Best Broken Quotes

#1. I make people laugh for a living. I believe I can say objectively that what I do I do as well as anybody. Just say I'm one of the best broken field runners that ever lived. For 35 years I was a cult hero, an underground funny.

Mel Brooks

#2. Some promises are best broken. Trust me on this: I'm a politician.

Alastair Reynolds

#3. Well, first let me say that I think health care reform is important. It has to be a priority. And our system is broken. The Finance Committee bill is the best effort yet, due in large measure to the efforts of my colleague, Olympia Snowe, but it's not there yet. It falls short.

Susan Collins

#4. The best way to teach a child abuser to stop abusing is not counseling. It is not therapy. It is a mouth full of broken teeth and arms that, when the bones heal, cannot produce the force necessary to hit or burn another child.

Ryan Sayles

#5. When you bring something back from the brink of death, it fights harder to thrive.

Chelsea Fine

#6. We have a choice. We can embrace our humanness, which means embracing our broken natures and the compassion that remains our best hope for healing. Or we can deny our brokenness, forswear compassion, and, as a result, deny our own humanity.

Bryan Stevenson

#7. Alan had never been stabbed or shot or punctured or broken. Were scars the best evidence of living? If we have not survived something, and thus were certain that we'd lived, we could scar ourselves, couldn't we?

Dave Eggers

#8. He was a good man, but he had a broken heart. That'll take even the best of them down.

Hugh Howey

#9. At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

Henry Adams

#10. So you made some bad choices. Some of God's best players were His imperfect, broken prodigals. In fact, iffy players are God's best picks. He specializes in short-tempered, reckless, flawed people to accomplish his plans.

Susan May Warren

#11. Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory ceases with the effort; the painter's colors fade and the canvas rots; the marble is dragged from its pedestal and is broken into fragments.

Elbert Hubbard

#12. The best writing comes out when you find yourself broken. Your heart is ripped open and all the feelings spill out into a beautiful mess on paper.

Shannen Wrass

#13. The point of this language of "intention" and "personal responsibility" is broad exoneration. Mistakes were made. Bodies were broken. People were enslaved. We meant well. We tried our best. "Good intention" is a hall pass through history, a sleeping pill that ensures the Dream.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#14. Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns. We have the best politicians that money can buy.

Edward Abbey

#15. I put myself back together as best as I could, but I was sure that parts of me were broken permanently. Dark parts of me. Parts that I'd held onto for far too long.

Laurelin Paige

#16. Love isn't safe and life isn't guaranteed. So yeah, I could die and you could lose Levi and your heart could hurt again, but that's just life. The only alternative is living without fully loving anyone else. And that's not living at all.

Chelsea Fine

#17. Get away from me, you wicked treat devil."
She laughs. "Wicked treat devil? Wow. You can do better than that."
"Evil dessert demon?"
"Still lame."
"Chocolate temptress of salty death."
"Now you're just reaching.

Chelsea Fine

#18. Sometimes the best families are the ones God builds using unexpected pieces of our hearts.

Melanie Shankle

#19. When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? For us?

Ann Voskamp

#20. Centurion! Would you like to be a cavalryman one last time? There are Venicones who escaped when your line was broken to be hunted down, and Tribune Licinius has ordered me to take the best men available in their pursuit. Leave this hairy gentleman to watch the fun, and join us in the hunt!

Anthony Riches

#21. There's a road to hell that is paved with good intentions but it's a long route. The quicker path is paved with the kind of ignorance that clever men who just don't want to know are best at.

Mark Lawrence

#22. The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#23. Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#24. For not in quiet English fields
Are these, our brothers, lain to rest,
Where we might deck their broken shields
With all the flowers the dead love best.

Oscar Wilde

#25. But death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness; death was man's best friend; when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free.

Mark Twain

#26. We don't get all better; we don't fix everything that's broken. We just learn how to work around the broken bits. How to do the best we can with what we have, and who we are.

Lilah Pace

#27. We enjoy some gratification when our good friends die; for though their death leaves us in sorrow, we have the consolatory assurance that they are beyond the ills by which in this life even the best of people are broken down or corrupted.

