Before You Break Quotes

#1. Just like my Uncle Charlie used to say, just before he sprung the trap: He said, You can't cheat and honest man! Never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump!

W.C. Fields

#2. He was a glass half full kind of person and she was ... what? The glass is going to break before you can even pour kind of person. Yikes.

Erin McCarthy

#3. The last thing you want to do is lose sight of your limit. Please don't allow that to happen..... We all have a limit. What we're willing to put up with before we break.

Colleen Hoover

#4. (Mutters under his breath) Smartass AI. (Louder) Well, we're not dead yet, so it could be worse. I'll let you know if we blow up. (Under breath) Let's see how far we can push before we really do break something critical.

Rolf Nelson

#5. I think that, for me, Superman just seemed to make a lot of sense to me. After doing 'Watchmen,' it was - you know that thing, you've got to know the rules before you can break them? There was something about that in making 'Watchmen.'

Zack Snyder

#6. The mint from your breath, the milk from your breast, the best of your mind, now in its worst state of condition. From the womb to the tomb, as a mild flower, you break your petals upon blossom, and seize death openly. Leaving your fragrance to spin and dance, one last time before being blown away.

Anthony Liccione

#7. You know as well as I that you're going to break at least one heart before this is over, and I want nothing more to do with you.

Marissa Meyer

#8. It's funny - when I first started as an actor, obviously there were long periods of being idle and all you want to do is work. So if I ever get the compulsion to feel like I should complain or feel like I want to take a break, I just remember how I was before and be very grateful for it.

Neil Jackson

#9. I always tell Cristiano before training, 'If you do stepovers on me, I will break your legs and rip up your shirt.' I have no wish to have the mickey taken out of me all week.

Patrice Evra

#10. No matter how hard you try, you will never be able to carry the world. So you need to get it off your shoulders before you break your back. (From Night Marchers book 2 coming soon.)

Rebecca Gober

#11. Understand the game properly before you gear up to break the rules

Anamika Mishra

#12. You will answer this day for your treason." Then he added solemnly, "You break my heart, brother." Before Eyramus could blink Thristan was gone.

Madison Thorne Grey

#13. The signs of the old flame, I know them well.
I pray that the earth gape deep enough to take me down
or the almighty Father blast me with one bolt to the shades,
the pale, glimmering shades in hell, the pit of night,
before I dishonor you, my conscience, break your laws.

Virgil

#14. I was fine before you came into my life. And I bet I'll be just fine without you in it again.

Nina Ardianti

#15. While I played Ranji Trophy for five years, I used to be asked, 'When are you playing for the nation?' - a question which I didn't have any answer to. I kept playing before I got my first break in 1996; those five years were indeed frustrating.

Rahul Dravid

#16. Just before you break through the sound barrier, the cockpit shakes the most.

Chuck Yeager

#17. My phone rings, and I groan in relief. "Oh thank Jesus. Hopefully whoever this is will save me before you break my dick." Turns out my savior is Beau, and I pick up with my usual, "What's shaking, Maxwell?

Elle Kennedy

#18. So, as one famous writer said, "You need to know the rules first before you can break the rules". I do know the rules, but sometimes I choose to skirt around the edges, not enough to draw a penalty but certainly enough to raise some eyebrows.

Stan Schatt

#19. It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before ... to test yout limits ... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossum.

Anais Nin

#20. I give you a week, maybe two, before you're driven to bite someone."
"I don't know how to ... to bite or drink! But you could teach me."
"And what could you possibly do in return?" Lothaire waved a negligent hand. "Play football for me? Break in my jeans really well?

Kresley Cole

#21. I'll be dead after I die, and I was dead before I was born. Life is a break from death. You can't be dead all the time.

Hallgrimur Helgason

#22. You say, "Where goest Thou?" I cannot tell, And still go on. But if the way be straight I cannot go amiss: before me lies Dawn and the day: the night behind me: that Suffices me: I break the bounds: I see, And nothing more; believe and nothing less. My future is not one of my concerns.

Victor Hugo

#23. All that I do is right - for me. I make it so by doing it. Do you think that I am conquered by the laws that other women crouch and whine before, because they dare not break them, though they long to do so? I am my own law - and the law of some others.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Kami Garcia

#25. There's only one way to break the color line. Be good. I mean, play good. Play so good that they can't remember what color you were before the season started.

Hank Aaron

#26. I had to see you this night. One more time before I say my vows tomorrow. Once spoken, I'll never break them. I'd not betray my wife or my clan.

Maya Banks

#27. The airplane I usually fly has 450 horse power, and it's all made out of carbon fibre - you can't break it; your body will break before the airplane does.

Brenda Laurel

#28. People say opportunity knocks, but when it comes to success you really have to break the door off of its hinges before it even gets there.

Robert DiLauro

#29. I think there are some writers - like, if you read Kerouac, I think you probably need to take a little break before you sit down to the typewriter because he's the type of writer whose voice infects you.

