If you've broken the eggs, you should make the omelette.
Fighting's given me confidence but it's also broken me down and kept me humble.
If you are going to do something for the poor, the abused, or the imprisoned, above all be faithful. People with broken lives often come from lives with broken promises.
No one coaches what to do after three seconds, after the quarterback's broken the pocket or he's been in the pocket for five, six seconds.
I know what it's like to have a broken heart. I know what it's like to feel pain: When my songs don't become hits, it breaks my heart. There are a million ways to break a heart. I can relate.
You have to grow up, start paying the rent and have your heart broken before you understand country.
I am double jointed in my elbow. So I can turn it all the way around and then bend it so it looks like it's broken.
When a man you like switches from what he said a year ago, or 4 years ago, he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough to change his mind with changing conditions. When a man you don't like does it, he is a liar who has broken his promises.
Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places.
I was 21 and homeless - such a broken, lost woman.
Much of the world's moral compass is broken. The moral north reads south and the moral south reads north.
The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o'clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. And now a gusty shower wraps The grimy scraps Of withered leaves about your feet And newspapers from vacant lots; The showers beat On broken blinds and chimney-pots, And at the corner of the street A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps. And then the lighting of the lamps.
Life calls us forth to independence, and anyone who does not heed this call because of childish laziness or timidity is threatened with neurosis. And once this has broken out, it becomes an increasingly valid reason for running away from life.
Trust is like a vase. . once it's broken, though you can fix it, the vase will never be same again.
Ingratitude is a nail which, driven into the tree of courtesy, causes it to wither; it is a broken channel, by which the foundations of the affections are undermined; and a lump of soot, which, falling into the dish of friendship, destroys its scent and flavor.
If you ask any police officer what the worst part of the job is, they will always say breaking bad news to relatives, but this is not the truth. The worst part is staying in the room after you've broken the news, so that you're forced to be there when someone's life disintegrates around them. Some people say it doesn't bother them - such people are not to be trusted.
He does not exist here, with me, but flesh that does not exist will never die, and promises unmade are never broken.
To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.
My soul is a dark ploughed field In the cold rain; My soul is a broken field Ploughed by pain.
Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic.