All records are not made to be broken.
State universities in Illinois are a microcosm of our state government – broken with work rules and administrative bureaucracy.
As movers and the moved both know, books are heavy freight, the weight of refrigerators and sofas broken up into cardboard boxes. They make us think twice about changing addresses.
My father had a lot of allergies, and he just didn’t like the cold of Chicago, and his father – his parents had broken up when he was young, and his father had lived in Pasadena for a while, and he kind of fell in love with Southern California.
The one thing that’s broken inside of me is that I’ve lost the signal most people have to feel hungry or feel full.
I grew up in a broken home, working class. My paternal grandmother raised me and my brother; my father was with us, and my mother lived in Jersey.
I believe that women would crawl across broken glass to get a cool pair of shoes.
I felt so relaxed. It just felt very easy, and that’s why it surprised me that I had broken my world record.
Anyone who has had their heart broken learns to keep a little safety area. Even now in my relationship, I have something I can call my own in case something goes wrong. You need a place to retreat to.
Coming from a broken home, I wanted to be as sure as I could be that my kids would have two parents who will stay together and bring them up.
I think that’s very sad, that I haven’t allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.
I had a fistfight with every kid on my block. I got about fifteen broken noses to prove it. Part of it was also because I was always drawing, and I always had an artist portfolio with me. But I was a tough kid. I won their respect.
I think, a lot of time, I’m just writing my worst fears, of the idea of losing my mom or my best friend or doing something so terrible to somebody that’s kind of deemed unforgivable or having a really broken family.
People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.
If democracy as we know it has to survive the elites have to regain their credibility. And they have to start by admitting that their economic model is broken.
If I had a story idea that I felt would work best in three volumes I might write a trilogy eventually. I’d very likely write it all at once, though, so I could work on it as a whole and not broken into individual volumes.
Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.
I think that the stigmas against model-actresses – and even just, like, entertainer, celebrity chef, and musician – those kinds of walls have been broken down, and you can do multiple things. So while I can, I don’t see why I would stop.
We have broken the cycle of dependency. People have found out they’re better off working.
I went to big, broken, under-resourced public schools, but we had a real sense of community, because those were days in the ’50s and the ’60s when every child was under the jurisdiction of every single adult on the block.
You have to take springtime on its own terms in the Ozarks: there is no other way. It can’t be predicted. It is unsteady, full of promise, promise that is sometimes broken. It is also bawdy, irrepressible, excessive, fecund, willful.
There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you’re dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That’s a normal marriage.
I think we’ve broken story after story that the rest of the media refused to break even when they had the story because they were scared of the story, or they just didn’t think it was appropriate.
The violence had broken out in both sides, but our philosophy as a party was very, very clear.
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
It’s not that the system is broken, but clearly there are ways to improve the system, strengthen it, to make sure that we can put together the various bits and pieces of information in a way that allows us to stop every single terrorist out there.
Religious people… hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless. Yet too often, they will not extend that spirit to our fellow creatures.
I want to push that no matter what race you are, you’re never just a sidekick or broken character. You’re the main character, you’re the funny character, you can be whatever you want.
You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my brothers or the neighborhood kids. We used broken bats and plastic golf balls and played for hours and hours.
The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don’t know them, then something is missing.
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.
Brexit has really broken a taboo. The Brits have shown us that you can leave the European Union, and you can come out better.
The two million or so residents who live beneath the Heathrow flight path are accustomed to the noise. However, they are right to feel that any expansion would represent an unacceptable broken promise.
Broken Clocks’ is actually a song I produced for my boy River Tiber featuring my boy Daniel Caesar.
The young people I work with every day and serve the nation in the armed forces in general, and the Marine Corps in particular, have broken the mold and stepped out as men and women of character who are making their own way in life while protecting ours.
Better a broken promise than none at all.
A very sad moment for me was when my parents separated – a lot of crying, ‘It’s tragic, we’re now a broken family, blah blah blah blah blah’ – although my psychological problems stopped. I actually felt healthier.
I’ve kind of banned myself from motorcycles. I’ve had broken ribs, broken shoulder, wrists, leg, broken collarbone – and it was all from motocross or rugby. All of my injuries have come from outside of sailing.
Everyone can have their heart broken. Even if you know the relationship isn’t working, it’s still sad. Even in a bad relationship, they’re part of your life for a long time, and saying goodbye to that can be difficult.
The truth is that no internal reviews or congressional hearings will change the Secret Service’s broken management culture. It needs better leadership.
Market design is about understanding the details of markets in sufficient detail so that we can help fix them when they are broken.
Often we women are risk averse. I needed the push. Now, more than ever, young women need more seasoned women to provide that encouragement, to take a risk, to go for it. Once a glass ceiling is broken, it stays broken.
In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
I was tempted my junior year to go out of college and forgo my eligibility. I had broken several world records. I did have a lot of people telling me that I should go pro.
I think that Broken Lizard movies typically have to be able to star five guys, so it’s like, policemen, spacemen, a basketball team.
The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
We need to ask questions about how we’re going to give low-income kids who come from a broken home access to a loving home.
It’s not just songs and glamour. It’s sweat, blood, broken toes, and mistakes… It’s life.
Relationships survive on trust, and if that is broken at any point, it’s pretty much the end of the relationship. Besides, inability to communicate leads to problems.
Sometimes I had to spend a whole day mixing a boiling mass with a heavy iron rod nearly as large as myself. I would be broken with fatigue at the day’s end. Other days, on the contrary, the work would be a most minute and delicate fractional crystallization, in the effort to concentrate the radium.
If you are broken, you do not have to stay broken.
Of course I’ve had a bunch of broken bones, sprains and I’ve had five or six concussions, with three serious ones. I also got a real heavy duty blood clot and internal bleeding from where I was shot in the stomach with a beanbag bullet that the police use for crowd control. I’ve also had six stitches in my head.
I really loved animals when I was little – my friend and I had an imaginary vet’s office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses – fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that’s how good we were.
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.
‘New Mutants’ is the absolute definition of a broken down jalopy, and I took it on, and I just remade it… That’s why I was so cocky and confident: because I was like, ‘I just turned around this broken down comic book with products of my imagination.’
Someone sent me a picture of Werdum on the ground after I hit him… There was 2:16 left, and the area code for Cleveland is 216. They played ‘Believeland’ that night, and the next day it snowed, and everyone said Hell froze over because the curse was broken.