John Darnielle

#30. Oh! That was poetry!" said Pippin. "Do you really mean to start before the break of day?

J.R.R. Tolkien

#31. We tried to approach this as though there's never been a Superman movie before, but at the same time respecting the canon and mythology. There are the pillars that you have to respect, and I'm not about to break them. But it is fun for me to bend them and mess with them.

Zack Snyder

#32. Rand Paul is taking a week-long break from talking to the media to spend time with his family before he officially announces that he is running for president. Because nothing motivates you to be on the road for two straight years like a week alone with your family.

Jimmy Fallon

#33. I believe I've got it covered," Malik said with an admirably straight face and smooth tone. "But I wouldn't mind taking a break before getting to the next round. Grabbing a bite to eat."
Ethan glanced at me, questioning eyebrow arched. Have you infected him?
You're hilarious, I said.

Chloe Neill

#34. 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.

Perry Brass

#35. When using the run-walk method to finish a marathon, the most important walk break comes in the first mile. The second most important one comes in the second mile, and so on. The point is, walk before you become fatigued.

Jeff Galloway

#36. Your darkness is not the enemy. It is the rich soil you must dig into and sometimes be planted in before something new can break through the surface; and those parts of you that seem wounded or lacking don't need to be healed or improved, per say, but rather loved and accepted.

Derek Rydall

#37. A wise man (or the first comedian in history) once said, "If you wish to make God laugh, tell him your plans." This is why during praying, I occasionally slip in my business plans. If there were an internet of somekind in heaven, my story would've been forwarded to everyone even before lunch break.

Isman H. Suryaman

#38. Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later. He may break his promise to you, but if you try breaking one to him he will be complaining 'It's not fair' before you can say Jack Robinson.

C.S. Lewis

#39. I wish that without me your heart would break, i wish that without me you'd be spending the rest of your nights awake, I wish that without me you couldn't eat, I wish I was the last thing on your mind before you went to sleep

Kate Nash

#40. You may have to break this heart before you can use it. You may have to take it apart and start all over with me. I know it hurts to change, but I don't want to stay the same. Take me. Break me. Do whatever it takes to make me what you need me to be

Willow Aster

#41. If I told you I love you now
How many seconds would it take
How long would you allow
All that I am to break
I turn away
Before you can see
How badly I need you to stay
With me

Penny Reid

#42. If we go to Frankfurt together it won't be long, I'm sure, before I love you. I'm not like you; it takes me longer than two days to fall in love with someone. If you're patient, if you don't break my heart with your Turkish jealousies, I'll love you deeply.

Orhan Pamuk

#43. You're going to break my heart, Sparrow Fisher. And I think, Not before you break mine.

Willow Aster

#44. If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right.

Maxwell Anderson

#45. Ryan shrugged. 'Maybe. Come on, break a smile and introduce yourself. I don't bite.'

'Stay out of my way,' she said, and before she could turn around, Ryan grabbed her arm.

She flashed him a murderous look.

'Are you tough, Stay Out Of My Way?' he said airily.

Deepika Kumaaraguru

#46. Before you break all the rules, learn the game. Too many startups and entrepreneurs want to sprint before they learn to crawl.

Mark Anthony Peterson

#47. You have to taste the sour urine before you break the jug.

Clive Barker

#48. Before we do, I suggest you take a break. If you need to go to the bathroom, this is a good time. If you're sleepy, go to bed and save the next chapter for tomorrow. For the magician's story, you must have all your wits about you. No wandering minds allowed.

Pseudonymous Bosch

#49. I'd appreciate a phone call before you try to break into my office again-Matthew Carter

Natasha Larry

#50. A week before shooting, they told me, You don't have the part, yet. We're still trying to find a handicapped kid who can act. Either that or we break your legs.

Kieran Culkin

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

Terry Pratchett

#52. Those movies taught a valuable lesson that has stuck with me for years: The moment you seek solace in a stranger, a man wearing a boxy leather jacket will break into your house and chase you around before you have to kill him in a swelling conclusion of self-defense.

Alida Nugent

#53. Before I was an actor I was a break dancer, one of those street performers you see. I guess my introduction into the professional world of performing was a stint as back up dancer for Lionel Richie and I performed at the closing ceremony at the '84 Olympics.

Cuba Gooding Jr.

#54. You make me absolutely fucking crazy," he said thickly. "Hate to break it to you, but I think you were there long before I came along,

Madeleine Urban

#55. Every day is precious. And like is too damned short!"
Ren hadn't forgotten the heart attack that had nearly killed Blackjack two years before. "Are you all right?" she asked, laying her hand on his heart.
"My heart will be fine. So long as you don't break it.

Joan Johnston

#56. You are so not an asshole. (Tory)
Trust me, I can be. But I have a height requirement before I break ass on someone. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#57. When you go through a loss, a disappointment or a bad break up, don't expect to come out the same. Expect to come out better off than you were before.