Saint Augustine

#28. Loving you as my friend is one of the best parts of my life's story. Because, one day, you will know that friends is much better than broken relationship.

Shim Steward

#29. The best and fastest way to break a conspiracy was to identify the weakeast link in the chain and find a way to exploit it. When one link was broken, the chain would come loose.

Michael Connelly

#30. Acting has been my lover and best friend. My confidant and my tormentor. It has given me support and broken my heart and mended it.

Sally Field

#31. He was my mum and dad's best friend. He's a convicted murderer, but he's broken out of wizard prison and he's on the run. He likes to keep in touch with me, though ... keep up with my news ... check if I'm happy ...

J.K. Rowling

#32. America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken.

Mike Ferguson

#33. This next song is about when you get your heart broken and you try your best to glue it back together and you wake up one morning and you're so happy because you realize, Oh my God, the tape's holding!

Sara Quin

#34. You are the best of us. We are the best of you. What becomes of us will, inevitably, become of you. That is why you should care. That is why I write.
I end this chapter, then, with broken silence, broken vows, broken trust. Our secrets are yours now; I pray you use them well.

Donna Boyd

#35. I turn you out of doors tenant desire you pay no rent I turn you out of doors all my best rooms are yours the brain and heart depart I turn you out of doors switch off the lights throw water on the fire I turn you out of doors stubborn desire.

Alain Chartier

#36. Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.

Bruce Lee

#37. A Broken Record can still play the best soundtrack. Broken can be beautiful when you allow God work on you.

Kemi Sogunle

#38. He knows what I'm about to say
he always does. He is my best friend, my soul mate. In a perfect world, full of roses and sunshine we'd be together, but this is full of broken.

Jessica Sorensen

#39. This too shall pass. Life has a way of going on, and you do your best to move with it. A broken heart heals. Like every wound, there's a scar, a memory, but it fades. Finally you realize that an hour has passed without your thinking about it, then a day ...

Kristin Hannah

#40. In my best moments, when I calm down and listen closely, God says, I didn't ask you to become new and improved today. That wasn't the goal. You were broken down and strange yesterday, and you still are today, and the only one freaked out about it is you.

Shauna Niequist

#41. Having spent all of my decision-making years as a Pagan of one stripe or another, I have long found it condescending at best to assume one cannot worship the old gods or believe in magick without breaking out the leather bracers, wings, or Ye Broken Olde English.

Thomm Quackenbush

#42. You try getting any sympathy when you tell your best friends how much the self-avowed sadist broke your heart, how much pain she put you through. - Ivan E. Coyote to --------, 2004 (age 35)

David Eso

#43. I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Margaret Mitchell

#44. For some reason we human beings seem to learn best how to love when we're a bit broken, when our plans fall apart, when our myths of our self-sufficiency and goodness and safety are shattered.

Kathleen Norris

#45. The place I like best in this world is the kitchen. No matter where it is, no matter what kind, if it's a kitchen, if it's a place where they make food, it's fine with me. Ideally it should be well broken in. Lots of tea towels, dry and immaculate. Where tile catching the light (ting! Ting!)

Banana Yoshimoto

#46. The truth and regularity of a character is not, in justice, to be looked upon as broken, from any one single act or omission which may seem a contradiction to it:Mthe best of men appear sometimes to be strange compounds of contradictory qualities.

Laurence Sterne

#47. I speak to the broken halves of all our selves and tell them to embrace, loving the worst in us equally with the best.

J.M. Coetzee

#48. It's a broken life we live. It's best to accept it and move on rather than waste a good day worrying about it.

Lisa Alfonso

#49. Thou hast had thty day, old dame, but thy sun has long been set. Thou art now the very emblem of an old warhorse turned out on the barren heath; thou hast had thy paces in thy time, but now a broken amble is the best of them.

Walter Scott

#50. If you don't love me at my worst, then you don't deserve me at my best.

Marilyn Monroe

#51. Zack looks at Jenna and slowly pulls off his sunglasses. "Why, hello, beautiful," he says. "I'm Zack." He shows off his dimples. "And you are ... ?"
"Not going to sleep with you," Jenna quips, grinning right back at him.
His smile widens. "Well played.

Chelsea Fine

#52. The best way to not get your heart broken, is pretending you don't have one.

