It's the broken plans you have made that are the hardest to get over.
Love builds up the broken wall and straightens the crooked path. Love keeps the stars in the firmament and imposes rhythm on the ocean tides. Each of us is created of it and I suspect each of us was created for it
The FBI continues to be a broken, anachronistic organization, but state and local law enforcement officials are much more attuned to the kind of threat we're facing. I think that's very hopeful, but it's a long-term process.
My religion teaches me that a promise once made or a vow once taken for a worthy object may not be broken.
The real work of social innovation is to fix our broken human systems.
I zipped myself all the way into the sleeping bag of myself, not because I was hurt, and not because I had broken something, but because they were cracking up.
If the system is broken, my inclination is to fix it rather than to fight it. I have faith in the process of the law, and if it is carried out fairly, I can live with the results, whatever they may be.
Christopher Reeve understood that everything begins with hope. His vision of walking again, his belief that he would be able to in his lifetime, towered over his broken body.
Acting is like racing, you need the same concentration. You have to reach inside you and bring forth a lot of broken glass. That's painful.
Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak our broken system. I'll shut it down.
Apology is both transactional, in that it restores what has been broken to what it was before, and transformational, in that it creates opportunities that didn't exist before.
There is one unmistakable lesson in American history; a community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future - that community asks for and gets chaos.
Adoption is a redemptive response to tragedy that happens in this broken world.
No matter how many toys we amass we leave them behind when we die, just as we leave a broken environment, an economy that only benefits the richest, and a legacy of empowering greed over goodness. It is now time to commit to following a new path.
I've had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow.
A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: "You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong. " Knight turned the machine off and on. The machine worked.
The law cannot forgive, for the law has not been wronged, only broken; only persons can be wronged. The law can pardon, but it can only pardon what it has the power to punish.
We have to discard the past and, as one builds floor by floor, window by window, and the building rises, so do we keep shedding - first, broken tiles, then proud doors. . . and each new day gleams like an empty plate.
Sometimes that´s all you need…, to know it´s not broken. To know you’re still whole and that you’ll heal.
The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.