quotes about Break
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The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.
-- A. E. Housman -
No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
If you don’t write the book you have to write, everything breaks.
-- A.M. Homes -
I know this because I understand now what love really feels like. The kind that consumes you. Love holds the power to break you. It holds the power to complete you.
-- Abbi Glines -
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I couldn't forget. I couldn't break. She had the power to break me. No one had ever been given that power, ever.
-- Abbi Glines -
I wanted to break the record, of course, and become the youngest person to sail around the world solo and unassisted.
-- Abby SunderlandSource : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.27, Thomas Nelson Inc
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We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.
-- Abdolkarim Soroush -
As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
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So is it over is this really it You've given up so easily I thought you loved me more than this
-- Adele -
Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
-- Adrienne Rich -
If the preservation of the home means the enslavement of women, economically or morally, then we had better break it.
-- Agnes Macphail -
I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.
-- Akio Morita -
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I could break bricks with my hands when I was 12.
-- Akshay Kumar -
In this life all that I have is my word and my balls and I do not break them for nobody.
-- Al Capone -
Switching to the outfield was the best break I ever got.
-- Al Kaline -
I'm constantly striving to break through to something new. You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
-- Al Pacino -
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I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.
-- Alain Prost -
I don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.
-- Albert Brooks -
One dies if necessary, one breaks rather than bending. But I bend, because I continue to love myself.
-- Albert Camus -
The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules—but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are not in a position to transcend them.
-- Aleister Crowley -
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I play with microbes. There are, of course, many rules to this play...but when you have acquired knowledge and experience it is very pleasant to break the rules and to be able to find something nobody has thought of.
-- Alexander FlemingSource : Beverley Birch, Alexander Fleming (2002). “Alexander Fleming: Pioneer with Antibiotics”, Blackbirch PressInc
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You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.
-- Alexander McQueenSource : "The McQueen I knew was not a troubled genius" by Alex Bilmes, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2010.
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I'm okay. Russian machine never breaks.
-- Alexander Ovechkin -
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If a heart could break once, it shouldn't have been able to happen again.
-- Alexandra Bracken -
If only' repeated again and again in her head like a battering ram...'if only' could break your heart.
-- Alexandra Ripley -
Fear that makes faith may break faith.
-- Algernon Charles SwinburneSource : Algernon Charles Swinburne (1874). “Bothwell: A Tragedy”, p.52
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The fisher droppeth his net in the stream, And a hundred streams are the same as one; And the maiden dreameth her love-lit dream; And what is it all, when all is done? The net of the fisher the burden breaks, And always the dreaming the dreamer wakes.
-- Alice CarySource : Mary Clemmer, Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary (1873). “A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary: With Some of Their Later Poems”, p.122
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I tell you, I'm half tempted to break into CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon out of CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon.
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I was so happy to go to prom so I could have a mental break because I've been working so hard. It felt so good to feel normal for once, and then the next day, I was in the gym again.
-- Aly RaismanSource : "Aly Raisman, Olympic Gymnast, Gets An Adorable Prom Proposal" by Hannah Orenstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 7, 2012.
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Everybody's got a story that could break your heart.
-- Amanda MarshallSource : Song: Everybody's Got A Story, Album: Everybody's Got a Story, 2001
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What you have to do is break all the rules.
-- Andrew WyethSource : "Still Sovereign of His Own Art World" by Ralph Blumenthal, www.nytimes.com. February 18, 1997.
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I bring my bike to work, and I make laps around our parking lot on my lunch break.
-- Angela Kinsey -
I might bend, but I will NEVER break because it's in my nature as a strong woman.
-- Angela Merkel -
What doesn't bend, breaks.
-- Ani DiFrancoSource : Song: Buildings and Bridges, Album: Out of Range
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In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives.
-- Ann Voskamp -
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Men are prostrated by misfortune; women bend, but do not break, and martyr-like live on.
-- Anna Cora Mowatt -
Like the pioneers of old, a creative person breaks new ground daily.
-- Anna Olson -
Break any problem into, or make any changes in, small increments.
-- Anne Grant -
by then I'd figured out the gift of failure, which is that it breaks through all that held breath and isometric tension about needing to look good: it's the gift of feeling floppier.
-- Anne Lamott -
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You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you.
-- Annie Dillard -
Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.
-- Anthony de Mello -
I break away from all conventions that do not lead to my earthly success and happiness.
-- Anton Szandor LaVeySource : "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey (Book I, Section I), 1969.
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If you beat your head against the wall, it is your head that breaks and not the wall.
-- Antonio GramsciSource : Antonio Gramsci (1968). “The modern prince: and other writings”
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At the very smallest wheel of our reasoning it is possible for a handful of questions to break the bank of our answers.
-- Antonio Machado -
When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.
-- Antonio Porchia -
It was a culture that business is something bad - it was a leftist-oriented psychology. We have to break this. We are pro-business.
-- Antonis SamarasSource : Source: www.slate.com
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I'll break your chains; so sing, Takuto. As loud and as much as you want. You don't have to hold back anything.
-- Arina Tanemura -
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If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.
-- Aristophanes -
When you spend your life in a creative mode all the time mindless leaf blowing can be a welcome break.
