Top 100 Break Quotes
#2. I believe every woman's body is beautiful in its own way. I have never understood that just because a woman has thick thighs, she is considered fat. For so long, I've been around in the modeling world and have tried to break that barrier. But I think now it's turning around.
Coco Austin
#3. Our ideas are only intellectual instruments which we use to break into phenomena; we must change them when they have served their purpose, as we change a blunt lancet that we have used long enough.
Claude Bernard
#4. Patrick said that the problem was that since everything has happened already, it makes it hard to break new ground.
Stephen Chbosky
#5. And I wondered when I peeped into one or two on the lower tiers, and saw the tied-up brown paper packets inside, whether the flower-seeds and bulbs ever wanted of a fine day to break out of those jails, and bloom.
Charles Dickens
#6. In your career, you must be so careful; otherwise, you get caught in a particular image, and it's hard to break.
David Hedison
#7. Happy men are grave. They carry their happiness cautiously, as they would a glass filled to the brim which the slightest movement could cause to spill over, or break.
Jules Amedee Barbey D'Aurevilly
#8. I started out playing big bands shows and different things. I was with several different small bands and groups, doing comedy and singing, emceeing, and I got a break with a very big star of the late fifties whose name was Tommy Sands ...
Hal Blaine
#9. is also time for a final break with our theologically grounded reserve about whatever is being done by the state-which really only comes down to fear. "Speak out for those who cannot in the church today still remembers that this is the very least the Bible asks of us in such times as these?
Keith Clements
#10. Once you break the social norm and create a new social norm, all of a sudden it can stay with us for a long time.
Dan Ariely
#11. I get a terminal dissatisfaction on films. If I was bad in one scene, it's impossible to let go. And it can make or break my day. If I drank, I would probably drink a lot.
Jared Leto
#12. Our challenge is not to let life mold us or break us
Sunday Adelaja
#13. I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can't imagine someone else's point of view.
Sonia Sotomayor
#14. Nathan," I said as loud as I could, but there was nothing to my voice. His blue eyes lit with tears. He shook his head. His eyes drifted from my face to my bound hands and feet. He grumbled something and turned back to me. "I'm going to break this damn thing, okay? Don't move.
C.L.Stone
#15. I want to remind people of a different kind of glamour, a different look, and breaking the rules of fashion. I wanna break the rules.
Dita Von Teese
#16. The Arctic is the planet's air conditioner and it's starting to break down.
Eban Goodstein
#18. It is not enough to knock on successes' door; you have to knock hard enough. And if no one answers,
either go through a window, or break down the door.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#19. You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.
Les Brown
#20. He's just my first love. My first crush. Maybe that's why they called it crush. Because it indeed crush you. Literally. Break your heart. Leave pain. Rip you apart.
Yuli Pritania
#21. I'd never been one to break rules. But they seemed to matter less and less with every kiss. Every thrust into her softness. Every sigh she moaned into my ear. Of course, that wasn't the case. I knew there'd be serious repercussions if the truth came out, but I couldn't stay away from her.
Sha Renee
#22. How do we break this cycle of adding to the unconsciousness on the planet? The answer lies in seeing that our true nature consists ONLY of love, and so that is ALL we have to give [and see] when we know ourselves as that ...
Mike Jeffries
#23. Don't let a little sin in; all hell will break loose.
Adrian Rogers
#24. I don't have to run from none of these fighters. If I want to keep my defense tight and break em' down I can.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
#25. 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
#26. How posterity will laugh at us, one way or other! If half a dozen break their necks, and balloonism is exploded, we shall be called fools for having imagined it could be brought to use: if it should be turned to account, we shall be ridiculed for having doubted.
Horace Walpole
#27. I am taking a break, but not a huge break because the Maiden record is actually happening right now, and I am recording it as we speak, well not right as we speak, but close.
Bruce Dickinson
#28. I do not know why the mind chooses these small things to break itself on.
Chris Cleave
#29. What I hope to do in the States is to break up this stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs. I mean, we are basically the only sub-culture that is not represented in Hollywood. And it's funny because everybody is talking about the Muslim world and the Arab world, and we are not represented.
Bassem Youssef
#30. There was no such thing as production at Starday. We'd go in with the band, we'd go over the song, I'd look over and tell the steel player to take a break or kick it off, and I'd get the fiddle to play a turnaround in the middle.
George Jones
#31. But solitude is sadness.'
'Yes; it is sadness. Life, however, has worse than that. Deeper than melancholy lies heart-break.
Charlotte Bronte
#32. I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly built up a great distorted wall in front of them that hid the truth.
Daphne Du Maurier
#33. New vows to plight, and plighted vows to break.
