Broken Quotes

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
Ronald Reagan

Time, Society, Law

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway

Strong, Everyone, Places

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love, Hate, Evil

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Frederick Douglass

Men, Strong, Children

Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.
John F. Kennedy

Success, Hope, Home

Better a broken promise than none at all.
Mark Twain

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.
Mahatma Gandhi

Able, Stand, Order

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
George Bernard Shaw

Peace, Happiness, Pain

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
Albert Camus

Blessed, Shall, Hearts

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why, Reason, Lies

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
Warren Buffett

Light, Until, Felt

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
George Bernard Shaw

Heart, London, Pleasant

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
Dag Hammarskjold

Made, Dream, Again

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
Ovid

Happy, Hurt, Mind

You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.
Johnny Depp

Life, Success, Work

Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
Yogi Berra

Until, Stand, Knew

I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.
Yogi Berra

Thought, Until, Stand

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
Henry Ward Beecher

A promise must never be broken.
Alexander Hamilton

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.
Chief Joseph

Good, Heart, Words

I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who's not doing a good job. But I didn't make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.
Clint Eastwood

Good, Mind, Job

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
Leo Tolstoy

Happiness, Nature, Between

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

May, Eyes, Keep

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Past, Word, Present

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
Anton Chekhov

Light, Tell, Show

They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken.
Bobby Sands

Nothing, Whole, Spirit

I've had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow.
Hillary Clinton

Good, Health, Luck

The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
John Burroughs

Spirit, Miracle, Endure

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.
Margaret Mitchell

Good, Best, Long

I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place.
Kobe Bryant

Before, After, Place

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