Joel Osteen

#58. Stay put," he says. "Don't touch yourself. Don't put your legs together. You'll come when I let you, Nikki, but not before. Break my rules, and I promise you won't like the punishment.

J. Kenner

#59. Look, I know you're a guy - " "Damn straight." "And there's some man rule that you've got to be all macho - " "Rule number three, actually." Both of her eyebrows shot up. "Would you just let me finish before I make you cry and break rule number three.

Cindi Madsen

#60. To be Irish is to know the world will break your heart before you are thirty.

Virginia Henley

#61. You taught me that this world is not about gay people being accepted by us, but rather us being accepted by you.

Alec John Belle

#62. But isn't it better to be honest about these things before someone else can use them against you? Before someone else can break your heart? Isn't it better to break it yourself? I thought honesty made people strong.

Stephanie Perkins

#63. We want you to break into the Smithsonian."
"Always a pleasure," Nick said.
Kate raised an eyebrow at Nick. "You've done it before?"
Nick shrugged. "Nobody goes to D.C. without visiting the Smithsonian."
"Most people go when it's open."
"I don't like crowds.

Janet Evanovich

#64. You Will Never Be Able to Carry the World, So Get it Off Your Shoulders Before You Break Your Back.

Courtney Nuckels

#65. I can tell you now that if you break things off with Alana, I'm gonna want to high five you in the face with a hammer before we reach New York.

Eden Summers

#66. But I'm sure as hell trying to be worthy of her.

Christina Lee

#67. You have to grab life by the throat and squeeze before it grabs you by your neck and breaks it. Own your destiny.

Sylvester Stallone

#68. Learn the rules before you break them.

Steven Taylor Goldsberry

#69. The commercial break before Final Jeopardy is usually the only time that the show stops tape. You're given as long as you want to do the math required to make your wager.

Ken Jennings

#70. You kissed my hair while sticking me in the heart. But your house will break before I fall apart. -Punk

Penelope Douglas

#71. You've been here before, you already know how it goes, you chose this, you know, it's supposed to be over

Dessa Darling

#72. I am hard on myself. But isn't it better to be honest about these things before someone else can use them against you? Before someone else can break your heart? Isn't it better to break it yourself?

Stephanie Perkins

#73. Babe, I hate to break it to you, but you're one messed up mess."
"I know!" I exclaimed before breaking off into a fit of laughter. "I ought to be admitted or put on some serious medication or something.

K.R. Grace

#74. Problems often look overwhelming at first. The secret is to break problems into small, manageable chunks. If you deal with those, you're done before you know it.

Bill Watterson

#75. You wonder why your government's completely broken? We lurch from deadline to deadline, and it's on purpose really. We do deadline to deadline because ... 'we've got to go. It's spring break, we're going to be late for spring break, and we've got to go, so we've got to finish this up before we go.'

Rand Paul

#76. 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.

Aleister Crowley

#77. ("Shoot him in the foot," Mr. Persichetti would tell Mr. Keane, years later, when Tony had already returned from the war and Jacob had drawn a bad number. "Break his legs before you let him go.")

Alice McDermott

#78. Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.

Marcus Aurelius

#79. I came because I wanted to be the one to break the news to you. No amount of prayers, confessions in a wooden booth, counting rosary beads, kneeling before a cross, or fasting will purify a soul. Once you've welcomed evil inside you, there is no turning back. Heaven will reject you.

Ashlan Thomas

#80. Life's not clear like that, Sienna. It's not a collection of straight-line paths to your objectives. People don't yell out, 'Ha ha! I am betraying you!' just before they break your heart. In spite of how you're feeling, not everyone's a bad guy.

Robert J. Crane

#81. Have mercy, Dad," said Kami. "Tell me you're here to rescue me before they break out the Jell-O.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#82. If you don't send Edward out," Emmett - still invisible in the night - hissed menacingly,
"we're coming in after him!"
"Go," I laughed. "Before they break my house.

Stephenie Meyer

#83. You can only do so many serious dramas in a row before you want to break. You want a change.

Gillian Jacobs

#84. A Mexican guy named Sam pushes Gary Frankel next to Isabel. "This guy can break your arm with one snap, asshole. Get out of my sight before I sic him on you," Sam says.
Gary, who's wearing a coral shirt and white pants, growls to look tough. It doesn't work.

Simone Elkeles

#85. If you salt a chicken the day before cooking, it starts to break down the cell structure of the meat and allows it to take on more flavor and actually helps it to stay more moist. Same goes for a steak, a pork chop. A lot of people brine; we preseason.

Michael Symon

#86. Broke your jaw once before
Spilt your blood upon the floor
You broke my leg in return
So let's sit back and watch the bed burn
Well love sticks sweat drips
Break the lock if it don't fit
A kick in the teeth is good for some
A kiss with a fist is better than none

Florence Welch

#87. If you break an individual record, it's because of the greatness that comes before you.

Abby Wambach