#broke

We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

#bugged #burglars #caught #clues #concrete

Love is a promise delivered already broken. ↗

— Steve Martin

#broken #delivered #love #love is #promise

We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system. ↗

— Marty Meehan

#broken #enforcement #ethics #fix #importantly

Germany expected that at the most a day or so would see Belgian resistance broken and the dash on Paris begun. It was not safe to start such a forward rush with Belgium unconquered. ↗

— Kelly Miller

#belgian #belgium #broken #dash #day

Anyway, it fell through because they ran out of money. That was when I learned not to waste your time getting your hopes up or to believe something until it actually happens. We broke up for various reasons, but it was a good band. Jim and Don produced some magical music. ↗

— Jamie Muir

#anyway #band #because #believe #broke

Jesus didn't say, 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said, 'Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.' It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself. ↗

— Henri Nouwen

#broken #care #communion #deeper #deeply

If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you die broke, and then see who shows up for the funeral. ↗

— Gregory Nunn

#die #family #friends #friends and family #funeral

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue. ↗

— Eugene O'Neill

#broken #glue #god #grace #lives

You may be surprised to discover you're rich, especially if you're broke. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#discover #especially #may #rich #surprised

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur. ↗