Quotes About Something Broken

#1. God is a specialist at making something useful and beautiful out of something broken and confused.

Charles R. Swindoll

#2. I worry there is something broken in our generation; there are so many sad eyes on happy faces.

Atticus

#3. This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken.

Stephen R. Donaldson

#4. You can't sweep something broken into a bag and call it whole. It takes repair.

Paula Heller Garland

#5. 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

#6. You don't write because someone sets assignments! You write because you need to write, or because you hope someone will listen or because writing will mend something broken inside you or bring something back to life.

Joanne Harris

#7. I met her eyes, and for the first time I perceived that there was something broken behind them, like a tiny crack
in a diamond that becomes visible only when viewed through a magnifying lens; normally it is hidden by the brilliance of the stone.

Mohsin Hamid

#8. He was a practical man: give him a sensitive technical instrument, and he could maintain it; something broken, and he could mend it, meditatively, efficiently. But confronted by his grieving wife, he felt useless.

M.L. Stedman

#9. It's strange, but seeing something broken is somehow worse when you can tell that it used to be beautiful.

Brenna Yovanoff

#10. I can't think why men would believe that it is a better world where something beautiful is destroyed and something broken left in its place.

Philippa Gregory

#11. God isn't looking for something brilliant; he's looking for something broken.

Bob Kauflin

#12. A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.

Vera Nazarian

#13. but Phil looked up and gave them a weak smile. "Well," he said, "this isn't too bad. My left leg is broken, but at least I'm right-legged. That's pretty fortunate." "Gee," one of the other employees murmured. "I thought he'd say something more along the lines of 'Aaaaah! My leg! My leg!

Lemony Snicket

#14. 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

#15. Sometimes a broken heart can mend something else's brokenness

Munia Khan

#16. Your job isn't to judge. - Your job isn't to figure out if someone deserves something or decide who is right or wrong. - Your job is to lift the fallen, restore the broken, and heal the hurting.

Joel Osteen

#17. We don't even realize something is broken until someone else shows us a better way

Alexis Ohanian

#18. Everybody knows something's broken in the world. But illogically, foolishly, we are looking for fixes from broken people with broken ideas in broken places.

Matt Chandler

#19. If you don't know or didn't understand, ASK! It's your responsibility to find out. Research; demonstrate an unquenchable desire to know everything about your job. If something is broken or not right, take the initiative to fix it or make

Dick Couch

#20. Rejection never feels good, but it certainly hurts less when we are not needing something from the person who is rejecting us.

Susan Jeffers

#21. Let me tell you something: You can live in a broken home, you can play with a broken toy, but you cannot love with a broken heart.

Bella Pollen

#22. Something is broken when the food comes on a Styrofoam tray wrapped in slippery plastic, a carcass of a being whose only chance at life was a cramped cage. That is not a gift of life; it is a theft.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

#23. Narcolepsy is a disorder that affects many different areas of life. So in typical patients with narcolepsy, they have something called "excessive daytime sleepiness." So, they're very sleepy during the day. Yet, at night, they're still sleepy, but their sleep is very broken.

Shelby Harris

#24. Don't try fixing something that is already broken in the first place.

John Robert Go

#25. When someone who's starved of love is shown something that looks like sincere affection, is it any wonder that she jumps at it and clings to it?

Sayo Masuda

#26. If you must run, have something to run toward, so it feels less like cowardice.

Mark Lawrence

#27. When someone in power declares that something is broken that means it's actually fine. What they're really saying is, "Let's change this so I like it and ruin it." Nothing is ever broken.

Greg Gutfeld

#28. Perhaps that's what she caught, not Life Fatigue but just grief over a broken heart--and the bitterness that comes with being cheated too early of something true--like a young husband's love.

Joseph G. Peterson

#29. Hemingway had a handy dictum. You want to know if something is morally right? Listen to your stomach. If it sits like broken glass, then it's morally wrong.

Ken Bruen

#30. I just hope people see that if God can do something beautiful with my broken pieces, then God truly has a plan for each and everyone of us.

Nick Vujicic

#31. It was like a broken slot machine in the casino that pays off every time. It would keep paying off until someone said something about it; but no one who played the slot machine had any interest in pointing out that it was broken.

