Blessedly Broken Quotes & Sayings

Did any great genius ever enter the world in the wake of commonplace pre-natal conditions? Was a maker of history ever born amidst the pleasant harmonies of a satisfied domesticity? Of a mother who was less than remarkable, although she may have escaped being great? Did a woman with no wildness in her blood ever inform a brain with electric fire? The students of history know that while many mothers of great men have been virtuous, none have been commonplace, and few have been happy. — Gertrude Atherton

If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop. — Zoe Kazan

we've been cut off for too long, and want to know we're not just an eddy of humanity, going down a drain without affecting anybody or anything. God doesn't call us to be eddies of living water, after all. — Kathryn Judson

The end was nigh. She had been waiting for her father to die so her life could begin, but as we could all have told her it doesn't work like that. She knew that anyway. Really. — Atkinson, Kate

Now speech had left her; fear took its place. — Larry McMurtry

What I envisioned back in the 1970s was this thing you would wear as 'glass' over your right eye, and you could see the world though that glass. The glass then reconfigures the things you see. — Steve Mann

Never crave to be known for someone you are not. Be who you are in the day and when the lights are off, remain true! — Israelmore Ayivor

True love can come more than once. — Tyler Perry

Personal chemistry forges the way for musical chemistry. — Nikki Sixx

When the concept of human spirit is understood as the mode of consciousness in which the individual feels connected to the Cosmos as a whole, it becomes clear that ecological awareness is spiritual in its deepest sense. — Fritjof Capra

Reading not only enlarges and challenges the mind; it also engages and exercises the brain. Today's youth who sits mesmerized by a television screen is not going to be tomorrow's leader. Television watching is passive. Reading is active. — Richard M. Nixon

Jesus is the Word made flesh, and that "knowing Jesus" demands embracing the Jesus of the Bible, not the Jesus of someone's imagination. The whole Bible. Even the places that took my life captive. — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

I'm not a complete libertarian. There is a proper role in some areas of the government to have rules and regulations - I'm not an anarchist. — Jack Abramoff

You can run I will chase you. You can hide I will find you. We're gonna fight and I'm gonna hurt you. — John Cena