Quotes About Shattered

It took a freaking genius to put this together, Michael. I hefted my staff. Fortunately, I said, and took a two-handed swing at the nearest stand of slender, delicate crystal. It shattered with gratifying ease, and the encasing light around the greater circle began to waver and dissipate. It only takes a monkey with a big stick to take it apart.

After the demolition began, the late Pramod Mahajan took Advani to a guest house. Later Mahajan told me that Advani was shattered and near tears. According to Mahajan, he said, 'They have destroyed my movement.

Perhaps nothing in this broken world can be pure or of a piece, unfractured.

If she was broken, she would slash him with her jagged edges, reckless as a drunkard with a shattered bottle.

To my surprise, it was Lord John. But a Lord John I had never seen before. He was not so much disheveled as shattered, everything in order save his face. "What?" I said, deeply alarmed. "What's happened?

The mirror had broken into millions of pieces and the wind blew them all over the world. If a person got a speck in their eye, the person would only see the ugly side of things from then on, but if a piece got in their blood and it reached their heart, it would freeze into a solid block of ice and they couldn't feel anything anymore

Long novels written today are perhaps a contradiction: the dimension of time has been shattered, we cannot love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes off along its own trajectory and immediately disappears. We can rediscover the continuity of time only in the novels of that period when time no longer seemed stopped and did not yet seem to have exploded, a period that lasted no more than a hundred years.

Long novels written today are perhaps a contradiction: the dimension of time has been shattered, we cannot love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes off along its own trajectory and immediately disappears.

Heartbreak is like shattered glass: while it's impossible that two pieces could splinter in precisely the same pattern, in he end, it doesn't matter, because the effect is identical.

When any relationship begins to sour, the details are different but the emotions are much the same: betrayal, disappointment, shattered dreams, and deadly silence.

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justifies the cost of wounded lives and shattered people. Justice, mercy, integrity, and love are compromised for success. Decisions are based on money, numbers, and results.

Love is tha reflection of a broken heart in a shattered mirror...

Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves.

Sometimes shattered, never open; Nothing matters when you're broken.

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. Its like death.

His trust was like a mirror, I could have fixed it when it shattered, but I would still see that crack, And it would still look tattered.

A hundred canes shattered in the sun, like a load of antihistamines falling out of an airplane.

This alleged mystery, though, is a knot that we can untie with the Bible in our hands. We can acknowledge that man has all the marks of a majestic temple about him – a temple in which God once dwelt but which is now in utter ruins, a temple in which a shattered window here and a doorway and a column there still give some faint idea of the magnificence of the original design – but a temple which from end to end has lost its glory and has fallen from its once lofty position.

Estimates of casualties, civilian and military, are notoriously inexact, but it is likely that some 27 million Soviet citizens died as a direct result of the war—roughly 90 times the number of Americans who died. Victory could hardly have been purchased at greater cost: the U.S.S.R. in 1945 was a shattered state, fortunate to have survived. The war, a contemporary observer recalled, was "both the most fearful and the proudest memory of the Russian people."2

My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.

Be careful when you're trying to fix a broken person because you may cut yourself on their shattered pieces.

Broken, shattered, life filled with pain. Lonely, forgotten, eyes filled with shame. Lost, confused, heart filled with hurt. Praying, longing for life not to get worse.

I am shattered but so fed up with not being able to sleep due to being ridiculously uncomfortable that I'm staying up as long as possible.