Quotes About Breaking Through

#1. Grasping the realities of the Middle East is never easy. This is not primarily because they change quickly, but because so much time, effort, and money is spent to prevent reality from breaking through.

Elliott Abrams

#2. What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft ... a kind of breaking through to glory.

John Steinbeck

#3. Next up is the fat family psychologist who makes his guests cry (he calls this "breaking through the wall of denial"), and invites them to leave if any of them dare question his methods. Hodges thinks the fat family psychologist might have learned those methods from old KGB training videos.

Stephen King

#4. In this breaking-through, I receive that God and I are one. Then I am what I was, and then I neither diminish nor increase, for I am then an immovable cause that moves all things.

Meister Eckhart

#5. For the first stretch of road Olivia's eyes were sealed shut, her breath held hostage in her lungs.
"You might want to open your eyes," Wesley called back knowingly, his muffled voice breaking through both of their helmets. "And don't forget to breathe.

Shawn Kirsten Maravel

#6. People are always breaking through, like in the Doors song 'Break on Through (To the Other Side)'. But I really had. I had broken through twice now, and my feeling about the universe was that it was porous and radical and you could turn it on, you could even fuck around with the universe.

Miranda July

#7. When Jesus calls his disciples 'brothers' and 'friends', he is contradicting general Jewish usage and breaking through into a new concept of brotherhood which is not tribal, but open to any person.

David Kirk

#8. Life is achievement ... Give yourself an aim, something you want to do, then go after it, breaking through everything, with nothing in mind but your aim, all will, all concentration, and get it.

Ayn Rand

#9. There was not breaking through the lie because accepting the truth would break them.

Rick Yancey

#10. The biggest obstacle to creativity is breaking through the barrier of disbelief.

Rodney Mullen

#11. I love indie movies. I think that independent cinema is where it's at and where a lot of trends begin. It's where new filmmakers are breaking through.

Zooey Deschanel

#12. And meanwhile take my assurance that the clouds are lifting and that I have every hope that the light of truth is breaking through

Arthur Conan Doyle

#13. Imitation is about copying. Emulation is when imitation goes one step further, breaking through into your own thing.

Austin Kleon

#14. The system might be breaking down but something else is breaking through.

Mark Victor Hansen

#15. I believe that dialogue is the key to breaking through our tendency to separate and isolate. Dialogue changes isolation and loneliness into connection and interdependence. This, I believe, is the essence of Buddhism.

Vinessa Shaw

#16. It has been said of dreams that they are a 'controlled psychosis,' or, put another way, a psychosis is a dream breaking through during waking hours.

Philip K. Dick

#17. Healing in its essence is about breaking through the fears associated with life - fears

James Redfield

#18. The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.

Alexis De Tocqueville

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

Robin S. Sharma

#20. Maddie took the top of her egg off. The hot bright yolk was like summer sun breaking through cloud. The first daffodil in the snow. A gold sovereign wrapped in a white silk handkerchief. She dipped her spoon in it and licked it.

Elizabeth Wein

#21. The sun was as flirty as Scarlett O'Hara with the Tarleton twins, breaking through the clouds in spectacular bursts that seemed like personal favors and then retreating for hours, days, and making us all ache for just a glimpse.

Lorna Landvik

#22. Never say 'I can't.' 'I can't' is a limit, and life is about breaking through limits. Say 'I will' instead.

Heather Vogel Frederick

#23. Be the sun breaking through the clouds.

A.D. Posey

#24. A mother's love is like a tower, Rising far above the crowd, And her smile is like the sunshine, Breaking through a threatening cloud.

Helen Steiner Rice

#25. I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones.

Max Beckmann

#26. The chances of a person breaking through their own habits and sloth and limited mind to actually write something that gets out there and matters to people are slim.

George Saunders

#27. When I am not king, then THE Kingdom has its best chance of breaking through.

Richard Rohr

#28. Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through, of getting to the other side; the relief of a conflict healed; the clarity when a paradox dissolves.

