#broke

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

— Abigail Adams

#arbitrary #arbitrary power #broken #hard #liable

Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell. ↗

— John Adams

#charm #ear #ever #everything #eye

The only thing that preoccupies me is that France has broken down, and we need to start up the engine again - all the way. But not so as to run into a wall. ↗

— Jean-Marc Ayrault

#broken #down #engine #france #into

Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#broke #calculation #child #cold #front

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. ↗

— Patti Davis

#again #begins #belief #body #broken

We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers. ↗

— Jimmy Carl Black

#broke #got #i #mothers #never

I was broke until I was 40. Really broke. I could get by, but I had nothing. ↗

— Lewis Black

#could #get #had #i #nothing

It's not just songs and glamour. It's sweat, blood, broken toes, and mistakes... It's life. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#broken #glamour #just #life #mistakes

I almost broke my coccyx on 'The Wolf Man,' and I banged my head once. I had to fall really hard. ↗

— Emily Blunt

#broke #fall #had #hard #head

My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma. ↗

— Franz Boas

#dogma #had #parents #shackles #through