too plentiful everywhere; along the river bottoms, in the broken, hilly ground, and on the prairies and the great desert wastes alike...If it can it will get out of the way, and only coils up in its attitude of defence when it believes that it is actually menaced.”

Ifs Way Believe Attitude Broken Waste Rivers Bottom Desert Defence Prairie Plentiful Rattlesnakes

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“The Bad Lands grade all the way from those that are almost rolling in character to those that are so fantastically broken in form and so bizarre in color as to seem hardly properly to belong to this earth.”

Way Character Seems Earth Form Land Color Broken Grades Rolling Bizarre

Book:Hunting Trips of a Ranchman and The Wilderness Hunter

Source: Hunting Trips of a Ranchman and The Wilderness Hunter

“The goal of coaching is not in fixing what is broken, but in discovering new talents and new ways to use old talents that lead to far greater effectiveness.”

Way Use Goal Greater Talent Broken Coaching Discovering New Ways Effectiveness Fixing New Talent

Author:Gifford Pinchot

“When we mistake what we can know for all there is to know, a healthy appreciation of one's ignorance in the face of a mystery like soil fertility gives way to the hubris that we can treat nature as a machine. Once that leap has been made, one input follows another, so that when the synthetic nitrogen fed to plants makes them more attractive to insects and vulnerable to disease, as we have discovered, the farmer turns to chemical pesticides to fix his broken machine.”

“That is just the way with Memory; nothing that she brings to us is complete. She is a willful child; all her toys are broken. I remember tumbling into a huge dust-hole when a very small boy, but I have not the faintest recollection of ever getting out again; and if memory were all we had to trust to, I should be compelled to believe I was there still.”

Ifs Way Should Believe Children Stills Remember Memories Boys Huge Broken Holes Dust Toys Compelled Recollection Tumbling

Book:Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1

Source: Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1

“In the face of nature's overwhelming forces, humans needed a God who would protect them from harm. When they felt that they had broken the law or committed wrongdoing, people turned to a God who would judge them on the one hand and redeem their sins on the other. In this way, purely from slef-interest, the project of creating God in our own image proceeded--and continues to proceed.”

People Way Humans Hands Faces Law Force Felt Interest Sin Judging Broken Needed Protect Projects Creating Committed Harm Overwhelming Wrongdoing Overwhelming Force

Author:Deepak Chopra

“First time you hear something, it sounds outlandish and broken and like it doesn't make sense. But once it's been in your head awhile it's as if the other thoughts in there wriggle out of the way to give it some room.”

Ifs Way Giving Firsts Sound Rooms Broken First Time Make Sense Outlandish

Author:Michael Marshall Smith

“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.”

Way Ends Play Hands Church Situation Lord Plans Broken Tools Supposed To Be Crush The End Of The Day Kill Me Discarded

Author:Fred Hammond

“Why shouldn’t we experience heartbreak? Through those doorways God is opening up ways of fellowship with His Son. Most of us collapse at the first grip of pain. We sit down at the door of God’s purpose and enter a slow death through self-pity. And all the so-called Christian sympathy of others helps us to our deathbed. But God will not. He comes with the grip of the pierced hand of His Son, as if to say, “Enter into fellowship with Me; arise and shine.” If God can accomplish His purposes in this world through a broken heart, then why not thank Him for breaking yours?”

Source: Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers

“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

“Hearts were made for being broken. There's really no way around it if you want to be a human being.”

Ifs Way Want Humans Heart Made Human Beings Broken Being Broken

Book:Blue Diary

Source: Blue Diary

“There are various ways of mending a broken heart, but perhaps going to a learned conference is one of the more unusual.”

Way Heart Broken Various Unusual Conferences Mending Mending A Broken Heart

Book:No fond return of love

Source: No fond return of love

“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 more I see of Italy, the more I adore the Italians. They have so much heart, so much cheerfulness and gaiety, so much good humor. And the way they sing! Every now and then, when a silence falls in the streets, it is broken by some sudden singing voice, with a mellowness and a sweetness that makes you thrill.”

Way Heart Fall Voice Silence Streets Broken Singing Now And Then Thrill Adore Sweetness Cheerfulness Good Humor Gaiety

Author:Marie Van Vorst

“Where I lived - winter and hard earth.I sat in my cold stone roomchoosing tough words, granite, flint,to break the ice. My broken heart -I tried that, but it skimmed,flat, over the frozen lake.She came from a long, long way,but I saw her at last, walking,my daughter, my girl, across the fields,In bare feet, bringing all spring's flowersto her mother's house. I swearthe air softened and warmed as she moved,the blue sky smiling, none too soon,with the small shy mouth of a new moon.”

