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Quotes About Broken

The memories were there, but the string of time that linked them like a pearl necklace was broken.
~ Peter Robinson
Mother's electric blanket broke, & I have 'mended' it, so she may be practising suttee involuntarily before long.
~ Philip Larkin
urged upon us by those who have already broken their own pledges under the Agreement they now seek to enforce.
~ Phillip Jennings
She liked it? 'I love it--the way you'd love an orphan, or a bird with a broken foot.
~ Pico Iyer
Along with Trump, there are few people, on either the right or the left, who would defend the system. The system is, everyone believes, broken: it's an insider's game; it's totally fixed; it serves itself. Trump codified this into a simple and vivid idea: the swamp.
~ Michael Wolff
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
I think a lot of the people who voted for Donald Trump were frustrated. And what they thought was, OK, government is broken. Therefore, we're going to send in this incendiary character. And he's just going to going to bust it all up, and we'll see what happens.
~ Sheldon Whitehouse
The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
~ Dan Webster
The earth itself was unchangeable, the endless tracts of sand and water and pavement. It was the people, the perturbable madmen who roamed its surface, who viewed the world as transient and broken. Everett wished the earth could somehow reach up and still them, the crazy people, and invest them with its silence and permanence and depth.
~ Jonathan Lethem
His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
This is what we're like. We are broken individuals, committing to what will be a broken union in a broken world.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun's broken heart, power to restore the moon's vision too.
~ Aberjhani
In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers' broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.
~ Aberjhani
Reputation is like fine china once broken it's very hard to repair.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.
~ Bill Ayers
Julian wouldn't wish for his daughter to be anything other than extraordinary: for her, kingdoms would be renounced, incurable diseases cured, world records broken.
~ Polly Samson
The fracture of pencil still useful, but the fracture of soul, we couldn't use it, Mister.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
I cannot tell her I have been moping over a broken heart when I have worked so hard to convince her I have no heart at all.
~ R.L. LaFevers
Our nation's tax code is a broken mess of rules and regulations. It rewards special interests, punishes success and holds back millions of Americans seeking better jobs, higher wages, and greater opportunities.
~ Chris Sununu
For each book, the time is also broken up.
~ Stephen R. George
We Americans are as great as we have ever been. But our government is broken.
~ Marco Rubio
I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.
~ R. Kelly
I was so broken when I did the first record. I was living in my parents' basement, I didn't know anyone. I was broken-hearted and writing this really dark record. I was at the bottom of a well.
~ Sharon Van Etten
If there is anything that has broken the church's relationship with families, it is the global sexual abuse scandal.
~ Anthea Butler