-- Art Wolfe -
You have to believe what you're saying if you're going to convince me. I just can't break that rule, even if I want to.
-- Ashly Lorenzana -
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You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. The heart will break... but broken live on.
-- Barbara De Angelis -
Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
-- Barbara DemingSource : Barbara Deming (1974). “We cannot live without our lives”
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Good habits were the easiest ones to break ...
-- Barbara SeranellaSource : Barbara Seranella (2013). “Unwanted Company: A Munch Mancini Mystery”, p.21, Diversion Books
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You don’t break up with someone just because of an argument, Josh. At least, I don’t.
-- Barry Lyga -
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I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I'd fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.
-- Bebe Neuwirth -
I didn’t break his jaw, but if he lays a hand on you, it will be the first of many things to break,†Patch said.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
Move fast and break things.
-- Ben BarrySource : "Facebook’s Analog Research Lab: The Slogan Factory Where Techies Get Tactile" by Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.
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All other things being equal, greens break to the west.
-- Ben Hogan -
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I don't need to pat myself on the back until my arm breaks. I don't need any of that.
-- Bernie Mac -
I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers.
-- Bill JamesSource : "Stats Geek Bill James Applies His Science to Serial Killers" by Brian Raftery, www.wired.com. April 04, 2011.
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Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break.
-- Bill JamesSource : "The Mind of Bill James: How a Complete Outsider Changed Baseball". Book by Scott Gray, 2006.
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Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade?
-- Bill Maher -
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The basic unit of any society is the home. When the home begins to break, the society is on the way to disintegration.
-- Billy Graham -
It's OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
-- Billy Joel -
I'm so miserable without you, it's almost as if you're here!
-- Billy Ray Cyrus -
God doesn't break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them.
-- Bob Goff -
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We are programmed; we are literally programmed genetically and then we are programmed environmentally and most people never break out of that programming.
-- Bob Proctor -
Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently
-- Boris Pasternak -
I just wrapped this movie called The Wedding Crashers which was a pretty big break for me.
-- Bradley Cooper -
We all go through life bristling at our external limitations, but the most difficult chains to break are inside us.
-- Bradley Whitford -
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I definitely felt like I needed a break, because when you do so much, you're not able to appreciate the things that you accomplish.
-- Brandy Norwood -
You are not broken. You break again and again because that's what breaking means. To be whole.
-- Brenda ShaughnessySource : Brenda Shaughnessy (2008). “Human Dark with Sugar”, p.39, Copper Canyon Press
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That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to... grapple with the unfamiliar.
-- Brian Aldiss -
It breaks towards the center of the earth when it is above the hole.
-- Brian Weiss -
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Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can't break.
-- Bruce SchneierSource : "Memo to the Amateur Cipher Designer". Cryptogram Newsletter, www.schneier.com. October 15, 1998.
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These days, you don't just break into comics once. You have to break in again and again after each job is finished.
-- C. B. Cebulski -
Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity.
-- C. S. Lewis -
I love the vast surface of silence; and it is my chief delight to break it.
-- Carl Nielsen -
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Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
-- Carl Sagan -
The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life breaks through the crust of a mechanism that has become torpid by repetition.
-- Carl SchmittSource : Carl Schmitt (2010). “Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty”, p.15, University of Chicago Press
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I am not much about rules, I like to break 'em and don't like to make 'em.
-- Carson KressleySource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Our break-up had been a resounding anti-climax. I wanted to be wept over, bitterly. I wanted to be fought for. Mourned, or regretted just a little. I wanted to feel like I was someone who'd been worth having in the first place.
-- Catherine Sanderson -
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It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.
-- Cecil B. DeMille -
The Thin Man was a good break, because it was highly popular. I played a gigolo in it.
-- Cesar Romero -
Get comfortable being uncomfortable, that's how you break the plateau and reach the next level.
-- Chalene Johnson -
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So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
Nothing changes what alreaday happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't.
-- Charles Frazier -
Success is that old ABC: ability, breaks and courage.
-- Charles Luckman -
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One thing about prejudices -- once you break one of them, you're screwed, because then they all have got to go.
-- Cher -
I'd like to break some new ground, maybe in TV presenting, rather than just be an actress.
-- Cherie Lunghi -
To me, music that breaks your heart is the music that stays with you forever,
-- Chris BottiSource : Chris Botti (2008). “Best of Chris Botti Songbook: Trumpet Artist Transcriptions”, p.4, Hal Leonard
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Somtimes when you know the right thing to do, you simply have to do it, even though it breaks your heart.
-- Chris FabrySource : Chris Fabry (2010). “Almost Heaven”, p.119, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
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I only train, I don't know what a break is.
-- Chris Weidman -
I just want to be married, or just engaged. Basically, I just want a ring. And the tax break.
-- Christina Ricci -
Luck is a combination of confidence and getting the breaks.
-- Christy MathewsonSource : Christy Mathewson, John Neville Wheeler (1994). “Pitching in a Pinch, Or, Baseball from the Inside”, p.233, U of Nebraska Press
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People whine, 'I haven't succeeded because I haven't had the breaks.' You create your own breaks.
-- Chuck Norris -