“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?”

“To be with a man who hasn't tried every line, who hasn't broken up with a woman every which way you can break up with them, is kind of nice.”

Men Way Kind Lines Break Nice Broken Broken Up

Author:Uma Thurman

“When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community and often the community socially is broken.”

World Way Community Technology Design Broken Economics Burden Designer Crush Maintenance Old World

Author:Cameron Sinclair

“It is essential that we renew our covenants by partaking of the sacrament. When we do this with a sincere heart, with real intent, forsaking our sins, and renewing our commitment to God, the Lord provides a way whereby sins can be forgiven from week to week. Simply eating the bread and drinking the water will not bring that forgiveness. We must prepare and then partake with a broken heart and contrite spirit. The spiritual preparation we make to partake of the sacrament is essential to receiving a remission of our sins.”

“By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways as there are floating fancies or fashions, the whole chain and continuity of the commonwealth would be broken. No one generation could link with the other. Men would become little better than the flies of a summer.”

Men Way Littles States Whole Would Be Change Generations Fashion Broken Revolution Summer Chains Fancy Links Floating Facility Continuity Commonwealth

Book:Burke, Select Works

Source: Burke, Select Works

“A broken leg can be remembered and located: "It hurt right below my knee, it throbbed, I felt sick at my stomach." But mental pain is remembered the way dreams are remembered-in fragments, unbidden realizations, like looking into a well and seeing the dim reflection of your face in that instant before the water shatters.”

“Poor children live in a particularly dangerous world--an urban world of broken stair railings, of busy streets serving as playgrounds, of lead paint, rats and rat poisons, or a rural world where families do not enjoy the minimal levels of public health accepted as standard for nearly a century. Whether in city or country, this is a world where cavities go unfilled and ear infections threatening permanent deafness go untreated. It is world where even a small child learns to be ashamed of the way he or she lives.”

Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

“I marvel at the many ways we, as black people, bend but do not break in order to survive. This astonishes me, and what excites me I write about. Everyone of us is a wonder. Everyone of us has a story.”

People Way Writing Stories Order Black Wonder Break Broken Black People

Author:Kristin Hunter

“I spoke at TED Global 2010 about the ways that video games engage the brain, and in particular, the idea of reward structures: how a challenge or task can be broken down and presented to make it as engaging as possible.”

Way Ideas Games Challenges Brain Particular Broken Tasks Down And Structure Rewards Video Spokes Engaging Broken Down

Author:Tom Chatfield

“If we are going to compete in this world we're in today, there is no possible way we can do it with lowering expectations and dumbing down everything. Children are going to suffer and families' hearts are going to be broken that their kids won't be able to get a job in the 21st Century.”

Ifs World Way Heart Children Kids Today Able Jobs Suffering Can Do Century This World Broken Expectations 21st Century Dumbing Down

Author:Jeb Bush

“China is never going to be a global model. Western system is really broken in some fundamental ways, but the Chinese system is not going to work either. It is a deeply unfair and immoral system where everything can be taken away from anyone in a split second.”

Way Taken Broken Models Fundamentals Western China Chinese Splits Unfair Immoral Going To Work

Author:Francis Fukuyama

“I noted about Cate Blanchett was her very positive lack of concern for how she turns out in Cinderella. She is happy to be a villainess and very pleased to be encouraged as I did with her to reveal this backstory and feel as though this was very human, that this broken heart of hers, if you might regard it that way, would be visible, but she never played for sympathy and I really admired that about her, so she's just there, she just is and uncompromisingly.”

Ifs Way Feels Humans Heart Might Would Be Turns Broken Concern Regard Visible Very Positive Be Encouraged

Author:Kenneth Branagh

“One of the most challenging ways is to slow down enough to relax our heart and feel what is nearest. It could be the sun reflecting off of broken glass in an alley. It could be the shine on a crow. It could be snow on a lamp post.”

Way Feels Heart Enough Challenges Sun Broken Shining Glasses Snow Posts Relax Slow Down Lamps Reflecting Crow Alleys Shine On Broken Glass

Author:Mark Nepo

“I got into running because I was too uncoordinated to play baseball, too small for basketball, and too tiny for football. I lived in a broken home and had looked to those sports as a way of staying away from my home.”

Way Play Home Running Sports Football Broken Basketball Baseball Tiny Staying Broken Homes

Author:Gerry Lindgren

“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.”