Michael Lewis

#32. I have a good imagination. Look, I know what it feels like to have a broken heart. I know what it feels like to feel something for somebody. I'm just too weird to be in a relationship.

Diane Warren

#33. You think my heart will be broken?" "I think your heart will learn. The heart can't be broken if you don't let it break. Let it, Hawthorne. People are so afraid of being broken that they don't allow themselves to learn from the pain. The heart can't be taught if you don't give it something to learn.

R.K. Ryals

#34. I know something. America is not broken, Washington, D.C. is broken.

Rick Perry

#35. I never expected to find myself here, on the edge of the continent
childless, possibly jobless, with broken bones and a broken marriage, citizen of a broken country. But here I am, and I must make something of it. That's really the only choice one has: make something of it, or don't.

Michelle Richmond

#36. Quinn, a little heads up next time would be awesome. You know, just a little text message saying, 'Oh, by the way, when you get home, there will be two way too hot for human kind identical freaking twins, living right next door.' Something like that, no big deal.

Kimberly Lauren

#37. Broken! Busted! Everybody has something to repair. Before buying new, let Mighty Putty fix it for you.

Billy Mays

#38. Being a creator of a song I get to take all these broken fragments of failure and chaos and weave together something beautiful and meaningful. Decay. Death. Pain. Fall. And if God is a songwriter then these fallen leaves of mine can be redeemed

Jon Foreman

#39. One day, I just thought, if you see a bird with a broken leg, you really have the urge to do something about it and help the bird, then at the same time you go to a restaurant and eat a chicken or something. It doesn't make any sense.

Patrik Baboumian

#40. It's a good thing to see that people can heal after they've been broken, that they can change and become something different from what they were before.

Wiley Cash

#41. After some time he felt for his pipe. It was not broken, and that was something. Then he felt for his pouch, and there was some tobacco in it, and that was something more. Then he felt for matches and he could not find any at all, and that shattered his hopes completely.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#42. Steve got that pinched, unhappy look on his face that Tony never knew how to deal with. Most of the time he either threw something more broken than himself in Steve's path and ran, or just offered to buy the Dodgers again. Neither of the gambits worked well, but Tony was out of ideas.

Scifigrl47

#43. You didn't break me. You can't break something that was already broken.

E.K. Blair

#44. If you fear you've written too many checks on God's kindness account, drag regrets around like a broken bumper, huff and puff more than you delight and rest, and, most of all, if you wonder whether God can do something with the mess of your life, then grace is what you need.

Max Lucado

#45. Something is not right,' Weavyr announced. She crouched lower over one spot in the Wyrd and tugged, redirecting the threads. In the moments that followed, throughout the world, hearts were broken, brilliant careers were launched and dreams were dashed. A volleyball serve also went awry.

Maurissa Guibord

#46. Sometimes there is a wellspring or river of something beautiful and possible in the tenderest sense that comes to and from the most broken of children, and I was one of these, and whatever is was, I can't name, I can only thank. Perhaps it is the water of life that saves us, after all.

Linda Hogan

#47. Memories did one no good, not when one knew the truth in the present. Will was beautiful, but he was not hers; he was anybody's. Something in him was broken, and trough that break spilled a blind cruelty, a need to hurt and to push away.

Cassandra Clare

#48. The fact that we all have broken pasts is something that I'm very attracted to, along with being able to turn your life around and do good with it.

Minka Kelly

#49. What are you" -Mac "I don't follow" -Jericho "You dropped 30 feet in that warehouse. You should have broken something. What are you?" -Mac "A man with a rope." -Jericho

Karen Marie Moning

#50. He needed a story to go with her wildness, her coldness, her hollowness. The real story was that she'd had everything and hadn't deserved it, when she'd still wanted something else to sate a broken twisting emptiness that couldn't be filled.

Cole McCade

#51. It was broken. It was haunted. Just like her.
But it had bones, and it had memories, and it had the ability to be something strong again. Just like her.

Lauren Gilley

#52. I hated the term "heartbroken." It was such an understatement. "Broken" typically implied you were talking about something you could put back together. Or replace. My heart didn't feel like it was broken. It felt like it had been tossed into the blender and liquidized at 180 MPH.

