Point Of Breaking Quotes

#1. Do you really think you're the only human being alive who is unforgivably flawed? Who's been hurt almost to the point of breaking?

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#2. Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to recognize this by the exercise of mere reason.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#3. And the most intense desire gave force to her passionate words as the girl glanced despairingly about the dreary room like a caged creature on the point of breaking loose.

Louisa May Alcott

#4. To run 100 miles and more is to bring the body to the point of breaking, to bring the mind to the point of destruction, to arrive at that place where you can alter your consciousness.

Scott Jurek

#5. I was self conscious and ill at ease most of the time, my health was at the breaking point, and I was thoroughly miserable.

Alcoholics Anonymous

#6. There are degrees of discomfort, and everyone has a different breaking point. But if you want to be an entrepreneur, there is no choice.

Ryan Blair

#7. There's a great book about that, "The Breaking Point" by Stephen Koch . It won't improve your opinion of [Ernest] Hemingway.

George Packer

#8. You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school.

David James Elliott

#9. I felt like I was at that breaking point. I just prayed and took my mind off of dreams - I went to church. I felt like a lot of things came together. I'm not perfect but I strive to be.

Boi-1da

#10. Hopes were high. But just like a balloon pushed past its breaking point, hope is fragile. One lungful of air too many and the balloon bursts leaving ugly, shriveled fragments behind, impossible to piece back together.

Adriane Leigh

#11. Matter is merely mind deadened by the development of habit to the point where the breaking up of these habits is very difficult.

Rupert Sheldrake

#12. Alienation and loneliness became a cable that stretched hundreds of miles long, pulled to the breaking point by a gigantic winch. And through that taut line, day and night, he received indecipherable messages.

Haruki Murakami

#13. Everyone has a breaking point, Riley. He hit his long time ago.
But you didn't.
He smiled and sqeezed her hand.'Because of you.'
Weaving his arm around her waist, they walked up the stairs in tandem.
- Riley Blackthorne and Paul Blackthorne

Jana Oliver

#14. There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.

J. Carter Brown

#15. A mind is only as sharp as the knife, that strives to cut through thoughts
too tough for the blade, before it breaks or goes dull.

Anthony Liccione

#16. From a certain angle, the spring seems so calm: warm, tender, each night redolent and composed. And yet everything radiates tension, as if the city has been built upon the skin of a balloon and someone is inflating it toward the breaking point.

Anonymous

#17. I'm the type of person who can get a feel for what you need and what I need to do to push you to get you to a breaking point, where you realize that you can't go on this way anymore, that the reason you're heavy is because you're ignoring all the stuff that's going on inside.

Cara Castronuova

#18. I'm a filmmaker, so I always think: When is the breaking point? Sometimes you've got to go beyond the breaking point, and then you catch it. When is long enough? It's one of those things you have to look at, walk away, and go home and find out what it is.

Steven Rodney McQueen

#19. Each man has a breaking point, no matter how strong his spirit. Somewhere, deep inside him, there is a flaw that only the fickle cruelty of fate can find.

David Gemmell

#20. I wanted to take nouvelle cuisine further, to the point where we were breaking down the essence of taste and sensation, reconfiguring food as a series of really intense hits on the tongue.

Ferran Adria

#21. The point was living with grace, decency, and attention to the world, and breaking free of the artificial constructs in your own life.

Scott Jurek

#22. That morning each of us found a breaking point. Not only a physical barrier, but a point where determination, stamina and duty clashed and were overcome not so much by pain but by absurdity.

Stefan Kieszling

#23. I'm going to make mistakes, I just have to be able to learn from them as quickly as possible. To learn faster, I watch film of myself and other good point guards, and then breaking down my mistakes and really analyzing them and seeing where I could have made better decisions.

Jeremy Lin

#24. Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is

Russell Baker

#25. Everybody has a breaking point; the fact is, you don't know where it is until you get there".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#26. Every painting has a weakness and a breaking point, where the essence of a painting lies. In my case it is never in the centre.

Luc Tuymans

#27. I don't know about your true form, but the weight of your ego sure is pushing the crust of the earth toward the breaking point.

Jim Butcher

#28. If I trace its breaking point I come across the eternity of the primitive impulse. The sea river is a cold impasse. Will I find secrets there? In my dream I am standing on a frozen lake, the second sex and I can hear female voices all around me.

Abigail George

#29. She had been bullied and tormented by Leena for a long time and she wasn't going to take it anymore. She was tired of being pushed around. She wanted to be strong for herself and be the type of person who her daughter would've wanted to have as a mother.

Valenciya Lyons

#30. Heydrich, Eichmann, and company therefore invoke the usual trick of argument for breaking a true continuum that lacks a compelling point for separation: choose an arbitrary dividing line and then treat it as a self-evident law of nature.

Stephen Jay Gould

#31. In order to be the best, you have to know your breaking point-go to the edge of it, but never go beyond.

Rebecca Twigg

#32. Liberty coincides with heroism. It is the asceticism of the great man, the bow bent to the breaking-point.

Albert Camus

#33. I know this might be breaking news to Nicholas Kristof, but guns being 'more lethal than anything else you have around' is sort of the whole point. The issue should not really be the lethality of the gun, but the but the psychology of the person holding it.

Glenn Beck

#34. Why is it that when your life is at a breaking point, every freaking song on the radio relates to it. If I heard one more sad song, I was going to rip the radio out of the dash and toss it out on the road.

Jennifer Foor

#35. Borderlines create the vicious circles they fear most. They become angry and drive the relationship to the breaking point, then switch to a posture of helplessness and contrition, beg for reconciliation. If both parties are equally enmeshed, chaos and conflict become the soul of the relationship.

Theodore Millon

#36. To resolve the climate crisis, good will, statements of intent are not enough. We are at breaking point.

Francois Hollande