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Being Broken Quotes (page 3)

Xun Zi quote: "The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause..."
The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound. Xun Zi
My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write. Ernst Mach
Miguel de Cervantes quote: "Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets..."
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water. Miguel de Cervantes
Warren Buffett quote: "Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too..."
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. Warren Buffett
But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially. Jacques Lacan
Saint Francis de Sales quote: "Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never..."
Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off. Saint Francis de Sales
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.
Samuel Johnson quote: "The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too..."
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. Samuel Johnson
Here I came to the very edge where nothing at all needs saying, everything is absorbed through weather and the sea, and the moon swam back, its rays all silvered, and time and again the darkness would be broken by the crash of a wave, and every day on the balcony of the sea, wings open, fire is born, and everything is blue again like morning. Pablo Neruda
All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all. Thomas Pynchon
I said, "Ng Mawon toujou kanp!!" —the free man is still standing!! And she replied, powerfully. "Cheri, Ng Mawon p'ap jamn kraz" —my dear, the free man will never be broken. Paul Farmer
The Cop. She has a steel grid in front of her mind, and for anything in the outer world to reach her it first has to squeeze through the bars of that grid. Information has to be broken into small cubes; information and data packaged in two-dimensional squares are preferable to three-dimensional cubes however: they pass through the grid more quickly and once they reach the Cop’s mind take up less space there. Russell Banks
The peace of Manderley. The quietude and the grace. Whoever lived within its walls, whatever trouble there was and strife, however much uneasiness and pain, no matter what tears were shed, what sorrows borne, the peace of Manderley could not be broken or the loveliness destroyed. Daphne du Maurier
John Stuart Mill quote: "lest the habit of work should be broken, and a taste for..."
lest the habit of work should be broken, and a taste for idleness acquired John Stuart Mill
Oscar Wilde quote: "The heart was meant to be broken."
The heart was meant to be broken. Oscar Wilde

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