Rachel K. Burke

#53. I like playing characters who are fractured, broken. I find that more relatable, for some reason. I don't feel that I'm like that myself by nature, but there's just something that you can really grab hold of if people have a darkness in them, I think.

Jamie Dornan

#54. Knowledge is the greatest power and it is something no one can see. It cannot be stolen or broken, No one can take it from you.

John Carrick

#55. I am something different. I freed the enslaved and let the broken mend themselves.

Pierce Brown

#56. Someone has broken your heart. I knew there was something about you. That's it, isn't it?'
A little," Sara said, suddenly self-conscious.
I'm sorry.'
It happens." She shrugged, straining for nonchalance.
Maybe,' he said. 'But if it's your destiny, what can you do but accept it.

Jennifer Vandever

#57. Before I left the 'Star' last year to write books full-time, I welcomed catastrophe. It was material. Missed planes, broken pipes, dead lawns, digestive disorders, you name it, if it was something that had gone horribly wrong, it was worth banging out 600 words about.

Linwood Barclay

#58. In spite of all the dishonour,
the broken standards, the broken lives,
The broken faith in one place or another,
There was something left that was more than the tales
Of old men on winter evenings.

T. S. Eliot

#59. Because I'm a big guy, I was always playing the bad guy or whatever, but after I did 'The Blind Side,' where I played a father who's a really loving, likeable sort of person, a lot of those barriers were broken down. People saw me as something softer, not so much as a heavy anymore.

Omar Dorsey

#60. If you will investigate all the Indian troubles, you will find that there is something wrong of this nature at the bottom of all of them, something relating to the supplies, or else a tardy and broken faith on the part of the general government.

George Crook

#61. Would you rather have it outside? Now the heat's broken, coffee in the sun isn't a repulsive idea." "What a romantic offer: something not actively repulsive.

Laurie R. King

#62. Answer me something. This life, where you get to meet people and know them, and become friends, and then in a few days or a few weeks, either they leave or you do...is it worth it? I am not sure. I think so. Maybe having your heart broken like that is what keeps it open.

James Maskalyk

#63. My place smells like whatever loneliness smells like. Ramen and broken dreams or something.

Kellen Burden

#64. Sorry's not good enough. When something's broken, sorry can never bring it back.

Kenneth Eade

#65. He was like a shattered stained-glass window: something beautiful that's broken; a million colours fallen on the ground where no light can get through.

Glenda Millard

#66. Then he said if I ever want to see how something works, just look at it broken.

Chris Crutcher

#67. Those who dare to dive into the oceans, often finds treasures; no one ever heard.
Take a leap of faith, every soul is having a treasure inside them, you just have to dive till the very end of their misty soul.
Something really precious is waiting for you there ...

Mohammad Shahzaib Ansari

#68. The first indication of menopause is a broken thermostat. It's either that or your weight. In any case, if you don't do something, you could be dead by August.
God, middle age is an unending insult.

Dorothea Benton Frank

#69. In search of some rest, in search of a break From a life of tests where something's always at stake Where something's always so far What about my broken car? What about my life so far? What about my dream?

Barry Privett

#70. If someone says or does something hurtful, call upon heaven for protection and healing.

Doreen Virtue

#71. Because there's nothing wrong with me," Alec says. "You know what is? Our society is so screwed up from top to bottom, everything about it, that it's become impossible to fix. It's easier to change people and make them fit into something that's broken. Know what I mean?

Brian James

#72. Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

G.K. Chesterton

#73. I felt a clot in my throat, something that wouldn't let language come ... And there is also a dream I have over and over again, of opening up my mouth and finding my tongue studded with broken glass, so every word is a wound.

Lauren Slater

#74. Something was bleeding ... and something was broken. It was my heart ... because I had to leave you. (Chase to Rayne)

Kimberly Brockman

#75. The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you something is broken that you can fix.

Stephen King

#76. I realized that once people are broken in certain ways they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one.

Douglas Coupland

#77. When you see something that is broken, fix it. When you find something that is lost, return it. When you see something that needs to be done, do it. In that way, you will take care of your world and repair creation.

