Shattered Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Shattered Quotes from famous persons: Helen Keller, John Conyers, Tim Cope, Jeff Fortenberry, Matt Haig. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Shattered Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

Helen Keller

Once the violence has ceased, the US should immediately call on the World Bank and other international institutions to convene a donors conference to rebuild Lebanon‘s shattered infrastructure.

John Conyers

Learning of my father‘s passing at age 55 not only shattered the world, far from home, that had become my reality, but catapulted my childhood and relationship with family – which had felt like another lifetime – into the present.

Tim Cope

Christianity in the Middle East is shattered. The ancient faith tradition lies beaten, broken, and dying.

Jeff Fortenberry

Books should be right up there with exercise and diet as something that don’t just entertain us but heal us. They tell us we are not alone and fix the pieces of us that can be shattered by reality. They are teachers, and they are friends, and we should never contemplate a world – or a life – without them.

Matt Haig

Cornwall bears a certain resemblance to Italy: each is like a leg or boot, but Italy stands a-tiptoe to the south, whereas Cornwall is thrust out to the west. But, whereas Italy is kicking Sicily as a football, Cornwall has but the shattered group of the Scilly Isles at its toe.

Sabine Baring-Gould

The ego being shattered is not what frightens me – that can be useful for writing – but the ego being inflated is sort of like it dying of gout.

Garth Risk Hallberg

The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.

Elyn Saks

I am livid with rage, sitting here in chains through this mad war which kills any meaning of life… My nerves are shattered and my mind darkened.

Walter Gropius

I think we’ve broken a lot of barriers and kind of shattered our glass ceiling that was there for women. There are so many great fighters, and we’ve proved a lot of people wrong. A lot of the times, our fights are the best fights on the card.

Miesha Tate

You can be shattered, and then you can put yourself back together piece by piece. But what can happen over time is this: You wake up one day and realize that you have put yourself back together completely differently. That you are whole, finally, and strong – but you are now a different shape, a different size.

Glennon Doyle Melton

There was a time when I was young and unemployed, struggling to start my career. During my A-Levels, I was hit by a car, which shattered my bones and left me confined to my bedroom for a year. Weirdly, it was the best thing that ever happened to me.

Jameela Jamil

If you look at my characters as a group, they all have a different relationship with the way that places can signify emotion in them – and the way those bonds can be shattered.

Jhumpa Lahiri

As we began to read more and more journals of men who had been in the Civil War and then been in the Indian Wars, we realized there was a whole universe of men whose souls had been shattered, whose lives had been utterly destroyed by what they had to do.

Edward Zwick

It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He’s the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one kind of picture-making and invented a new one that the world followed.

Jerry Saltz

Our family had been shattered, but we now are more united, and the remains of my family and the majority of my mother‘s family are glad to know the truth about a horrible crime.

Sam Sheppard

Can you think of a single situation, no matter how grave, where the atmosphere would not be instantly shattered with a loud fart – or a drawing of a butt? There is no faster way to create universal common ground.

Euny Hong

I shattered the notion that a movie had to be advertised with realistic elements from the story.

Saul Bass

European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The experience changed the way people referred to the glamour of battle; they treated it no longer as a positive quality but as a dangerous illusion.

Virginia Postrel

I am forced to view the Middle East as if I am looking in a mirror that has been shattered.

Benny Hinn

Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.

Ben Stiller

It was quite a blow to have my perfect image of my father shattered, but that’s something we all face before we come to full adulthood.

Greg Iles

The male ego is a terrifying, terrifying thing, you know? If it’s shattered, it becomes even more dangerous.

Panos Cosmatos

If you get too big for your boots, if you’ve got big dreams, you’re gonna get them broken or shattered.

Malcolm Young

Turning back the pages of my sweet shattered dream, I wonder if she‘ll ever do the same; And the thing that I call living is just being satisfied With knowing I’ve got no one left to blame.

Gordon Lightfoot

The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.

Edward Young

Adele shattered the image of how the stereotypical singer is supposed to look. She has that whole ‘Screw you, I’m awesome for what I do’ attitude, which I really look up to and want to be a part of.

Mary Lambert

Perhaps the most startling reversal of tradition came in the case of Lefty Grove. He shattered the cruel slanders which have always followed lefthanders.

Heywood Broun

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God‘s dust is greater than your idol.

Rabindranath Tagore

Since Beau‘s death, I’m definitely shattered. I feel like a piece of china that’s been glued back together again. The cracks may be imperceptible-but they’re there. Look closely, and you can see the glue holding me together, the precarious edges that vein through my heart. I am not the same. I feel it every day.

Jill Biden

A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The axles were in a hopeless state, and the missing wheel was shattered into pieces.

Kenneth Grahame

Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All too often, lives and families can be shattered by it.

Kate Middleton

There are a lot of myths about my injuries. They say I have broken every bone in my body. Not true. But I have broken 35 bones. I had surgery 14 times to pin and plate. I shattered my pelvis. I forget all of the things that have broke.

Evel Knievel

Mofaz was elected to head Kadima since the party had been shattered.

Ehud Olmert

It would have been amazing to have been a student at Oxford during that golden moment in the 1910s, rubbing elbows with the likes of Aldous Huxley and T.E. Lawrence, before World War I shattered everything forever.

Kevin Kwan

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Douglas Horton

I used the same hand to pat my back and to pick me up when I get shattered after losing out on a film due to reasons except your credibility to that role.

Taapsee Pannu

I was born near Bucharest, but my parents came to France a year later. We moved back to Romania when I was thirteen, and my world was shattered. I hated Bucharest, its society, and its mores – its anti-Semitism for example.

Eugene Ionesco

The image of the scientist who puts the pursuit of truth before anything else has been shattered and replaced by a man on the make or a quasi-religious enthusiast who wants to prove his case at any cost. Science is becoming the tool of campaigning warfare, in which truth is the first casualty.

Paul Johnson

My whole faith was shattered there for a while.

Jeremy Camp

I’ve shattered every negative stereotype people had about me.

CM Punk

I shattered the heel in my good leg, and it was an extremely bad injury. I wasn’t sure if I’d be able to snowboard again.

Mike Schultz

The thought of someone spending $20 to come and see me and saying, ‘Oh, I prefer the record and she’s completely shattered the illusion’ really upsets me. It’s such a big deal that people come give me their time.

Adele

Michael Jackson carried urban America and eventually American society on his vocal cords for a good 25 to 30 years before even hip-hop became the vox populi of America, and then as an adult he shattered racial barriers.

Michael Eric Dyson

My mission is to get on the stage and say, ‘Listen, I’m a woman, I’m free, I’m a mother, I’m a lover, I’m a friend; I’m shattered by men most of the time, but I’ll keep falling in love with them because it’s the most thrilling thing in the world; that’s what makes me human.’

Lou Doillon

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