John Dryden
#34. Like warp and woof all destinies
Are woven fast,
Linked in sympathy like the keys
Of an organ vast.
Pluck one thread, and the web ye mar;
Break but one
Of a thousand keys, and the paining jar
Through all will run.
John Greenleaf Whittier
#35. Think not that thou canst fail of entering into rest. If He hath called thee, nothing can divide thee from His love. Distress cannot sever the bond; the fire of persecution cannot burn the link; the hammer of hell cannot break the chain.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#36. He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things will only break your heart.
Mitch Albom
#37. She didn't look back, but she did break her stride for half a second, which was really the most you could hope for with a girl like that.
Tommy Wallach
#38. It's TV shows like BUFFY and ANGEL that usually have an incredible cliffhanger every commercial break that amaze me.
Brian K. Vaughan
#39. Don't ignore me while I'm trying to break
up with you!
Kristen Ashley
#40. We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.
Bill McCollum
#41. It is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little moment. There's never a break. You must have desire, a very intense desire to keep going.
Janet Guthrie
#42. If he wanted to break her curse, he need only find a human girl willing to marry him. But not any girl - a human with ice in her heart, with hatred for our kind. A human girl willing to kill a faerie.
Sarah J. Maas
#43. I love a challenge, and trying to become the first person to break the speed of sound in freefall is a challenge like no other.
Felix Baumgartner
#44. I break an emcee off proper
Yo don't check me,
Ask your Moms and Pops,
Yo they respect me,
But here you stand, tryin' to get yours, but gettin' nothin'
You probably can't spell "Boogie Down" or "Productions"
KRS-One
#45. I'm taking a break from music ... everyone was so mean about it and it was so hard that I wanted to die.
Melanie Laurent
#46. Your voices break and falter in the darkness, Break, falter, and are still.
Bret Harte
#47. Waiting with too few men, and with every instinct telling me to run. Every instinct, except for that one to hold or break, but never bend. I
Mark Lawrence
#48. Must I go bound while you go free Must I love a manwho doesn't love me Must I be born with so little art As to love a man who'll break my Heart
Cassandra Clare
#49. To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#50. Why do you have to take every good thing we try to give you and break it into pieces?" Nico said. "You let them turn you into this ... "
"This is who I am," Clancy snapped. "I won't let them change me. I won't let them touch me. Not again.
Alexandra Bracken
#51. My whole thing is, haters are gonna hate, but haters are also going to click on your YouTube video just to watch it, so I don't really care. You helped me break the record. Even if you were watching just to hate on me, and now I hold the record, so I win.
Miley Cyrus
#52. Words are tricky. Sometimes you need them to bring out the hurt festering inside. If you don't, it turns gangrenous and kills you ... But sometimes words can break a feeling into pieces.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#53. Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
William Hazlitt
#54. I think it's nice to get a break from all of the big Hollywood comic book action-movies and see something that's relatable and funny and interesting.
Aubrey Plaza
#55. You break your neck, and I'll see it mended just so I can break it again." ~ Nynaeve
Robert Jordan
#56. A sculpture is something that if it falls on your foot, it will break it.
John Chamberlain
#57. It was the hardest boyfriend I ever had to break up with [referring to crystal methamphetamines]
Fergie
#58. I trained in combat, sword fighting, horse riding ... It's empowering knowing that I can a break man's nose with my elbow.
Gwendoline Christie
#59. The break from the supposedly culturally-narrow religious bases of knowledge in favor of supposedly trans-cultural scientific bases of knowledge served as the self-justification of a particularly pernicious form of cultural imperialism.
Immanuel Wallerstein
#60. You didn't break my nose," he says."Too bad.""No, that's good," he says. "Because I would've broken yours.""You'd hit a girl?""We fight all the time.
Dan Krokos
#61. O Youth! flame earnest, still aspire, With energies immortal! To many a heaven of Desire, Our yearning opes a portal! And tho' Age wearies by the way, And hearts break in the furrow, We'll sow the golden grain Today
The Harvest comes tomorrow.
Gerald Massey
#63. Language is the net that holds thought trapped within a particular culture. But if one could only strike the ball with sufficient force, with perfect timing, it would perhaps break through the netting, continue on its course, never fall to earth, but go into orbit around the world.
David Lodge
#64. What self-respecting teenage kid growing up in the U.S. hasn't played Truth or Dare? Before cell phones, we kids spent a lot of time in the same place and actually had to come up with our own entertainment. Truth or Dare was the game of choice to break the ice between the boys and the girls.
Catherine Bybee
#65. I don't answer. I'm not staging a rebellion here. I stay quiet because I don't want to break down, and I learnt a long time ago that, sometimes, the only way to silence the cries is by making no sound at all.
