Top 100 Quotes About Broken Things
#1. Once you start altering your body's blueprint, things start falling apart. Some players take steroids, and two years later, after they've broken records, suddenly they have back problems, shoulder problems, arm problems. They're out of the game for good.
Charlie Sheen
#2. A hungry man can be a fast learner. When you come to a table with nothing but need, you are grateful for things you might have pushed aside before. And when you kneel, hungry & broken at His table, you receive a grace from Him you might, at some other time, have completely missed.
Mike Yankoski
#3. Cherish every relationship in your life. There are certain things in life that can't be fixed if broken!
Avijeet Das
#4. I don't do villains often enough. There are two approaches: give them sympathetic, reasonable motivations for doing the most unspeakable things, or get inside heads that are interestingly broken.
Charles Stross
#5. These things don't fill me completely, but they remind me that it is not my job to fill myself. It's just my job to notice my emptiness and find graceful ways to live as a broken, unfilled human - and maybe to help myself and others feel a teeny bit better.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#6. God wants us to perform good deeds--to repair what's broken, to make things better in the world.
Carla Jablonski
#7. My parents taught me many of the things that people need in life to feel confident: practical things, such as managing finances, mucking out the goat barn, cleaning a house, doing repairs, mending a broken roof or a toilet.
Bryce Dallas Howard
#8. It's just that ... I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is.
Sarah Dessen
#9. 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.
K'naan
#10. When things fall apart, the broken pieces allow all sorts of things to enter, and one of them is the presence of God.
Shauna Niequist
#11. I don't know why I ever helped you." "Because you like broken things.
Cassandra Clare
#12. Sometimes things have to be broken and reformed to become truly beautiful.
Kristen Reed
#13. Let my heart be broken with the things that break God's heart.
Robert Pierce
#14. So much has broken today. So many things, I don't know how to begin fixing them all.
A.G. Howard
#15. I don't understand, Why do I stress the man, When there's so many bigger things at hand?
Amy Winehouse
#16. It should never be your job to pick up the pieces of a broken man or to housebreak one. There are far better things you can do with your time.
Alice Walsh
#17. She looked around and saw all of the broken things in her wake, and then she looked inside herself ans saw the spidering cracks from the weight of all the things she had done.
Amy Zhang
#18. I'm not so sure," Dad said. "Every damn thing in the universe can be broken down into smaller things, even atom, even protons, so theoretically speaking, I guess you had a winning case. A collection of things should be considered one thing. Unfortunately, theory don't always carry the day.
Jeannette Walls
#19. Sometimes," he said after a second that lasted a million years, "things get broken. And they can't be fixed.
Megan Hart
#20. If I were to save one possession in a fire, it would have to be my dad's camera, an old, broken Nikon. I always keep it with me - his personal things mean a lot.
Gia Coppola
#21. I'm a mechanic; I fix things that are broken. I turn into a thirty-five pound coyote. I have powerful friends. But when it comes right down to it, my real superpower is chaos." -Mercy
Patricia Briggs
#22. January is always a good month for behavioral economics: Few things illustrate self-control as vividly as New Year's resolutions. February is even better, though, because it lets us study why so many of those resolutions are broken.
Sendhil Mullainathan
#23. I'm not broken, I'm ruined. Do you understand the difference? With broken maybe you can fix things. Ruined? All you can do is wait to bury me.
J.R. Ward
#24. I have a toothache today. I never seem to be able to rise above a toothache. It makes me want to howl, break things, pull noses, tweak ears, screech.
John Colton
#25. I could come back tomorrow morning and see if anyone needs any pots mended." "Oh, they will," Morinen said. "People always drop things. I wish I had a pair of stockings for every dish I've broken." The
Emily Croy Barker
#26. It's stupid, I know, but I care. All the things that meant so much when we were young. Under the blankets late at night, listening to long-distance radio. All those things lost now or broken. Can you remember? Can you remember that feeling? Perhaps I ought to go to a doctor.
Grant Morrison
#27. Things are strongest where they're broken.
Louise Penny
#28. They aren't ugly." I bit my lip, trying to find the right words. "more like beautiful things that have had the misfortune of being broken.
Danielle L. Jensen
#29. Even moderates, they can see in Trump the potential to have logjams broken and things finally get done. This makes some conservatives and some liberals furious, nervous, and me nervous a little bit, because I'm a pretty pure conservative. So that's a potential of his leadership.
Jeff Sessions
#30. There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.
Queen Latifah
#31. When nothing else subsists from the past, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered ... the smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls ... bearing resiliently, on tiny and almost impalpable drops of their essence, the immense edifice of memory
Marcel Proust
#32. Sometimes a broken dream will make you sad or make you mean. Sometimes things ain't bad as they seem.
