#broke

I broke down while at Oxford, was rejected by a record number of medical tribunals during the War, and finally got permission to leave Oxford and do civilian work till the War ended. ↗

— Leonard Alfred George Strong

#civilian #down #during #ended #finally

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#made #promises

Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're heartbroken, but tomorrow you'll be in love again. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#because #capture #down #feelings #heartbroken

Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#humane #just #large #large numbers #notion

Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#aid #broken #bush #campaign #college

Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#broken #cease #habits #life #only

The president's claim that Social Security is going broke is misleading at best. The sky is not falling, although there is no doubt that the system needs to be strengthened. ↗

— Grace Napolitano

#best #broke #claim #doubt #falling

I start to see that I surround myself with broken people; more broken than me. Ah, yes, let me count your cracks. Let's see, one hundred, two... yes, you'll do nicely. A cracked companion makes me look more whole, gives me something outside myself to care for. When I'm with whole, healed people I feel my own cracks, the shatters, the insanities of dislocation in myself. ↗

— Julie Gregory

#memoir #childhood

When you lose someone, you get used to living day to day without them. But you’ll never get used to the “10 second heartbreak.” That’s the time it takes to wake to full consciousness each day and remember… ↗

— Nina Guilbeau

#heartbreak #heartbroken #loss #mourning #heartbreak

She dumped me for the quarterback after she'd played my body like a banjo. So Sad." "I bet" "I'm serious. I was heartbroken." "For how long?" "A whole week." An eternity in the life of a teenage boy. ↗

— Nalini Singh

#first-love #heartbroken #indigo #life