Best 1057 quotes in «break quotes» category

Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.

In my life I had come to realize that when things were going very well indeed it was just the time to anticipate trouble. And, conversely, I learned from pleasant experience that at the most despairing crisis, when all looked sour beyond words, some delightful "break" was apt to lurk just around the corner.

In New York, the dunk is not the thing. To break somebody down and shoot a J-that's as big as a dunk in New York.

In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives.

In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human beings.

In Point Break, I was the only woman in there, so it was pretty easy to feel like a sex symbol. You've got all the naked, wet, Hot Chili Peppers, right? You've got Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves and then the whole crew. It was me and 50 dudes the whole time. It was awesome!

In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer.

Interest rates do not have to be identical across the whole euro area, but it is unacceptable if major differences arise from broken capital markets or concern about a euro area break-up.

In the end it seems we're just toys,easy to break and hard to mend

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.

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

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

I ought to break this trophy into 32 pieces

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

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 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 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 can't break away from wearing black and leather!

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

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

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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