Gordon Lightfoot
#33. We're not broken baby...we're just bent. And bent's okay. Bent means that we're just figuring things out.
K. Bromberg
#34. If you're not seeing each other anymore because things are so strained, and your only communication is a weekly e-mail, and you're wondering which medium is most appropriate for announcing your desire to break up - guess what, you've already broken up.
Amber Heard
#35. I love my job. But I like to have fun at work. So I don't get finicky if one strand of hair is standing out in a shot. I don't get finicky about broken nails. I don't let small things affect me. I'm not perfect. Nobody is. There's no fun in being perfect. I enjoy my work; there's no pressure on me.
Sonakshi Sinha
#36. I believe that things should be used, even rare and valuable things, otherwise they lose their essential nature. That's far worse than being broken.
Dia Calhoun
#37. You are strong enough to sing as you wish, not as your pain has forced to. You aren't your hurt. You're other than that. You are not the broken things you've been.
Maria Dahvana Headley
#38. Did you think that rats do not have hearts? Wrong. All living things have a heart. And the heart of any living thing can be broken.
Kate DiCamillo
#39. All of the things that you promised me that you'd be, now your hands are tired.
And all of the things that you promised me that you'd need, now my hands are tired.
Tegan Quin
#40. Sometimes broken things heal crooked. The pieces didn't fit anymore.
Ann Aguirre
#41. All ceremonies are in themselves very silly things; but yet, a man of the world should know them. They are the outworks of Mannersand Decency, which would be too often broken in upon, if it were not for that defence, which keeps the enemy at a proper distance.
Lord Chesterfield
#42. I like to deal with things I heard about, ... People are always getting their house broken into around the holidays. That's when the crime rate goes up.
Ice Cube
#43. Buy experiences, not things. Spending on experiences makes people happier than spending on things. Things get broken and go out of style. Experiences get better every time you talk about them.
Jean Chatzky
#44. And that is also what the movie's about, going beyond success, what is success 'cause I think success is misperceived as just a cake and it isn't. There is many things inside that success. There's a maturity and a heartbreak and sadness and broken glass.
David O. Russell
#45. We're all broken, Laura. And we're all looking for someone to blame. God's the easiest target. We let ourselves believe that if He loved us, things would be perfect. But we both know that's not true.
Kathleen Fuller
#46. He knew that, in the eyes of God, all things are interlinked; he knew that justice does indeed spring in great surprise from the acts and consequences of ages long forgotten; and he knew that love is not broken by time.
Mark Helprin
#47. God is the shaper of your heart. God does not display his work in abstract terms. He prefers the concrete, and this means that at the end of your life one of three things will happen to your heart: it will grow hard, it will be broken, or it will be tender. Nobody escapes
Ravi Zacharias
#48. I worked out of Hollywood for 10 years and I had my heart broken half a dozen times, so I know all the things that can go wrong.
George R R Martin
#49. What do cells do when they see a broken piece of DNA? Cells don't like such breaks. They'll do pretty much anything they can to fix things up. If a chromosome is broken, the cells will repair the break using an intact chromosome.
Jack W. Szostak
#50. She fixed things that were broken, and then began fixing things that weren't broken, or broke things so they could be fixed in ways no one understood or found particularly convenient.
Jordan Stratford
#52. Love is where unseen and unsaid things
merge with each other
where silence is thirsty of happenings
Seema Gupta
#53. And although one broken heart doesn't make me an expert in the subject, I believe you need both things - time and an emotional replacement - to fully mend one.
Emily Giffin
#54. Or maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world.
Cassandra Clare
#55. I like to know why a video has suddenly gone viral, why a song has broken, why a TV show is suddenly rating out of pattern ... I'm pretty good at understanding why things are becoming popular.
Simon Cowell
#56. Maybe it was all right to let things be broken for awhile.
Elana K. Arnold
#57. I don't want the universe broken up just yet," drawled the Marquis. "I want to do a lot of beastly things before I die. I thought of one yesterday in bed.
G.K. Chesterton
#58. Men are in a restless pursuit after satisfaction and earthly things. They have no forethought for their eternal state, the present hour absorbs them. They turn to another and another of earth's broken cisterns, hoping to find water, where not a drop was ever discovered yet.
Charles Spurgeon
#59. There are a lot of things that manage to get broken in a life, most of them never to be put back together again.
Don Kurtz
#60. The terrible shock of his sentence had in some way broken that wall which separates us from the mystery of things beyond and which we call life.
Victor Hugo
#61. There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher.
A. Scott Berg
#62. Every adviser told me to study the company, learn the business for the first 90 days and don't make any decisions. I couldn't resist seeing broken things and immediately taking action.
Marcelo Claure
#63. I've never broken a bone in my body, even though I've done some extreme things.