Knows Way Writing Trying Years Two Ideas Different Helping Stuff Novel Dying Broken Walking Killing Two Years Why Not Going To Work Accelerate Walking Away

Author:Stephen Graham Jones

“Faith stands or falls on the truth that the future with God is more satisfying than the one promised by sin. Where this truth is embraced and God is cherished above all, the power of sin is broken. The power of sin is the power of deceit. Sin has power through promising a false future. In temptation sin comes to us and says: "The future with God on his narrow way is hard and unhappy, but the way I promise is pleasant and satisfying." The power of sin is in the power of this lie.”

Way Hard Lying Fall Sin Broken Promise Truth Is Unhappy Temptation Pleasant Deceit Satisfying I Promise Sanctification

Author:John Piper

“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.”

Ifs Knows Way Trying Mind Looks May Use Strong Building Wind Broken Gold Weight Blow Scales Look Up Staff Rotten Reeds Furnaces Stand Strong

Author:Jonathan Edwards

“A lot of my clients say they don't deserve to mope about their sad little memories while children are starving in India. I say that just because your broken arm isn't as serious as someone else's gut wound, that doesn't mean your injury isn't excruciating or doesn't require attention. If you want to help the Indian children, or make the world a better place in any other way, you have to start by becoming whole yourself.”

Source: Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live

“It's coming to America first, The cradle of the best and of the worst. It's here they got the range And the machinery for change And it's here they got the spiritual thirst. It's here the family's broken And it's here the lonely say That the heart has got to open In a fundamental way: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A. O mighty Ship of State! To the Shores of Need Past the Reefs of Greed Through the Squalls of Hate Sail on, sail on.”

Source: The Lyrics of Leonard Cohen: Enhanced Edition

“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'm one of those people that if its something to eat I'm going to eat the whole thing, If I'm going to be in love I'm going to love you all the way and if my heart's broken, it's just shattered all to pieces.”

People Ifs Way Heart Whole Pieces Love You Broken My Heart Shattered

Author:Dolly Parton

“I believe every space and comma is a living part of the poem and has its function, just as every muscle and pore of the body has its function. And the way the lines are broken is a functioning part essential to the life of the poem.”

Way Believe Body I Believe Lines Space Broken Essentials Function Muscles

Book:The poet in the world

Source: The poet in the world

“Broken people misuse their power while people who have values don't use their powers in a way that harms.”

People Way Use Values Broken Harm Misuse

Author:Mark Pellegrino

“I was keen on sports-that's how my nose got this way. It's not actually broken; the nose was just pushed up a little bit and moved over. It's an aquiline nose, quite Irish.”

Way Littles Bits Sports Broken Little Bit Moved Noses Over It

Author:John Hurt

“Though we may feel we are "like a broken vessel," as the Psalmist says (Psalms 31:12), we must remember, that vessel is in the hands of the divine potter. Broken minds can be healed just the way broken bones and broken hearts are healed. While God is at work making those repairs, the rest of us can help by being merciful, nonjudgmental, and kind.”

Way Feels Mind Heart Kind May Helping Hands Remember Divine Broken Bones Vessel Potters Healed Merciful Being Me Psalms Broken Bone

Author:Jeffrey R. Holland

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.”

Ifs World Way Strong Born Results Break Sacrifice Broken Achievement Great Things Selfishness Small Things Great Achievement Great Sacrifice

Author:Napoleon Hill

“Emmett Till and I were about the same age. A week after he was murdered... I stood on a corner with a gang of boys, looking at pictures of him in the black newspapers and magazines. In one, he was laughing and happy. In the other, his head was swollen and bashed in, his eyes bulging out of their sockets, and his mouth twisted and broken... I couldn't get Emmett Till out of my mind, until one evening I thought of a way to get back at white people for his death.”

People Way Mind Eye Age Black White Boys Laughing Week Broken Mouths Corners Newspapers Magazines Evening His Eyes Get Back Gang Twisted Of My Mind Swollen Emmett Till

Author:Muhammad Ali

“True forgiveness and love arise naturally, effortlessly, from the silence of the heart broken all the way open.”

Way Heart Silence Broken And Love Arise Heart Broke Love And Forgiveness Silence Of The Heart

Author:Gangaji

“This system is really broken. No Child Left Behind has really failed and the only way to solve education is to leave one governor behind.”

Way Children Left Behinds Broken Solve Governors Left Behind No Child Left Behind

Author:Kinky Friedman

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