(619 quotes found)
“...occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window and have the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I would finally look like I felt.”
Elizabeth Wurtzel
“A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever”
Jessamyn West
“Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it; and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood of those who press earnestly upon it.”
Walter Savage Landor
“In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.”
William Osler
“The obstacles you face are... mental barriers which can be broken by adopting a more positive approach.”
Clarence Blasier
“I am rarely there when things get broken, but I am always there when they get fixed.”
Gerard Patrick Roeling
“I have to accept that he cheated on me , that he broke my heart , that life goes on , and I have to keep living in it.”
vanessa mojica
“Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.”
Abigail Adams
“Beauty's a doubtful good, a glass, a flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour; And beauty, blemish'd once, for ever's lost, In spite of physic, painting, pain, and cost”
William Shakespeare
“Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.”
Jonathan Swift
