Best 1057 quotes in «break quotes» category

Let us not mince words about what this would be: a deportation force designed to break up families and deport millions of people.

Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.

Lev (Léon) Shestov, a Russian Jew who later became a French Jew and even converted to Catholicism, defined God not by His power to create the laws of universe, but His ability to break them at will - the capacity for miracles. God could cancel the past! For instance, God could decide retrospectively, that Socrates was never poisoned... Assimilation demanded a miracle: that you stop having been somebody else before... But only God can do it.

Liberalism is unsustainable. When things go wrong in liberalism they pile more liberalism on top. Pretty good example of what's wrong with the US budget, US healthcare. Liberalism breaks it. Government breaks it. They pile more liberalism on top of it until it eventually implodes, like Obamacare is going to, or like Social Security is going to. All of these things, they're not sustainable, because liberalism isn't.

Life breaks all of us but some of us get stronger in the broken places.

Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places.

Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.

Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that.

Like a horse, honey, somebody's gonna break you.' 'Never. Going. To. Happen.

Like the pioneers of old, a creative person breaks new ground daily.

Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em.

Lord, bend me, or I shall rot. Lord do not bend me too much, for I shall break. Lord bend me too much, who cares if I break!

Lord please break the laws of the universe for my convenience. Amen.

Love and only love will endure. Hate is everything you think it is. Love and only love will break it down.

Love breaks your heart, love takes no less than everything. Love makes it hard, and it fades away so easily.

Love makes us similar, it creates equality, it breaks down walls and eliminates distances. God did this with us.

love gave someone the power to break you. I'd been broken beyond repair.

Love itself is not an act of will, but sometimes I need the force of my volition to break with my habitual responses and pass along the love already here.

Love will break your heart,[...] but love can also mend it. Not many things in life are both the cause and the cure.

Luck is earned. Luck is working so hard at your craft, service or enterprise that sooner or later you get a break.

Luck is a combination of confidence and getting the breaks.

Many would live by their Wits, but break for want of Stock.

Luckily for you, you can close the book The Postman Always Rings Twice and break out of it, and James M. Cain can't. I can't think of any redeeming feature he has, but he's extremely compelling.

Mastering our emotions has nothing to do with asceticism or repression, for the purpose is not to break the emotions or deny them but to "break in" the emotions, making them teachable because they are tamed.

...maybe it was better to break a man's leg than to break his heart.

Mature prayer always breaks into gratitude.

Max: "Fang! This is a huge break! Of course we should go check it out!" Fang: "But we're grounded." Max and Fang: (stare at each other for a second and burst out laughing)

Maybe it needed to be broken. Sometimes things have to break before you can fix them.

Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

Men are prostrated by misfortune; women bend, but do not break, and martyr-like live on.

Mentally it is possible to break records, once you understand that, you can do anything.

Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.

Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.

Men keep their agreements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them; and I shall so frame my laws that it will be evident to the Athenians that it will be for their interest to observe them.

MGM never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles, but cast me in programme pictures.

Morning breaks. So do bottles and bones.

Most of cooking is the labor of chopping. Give yourself a break. Pretend you're on a cooking show and have all your ingredients lined up for you.

Most cinema is not about images but text. Why on earth have we based cinema on text? Why can't we break that umbilical cord? Why do we have to pollute cinema?

Motor racing's less of a sport these days than a commercial break doing 150 mph.

Move fast and break things.

Music breaks my heart constantly.

Music, somehow, breaks through, to everybody.

My big break was back in the third grade playing the third monkey in 'Horton Hears a Who.

Music to me is so internal. It's physical and it's emotional. Whereas fashion is so much about the external that it's almost like a break. It's not inner turmoil. It's total escapism.

My analysis of the situation was that Roman Polanski wasn't trying to break us down or get a performance out of us by destroying us. He was absolutely, very simply, trying to recreate this clear picture in his head. And the pictures he creates are absolutely perfect, and they are exactly what he saw in his head.

My workday is non-stop break-neck high stakes and high pressure. Every day.

My grand point in preaching is to break the hard heart, and to heal the broken one.

[M]y love for you is deathless, it seems to bind me to you with mighty cables that nothing but Omnipotence could break.