Badly Broken Quotes

#1. This is a badly broken world, full of wars and cruelty and senseless tragedy. Every human being who inhabits it is served his or her portion of unhappiness and wake up nights.

Stephen King

#2. When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.

Harper Lee

#3. Startups on the inside are always badly broken.

Sam Altman

#4. We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system.

Marty Meehan

#5. In one sense, the stories I read betrayed me. Too few gave me back my mirror image. Fewer still spoke to, or acknowledged, the existence of the problems I faced as a black foster child from a dysfunctional and badly broken home.

Nikki Grimes

#6. Tears are only for those who care to see you sad; a badly broken heart never cries.

M.F. Moonzajer

#7. When he was nearly thirty-six, my brother Jem got his heart badly broken when his fourth marriage fell apart, mostly because his wife never could get used to Boo, who lived with them and creeped her out by making little wooden dolls of her and putting them in the hollow tree out front.

Silas House

#8. She wasn't a cruel Bird. But her heart ached so badly for these sad, broken birds that, just as the Puppeteer had planned, she had begun to hate them. She hated them for making her feel so wretched, when she should be happiest. That happens sometimes.

Katherine Catmull

#9. You must work and should not be lazy if you want to be happy.

Anne Frank

#10. Men grieve [Mephistopheles] so with the days of their lamenting, [he] even hate[s] to plague them with [his] torments.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#11. -The burden of existence is bestowed upon birth.
-The gift of existence is bestowed upon birth.
Choose wisely, your life (and potential others' life) depend on it.

Kevin Focke

#12. The gospel is the fulfillment of all hopes, the perfection of all philosophy, the interpretation of all revelation, the key to all the seeming contradictions of the physical and moral world.

Max Muller

#13. I feel like that's something the church has done really badly is actually confessing. We are sinners. We are broken, shattered people that do things selfishly, out of arrogance, pride, lust, greed. And all have fallen short. That doesn't mean some we're definitely a part of that inclusive all.

Jon Foreman

#14. Fear made her seem ill; it distorted her body lines, made her appear as if someone had broken her, and then, with malice, patched her together badly.

Philip K. Dick

#15. My heart was broken so badly last time that it still hurts. Isn't that crazy? To still have a broken heart almost two years after a love story ends?

Elizabeth Gilbert

#16. I have become convinced that God thoroughly enjoys fixing and saving things that are broken. That means that no matter how hurt and defeated you feel, no matter how badly you have been damaged, God can repair you. God can give anyone a second chance.

Melody Carlson

#17. A broken heart hurts as badly in wartime as in peace.

Kristin Hannah

#18. Christ beats his drum, but he does not press men; Christ is served with voluntaries.

John Donne

#19. It is true that men themselves made this world of nations ... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.

Giambattista Vico

#20. I wouldn't point fingers if I were you. You know what they say: those who point fingers wind up with them broken so badly they point straight back at them. - Shazad

Alwyn Hamilton

#21. the lead Inspector told her he wanted some coffee. She handed him a five dollar bill and told him she wanted some too. Black. No sugar." Jeremy

Sophia Jackie

#22. A kung fu man lives without being dependant on the opinions of others, and a master, unlike the beginner, holds himself in reserve. He is quiet and unassuming, with no desire to show off.

Bruce Lee

#23. My body was broken - just how badly I wouldn't find out until later - but I felt healed. Healed at last.

Khaled Hosseini

#24. This isn't love. It's something broken and ugly. I wanted it so badly I didn't care what it looked like.

Amanda Grace

#25. Aphrodite," [Annabeth] said.
"Venus?" Hazel asked in amazement.
"Mom," Piper said with no enthusiasm.
"Girls!" The goddess spread her arms like she wanted a group hug.
The three demigods did not oblige. Hazel backed into a palmetto tree.

Rick Riordan

#26. The gods cannot place their gifts into a closed fist. First your hand must be emptied, then the gifts may be received. We poor fools call this loss, and we suffer, but it is the blessing of the gods.

John Speed

#27. If we agree that the world is not what it seems, then we have an important question: What shall we do about it?

Richard Bach

#28. I want so badly to be more than friends with him, but if that's all my broken soul can handle, I'll take it. I don't want this boy out of my life.

Allie Everhart

#29. Why should I tell you where I am going to get funds from? If I were to do that then all the vested interests would get alerted. You must be aware that railways are full of such elements and my fight is against them.

Lalu Prasad Yadav

#30. When one lover suffered from a broken heart, no matter how badly the other wanted to help, she couldn't be the one to heal it.

Lauren Kate

#31. You and I? It may end badly. I may get hurt. But guess what? I don't care! I've never had my heart broken. Maybe I'm fine with risking it, because it's better than being afraid and going through life bored.

Jasinda Wilder

#32. Constant action overcomes cold; being still overcomes heat.

Lao-Tzu