Charlie Sheen

#53. Todd, I can only love you because of my heart. It's my broken heart that lets me love you. It's my broken heart that makes me want to live the best life I can. I only want to live that life with you, only you. If you're willing to teach me I'm ready and willing to learn.

Sheila Bliss

#54. We must fix our broken education system. Every parent deserves a choice as to how to best educate their children so that every child has a chance to fulfill their potential.

Carly Fiorina

#55. It was not just friendship that we are attached to each other, it was sisterhood that made that bonding between us, but now that love doesn't exist anymore as people changes with time- that's reality.

Debolina

#56. Food is neither your enemy nor your best friend. It won't mend your broken heart and it won't send you to hell.

Emme

#57. Indeed, a quick glance around this broken world makes it painfully obvious that we don't need more arguments on behalf of God; we need more people who live as if they are in covenant with Unconditional Love, which is our best definition of God. (p. 21)

Robin R. Meyers

#58. But nothing external to God can possibly constrain him. If he chooses to restore a broken universe, it is because he "wants" to, because, for example, he loves it and wants the best for it. But he is free to do as he wills, and his character (Who He Is) controls his will.

James W. Sire

#59. Captain America is definitely the most handsome Avenger," said Cristina. "But I like the Hulk. I would like to heal his broken heart." "We're Nephilim," said Julian. "We're not even supposed to know about the Avengers. Besides," he added, "Iron Man is obviously the best-looking." "Can

Cassandra Clare

#60. She looked at me and she said, Branden, the best things in life are worth the greatest risk.Falling in love is one of those things. Can it breaks our heart?Yes. Most definitely. But more often than not, before we fall, we fly.

Courtney Cole

#61. I feel like a traitor, a phony, a fake. But I am a hypocrite with the best intentions, and I need kissing desperately.

Coco J. Ginger

#62. -I swore an oath...to honor the Compact, to bring justice to the Society of Man. You swore the same. But you forgot what that meant. Everyone has. That is why this world is broken. Maybe the next one can be better.-

-This world is the best we can afford.-

Pierce Brown

#63. Whores, Anna once read, make the very best wives. They are accustomed to the varying moods of men, they keep their broken hearts to themselves, and easy women always ease through grief.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

#64. May the might be in the light, the beyond of east or west.
As the faith lies within a broken bayonet, an ending put best.

Rosca Marx

#65. Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.
Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old and weary and broken of heart.

Mark Twain

#66. The heart aches in brokenness as daylight awakens the pain of knowing.

Phindiwe Nkosi

#67. You can't sit next to me. You'll ruin my game."
"What game?" she says. "You're a white guy wearing a gold chain. You have no game.

Chelsea Fine

#68. There have been nine Super Bowls in New Orleans, and not all of them have brought the best of luck to NFL Films. We got robbed twice there, got food poisoning, and my hotel room was broken into on the day the Bears played the Patriots in January 1986.

Steve Sabol

#69. She broke my heart over and over, day after day, but I love her.

Kelly Moran

#70. I am nervous about this game. The Cowboys' best player, quarterback Tony Romo, is not going to play because he has a broken finger. The Cowboys ought to be able to win without Tony Romo because the St. Louis Rams are terrible, but I am still nervous.

Craig Lancaster

#71. On sheer ability, Mario is good enough to win scoring titles with a broken stick. On pure talent, he's the best there is. But Wayne almost never disappoints you. He comes to work every night.

Bobby Orr

#72. All I have is broken.
Broken mends best.

Amy K. Sorrells

#73. If I had a story idea that I felt would work best in three volumes I might write a trilogy eventually. I'd very likely write it all at once, though, so I could work on it as a whole and not broken into individual volumes.

Erin Morgenstern

#74. Sexual tension is like a ruthless pigeon. Feed it once and it will follow you around forever. It never tires or goes on vacation. It just lingers.

Chelsea Fine

#75. The best stock a man can invest in, is the stock of a farm; the best shares are plow shares; and the best banks are the fertile banks of a rural stream; the more these are broken the better dividends they pay.