Marilyn Ferguson

#29. The industrial revolution in the new century is, in essence, a scientific and technological revolution, and breaking through the cutting edge is a shortcut to the building of an economic giant.

Kim Jong-un

#30. All that is sweet, delightful, and amiable in this world, in the serenity of the air, the fineness of seasons, the joy of light, the melody of sounds, the beauty of colors, the fragrancy of smells, the splendor of precious stones, is nothing else but Heaven breaking through the veil of this world.

William Law

#31. So what I was essentially doing was, I compromised the confidentiality of their proprietary software to advance my agenda of becoming the best at breaking through the lock.

Kevin Mitnick

#32. Yes, the world is broken. But don't be offended by it. Instead, thank God that He's intervened in it, and He's going to restore it to everything it was meant to be. His kingdom is breaking through, bit by bit. Recognize it, and wonder at it.

Brant Hansen

#33. At its best, a live show is completely transcendent. The image I get is breaking through glass or shooting out into the free zone.

Alex Ebert

#34. They say love is all about raging hormones. For me, it's mind's way of breaking through its self-imposed limitations in order to set the eternally ecstatic soul free.

Saurabh Sharma

#35. Sometimes only poetry can say it. I think there's just this deeper language, and away of putting your world back together again and breaking through barriers.

Laura Nyro

#36. Sometimes when we aren't looking, the holiness comes breaking through like a rainbow.

Madeleine L'Engle

#37. In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk up the wall and out the skylight and see the sun breaking through the clouds. In nonfiction, you don't have that luxury.

Tom Robbins

#38. War is a curtain of dense black fabric across all the hopes and kindliness of mankind. Yet always it has let through some gleams of light, and not
I am not dreaming
it grows threadbare, and here and there and at a thousand points the light is breaking through.

H.G.Wells

#39. Lucia couldn't deny it. Cleo was getting to her, breaking through that dark wall that surrounded her. Believe in magic. Believe in the impossible. Believe, tentatively, in this fragile new friendship with Cleo. And believe that one day she'd see Alexius again.

Morgan Rhodes

#40. Documentaries are a powerful and effective way of bridging the gap between worlds, breaking through to new audiences that wouldn't otherwise be engaged - in essence, not preaching to the choir.

Olivia Wilde

#41. I kept picturing the car stalling, zombies breaking through the window; Misty screaming as they dragged her out before I could get it re-started. With that happy thought, I signaled Misty to open the door.

M.J. Ware

#42. In my breaking through ... I transcend all creatures and am neither God nor creature ... for in this breaking through I find that God and I are both the same.

Meister Eckhart

#43. Whether it's that moment in acting when everything is suspended and you're not yourself, or breaking through the veil of a very long run or swim, or hearing my daughter laugh they are all pathways to what I think God must be.

Jennifer Beals

#44. This is a candidate who never even thought about policy. What Trump represents is pure willpower and the notion of breaking through the system.

Newt Gingrich

#45. Patience is, in and of itself, a great challenge and it often holds the key to breaking through a seeming impasse.

Daisaku Ikeda

#46. We're just breaking through three comfort zones at a time. I feel off-balance.

C.D. Reiss

#47. If you love what you do, and you believe in your talent, there's nothing better than breaking through. There's no better feeling than breaking through.

Ice Cube

#48. The painter folded back the heavy curtain, standing in the stream of light breaking through the damp thickness of the room. He paused, still holding the drape in his hand as he considered with suspicion that a world could exist outside the window.

Thomas Lloyd Qualls

#49. The feeling of the wind, the sound of rushing water, the sense of sunlight breaking through the clouds, the colors of flowers as the seasons changed - everything around him felt changed, as if they had all been recast.

Haruki Murakami

#50. An angel fighting through the darkness or a devil breaking into the light?

K. Bromberg

#51. But over time people break apart, no matter how enormous the love they feel for one another is, and it is through the breaking and the reconciliation, the love and the doubting of love, the judgment and then the coming together again, that we find our own identity and define our relationships.

