Break Quotes

• What some people term Freedom is nothing else than a liberty of saying and doing disagreeable things. It is but carrying the notion a little higher, and it would require us to break and have a head broken reciprocally without offense.

  

  William Shenstone
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Broken

• A Frenchwoman, when double-crossed, will kill her rival; the Italian woman would rather kill her deceitful lover; the Englishwoman simply breaks off relations-but they all will console themselves with another man.

  

  Charles Boyer
  • Relation
  • Lovers
  • Killing

• Understanding Meronian - my own language - is a psychic process which succeeds when we break through the boundaries of comprehension and reach for what's beyond our limited perception. Its ambiguousness is related to the ambiguousness of music, and it doesn't guide us too much towards semantic domains. It contains all the necessary meaning required in our rock music.

  

  Jussi Lehtisalo Circle
  • Understanding
  • Language
  • Perception

• It's okay if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Up
  • Give
  • Mess Up

• You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Understand
  • Promise
  • I Will

• The shell must break before the bird can fly.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Bird
  • Break
  • Shell

• There is only one element that can break the Afrikaner, and that is the Afrikaner himself. It is when the Afrikaner, like a baboonshot in the stomach, pulls out his own intestines. We must guard against that.

  

  P. W. Botha
  • Broken
  • Break
  • Elements

• I never learn. Like a waitress will bring my meal. Hey, enjoy your meal. You, too. But you don't have one, do ya? I'm a dufus. If you do eat enjoy it when you eat it if you have a break or something, later. If you get an opportunity. That's all I'm trying to say.

  

  Brian Regan
  • Trying
  • Opportunity
  • Enjoy

• Now to sum it up,' said Bernard. 'Now to explain to you the meaning of my life. Since we do not know each other (though I met you once I think, on board a ship going to Africa), we can talk freely. The illusion is upon me that something adheres for a moment, has roundness, weight, depth, is completed. This, for the moment, seems to be my life. If it were possible, I would hand it you entire. I would break it off as one breaks off a bunch of grapes. I would say, "Take it. This is my life.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Thinking
  • Moments
  • Illusion

• When I see friends of mine break up and they're like, "Oh, we still really love each other, but we just couldn't make it work," I don't get that. I don't understand what that means. Make it work.

  

  Torquil Campbell Broken Social Scene
  • Mean
  • Stills
  • Mines

• When Bob came through Cincinnati, he wanted a girl singer to be on his show. There was a local contest, and my sister and I entered, but Bob said, Gee, I wouldn't break up the team.

  

  Rosemary Clooney
  • Girl
  • Team
  • Said

• "Prison Break" has been a really great experience because of the writers. I think that in television, you can have great directors, really good actors, but if it's not on the page... I think a series lives and dies in writing.

  

  William Fichtner
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Prison

• No totalitarians, no wars, no fears, famines or perils of any kind can really break a man's spirit until he breaks it himself by surrendering. Tyranny has many dread powers, but not the power to rule the spirit.

  

  Edgar S. Brightman
  • Man
  • Spirit
  • Break

• Young people, take heart: the older you get, the fewer commandments you will have the strength to break.

  

  Mark Russell
  • People
  • Commandments
  • Fewer

• Some people would do anything just to get a break; that's where the bad guys get you.

  

  Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • People
  • Break
  • Bad Guys

• When human hearts break and human hearts despair, then from the twilight of the past the great conquerors of distress and care, of disgrace and misery, of spiritual slavery and physical compulsion, look down on them and hold out their eternal hands to the despairing mortals.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Human
  • Hearts
  • Despair

• I will be waiting here.... For your silence to break, For your soul to shake, For your love to wake!

  

  Rumi
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Waiting

• Break your pitcher against a rock. We don't need any longer to haul pieces of the ocean around.

  

  Rumi
  • Ocean
  • Pieces
  • Pitcher

• Its been a crazy ride. A couple of tournaments ago I wasn't even supposed to be here. But I got a Major and everything is coming full circle now. It's a nerve wracking situation. I just got the luckiest break of all time on that last shot.

  

  Chris Barnes Cannibal Corpse
  • Crazy
  • Couple
  • Coming

• I say you are a coward and you are; I think you hunt only to reassure yourself that you are not what you are: the weakest thing to ever walk the Earth. He will come for me and then we will be gone, and you will be helpless for all your hunting, because Westley and I are joined by the bond of love and you cannot track that, not with a thousand bloodhounds, and you cannot break it, not with a thousand swords.

  

  William Goldman
  • Thinking
  • Earth
  • Hunting

• I had to work out that he was always going to break my heart as long as I was willing to let him in.

  

  Beth Harbison
  • Break
  • Workout
  • My Heart

• You'd better hope and pray That you make it safe Back to your own world You'd better hope and pray That you'll wake one day in your own world 'Cause when you sleep at night They don't hear your cries in your own world Only time will tell if you can break the spell Back in your own world.

  

  Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey Bananarama
  • World
  • Night
  • Sleep

• Anger is like a ruin, which, in falling upon its victim, breaks itself to pieces.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Fall
  • Anger
  • Pieces

• Until we all start to take responsibility, until we do all we can to improve the character of our communities, we'll never break the cycle of violence and indifference.

  

  Carrie P. Meek
  • Violence
  • Break
  • Cycle

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