#shatter

A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#assistance #breaking #broken #broken-glass #commuity

A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another. ↗

— James MacGregor Burns

#another #authority #class #revolution #shatters

A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The axles were in a hopeless state, and the missing wheel was shattered into pieces. ↗

— Kenneth Grahame

#cart #even #hopeless #inspection #into

I hear Jesus telling us to stop negotiating with Him, to stop offering something we think we have in exchange for His blessings. ↗

— Larry Crabb

#shattered-dreams #dreams

Love's boat has been shattered against the life of everyday. You and I are quits, and it's useless to draw up a list of mutual hurts, sorrows, and pains. ↗

— Vladimir Mayakovsky

#been #boat #draw #everyday #hurts

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#before #being #complacency #exists #mind

My impression was, he's walking as though he's made of glass, and if you should touch him he would just shatter apart. I don't know if it was an act or what, but it sure was effective. ↗

— Robert Ripley

#apart #effective #glass #him #i

Our family had been shattered, but we now are more united, and the remains of my family and the majority of my mother's family are glad to know the truth about a horrible crime. ↗

— Sam Sheppard

#been #crime #family #glad #had

Friendship is not a thing I have ever experienced. Not as a child, and not as I am now. Except. One month ago, I met the exception to this rule. There has been one person who’s ever looked me directly in the eye. The same person who’s spoken to me with no filter; someone who’s been unafraid to show anger and real, raw feeling in my presence; the only one who’s ever dared to challenge me, to raise her voice to me— ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#shatter-me #tahereh-mafi #warner #anger

What started out as wishful thinking, angel given signs from above, was now just an imprisoned lot of dirty, broken pieces that used to belong to beautifully glistening wholes. ↗

— Elizabeth Lee

#beauty