Best 1057 quotes in «break quotes» category

20th century poetry is a piñata. Images break from the earth when the poet strikes it.

About 1883 something like a break occurred in my work. I had reached the end of 'impressionism,' and I had come to realize that I did not know how to paint or draw.

A break up is the closest thing to bereavement

A bowler can make or break a chap.

Acknowledging the lucky breaks are paramount to enjoying life. Not being defensive about our successes/failures. So, in short.

A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.

A false worship will not hurt the civil state if the worshipper breaks no civil law.

A film is a boat which is always on the point of sinking-it always tends to break up as you go along and drag you under with it.

After I had the kids, I took a break from work, and all my creativity went into my kitchen. I like experimenting.

A horse loves freedom, and the weariest old work horse will roll on the ground or break into a lumbering gallop when he is turned loose into the open.

Again, your challenge is not just to improve. It is to break the service paradigm in your industry or market so that customers aren't just satisfied, they're so shocked that they tell strangers on the street how good you are.

Allegories drawn to great length will always break.

Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.

All human interaction, you can break it down to incentives. All relationships, at some level, are transactional. They're fascinated with incentives.

Almighty Father, please stop making jerks. Amen...Break!

All I wanted was to break your walls, all you wanted was to break me

All other things being equal, greens break to the west.

All reviews should carry a Surgeon General's warning. The good ones turn your head, the bad ones break your heart.

All the women are going around saying, "Oh, we're just friends, we're just friends," but the guy's going, "Yeah, we're friends, but as soon as she breaks up with her boyfriend, I'm hoping to move in.

A lot of countries break (or go against) the international law.

A lot of luck, and being prepared when the opportunity came. There are talented individuals out there who didn't get the break that I got. Or when the break came, they weren't ready for it.

A lot of people in a LA need to take a break from taking a break.

And be these juggling friends no more believ'd, That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear And break it to our hope.

A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain....The solution is not splicing the rope; it's lessening the tension.

America's got to take a break from foreign wars, and take a break from immigration.

An artist don't make you bigger than life - being that person that can break artists can make you bigger than life.

American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos.

and if the world breaks down, I'll be around.

And I'll break, when I'm through breakin, I'll leave you broke, Drop the mic when I'm finished, and watch it smoke

An ear can break a human heart As quickly as a spear, We wish the ear had not a heart So dangerously near.

And the relationships that happen become so intense, deep, involved and complex and really hard to say goodbye to. The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it's all done. It really breaks you.

..and only sticks and stones can break my bones.

And then he smiles, and in all the places around the globe where it's night, day breaks.

An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs.

Another rule I have is: Don't let your ego get tied up in a policy dispute. Otherwise, if things don't go your way, you can end up breaking a relationship with somebody with whom you can't afford to break.

Annabeth sat up and glared at her ankle. "You HAD to break," she scolded it. The ankle did not reply.

An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.

Anthony Hopkins says you just keep acting. Do it all the time and eventually it will happen. He got his break, after all, by taking a role nobody else wanted. A cannibal!

Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.

Any goal can be achieved if you break it down into enough small parts.

As a producer, you can't break up w/your own project. It's like sleeping with someone that you don't like... Forever.

A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.

Anyone worth knowing breaks once. Once. No shame, no foul if you survive it. You did.

As a working mum, it's really hard to find time in the day to just relax and take a break. I am constantly on the go.

As conscious adult women, if we really do care about the state of girls and women worldwide, we need to train this next generation of girls because they are going to be the ones taking over and they are going to be the ones that shift this paradigm. Unfortunately for our generation, we've been raised in a society where greed trumps all. In other words, where the bottom line is money...where money affects how we perceive each other, and how we perceive ourselves and our value. We need to break that now with this younger generation.

A sculpture is something that if it falls on your foot, it will break it.

A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.

Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.

As long as I don't break the camera, I'll be fine.

A soft word pacifies anger, and the discordant words break the harmony of the cosmic diapason, and generate disorders.