Quotes About Breaking The Spirit

#1. The degree to which campaigns have become dominated by marketing is breaking the spirit of democracy, and we're all just so sick of it, across party lines.

David Weinberger

#2. No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.

Grover Cleveland

#3. My innocence is not lost - it has been converted into wisdom. The sensation we call "breaking" is the pain that comes from resisting the truth. Life broke parts of me that needed to fall away for me to live an open and truthful life.

Jewel

#4. 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

#5. Then she loved him as she would a manifestation of herself, both silenced and wounded in existence, both everything and nothing to eternity.

E.J. Koh

#6. I'm obsessed with perfection. I want to work. I don't want to stop. I want to take advantage and make myself the best possible me that I can be.

Drake

#7. The beating of my heart was so violent and wild that I felt as if my life were breaking from me.

Charles Dickens

#8. From the bleakest storms come the brightest rainbows.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#9. I feel incendiary, a wildfire. My spirit licks at the gates of a very elaborate, customized, and distracting emotional Hades.

Suzanne Finnamore

#10. It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch-antirevolutionaries.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#11. Shall I redirect my life's journey because down some side road might be some trifle I'm entitled to?

Robert Breault

#12. But our leaders of today have decided it's more important to be popular, to say and do what's easy, and say yes rather than to say no, when no is what is required.

Chris Christie

#13. A photograph is just a tiny slice of a subject. A piece of them in a moment. It seems presumptuous to think you can get more than that.

Annie Leibovitz

#14. Growing up, I was a nerd. With actual taped eyeglasses.

Taye Diggs

#15. On the first feature, everything's new. No matter what you're doing, it's a new experience, and you don't really have control over it, in a way, because you just don't know how things work.

Rob Zombie

#16. For U.S. television series, I really like 'Dexter.'

Yuji Horii

#17. Absence makes the heart grows fonder, doesn't it?

Simon Van Booy

#18. Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.

John Dryden

#19. Spirits didn't notice death. By the rule of impermanence, what was meant to break simply broke, and there was only the next breaking and the next.

E.J. Koh

#20. May my children follow their own intuition to discover true empowerment - in the answers they seek.

Eleesha

#21. Real leadership involves breaking through the limits of your mind so you can step into the highest strengths of your spirit.

Robin S. Sharma

#22. Combining valuable insights from his experience in China, his time as the World Bank's chief economist, and the 2008 financial crisis, Justin Yifu Lin's recommendations for development policy reflect an impressive and unique personal journey.

Kemal Dervis

#23. I never had a spirit-breaking, soul-destroying religion drummed into me.

Michael Leunig

#24. The Holy Spirit is like the wind. It can be gentle enough to stroke a leaf but hard enough to bend a tree. God provides us rest, but He'll also bring us an inch away from our breaking point. Both are done in love.

Alisa Hope Wagner

#25. She had taken London by storm - which was to say, as with any good storm, some people stayed indoors when they saw her coming.

Courtney Milan

#26. I'm afraid you're going to have to make a choice.

Stephenie Meyer

#27. A hobby is an activity done at one's leisure - an occupation is done at another's. Since nurses are called upon at all times of the day, it is by nature an occupation, and a highly innapropriate one at that for two respectable girls

Kelly Zekas

#28. Each day we live is a glass room
Until we break it with the thrusting
Of the spirit and pass through
The splintered walls to the green pastures
Where the birds and buds are breaking
Into fabulous song and hue
By the still waters.
- Each Day We Live is a Glass Room

Mervyn Peake

#29. Above all do not give yourself airs. Breaking the moment of past habits is the challenge here: In the life of the spirit you are always at the beginning.

Jeff Buckley

#30. I felt my heart breaking all over again. Why? Why had this happened to us? Why was the universe so cruel?

Richelle Mead