The usual way of growing cotton is highly petrochemical-intensive, requiring 110 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer per acre. Some of the fertilizer is broken down by soil bacteria into nitrate, a toxic and highly soluble chemical that can leach into groundwater or get washed into lakes, creating oxygenless dead zones.
God is not looking for repayment, but repentance. What heals a broken relationship is sincere love and contrition.
We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system.
At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.
With Stacy, it was interesting because you know he was within all this chaos, all these different lives that were so broken and so much anger and so much frustration and their skating came out of that, their different styles came out of that.
I don’t think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It’s perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.
When your heart is broken, you feel like no freaking book in the world could help you because a book is not the person who you love, who doesn’t love you. However, books help, if only because they serve as something you can hold in your hand and throw across the room in agony.
Systematic theology – be careful how you tie down the Word to fit your set and final creeds, systems, dogmas, and organized theistic philosophies! The Word of God is not bound! It’s free to say what it will to the individual, and no one can outline it into dispensations which cannot be broken.
You play a couple of shows, and these label guys come – and they leave halfway through a show. Then the phone calls just stop. And your heart is broken.
There’s a lot of talk coming from Citigroup about how Dodd-Frank isn’t perfect. Let me say this to anyone who is listening at Citi: I agree with you. Dodd-Frank isn’t perfect. It should have broken you into pieces.
Trouble results when the speed of growth exceeds the speed of nurturing human resources. To use the analogy of growth rings in a tree, when unusually rapid growth caused the rings to grow abnormally thick, the tree trunk weakens and is easily broken.
I don’t do Shakespeare. I don’t talk in that kind of broken English.
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.
I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you’re left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you’re just left with rhythm.
The guilt I felt for having a mental illness was horrible. I prayed for a broken bone that would heal in six weeks. But that never happened. I was cursed with an illness that nobody could see and nobody knew much about.
I’m really proud of ‘Broken Skull Challenge.’
Now, more then ever, we have the ability to make films for almost nothing and that’s broken down all barriers of entry. I think it’s a new golden age of film-making. With that, there needs to be the ability to recoup investment dollars, people need to make money.
I only have so much ring time that my body can endure. I’ve had four surgeries on my knees, arthritis in my neck, separated my shoulders, broken my nose. I’m just gonna hope that science advances faster than I can deteriorate. Because what am I gonna do? Put a perfect body into the ground? What’s the point of that?
When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you’ll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken.
I’ve said for a long time, clearly the – a, a critical key to success in the region is going to be Pakistan and our relationship with Pakistan, which was one that was broken in the late ’80s and which we’ve worked hard to restore.
Asylum is for people fleeing persecution, not those searching for a better job. Yet our broken system – with its debilitating court rulings, a crushing backlog, and gaping loopholes – allows illegal migrants to get into our country anyway and for whatever reason they want. This gaming of the system is unacceptable.
We are not in Afghanistan for the sake of the education policy in a broken 13th-century country. We are there so the people of Britain and our global interests are not threatened.
Today I divide my day between being actor, producer and distributor, and the monotony is broken.
I played football for a long time when I was a kid, and then I went to art college and turned my back on it. Because of that, my toes are mangled; they’ve been broken. They’re like hooves or talons. They’re disgusting. I’d never get them out.
We came into a broken world. And we’re the cleanup crew.
I’m mourning with the rest of the world for the talented, gorgeous, funny, intelligent John Forsythe but my heart is broken for the loss of my dear, dear friend and neighbor. I will miss him terribly.
It’s always interesting when people are sort of broken. I think it’s one of the most interesting qualities that human beings have is that broken people can fix themselves sometimes.
It’s amazing – 2015 has been a fantastic year for me because of the records I’ve broken and the wins I’ve had.
I can’t think of a major story that we have broken that was incorrect. But we have had to correct some things that were false; we have had to retract things.
Left to my own vices, all I would own is a Corvette, and it would be broken down.
I’ve had my heart broken, and it’s not fun. But I’d rather have my heart broken than break someone else’s heart.
Don’t fix what’s not broken.
As soon as you start feeling like you can’t trust the person and you need to check his phone or have his Facebook password or look through his messages – as soon as that trust barrier is broken – it’s hard to keep a relationship going after that.
A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel’s side or quarter.
The poor don’t live in functional market economies as the rest of us do, but in political economies where corruption and broken systems extend from local government to moneylenders.
Sooner or later a rider will emerge who will win more Tours. In every sport we have seen how the records eventually get broken and cycling is no exception.
Always stay true to who you are – barriers can and will be broken!
While Fidel Castro used to deliver his marathon seven-hour speeches in Havana, Cubans used to joke that if Spanish lacked a future tense, their leader would be speechless. He was only fluent in broken promises, they lamented.
Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening and we are dead serious about ending business as usual in Washington.
Being asked to memorise a script in one day when you have dyslexia is the same as having a broken foot and being asked to dance. You have to make exceptions for it.
The message films that try to be message films always fail. Likewise with documentaries. The documentaries that work best are the ones that eschew a simple message for an odd angle. I found that one of the most spectacular films about the Middle East was ‘Waltz With Bashir,’ or ‘The Gatekeepers,’ or ‘5 Broken Cameras.’
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
I came from a broken family.
I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life.
We didn’t slow down, unlike the others, when we got to the moon because we needed its gravity to get back, so we hold the altitude record. I never even thought about it. Records are only made to be broken.
Wall Street is broken for sure because it succumbed to greed and corruption and pure speculation with no values.
I’ve definitely had my moments in relationships where I’ve been able to say yes, I have been heartbroken, my heart has been broken.
In my professional and personal life, when I meet people who feel broken after a divorce, they can usually be divided into two categories: those who truly believe there’s something wrong with them, and those that are using their status as armor.
You know your business model is broken when you’re suing your customers.
The suffragettes endured 50 years of broken government promises and not being heard. The press never reported on their activities.
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
Life without dreams is like a bird with a broken wing – it can’t fly.
It’s the same old story you’ve heard a thousand times. Somebody’s trust gets broken. Somebody’s left behind.
It’s a cliche that the Senate is broken, and like most cliches, it’s true.
Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we’re unhappy and that we want things done differently.