Lawrence Kushner

#78. I think we should send him back," Reth said, glancing at poor, broken Jack with something that looked shockingly like compassion in his golden eyes. "He hasn't your resilience, and, admirable as it was of him to join us, this isn't his fight.

Kiersten White

#79. I'd unboxed so much china from funeral sales and broken-up households that there was something almost unspeakably sad about the pristine, gleaming displays, with their tacit assurance that shiny new tableware promised an equally shiny and tragedy-free future.

Donna Tartt

#80. In every human heart is a place where you put all your broken dreams. When something doesn't work out, no matter what it may be, you just have to give it up and stuff it in with your broken dreams. And make sure you keep the lid on tight.

Sayo Masuda

#81. If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you. Be true to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#82. I was dealing with craft, and that's the surprising thing, the number of people who have literally broken down on our stage, because when you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong.

James Lipton

#83. Ray seemed about to say something more when a boom shook the entire shuttle. I felt a rush of panic, thinking we'd just come under attack. Then I realized we'd just broken the sound barrier.

Ernest Cline

#84. When we are forced to endure what we cannot endure, something breaks inside our minds. That broken-mindedness is commonly called trauma.

John A. Macdougall

#85. Everything that was broken has
forgotten its brokenness. I live
now in a sky-house, through every
window the sun. Also your presence.
Our touching, our stories. Earthy
and holy both. How can this be, but
it is. Every day has something in
it whose name is Forever.

Mary Oliver

#86. The only way I'd ever die of a broken heart, is if I slammed into something really hard

Josh Stern

#87. It's dark. You exhale a fist of memory. I love you like weathering wood in a room of empty pianos. When you return to something you love, it's already beyond repair. You wear it broken.

James L. White

#88. People should not judge failed love affairs as failed experiences, but as part of the growth process. Something does not have to end well for it to have been one of the most valuable experiences of a lifetime.

Ethel Person

#89. I started writing cheating songs when I was too young to have any idea what I was writing about - broken hearts and things like that. I just think it was something I already knew, something I had experienced in another lifetime.

Willie Nelson

#90. The author squares man's depravity with still being made in the image of God with this word picture. A vase that has held beautiful roses though now broken, will nevertheless hold something of the fragrance it once contained.

A.W. Tozer

#91. He was treating me like something breakable, which is different from how you treat something you yourself have broken.

Joshilyn Jackson

#92. What are you going to do?,' he asked me. Me? Nothing. Something has just been broken inside me; you yourself will never be able to repair it.

Consuelo De Saint-Exupery

#93. Baby that's impossible, you can't give him something you don't have. That man who just walked out of this house, he's the one who has the majority of it. Chris, he only has the tiny pieces that were left behind when it got broken

R.S. Burnett

#94. A truly brilliant mind, but it was brilliant like a fractured mirror, all marvellous facets and rainbows but, ultimately, also something was broken.

Terry Pratchett

#95. As a matter of fact, I was going to offer you something."
"What did you have in mind?"
"A field trip. You interested in doing something dangerous, and possibly illegal?"
"Does it involve underage girls, broken curfews and assorted fruit toppings?

Rachel Vincent

#96. After a while you learn the difference between holding a hand and falling in love.. You begin to learn that kisses don't always mean something, Promises can be broken just as quickly as they are made, and goodbyes sometime really are forever!

Atul Purohit

#97. You never know. Something small and broken really can be powerful.

Beth Revis

#98. I have come to realize my need to take the New Testament witness seriously that groaning and grief and feeling broken are legitimate ways for me to express my cross-bearing discipleship to Jesus. It's not as if groaning means I am somehow doing something wrong. Groaning is a sign of my fidelity.

Wesley Hill

#99. The bad thing caught you.
I've never retreated in my life. I've never backed away from a fight and I've never cowered in fear. Ever. That's not who I am. But I've been in combat long enough to know that when something unbeatable chases you, you do the only thing you can do.
You run. - Gabe

Courtney Cole

#100. The next time something happens to your car, make a note as to what you feel the broken part represents and see if you can connect it to how you are feeling at that particular moment. You may be surprised at the results. One day I will write a little book and call it Heal Your Automobile.

Louise L. Hay