Ann Patchett

#52. Chance. It weaves through our lives like a golden thread, sometimes knotting, tangling, and breaking along the way. Loose threads are left hanging, but the in and out, the back and forth continues, the weaving goes on. It doesn't stop.

Mary E. Pearson

#53. Excellence doesn't come by obeying doctrines. Excellence comes through recognizing the flaws in the prevailing doctrines of the society and throwing them away if necessary in the path of progress.

Abhijit Naskar

#54. Nothing which did not understand the wonderfulness of what was happening to them
the immense, tender, terrible, heart-breaking beauty and solemnity of Eggs ... if an Egg were to be taken away or hurt the whole world would whirl round and crash through space and come to an end ...

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#55. If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.

Oswald Chambers

#56. Breaking a sweat through our difficulties minimized the likelihood of a crippling injury to our faith.

K. Howard Joslin

#57. And how, exactly, do you think I see the world, Mr. Kessler?" Ben leans back in our booth without breaking eye contact with my father. "Through the closed eyes of an arrogant asshole.

Colleen Hoover

#58. I don't mean good like going to church or not breaking laws. If, in your heart, you try to get through the day
without hurting other people, then you are a good person ...

Kaje Harper

#59. Well, in Twilight, I started out dying my hair blonde. And then, as the movie progressed, I wore wigs. The wigs went through a transformation. In Breaking Dawn, it's a little longer. That's my arc.

Peter Facinelli

#60. 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

#61. The rest is drowned out by sound breaking in through his earphones, coming in from Reality:

Neal Stephenson

#62. Through the dark and stormy night Faith beholds a feeble light Up the blackness streaking; Knowing God's own time is best, In a patient hope I rest For the full day-breaking!

John Greenleaf Whittier

#63. When you're depressed, the whole body is depressed, and it translates to the cellular level. The first objective is to get your energy up, and you can do it through play. It's one of the most powerful ways of breaking up hopelessness and bringing energy into the situation.

O. Carl Simonton

#64. Graham runs a hand through his hair and takes a deep breath. Finally, with a determined scowl, he crosses the room. His hands grip my shoulders. "We are not," his voice is a gentle tremor, "breaking up

Tammara Webber

#65. Like a feather in a dust storm, with no direction The Raven flies through life, helpless and omitted Until night declares and the wind expires. Then it flies to the land of stones and etchings And becomes an Ember, breaking away

Jessica Sorensen

#66. The sun was beginning to set and the water was sparkling in the low light as the onshore breeze that had built up through the heat of the day rippled across the reflective surface, breaking it into a million diamonds of yellow-white light.

Emma Bamford

#67. Federal system is at the heart of Indian democracy but UPA is adamant to break the nation by breaking the federal structure for their vested interests. It's a conspiracy to grab power through the backdoor ...

Narendra Modi

#68. A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world ...

Alice Walker

#69. I have had viewers that come up to me, and they're, like, You know, we used to watch ('Breaking Bad') as a family, and once the melted body came falling through the ceiling, my mom was just, like, 'I can't watch this show anymore. This is just way too disturbing for me.' So it's not for everybody.

Aaron Paul

#70. You put me through hell. On purpose. Made me suffer. And there's no end in sight. I don't know what the fuck you're doing, ace, but this Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde shit ain't cutting it with me.

Sylvia Day

#71. Lamb said, 'If you had issues with him, I could have spoken to HR. Arranged an intervention.' He tapped Moody's shoulder with his foot. 'Breaking his neck without going through your line manager, that shit stays on your record.

Mick Herron

#72. My life and his were twisted into a single strand. Cut one, and you cut both. If he were gone, I would not be able to live through that. If I were gone, he wouldn't live through it, either.

Stephenie Meyer

#73. The journalist's job is to get the story by breaking into their offices, by bribing, by seducing people, by lying, by anything else to break through the palace guard.

Robert Scheer

#74. Now if the will of God is so important, it has to be proved. And now through Sahaja Yoga, after the breaking of the Sahasrara, you have now for the first time felt the will of God, which is such an important thing.

