Mark Twain Quotes, Broken Quotes, House Quotes

Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with the tongue-where their purpose is to merely entertain, not instruct; they have to be limbered up, broken up, colloquialized and turned into common forms of premeditated talk-otherwise they will bore the house and not entertain it.

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She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Doors Quotes , Broken Quotes

So that the Universe felt love, by which, as somebelieve, the world has many times been turned to chaos. And at that moment this ancient rock, here and elsewhere, fell broken into pieces.

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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Rocks Quotes , Broken Quotes

It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know that panic would have broken loose had they been able to compare notes.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Artist Quotes , Broken Quotes

Enemies' promises were made to be broken.

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Tags : Aesop Quotes , Broken Quotes , Promise Quotes

Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes.

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Tags : Emily Bronte Quotes , Blood Quotes , Broken Quotes

Khaddar brings a ray of hope to the widow's broken-up home.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Home Quotes , Broken Quotes

We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Life Quotes , Broken Quotes

Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Broken Quotes , Suffering Quotes

Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Heart Quotes , Broken Quotes

You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Heart Quotes , Broken Quotes

Life breaks all of us but some of us get stronger in the broken places.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Broken Quotes , Stronger Quotes

How strange to have failed as a social creature—even criminals do not fail that way—they are the law's "Loyal Opposition," so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Law Quotes , Broken Quotes

There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher.

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Tags : A. Scott Berg Quotes , Editors Quotes , Broken Quotes

Everybody said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken

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Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Heart Quotes , Broken Quotes

Mind is a broken mirror.

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Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places.

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To regard one's immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Broken Quotes , Matter Quotes

For you know only a heap of broken images

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Infidelity is a deal breaker for me. I've broken up with people over it. You can't do monogamy 90 percent of the time.

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Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , People Quotes , Broken Quotes