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Broken Quotes

When something no longer works.

Several quotes on this page take aim at institutions - graduates buried in debt, seniors priced out of medicine, a government unwilling to fix what it keeps expanding. Readers interested in that political edge may also want Broken Promises.

I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken.

Quotes by Adele

We live in bodies that are fearfully and wonderfully made, yet they are not immune to illness and pain. We have hearts that are capable of experiencing great love, but sometimes they get broken.

Quotes by Adam Hamilton

I'd think the house was the source of great sadness or pressure. I knew it wasn't. I knew it was just where I lived. But I'd walk up the stairs and the second floor was just desolate. My old bedroom:...

Quotes by Adam Granduciel

I've never really broken this down before, but, in movies, you almost have no connection to fans. And if you do TV, you're kind of connected, but they know you as the TV name not your real name. If you...

Quotes by Adam Carolla

Alone Quotes

When I use the word 'healing,' by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we're very good at handling, but there's always a sense of the violation. 'Why me?' 'Why is my leg broken on the...

Quotes by Abraham Verghese

If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.

Quotes by Abraham Cahan

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

Quotes by Abigail Adams

If democracy as we know it has to survive the elites have to regain their credibility. And they have to start by admitting that their economic model is broken.

Quotes by Abhijit Banerjee

I was always in hospital as a kid: I had a tumour on my knee, lots of broken bones. I loved climbing trees.

Quotes by Abbey Lee Kershaw

Broken Glass Quotes

The rules are all in a sixty-four-page pamphlet by Aristotle called 'Poetics.' It was written almost three thousand years ago, but I promise you, if something is wrong with what you're writing, you've probably broken one of Aristotle's rules.

Quotes by Aaron Sorkin

God is waiting for us, to forgive us all, and what is broken, he'll fix.

Quotes by Aaron Neville

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.

Quotes by A. Scott Berg

Most of us yearn for really intimate, healthy, in-person relationships. People have a deep desire to be understood, to be told that it's OK, that you're not isolated and broken, that this is part of the human challenge, and that...

Quotes by Ze Frank

The two million or so residents who live beneath the Heathrow flight path are accustomed to the noise. However, they are right to feel that any expansion would represent an unacceptable broken promise.

Quotes by Zac Goldsmith

Broken Heart Quotes

Only Congress has the authority to adequately and holistically address our broken immigration system.

Quotes by Yvette Clarke

Relationships survive on trust, and if that is broken at any point, it's pretty much the end of the relationship. Besides, inability to communicate leads to problems.

Quotes by Yuvraj Singh

No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.

Quotes by Yoko Ono

Certain stereotypes are being broken: that only people with a certain profile can be actresses or be on the cover of magazines.

Quotes by Yalitza Aparicio

The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.

Quotes by Xun Kuang

Broken Promises Quotes

I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.

Quotes by Xavier Becerra

Frequently Asked Questions

Is there a quote about student debt being "broken"?
Yes -- one quote gives this as the speaker's own opinion: "Everyday people are graduating from universities with crippling debt, stifling their opportunity for financial mobility, that is what's broken with this country." It's presented here as that speaker's stated view, not an established fact.
Does a quote connect healthcare access to a "broken" government?
Yes. One quote states, as its own political opinion, "When you have a senior citizen who can't afford her prescription medicine, Washington is broken."
Is there a quote warning about politicians and a "broken system"?
Yes -- one quote offers this as the speaker's own advice: "When you hear politicians who won't fix the broken system talk about expanding it, don't buy it."
Is there a quote about habits being hard to break?
Yes. One quote reads, "Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken," describing how habits can quietly become difficult to change.
Where can I find quotes about broken relationships or trust?
See the Broken Heart or Broken Promises collections.

Alongside the social commentary sits an older idea about personal habit - that small routines go unnoticed until they've become impossible to break. For related emotional territory, see Alone or Broken Heart.