#broken

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#given #necessity #past #present #promise

The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me... People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted. ↗

— Edouard Manet

#been #broken #constantly #feels #i

Deadlines are meant to be broken. And I just keep breaking them. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#broken #deadlines #i #just #keep

Their humble dwellings were of their own rearing; it was they themselves who had broken in their little fields; from time immemorial, far beyond the reach of history, had they possessed their mountain holdings. ↗

— Hugh Miller

#broken #dwellings #far #fields #had

I have been heartbroken once and it has affected all my relationships from there on. But now I look at it as a occupational hazard. If you are in the meat market at some point you are gonna get mad cows disease. ↗

— Dominic Monaghan

#been #cows #disease #get #gonna

If anything, I don't have to convince the American public that we have a broken health-care system. I think the majority of Americans since they have to go through that health-care system, already know it. ↗

— Michael Moore

#american #american public #anything #broken #convince

Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

#country #into #many #patches #shreds

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. ↗

— Bridget Moynahan

#another #apart #area #being #broken

For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out my newsreader was broken, and hadn't posted at all. ↗

— Graham Nelson

#broken #care #emailed #follow-up #fortnight

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all. ↗

— Ovid

#broken #chains #given #happy #hurt