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"I never thought I'd have children; I never thought I'd be in love, I never thought I'd meet the right person. Having come from a broken home - you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don't look for them."
"How soon are we broken on the soft pillow of ease! Adam in paradise was overcome, when Job on the dunghill was a conqueror."
"Marriage is two broken people having little broken people."
"The Old Testament teems with prophecies of the Messiah, but nowhere is it intimated that that Messiah is to stand as a God to be worshipped. He is to bring peace on earth, to build up the waste places--to comfort the broken-hearted, but nowhere is he spoken of as a deity."
"While over Alabama earth These words are gently spoken: Serve and hate will die unborn. Love and chains are broken."
"The triumph of morality: A thief who has broken into a bedroom claims his sense of shame had been outraged, and by threatening theoccupants with exposure of an immoral act he blackmails them into not bringing charges for burglary."
"Better a broken promise than none at all."
"The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day."
"For you know only a heap of broken images"
"We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry."
"What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your fingers, until your fingers are broken?"
"Before we can work on the problems, we have to fix our souls. Our souls are broken in this nation."
"The place I like best in this world is the kitchen. No matter where it is, no matter what kind, if it’s a kitchen, if it’s a place where they make food, it’s fine with me. Ideally it should be well broken in. Lots of tea towels, dry and immaculate. Where tile catching the light (ting! Ting!)” (p. 3)."
"Friar Hugo, old friend, brace yourself. I am the bearer of tragic news!" Alarm spread across Hugo's pudgy features. "Tell me, Jess. What dreadful thing has happened?" Jess spoke haltingly in a broken voice. "I fear that Cluny has tore up one of your oldest and most venerable dishrags. Alas, Redwall will never see it wipe another plate."
"We've all fallen, but at the same time we're not broken. There is the hint that we are going to get up again."
"Contradict yourself. In order to live, you must remain broken up."
"If you cloned JFK and Abraham Lincoln and made them president it wouldn't matter. Our system is just too corrupt and too broken. I think that science is corrupt and broken. I think health and nutrition. I think the economic systems, the international relations, the environment, everything, the engines of everything are broken."
"I feel like role models today are not meant to be put on a pedestal. But more like angels with broken wings."
"Take away leisure and Cupid's bow is broken"
"Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world."
