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  • I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg.

  • You mustnt give your heart to a wild thing. The more you do, the stronger they get.

    Heart   Giving   Stronger  
    "Fictional character: Holly Golightly". "Breakfast at Tiffany's", www.imdb.com. 1961.
  • A broken leg can be remembered and located: "It hurt right below my knee, it throbbed, I felt sick at my stomach." But mental pain is remembered the way dreams are remembered-in fragments, unbidden realizations, like looking into a well and seeing the dim reflection of your face in that instant before the water shatters.

    Depression   Dream   Hurt  
  • I have seen an entire family lifted out of poverty and into affluence by the simple boon of a broken leg. I have had people come to me on crutches, with tears in their eyes, to bless this beneficient institution. In all my experiences of life, I have seen nothing so seraphic as the look that comes into a freshly mutilated man's face when he feels in his vest pocket with his remaining hand and finds his accident ticket all right.

    Eye   Simple   Men  
    Mark Twain (2006). “Mark Twain Speaking”, p.90, University of Iowa Press
  • Love is a horse with a broken leg trying to stand while 45,000 people watch.

    Horse   Love Is   People  
  • Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,’ Holly advised him. ‘That was Doc’s mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg. But you can’t give your heart to a wild thing; the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they’re strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That’s how you’ll end up Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. You’ll end up looking at the sky.

    Running   Hurt   Strong  
    Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.74, Vintage
  • I have been trying to heal my body from surgeries over the last five years - from my broken leg, tonsillectomy, wisdom teeth, eagle syndrome and hip. Needless to say, it's been a very painful process.

    Eagles   Years   Broken  
  • Never love a wild thing...If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.

  • Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken legs and a separated shoulder, feeling like, well, he'd jumped off the New Brunswick train bridge.

    Eight   Bridges   Play  
  • I know of people who don't believe it, but depression is an illness, but unlike, say, a broken leg, you don't know when it'll get better.

    Believe   People   Broken  
  • Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.

  • You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.

    Hurt   Grief   Heart  
  • In some ways, cramp is worse than having a broken leg.

    Broken   Legs   Kevin  
  • You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.

    Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.74, Vintage
  • No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness

    People   Broken   Legs  
  • Dogs with broken legs are shot; men with broken souls write through the night.

    Dog   Writing   Night  
    1941 TheJournal of Albion Moonlight.
  • One day, I just thought, if you see a bird with a broken leg, you really have the urge to do something about it and help the bird, then at the same time you go to a restaurant and eat a chicken or something. It doesn't make any sense.

    "Vegan strongman shoulders 550 kg — a record, perhaps — at vegetarian food fest" by Jessica Mcdiarmid, www.thestar.com. September 8, 2013.
  • Among wolves, no matter how sick, no matter how cornered, no matter how alone, afraid or weakened, the wolf will continue.She will lope even with a broken leg. She will strenuously outwait, outwit, outrun and outlast whatever is bedeviling her. She will put her all into taking breath after breath. The hallmark of the wild nature is that it goes on.

    Broken   Sick   Goes On  
  • In psychology, there's something called the broken-leg problem. A statistical formula may be highly successful in predicting whether or not a person will go to a movie in the next week. But someone who knows that this person is laid up with a broken leg will beat the formula. No formula can take into account the infinite range of such exceptional events.

  • The other thing that's useful for me is this notion of the absolute versus the relative:if we walk out and it's a beautiful morning, it's only a beautiful morning because we don't have a broken leg or hemorrhoids or something.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.

  • 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.

    Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.43, Courier Corporation
  • The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.

    Miguel de Cervantes, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote: Easyread Large Edition”, p.578, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • You mustn’t give your heart to a wild thing. The more you do, the stronger they get, until they’re strong enough to run into the woods or fly into a tree. And then to a higher tree and then to the sky.

    Running   Strong   Heart  
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