Top 1200 Being Broke Quotes & Sayings

He broke my heart. You merely broke my life.

When Nikita Khrushchev wrapped himself in the bloody mantle of the Czars he broke Hungary, he broke the little Communist parties over the western world, and he broke the hearts of many honest men who had trusted a little too far, a little too long.

One common adage...that is completely wrongheaded is: You can't go broke taking profits. That's precisely how many traders do go broke. While amateurs go broke by taking large losses, professionals go broke by taking small profits.

My grandma forbid us from describing ourselves as poor. She said, 'we're broke.' Because broke is temporary.

Anybody can be going from being broke to being wealthy, as I did.

It doesn't matter how big of a company you have: I always tell people that you are one job away from being broke. And if you don't live that way, you'll be broke.

Now that I'm afraid was institutionalized, and the great thing about the Canadian content regulations is that it broke that open. I mean it broke it open because people were faced with no choice, but to really start listening to these records and find the ones that they could play. It didn't take long for Canadian radio to go "Wow! We're not going broke doing this, it's not killing us, the audience isn't complaining."

If you're broke, you don't want to rap about being broke; you gonna rap about hustling and getting that bread.

My name is Brock and it also means 'broke.' I'm going for broke - I intend to give everything away of everything I have over time.

Hopefully at some point, someone else behind me will have an easier time with training methods, with being honest, with being true to who they are or whatever, because I broke down some sort of barrier.

Being dead broke is the Root of all Evil.

I went dead broke - twice! - trying to get Gas Monkey up and going. And when I say broke, I mean sleeping on my sister's couch and can't pay-the-rent type broke.

Being broke is a very efficient educational agency.

He was the freeman whom the truth made free; Who first of all, the bands of Satan broke; Who broke the bands of sin, and for his soul, In spite of fools consulted seriously.

You ever see a bar with 200 beautiful women go broke? But I've seen a lot of bars with great DJs go broke.

Aloneness is a state of being, whereas loneliness is a state of feeling. It's like the difference between being broke and being poor.

I was about to move out of my apartment because I was so broke. I'd sort of made a pact with myself that I wouldn't take a job unless it was interesting to me, and I became broke very fast.

I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.

There's times when the crockery seems alive, an' flies out o' your hand like a bird. It's like the glass, sometimes, 'ull crack as it stands. What is to be broke will be broke.

I got songs about being broke, being on welfare, being poor, Section 8.

I was on a bridge going down; the bicycle broke and I smashed to the ground, face first. I broke my jaw and my teeth, and had to have plastic surgery.

Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets.

I think, a lot of times, the mistake in music - even rappers that are trying to be big time - if you're broke, rap about being broke. If you're sensitive, rap about being sensitive, 'cause there are other sensitive people. If you're sensitive, but you talk about being a tough person that doesn't care about anything, people will call your bluff.

I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.

Then I thought, "No, I broke it myself. I broke it on purpose to pay myself back for being such a heel.

Learn all you can, don't be lazy. Nothing's worse than being stupid. Being broke is bad, but being stupid is what's really bad. And what's really really bad is being broke and stupid. Nothing's much worse than that. Unless you're sick. Sick, broke and stupid, that’s about as far as you can fall unless you're ugly. Surely that would be the ultimate; ugly, sick, broke and stupid.

Being broke is against my religion.

the next morning, fang and i broke up. now let me get this strait, i broke up with him. a split second after he broke up with me.

The difference between me and other athletes is that I'm speaking on things that I go through that I know other people go through. I think a lot of times the mistake in music if you're broke, rap about being broke, if you're sensitive, rap about being sensitive, 'cause there are other sensitive people. If you're sensitive but you talk about being a tough person that doesn't care about anything, people will call your bluff.

I got tired and embarrassed by the constant poverty of those years. I told Doug [ Brinkley] this is really going to be a horrible downer of a book [The Proud Highway] if all it's going to be is about being broke. I didn't like being reminded of desperation at all times.

Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind.

The only excuse for being broke is being in Jail.

If your shot is broke, you at least want to shoot it comfortably. You want to be comfortable shooting a broke shot. You don't want to be uncomfortable shooting a broke shot.

I broke my jaw jumping, and I broke my back and my neck in the downhill. This is normal for me.

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

The most popular rap artists aren't supposed to be rapping about being broke.

Being broke and being in the street does not mean that you're keeping it real. I think that everybody that lives in a non-wealthy neighbourhood spends their time and energy trying to do everything they can to better their living standards. I'm no different.

Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.

There's only one requirement for enjoying God's grace: being broke . . . and knowing it.

At some point a few years ago Japan unilaterally stopped those talks and broke off contacts with us. It was not we who broke off contacts with Japan, it was the Japanese side that broke off contacts with us.

I was actually really sick of being a broke actress with a toddler, so I wrote a script.

Let me tell you something: being broke ain't going to make nobody come to the Gospel.

I am scared of being broke and famous. I think that would be the biggest curse.

There is a difference between being poor and being broke. Broke is temporary, and poor is eternal.

I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation.

When you start off broke - and we weren't broke, we were negative broke - you never forget that. You stay appreciative.

I broke five vertebrae, and they had to rod my spine because I broke my sternum, too.

I wasn't so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard. That's why I'm broke.

Galaxie 500 broke up because it was time. We broke up as a result of internal contradictions.

We've discussed the public sector union people. We are messing with their bread and butter. They have their hands in the treasuries of all states in which they operate and the US Treasury. They have their hands there. That's how they live. Now, we're broke and the states are broke for a multitude of reasons. What they're being paid is among them.

Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.

My voice broke very late. I think that, deep down, I knew that once it broke, my self-esteem would plummet, as I'd never be head chorister again.

I broke my back, I broke my ankle. I didn't cry then.

You don't really drive in cabs in L.A. unless you're broke or homeless - or if you're broke and driving the cab.

Let's say I go completely broke, I'm about to star in the next '30 for 30: Broke.'

There is a difference between broke and being poor. Being broke is a temporary economic condition, but being poor is a disabling frame of mind and a depressed condition of your spirit, and you must vow to never, ever be poor again.

Poor is a state of mind. Broke is a state of wallet. You can fix being broke; it's not so easy to fix being poor.

I've been broke and sad, rich and sad, broke and happy, rich and happy, and I'll take the rich version over the broke version all day long.

I have a lot of money, but I still feel broke. When I say I feel broke, I don't mean broke in a financial sense, but I still feel like that kid from the gutter who's still trying to get it, even though I'm at the place I want to be.

There was some conflict there over Saturday nights because we were all really broke in those days- all the money you had in the world was in your pockets. Nowadays when you're say you're broke, it's not the same thing.