Quotes About Broken Things

#1. I don't know why I ever helped you." "Because you like broken things.

Cassandra Clare

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Sometimes broken things heal crooked. The pieces didn't fit anymore.

Ann Aguirre

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. I sometimes go and sit there. it is my museum of broken things.

Sachin Kundalkar

#10. 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

#11. And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things.

George R R Martin

#12. I know all about broken things. I came from a broken house, and a broken land full of broken people. I have a broken soul and a broken heart. This man doesn't know it, but all his cracks align with mine.

Laura Thalassa

#13. And it was then that he began to fall in love with her for the second time... because he believed in broken things.

Amy Zhang

#14. It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it's probably because God has more pieces to work with.

Bob Goff

#15. My mother was a restorer, she repaired broken things. I don't do that. I destroy things. I cannot go the straight line. I must destroy, rebuild, destroy again. My rhythm is not the same. My mother moved in a straight line: I go from one extreme to the other.

Louise Bourgeois

#16. This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people,

John Connolly

#17. God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume. It is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever.

Vance Havner

#18. The hurt in you and the hurt in me makes us a bad combination. Two hurt and broken things can't ever make a whole thing.

Tara Brown

#19. Some broken things you can't mend. Some you have to put together very slowly piece by fragile piece, waiting until the last bit of work is strong enough before you try the next. It takes a lot of patience.

Juliet Marillier

#20. God doesn't break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them.

Bob Goff

#21. Dirty, stained, withered, broken things seem beautiful to me.

Yohji Yamamoto

#22. Sometimes broken things deserve to be repaired.

Camron Wright

#23. Like Rosaleen and Arthur's house, this had the feel of generations of people who had lived there before, families that had grown up, run and shouted through the hallways, broken things, grown things, fallen in love. Instead of the occupants owning the house, the house owned a part of each of them.

Cecelia Ahern

#24. The same sun that rises over castles and welcomes the day
Spills over buildings into the streets where orphans play
And only You can see the good in broken things
You took my heart of stone, and You made it home
And set this prisoner free

Bethany Dillon

#25. I don't know why I ever helped you."
"You like broken things.

Cassandra Clare

#26. Broken things can be fixed and healed. Nothing is too difficult or too dirty to clean.

Marika McCoola

#27. You like broken things?" Cash muttered.

Zee bit down hard on his plush lower lip. His face was darkly flushed, his fingers tight against Cash's skull. "Love them," he gritted. "Nothing like a project.

Jae T. Jaggart

#28. I see a broken shell and I remind myself that something might have needed setting free. See, broken things always have a story, don't they?

Sara Pennypacker

#29. Didn't anyone ever tell you not to fall in love with broken things?

A.M. Daily

#30. 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

#31. Why should you want to help him?" "Your brother Jon asked it of me. And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things." Tyrion Lannister placed a hand over his heart and grinned. The

George R R Martin

#32. September felt sure that her shadow and everyone's shadows were all part of the same broken thing, and broken things were to be fixed, whatever the cost, especially if you had been the one to break it in the first place.

Catherynne M Valente

#33. Maybe it is possible to make new things out of the broken things. I

Ned Hayes

#34. Broken things can be made whole again. Perhaps not as they were before, but maybe stronger this time.

Carrie Ryan

#35. Broken things are powerful.Things about to break are stronger still.The last shot from the brittle bow is truest.

Eugene McCarthy

#36. We are not broken things, neither of us. We are cracked pottery mended with laquer and flakes of gold, whole as we are, complete unto each other. Complete and worthy and so very loved.

Mackenzi Lee

#37. I've always loved fixing broken things.
If something fixed by myself caused a smile, I'd feel saved. In that case it would be worth it. And I was delighted.

Hiro Kiyohara

#38. Men throw broken things away, but God never uses anything until he first breaks it.

Adrian Rogers

#39. I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples, bastards and broken things.

George R R Martin

#40. I have come to New York because it is the most forlorn of places, the most abject. The brokenness is everywhere, the disarray is universal. You have only to open your eyes to see it. The broken people, the broken things, the broken thoughts. The whole city is a junk heap.

Paul Auster

#41. I'm not going anywhere. I hope. It's been an adventure. We took some casualties over the years. Things got broken. Things got lost.
But I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Anthony Bourdain

#42. She is always unwilling to understand, to listen,
She laughs to hide her fear of herself.
She has always walked beneath the arches of nights
And wherever she went
She left
The mark of broken things.

Paul Eluard

#43. But I'd come to a time when I couldn't deal with these broken things anymore. There were too many of them. I couldn't fix them. I didn't have the strength. I couldn't hold them in my mind. I didn't even want to know about them.

William Loizeaux

#44. You know, Zellie, there are enough broken things in the world. You shouldn't go around breaking things just for the fun of it.

Jasmine Warga

#45. Not all broken things need to be fixed. Sometimes they just need to be loved. It would be a shame if only people who were whole were deserving of love." "Brooks.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. Cherish every relationship in your life. There are certain things in life that can't be fixed if broken!

Avijeet Das

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. God wants us to perform good deeds--to repair what's broken, to make things better in the world.

Carla Jablonski

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. 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

#56. Sometimes things have to be broken and reformed to become truly beautiful.

Kristen Reed

#57. Let my heart be broken with the things that break God's heart.

Robert Pierce

#58. So much has broken today. So many things, I don't know how to begin fixing them all.

A.G. Howard

#59. I don't understand, Why do I stress the man, When there's so many bigger things at hand?

Amy Winehouse

#60. 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

#61. 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

#62. Sometimes," he said after a second that lasted a million years, "things get broken. And they can't be fixed.

Megan Hart

#63. 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

#64. 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

#65. 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

#66. 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

#67. 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

#68. 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

#69. 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

#70. Things are strongest where they're broken.

Louise Penny

#71. 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

#72. 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

#73. 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

#74. 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

#75. Sometimes a broken dream will make you sad or make you mean. Sometimes things ain't bad as they seem.

Gordon Lightfoot

#76. We're not broken baby...we're just bent. And bent's okay. Bent means that we're just figuring things out.

K. Bromberg

#77. 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

#78. 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

#79. 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

#80. 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

#81. 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

#82. 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

#83. 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

#84. 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

#85. 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

#86. 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

#87. 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

#88. 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

#89. 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

#90. 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

#91. 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

#92. Some things are worth getting your heart broken for.

Sarah Jane Smith

#93. Love is where unseen and unsaid things
merge with each other
where silence is thirsty of happenings

Seema Gupta

#94. 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

#95. Or maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world.

Cassandra Clare

#96. 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

#97. Maybe it was all right to let things be broken for awhile.

Elana K. Arnold

#98. 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

#99. 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

#100. 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