Henry Ward Beecher

#76. For once, I wished I wasn't so broken, so Rhian had a best friend who was strong and not afraid to love, to hold up as an example of what was possible. Instead, I was her excuse that she wasn't being irrational. I was her enabler.

Samantha Young

#77. You can call me heartless if you want, but the best way not to get hurt and not to get your heart broken, is by pretending that you lack one. And sometimes, I believe it. Almost. So

Mia Asher

#78. I'm yours." It was his turn to stop her words. "Just stay with me," he said. "In any way you want." "You deserve better." Rough, broken words. "There's no one better than you." "I'll be the best soldier you ever have," she repeated in a shattered whisper. "I know." It would have to be enough.

Nalini Singh

#79. We are all cursed. We live in the era of the curse. A world that cannot be fixed. The best thing would be an alien ship. Another planet. One with three moons. But you, I saw you in my dreams. I saw you coming. You came to heal my broken heart. That's why I named you Ahlam.

Hannah Lillith Assadi

#80. Because I want us to be friends again. I made some really bad choices, and I'm sorry. You're leaving for Florida and if we don't fix this now, it won't be fixed.

Katie McGarry

#81. Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.

Gene Tierney

#82. However, in recent years our nation has seen a sizable influx of illegal immigration that at best highlights some alarming inadequacies and at worst indicates a broken system.

Spencer Bachus

#83. I was crying because I had broken my best friend's heart.

Sherman Alexie

#84. I love you, Mia. Every part of you. The best and worst. The broken and perfect. The bad, the good. You're it for me, babe. I see only you.

Samantha Towle

#85. Little Jane's love would have been my best reward, without it, my heart is broken.

Charlotte Bronte

#86. I wanted the chance to give him something, to give him the best of me, as pathetic as it was, damaged and broken, warped at the edges, hardly worth having. I decided that if I had the chance, if he asked, if he needed, it was his.

Sarah Fine

#87. She'd known me my whole life. It's hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing a part of yourself.

Jenny Han

#88. Good things have become the enemy of the best things. I challenge you and release you right now as you read these words to let your heart be broken by the Holy Ghost. It's time for you to make your life holy.

Tommy Tenney

#89. My Jewel, I can't give you my whole heart. But the part of it I can give you is the part that isn't scarred and isn't broken. I'll give you the best of me and protect you from the worst for the rest of my life.

Tiffany Reisz

#90. Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.

Gerald Brenan

#91. I crouch hidden among the boulders, my body broken and bloodied. Below me, someone is about to murder my best friend, the one person who understands me. If I act, I will likely lose my own life. If I don't, I'll lose so much more ...

Rae Carson

#92. What's broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I live ... I'm too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates and starting all over.

Margaret Mitchell

#93. Strengthened by the experiences of almost two decades in the various capitals, the Nazis were confident that their best "propaganda" would be their racial policy itself, from which, despite many other compromises and broken promises, they had never swerved for expediency's sake.

Hannah Arendt

#94. All the times are best whenever you are with me.

Pavankumar Nagaraj

#95. Warrior actions are derived from the warrior soul. The best know it and nurture it. And once you have it, it never leaves. The warrior soul does not weaken. Long after the body has broken down, the soul stands tall.

William G. Boykin

#96. I think we've broken a lot of barriers and kind of shattered our "glass ceiling" that was there for women. There are so many great fighters and we've proved a lot of people wrong. A lot of the times our fights are the best fights on the card.

Miesha Tate

#97. You are the best mistake I could have ever made, and if ever there was a rule to be broken, it was the one that would have made us impossible." He pulled back, focusing on her. "I ... regret ... nothing.

Elizabeth Finn

#98. The best thing I ever learned when I first started acting is that you audition, and then you forget about it when you walk out the door. Even when you have a callback, you can't bank on things until you actually book that job, or your heart will just be broken over and over again.

Allison Tolman

#99. There are those among us who have erred, deeply and significantly. Who have wounded the world and broken themselves. The worst of them lose themselves in their errors. The best of them crawl back, one foot at a time, and seek to amend their breaches. That is the way of the brave.

Chloe Neill

#100. There's a bond that forms over a sink, where the silences seem natural and the conversation is broken up with practical exchanges about where the dishes go or what kind of detergent works best.

Lisa Beazley