Broken Quotes

• While on that old grey stone I sat Under the old wind-broken tree, I knew that One is animate, Mankind inanimate phantasy.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Reality
  • Tree
  • Mankind

• What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason. ... I wrote some of my best love songs ever when I was unhappy and my saddest love songs when I was very much in love. When I wrote 'You're in My Heart', which is an uplifting song, I had just broken up with-Now who had I broken up with?. ... Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.

  

  Rod Stewart
  • Song
  • Reason
  • Singing

• How much simpler it would be all around if you could put your mind in a cast, like a broken ankle, and elicit murmurings of sympathy from other people instead of skepticism (“You can’t really be feeling as bad as all that”) and in some cases outright hostility (“Maybe if you stopped thinking about yourself so much ”).

  

  Daphne Merkin
  • Thinking
  • Feelings
  • Yourself

• Christianity is not about building an absolutely secure little niche in the world where you can live with your perfect little wife and your perfect little children in your beautiful little house where you have no gays or minority groups anywhere near you. Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken.

  

  Rich Mullins
  • World
  • Children
  • House

• When you feel WHOLE, things come to enhance your WHOLEness. When you feel broken, things come to enhance your brokenness. That's why you CANNOT FILL A VOID. That's why the premise from which you attract your relationship is so important.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Important
  • Relationship
  • Brokenness

• That was the first time any of us saw Vince back. His timing and his energy and his confidence were back. We went into this year knowing we were going to have to ride him, but he was kind of a broken horse.

  

  Dan Monson
  • Horse
  • Back
  • Ride

• 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.

  

  Miguel Cabrera
  • Trying
  • Mistake
  • Seasons

• You can’t focus on what everyone else is doing — it has to be about what’s really broken and what you can do to fix it.

  

  Drew Houston
  • Focus
  • Broken
  • Fix

• I think we need to be human. Nobody is objective. We need to go in and be human - especially today, especially given everything that's happening around us, especially given the divides between populations that are growing and what's at stake in terms of our collective humanity, and the fact that our moral compass is broken.

  

  Arwa Damon
  • Humanity
  • Moral
  • Broken

• I had a fistfight with every kid on my block. I got about fifteen broken noses to prove it. Part of it was also because I was always drawing, and I always had an artist portfolio with me. But I was a tough kid. I won their respect.

  

  George Lois
  • Respect
  • Broken
  • Drawing

• The church is not made up of spiritual giants; only broken men can lead others to the cross.

  

  David Bosch
  • Church
  • Spiritual
  • Others

• I came to join the Experience by going for an audition for Eric Burdon who was just forming the New Animals at that point, after the original Animals had broken up.

  

  Noel Redding The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Animal
  • Promise
  • Auditions

• Like birds whose wings are broken, you live without direction!

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • Broken
  • Bird
  • Wings

• I don't eat food, I Thom Yorke it. What's the difference? When normal people "eat" food, they first chew it with their "teeth" until it's small enough to go through their "esophagus" and then be broken down in their "stomach" and absorbed. When I Thom Yorke food, I chew it with my Thom Yorkes until it's small enough to go through my Yorke tube. It's then broken down in my Thomach, where if I eat too much sweets, I get a mean Thommy ache! But it's okay because Jonny's usually there to rub the pain out.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • People
  • Pain
  • Mean

• Every White House Correspondents' Dinner for the past three years, I have broken my dress and can't even zip it, so we have to leave - that's why I've missed every carpet appearance. One time, we had to go into Virginia to find me a new dress.

  

  Chrissy Teigen
  • Time
  • Why
  • House

• 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.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • People
  • War
  • Focus

• Sensing us, the trees tremble in their sleep, The living leaves recoil before our fires, Baring to us war-charred and broken branches, And seeing theirs, we for our own destruction weep.

  

  Kathleen Raine
  • War
  • Sleep
  • Fire

• After six prison commitments, at the end of those, I was more broken than when I went into the system.

  

  Susan Burton
  • Broken
  • Prison
  • System

• Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional. Physical pain is a fact that comes with living, just as illness or financial woes or broken relationships are facts. But misery is a state of mind, a reaction to the facts, that can be controlled or altered by an act of will.

  

  Barbara
  • Pain
  • Financial
  • Wonderful

• I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken.

  

  Lucinda Williams
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Song

• I always felt mean, jogging back over the logging road,As if I had broken the natural order of things in that swampland;Disturbed some rhythm, old and of vast importance,By pulling off flesh from the living planet;As if I had committed, against the whole scheme of life, a desecration.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Natural
  • Importance
  • Committed

• Actually, I've only been involved with one girl I worked with. It was Alyssa Milano. We didn't actually have an onscreen kiss - we're about to but it gets broken up.

  

  Scott Wolf
  • Girl
  • Involved
  • Kissing

• Bonds are like rules, they're meant to be broken.

  

  Melissa de la Cruz
  • Broken
  • Rules

• What is the point of hiring smart people, we asked, if you don’t empower them to fix what’s broken?

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Broken
  • Empower
  • Smart People

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