Kellan Lutz
#64. 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
#65. Older Scout: [narrating] Neighbors bring food with death, and flowers with sickness, and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a knife, and our lives.
Harper Lee
#66. Maybe it needed to be broken. Sometimes things have to break before you can fix them.
Kami Garcia
#67. A man's deep friendships were the most important thing he could possess. Things can be broken, or lost. All a man can keep for certain are the things in his mind and heart.
Robin Hobb
#68. I hope your molding skills are up to date. Because really, some things, when broken, are impossible to repair, never mind how much clay you put on it.
Elle Aycart
#69. If you find yourself right now in a place where you are heartbroken, I want to remind you that Christ is very close to the broken. Our culture throws broken things away, but our Savior never does. He gently gathers all the pieces, and with His love and in His time, He puts us back together.
Sheila Walsh
#70. Breaking, in modern psychology, 'learned helplessness.' This is where you crush an animal's desire to fight. Why is it that we believe broken things are tamed possessions?
Rebecca K. O'Connor
#71. I sometimes go and sit there. it is my museum of broken things.
Sachin Kundalkar
#72. Broken necks, splattered patellas, severed arteries: These are the things from which dreams are made of.
Road Warrior Hawk
#73. You will never see things as they are; you will only see things as you are.
Shannon L. Alder
#74. Every woman has had the guy she's broken up with park across the street and stare at her door. Every guy has had someone call at two in the morning and hang up. Or you've been the person who has done those things.
Ned Tanen
#75. I can't think of a major story that we have broken that was incorrect. But we have had to correct some things that were false; we have had to retract things.
Mary Hart
#76. And then things would be fine. Then I'd be fine.
Sarah J. Maas
#77. The good man is neither uplifted with the good things of time, nor broken by its ills; but the wicked man, because he is corrupted by this world's happiness, feels himself punished by its unhappiness.
Augustine Of Hippo
#78. Life's not fair. Life's often complicated, leaving us to deal with things that we shouldn't have to. Life can make you smile one day, only to leave you broken into tiny little pieces the next.
Lisa De Jong
#79. To Eva, Cousin Randy was an untouchable demigod - an angel's wing broken from an ancient statue, sent here to help her hover above all things insipid and heartbreaking.
J. Ryan Stradal
#80. I loved him, but I didn't know how to fix all of the things that were broken in our family.
Brodi Ashton
#81. To be broken is no reason to see all things as broken.
Mark Nepo
#82. Don't be very frightened, Marilla. I was walking the ridge-pole and I fell off. I suspect I have sprained my ankle. But, Marilla, I might have broken my neck. Let us look on the bright side of things.
L.M. Montgomery
#83. Broken-hearted leaders change things that go beyond their generation.
Andy Stanley
#84. Seriously, how many times can a person break before the only things left are shattered fragments too small to piece back together?
Jay McLean
#85. Always try to fix what is broken so that when the blessings come, you will be able to receive it. This generation does a lot of right things for wrong reasons.
Patience Johnson
#86. If I had written King Lear, I would regret it all my life afterwards. Because that work is so big, that its defects show as huge, its monstrous defects, things even minimal in between some scenes and their possible perfection. It's not the sun with spots; it's a broken greek statue.
Fernando Pessoa
#87. When you're in a dark place, and your light is going to run out before too long, you get on with things. It's a wonder to me how few people apply that same logic to their lives.
Mark Lawrence
#88. Some part of me must've thought that would fix everything. Things, don't just get fixed, though. Things get broken, and somtimes they stay that way. You just have to glue them together and hope it holds.
Lili St. Crow
#89. It is not good to have so many breakable things around. When they are broken you become sad. It is much better never to have had them.
John Steinbeck
#90. 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
#92. Sometimes it is like juggling with broken glass because both things are very sensitive and have to be handled with care. I can't let the career be neglected and I can't let my family and children be neglected either.
Kelly Price
#93. I'm not sure about anything. I hate being in charge. I hate making the decisions. I'm terrified of losing Mark. I'm terrified of losing Emma. I want someone to take over. I'm not as strong as you think. The things I want are wrong and broken things to want.
Cassandra Clare
#94. I tend to do golf charity things because it's much safer and you don't get much chance of a broken arm or leg.
Dougray Scott
#95. Come on, wife. Come take a little ride with me. Let me show you all the things you'll be missing when you go back East and leave me here with a broken heart.
Elle Casey
#97. 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
#98. Talking about straws and camels' backs is just one way of approaching things. If you have enough camels, no backs need be broken.
Idries Shah
#99. And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things.
George R R Martin
#100. And why should any man who writes, even if he writes things immortal, nurse anger at the world's neglect? Who asked him to publish? Who promised him a hearing? Who has broken faith with him? Your poem, your novel, who bargained with you for it?
George Gissing
