I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank and puts her trust in miracles for safety.
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.
The difficulty of IVF or of any fertility issues is the hope and the shattered hope the dream that it might happen this time and then it doesn't happen.
Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.
Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
In my lifetime I've discovered a great many incredibly talented individuals. Some have achieved stardom. Simultaneously I've seen many dreams shattered egos destroyed and lives changed forever. The end destination may well be fame and fortune but the road to stardom is littered with broken hearts.
Most 'reality' shows aren't reality at all. They're game shows with no prize. Like 'Rock of Love.' His aren't genuine feelings. Then again Bob Barker didn't really care whether or not you won the toaster. Sorry to shatter everyone's dreams.
When you break up your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.
Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.
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.
In the practical art of war the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact to shatter and destroy it is not so good.
I've always said that one night I'm going to find myself in some field somewhere I'm standing on grass and it's raining and I'm with the person I love and I know I'm at the very point I've been dreaming of getting to.