Mark Twain Quotes, Broken Quotes, Smoking Quotes

I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.

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Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Buddhist Quotes , Broken Quotes

Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken for a madman, it can be broken for a man.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Men Quotes , Broken Quotes

When Simplicity is broken up, it is made into instruments. Evolved individuals who employ them, are made into leaders. In this way, the Great System is United.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Broken Quotes , Simplicity Quotes

To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the penalty of it when he takes the first opportunity of doing precisely the very thing which brought about the breach.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Opportunity 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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For you know only a heap of broken images

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

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For trust not him that hath once broken faith

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The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Men Quotes , Broken Quotes

For you know only a heap of broken images

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Broken Quotes , Broken Images Quotes

According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn't speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did. Still, it's an apt metaphor for our profession. But there's another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family. Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

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Tags : Abraham Verghese Quotes , Broken Quotes , Tasks Quotes

Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver.

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Tags : Alain LeRoy Locke Quotes , Art Quotes , Broken Quotes

As the former dissident Vladimir Bukovsky once remarked – referring to the Russian proverb to the effect that you cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs – he had seen plenty of broken eggs, but never tasted any omelette.

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Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other; To mutter and mock a broken charm, To dally with wrong that does no harm.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Broken Quotes , Together Quotes

Hours are golden links, God's token Reaching heaven; but one by one Take them, lest the chain be broken Ere the pilgrimage be done.

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My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Heart Quotes , Broken Quotes

Enemies' promises were made to be broken.

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It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Order Quotes , Broken Quotes

An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye; Give him a little earth for charity!

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Men Quotes , Broken Quotes