Best 1057 quotes in «break quotes» category

The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.

There are certain restaurants where you should photograph the food rather than eat it. These are great places to bring a narcissistic boyfriend before you break up.

There are crucial things that cause fractures, breaks, whatever in relationships. But no one throws a life away.

There are lots of actors out there who are hugely, hugely talented and haven't got the breaks I've had.

There are no rules, but you break them at your peril.

There are some films that really break the mold, and some films that don't. I've been looking for films that break the mold a bit.

There are no happy endings, only breaks in the regular action.

There has to be some certainty about who the leader is before the summer break.

There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two terms seek to break apart. They cannot.

There hasn't been a true breakdown or effort to break Thai music into genres. They're not into dicing and slicing everything up.

There is a lesson we learn early and harmlessly, or late and traumatically - that there are things we can break that our parents can't fix.

There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law.

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.

There is no other way to break the frozen cinematic conventions than through a complete derangement of the official cinematic senses.

There is so much to life; my heart breaks watching someone held captive by addiction.

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.

There's a commercial break coming and I'm very excited about it and you know why? Because that's what keeps daddy in suits.

There was a "We" and hope, but nothing after.

There's no sense to being Irish unless you know the world's going to break your heart.

...there was no such thing as curses. People make and break their own fortunes -they are the masters of their own fate.

There were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law. 'Obedience keeps the rules,' he would say. 'Love knows when to break them.'

There were days when I would say, 'God, I can't be without Leo'. He was my rock. We were such a team, nothing could break us, nothing could come near us.

The song that's affected me the most profoundly is probably Michael Jackson's 'Thriller,' or, more specifically, the couple seconds of instrumental break before Vincent Price starts 'rapping.'

The sea, the majestic sea, breaks everything, crushes everything, cleans everything, takes everything...from me

The shackles of belief, when reinforced by fear, are difficult to break free from and rarely done.

The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the shell.

The rule is the worst thing. You just want to break it.

The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.

These days, you don't just break into comics once. You have to break in again and again after each job is finished.

These people´s God has shown them by a million acts that he respects none of the Bible´s statues. He breaks every one of them himself, adultery and all.

The things that break your heart when you think there`s nothing left to break

The thing that breaks my heart about [Dennis Wilson] is that he was very naïve from the beginning to the end.

The 'success' of the sermon is utterly dependent on the God who breaks through and 'grasps' us, or we cannot be 'grasped.

The technology will break gun control. I stand for freedom.

The Thin Man was a good break, because it was highly popular. I played a gigolo in it.

The two of them went down in a heap, with not even a turkey to break their fall.

The truth is, you don't break a bad habit; you replace it with a good one.

The tongue has no bones, but can break a heart.

The two things are synergistic, the health care crisis and the food crisis. Right now, to a large extent, the food industry's biggest product is patients for the health care industry and we have to break that.

The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.

The unprecedented transparency of our time is a making change by the day. Our era, with transparency and the spread of information, is decentralizing authority and power at a breakneck pace. Those who understand this can break away. Those who attempt to hold back may well be trampled.

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.

The whims of youth break all the rules.

The wiser a man is, it seems to me, the more vividly he can see the future as part of the evolving present. He doesn't break the flow of life, he directs it, hastens it, but preserves its continuity.

The working class must break up, smash the "ready-made state machinery," and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it.

They didn't break me. I broke myself.

The worst thing a good girl could do to you is break your heart.

Things are going well in Germany because the economy is booming and as an export-driven nation, we are profiting from the fact that we have an excellent, high-performing SME sector. But if we want things to continue to go well into the future, then we have to break up the antiquated structures in some areas and really modernize.

They that make laws must not break them.

Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade?