Quotes About Broken

How its heart beats! How it struggles to get away! As we do, Paul. As we do. We think we know so much, but we really don't know any more than a rat in a trap—a rat with a broken back that thinks it still wants to live.

Normand. I can't stop thinking about Bradie and the danger he's in I say. Why? he asks matter of factly. He'll be back. The skeleton key starts spinning You said he'd be different! I say. He's been taken by agents. Of course that will alter him, he says. He'll be broken, I realize out loud. Broken things can often be fixed, Normand says. His words catch me off guard. I'm pretty sure he has no idea that hes said exactly the right thing. The skeleton key stops spinning and the gat pops open.

The broken window theory argues that minor nuisances, if left unchecked, turn into major nuisances: that is, if someone breaks a window and sees it isn't fixed immediately, he gets the signal that it's all right to break the rest of the windows and maybe set the building afire too.

While over Alabama earth These words are gently spoken: Serve and hate will die unborn. Love and chains are broken.

Love is a promise delivered already broken.

My love is like some raven at my window with a broken wing.

So that the Universe felt love, by which, as somebelieve, the world has many times been turned to chaos. And at that moment this ancient rock, here and elsewhere, fell broken into pieces.

The only currency that will heal every culture is ceaseless love. To be a minister, we must walk like Jesus, talk like Jesus, and be like Jesus for a broken and dying world.

Even if your heart is broken and attacking you, you're still not better off without it.

The reason 'closure' is a cliche is that it is used too often, too imprecisely, and doesn't in any case reflect reality. In reality, such closure in broken friendships and much else in life is rarely achieved; only death brings closure and then not always for those still living.

A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.

Windows were broken. Where not broken they were boarded up, had been for years: the rust from nailheads had written long, sad farewells down the salt-silvered planks.

A lion shorn of his strength, an eagle robbed of his freedom, or a dove bereft of his mate, all die, it is said, of a broken heart; and who will aver that this grim bandit could bear the threefold brunt, heart-whole? This only I know, that when the morning dawned, he was lying there still in his position of calm repose, but his spirit was gone-the old king-wolf was dead.

When the forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law; peace is considered already broken.

This is Daddy's bedtime secret for to-day: Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue!

And then, because they were both Englishwomen and their hearts were somewhat broken, they turned back into the room and put on the kettle and made themselves a cup of tea.

When I deliver the message to a cross section of Rhode Island that democracy is broken because special interests have relentless power - which prevents politicians from compromising despite popular support on an issue - I don't have any pushback.

If Adam Schiff is able to review covert operations and intelligence, and if we have to be able to rely on his representations, our whole system is broken.

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

Republicans have offered dozens of comprehensive healthcare plans many of which achieve comprehensive healthcare reform without breaking what's working in healthcare. We want to fix what's broken in healthcare.

You know, coming from a broken dysfunctional family, you know, it's something that I always aspired to be - a good husband and a good father.

You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.

While I support immigration regulated through a legal framework, I do not support rewarding those who broke the law to get here.

I think everybody could agree that our immigration system is broken. We have not told the truth about it.