Ally Carter
#66. He ... was attached by ties stronger than reason could break
chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.
Emily Bronte
#67. When I break a rock open with my pick, I'm a prophet. I see the past. I see the future. I know where the world is going, and where it's been. And I always, always want to know more.
Christina Dodd
#68. The least strength suffices to break what is bruised.
Ovid
#69. At 'The Village Voice,' there were all these fevers inside the offices, that would break out into full-scale rumbles between writers.
James Wolcott
#70. His anger was still there, and he used it to break into her. He liked the way her eyes widened in alarm, as if he was forcing a lock, as if he was breaking and entering. It was the first time he'd ever slept with a woman and it felt like burglary.
Rupert Thomson
#71. Don't overreact. For example, if someone inadvertently embarrasses you in public, don't let anger get the best of you. It really isn't necessary to frame the person for a murder he/she didn't commit. Wouldn't it be enough to simply break up his or her marriage instead?
Anthony Rubino Jr.
#73. 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
#74. God loves us; the devil hates us. God wants us to have a fulness of joy as He has. The devil wants us to be miserable as he is. God gives us commandments to bless us. The devil would have us break these commandments to curse us.
Ezra Taft Benson
#75. If we move in mass, be it ever so circuitously, we shall attain our object; but if we break into squads, everyone pursuing the path he thinks most direct, we become an easy conquest to those who can now barely hold us in check.
Thomas Jefferson
#76. It is incumbent upon philosophy ... to provide a refuge for freedom. Not that there is any hope that it could break the political tendencies that are throttling freedom throughout the world both from within and without and whose violence permeates the very fabric of philosophical argumentation.
Theodor Adorno
#77. The sky doesn't set so much as break apart. The horizon is brick-coloured. The rest of the sky is streaked with shock-red tendrils.
Lauren Oliver
#78. I don't feel it is right that I'm playing knowing that I'm not 100% and I cannot currently operate at the level I have done in the past. My priority now is to take a break from cricket so that I can focus on my recovery
Jonathan Trott
#79. Well,' the Goddess said, 'your heart didn't heal straight the last time it broke. So we'll break it again and reset it so it heals straight this time.
Jane Yolen
#80. We need to break our dependency on foreign sources of oil, which leaves us at the mercy of foreign powers. To do that, we should increase domestic energy production.
Bobby Jindal
#81. COLBIE: He's a man, and they're not smart like us card-carrying vaginas. I think the penis distract them too much, yet they still managed to invent airplanes and TV. Give the guy a break.
Bijou Hunter
#82. Someone you love has at least one secret that would break your heart.
Rhein Fathia
#83. The whole problem of life is this: how to break out of one's own solitude, how to communicate with others.
Cesare Pavese
#84. My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.
Zola Jesus
#85. This album [Stroll] and all my songs that break barriers are more reflective of my personality.
SonReal
#86. Why do you have to fix the salad? who broke it? i didn't touch it. did you break the salad, mom? if you did, YOU'D BETTER FIX IT!
David Levithan
#87. I developed the Clock Theory to help me time records; you know, spin the record back two revolutions or whatever and then play the break, spin the other one back two, play, like that.
Grandmaster Flash
#88. Know your limits, but never stop trying to break them.
Kyle Maynard
#89. The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles BY STEVEN PRESSFIELD Pressfield's
Daniel H. Pink
#90. news flash: Men, you have the power to make or break a relationship.
John M. Gottman
#91. I think I had a shyness about me, I think I discovered acting as a way to break out of that and as a way of belonging, a sense of being special.
Michael C. Hall
#92. Break up the printing presses and you break up rebellion.
Dudley Nichols
#93. The cops will break down your door to save you. God will break down your constitution. Brokenness is not the opposite of wholeness. It's how He gets in.
Kate McGahan
#94. The bow kept taut will quickly break, kept loosely strung, it will serve you when you need it.
Phaedrus
#95. What Uncle Leo XIII never suspected was that his nephew's courage did not come from the need to survive or from a brute indifference inherited from his father, but from a driving need for love, which no obstacle in this world or the next would ever break.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#96. 1. All glass will break.
2. I am made of glass.
3. Therefore, I will break.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#97. When you break goal into increment and start controlling your time, things begin to happen.
Zig Ziglar
#98. You cannot hurt animals, so what do I do? I kill the dog first. Then I do it with the boy. You're not supposed to break the illusion of this being a film, so I make the actor talk to the audience. Provocation is the principle of the whole film [ Funny Games]. It is very ironic.
Michael Haneke
#99. I'm typing so f-ing hard I might break my f-ing Mac book Air!!!!!!!!
Kanye West
#100. When the goal seems difficult to reach, take a break but never give up.
Lailah Gifty Akita