Best 1057 quotes in «break quotes» category

In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice by some one whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance.

In what other sport do you get a 15-second break every hour?

I once had a man break up with me. He said I was using him because right after making love I would weigh myself.

I only train, I don't know what a break is.

I ought to break this trophy into 32 pieces

I ought to come up there and break your shuck nose.

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.

I prefer to break new ground, but it gets harder and harder with the territory that's already been walked on.

I read everything, including the labels on canned food. I'm a hopeless print addict, a condition alleviated only by daily meditation which breaks the linear-Aristotelian trance. National Lampoon, Scientific American are what I read most obsessively.

I realized that the one person who could break my heart is the only one who should have it.

I really don't do anything to break myself. As far as the damages to my body, I'm not a drinker. I let the gin and juice alone.

I really can't break away from wearing black and leather!

I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.

I rise at the break of day, your smile sets me on my way.

I still feel as if I weren't a good enough mother. I didn't break any rules. I didn't cause my son any pain. But I did bring to my life some of my father, who was very controlling and very remote. I was working a lot. I wasn't there enough.

I say, break the law.

I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow?

I still enjoy the process of writing. If I ever feel like I am going through the motions because I can sell anything at this level, I hope that somebody, somewhere who I trust will tell me to take a break and stop because it's sounding old. But so far, I don't feel like I'm boring anyone.

I systematically break guys down. I get in the ring and they say I don't have any power but then they feel me and feel my strength.

I suppose I am one of life's naturally clumsy people; I don't drop stuff all the time, or break things, but I'm just generally a bit flustered.

I take a situation, analyse it, break it down, put it in the form I want it to be in, and then I toss it away. Let somebody else go deal with it.

I take the no-doughnut pledge, and then I break it.

I take you and pile high the memories. Death will break her claws on some I keep.

It ain't enough to get the breaks. You gotta know how to use 'em.

It ain't fair that we have all the rough breaks!

I think we should take a break, fill our little tummies and drink up.

It breaks my heart because there are some parts I know I would have the right spirit for, and I just don't get them because I have an accent.

It breaks my heart to know that millions of gay Americans still can’t marry the one they love, and I can. That makes no sense.

I think I grew up really fast; I grew up in this really fast-paced business, and I never understood what it meant to take a break or take time off or recover, and I paid for it.

I think the older you get, you start to break down the myth and you get to the dirt of it - and if you still love the dirt, then I think you should stay on board.

I think you don't break new ground in anything in life if you are willing to just follow the rules.

It is a good thing I no longer have a heart, because if I did, it would surely break.

It is a fool's sheep that breaks loose twice.

It is better to desire than to enjoy, to love than to be loved.

It is a major sin to break a contract, especially in military situations.

It is better to break one's heart than to do nothing with it.

It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.

It is easier to learn a bad habit than to break one. It is easier to break a good habit than to learn one.

It is to be broken. It is to be torn open. It is not to be reached and come to rest in ever. I turn against you, I break from you, I turn to you. We hurt, and are hurt, and have each other for healing. It is healing. It is never whole.

It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

It's a kind of liberation to break free in language, if you can break free, but it's also a confinement, because form confines you - whatever the form.

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.

It's a fairytale so tragic there's no prince to break the spell. I don't believe in magic, but for you I will

It's a good idea to have a break, to let your mind rest and so you can start to cultivate ideas.

It's a very bad habit, but one I find hard to break.

It's a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of the planet is not sufficient to break it.

It's been years since any hillbilly has reported getting sodomized by an alien. Did they break up and not tell us?

It's healthy to say uncle when your bone's about to break.

It's good to leave your room super-messy when you're away. Whoever tries to break into your room will thought it has already been ransacked.