So happy that Broken Bells is a thing in my life and really cool in so many ways. Not only, like, as something to sell records and be a band and whatnot, but just to give me an outlet and give me a fresh approach on things.
My heart got broken so many times because I put so much pressure on it. And then… I got blindsided.
Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.
I am a broken person.
A lot of the companies that I am inclined to get involved in have a mission to fix something that is ‘broken’ in the world.
After six prison commitments, at the end of those, I was more broken than when I went into the system.
I’ve seen schools in Detroit where the windows are broken, where there’s no heat, and children are sitting with their coats on in class in the middle of a snowstorm. I’ve also seen schools in California with Olympic-sized swimming pools and cafeterias like five-star restaurants.
For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to be a godly person. Yet when I look at the yesterdays of my life, what I see, mostly, is a broken, irregular path littered with mistakes and failure. I have had temporary successes and isolated moments of closeness to God, but I long for the continuing presence of Jesus.
I enjoy meditation. I think the artist’s position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that’s between two cultures or two thoughts. We’re always trying to reach, trying to expand something.
Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
You’d think a guy who has broken 35 bones in his body would have a high pain threshold, but mine is pretty low. I got hit in the shin with a golf ball once, and it almost brought tears to my eyes. I’ve had broken bones that didn’t hurt as bad.
I think I am done with Wikipedia for the time being. But I have a secret hope. Someone recently proposed a Wikimorgue – a bin of broken dreams where all rejects could still be read, as long as they weren’t libelous or otherwise illegal.
Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it’s broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.
If there is anything that has broken the church’s relationship with families, it is the global sexual abuse scandal.
I have a deep compassion for the idea that it’s okay to be myself. The idea that anything ‘other’ is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.
I wouldn’t mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.
France has the least social mobility of any developed country. The social elevator no longer works. It’s broken.
When you grow up in poverty, suffer from abuse, live in a violent neighborhood, come from a broken home, lack positive role models, are told you’ll never amount to anything, etc, the challenges are enormous.
Large financial institutions in this country will always play a role that is essential to our economic growth. But they must only be permitted to grow and interconnect, throughout our economy, under careful oversight and with a mechanism for allowing those connections to be broken safely.
In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This new state of bandlessness was, at first, traumatic. When your group breaks up, a lot of broken parts hit the ground.
Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things.
‘Silence Kid’ starts with a broken classic-rock intro. It’s funny to hear us do that. Obviously, we weren’t skillful rock stars. Then it’s spinning through a lot of hooks really fast, and all of a sudden, it’s over.
I maybe had a first love and had my heart broken, but reflecting on it, I don’t think that was love. I think as I’m getting older and having more in-depth relationships, maybe I’ll experience it. At the moment, I don’t know, exactly, if I’ve been in love.
My heart has never been broken, I’ve never broken anyone else’s.
WikiLeaks has revealed some hard truths about the Iraq and Afghan wars and broken stories about corporate corruption.
The success of ‘The Fighter’ made it a lot easier to get ‘Broken City’ green-lit. And the buzz about ‘The Fighter’ also made it a lot easier to get ‘Contraband’ green-lit.
It’s a dream when some people think that once you give your life to God, all of a sudden things are perfect. That’s not the case. We live in a world that’s broken, where there’s disease, where people are selfish. The foundation of your faith helps you know how to put that in proper perspective.
I gravitate towards sort of broken characters who try to be better people.
If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that’s broken apart, I think that’s probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area.
The best way to heal a broken heart, it turns out, is to find a way to move past the hurt.
If I were one of the three viable presidential candidates, I doubt I’d be too broken up about someone looking into my passport file. Go ahead look, I’d say. It’s the passport photo I wouldn’t want anyone getting his hands on.
I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass.
The truth is, there’s an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.
Mauna Kea from Hilo has a shapely aspect, for its top is broken into peaks, said to be the craters of extinct volcanoes, but my eyes seek the dome-like curve of Mauna Loa with far deeper interest, for it is as yet an unfinished mountain.
When a culture is broken, the cracks show – morale is weakened, but so is profit and performance. That’s why culture has to be at the core of any business transformation.
No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.
Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of real light (electric light) at crucial junctures in the room’s composition.
We’re standing on the shoulders of so many people who have already broken down so many barriers.
I’ve been dumped hard. My heart has been broken and shattered, and I’ve also been on the other end of that too.
Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.
Well, we’re trying to patch and fix and put a cast on a broken system here. You can call it what you want, but we’ll continue to purchase power in a private market.
There’s a lot of SEALs who hate me and claim I’ve broken our code of silence.
Slowly, but with no doubt or hesitation whatever, and in something of a solemn expectancy, the two animals passed through the broken tumultuous water and moored their boat at the flowery margin of the island.
Buckwheat may be planted later than any similar crop, and often does well on old meadows or waste land that can be broken after the more exacting crops are planted.
We had a music teacher in sixth grade, and I saw her tune her guitar. I said, ‘Whoa. There’s a certain way to do this.’ I bought a packet of strings – some of mine were broken – and had her tune it for me. For a while, I just kept it like that. But I got the Internet finally, when I was 14, and started learning.
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.
We know that the United States Senate has passed comprehensive immigration reform. We know it can happen. And that, to me, is what we need to do. We have a broken immigration system. And I say this because we are a country that has always opened our doors. That’s who we are.
You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.
My parents taught me many of the things that people need in life to feel confident: practical things, such as managing finances, mucking out the goat barn, cleaning a house, doing repairs, mending a broken roof or a toilet.
I learned how to cover race riots by telephone. They didn’t pay me enough at my first newspaper job to venture onto the grounds of South Boston High School when bricks were being thrown. Instead, I would telephone the headmaster and ask him to relay to me the number of broken chairs in the cafeteria each day.
I’d say that 98 percent of the bands we’ve played with through the years have either broken up or are stuck in some kind of ’80s revival now.
The only time my records are going to be broken is by my own spawn. I’m going be training that child out the womb.