Nirmala Srivastava

#75. Wearing nothing but sweats and a sheer coat of lip gloss, she wiggle through her frosted window and jumped six feet to freedom, feeling more charged than a Visa card at Christmas time.

Lisi Harrison

#76. I think 'SNL' is so well-known for its musical performances, as well, and people really breaking into America through a really great performance on there. So I think me and Gotye are both really excited to be amongst such company. You know, it's great.

Kimbra

#77. Sometimes, he thought of himself as an elephant walking through the china store, breaking everything in his path and still expecting people not to be angry with the damage he made, but rather to admire his strength and his endurance.

Stevan V. Nikolic

#78. That's the key to walking through the Wall.... You have to first see it as not being a Wall, even though everyone you know still sees it as a Wall.

Kevin J. Shay

#79. It seemed to him that there was some urgency in the air, but then he always felt like that in February: a sense of something breaking out through his skin.

Emma Donoghue

#80. You see them? You see the things that float and flop about you and through you ever moment of your life? You see the creatures that form what men call the pure air and the blue sky? Have I not succeeded in breaking down the barrier; have I not shown you worlds that no other living men have seen?

H.P. Lovecraft

#81. It's a very strange experience being on set of 'Breaking Bad;' you never know what's coming next for your character. I feel like I don't even know if I'm going to live through the next scene I'm in. It's exciting to work on.

Laura Fraser

#82. This surrender isn't a one-time thing but is continually embraced over a lifetime. There will be an initial surrendering to God, breaking the self. God will keep this process current through circumstances, helping us to continue to deny ourselves.

Ryan Shaw

#83. People who have been initiated "broke through in what felt like breaking down".

Richard Rohr

#84. But breaking was beautiful. It hurt, and it was an uphill climb back to sanity, but you came back stronger, fiercer, and more solid than you were before. Tate had obviously been through it, I had, and eventually so would K.C., I thought.

Penelope Douglas

#85. A pang of deep longing ripples through me. I'm torn between my promise to send Aydan to the Abyss and my need to keep him safe. The opposing forces fragment what remains of my mind, breaking me down once again.

Christine Fonseca

#86. As God took me through the journey that became the Bible study 'Breaking Free', He taught me to look for a common denominator among the things that triggered my destructive habits.

Beth Moore

#87. I was sorry I'd scared them, but some lessons you ought to learn as soon as you can: never trust a woman once she's loved you. It's a spell whose breaking takes many tries; she'll think she's through, then call you back, conjure you up out of air. And at last, she'll do anything, just to be free.

Katie Chase

#88. Although one may direct the future or past through the onerous linkages of temporal cause and effect, riding the breaking waves of the present and never once overstepping it, the better way is to go there and do it yourself.

Mary-Jean Harris

#89. Just the other day, it seems, the kids were running through the house, slamming doors, breaking glass, making noise. Time goes by so quickly. Sometimes everything seems so fleeting.

Perry Como

#90. It means you are breaking up with your spouse, not your kids. They are the most important thing to consider while going through a divorce.

L.J. Burke

#91. Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play!

John Greenleaf Whittier

#92. Their rusted hinges let out a pair of screams, for all those who might have slept through the breaking of the lock.

George R R Martin

#93. Like wading through water; That hard, that slow.

Lauren Henderson

#94. 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

#95. I look at you and I feel like my soul is breaking and I can't even function through the pain.

Airicka Phoenix

#96. I find that through the sad times, work is what made my continuing, not breaking down, possible. In work, I was always someone else and I subconsciously reveled in that.

Lauren Bacall

#97. Yes, I went through a lot of pain, heartache,breaking. But I'm here berthing and my heart is beating. I'm thriving. I'm not alone. And I'm loved.

Jessica Sorensen

#98. The heart breaks and breaks and lives by breaking it is necessary to go through dark and deeper dark and not to turn

Stanley Kunitz

#99. I am not really breaking any rules. Charlie said I could never take another step through the door again ... I came in through the window ... Still, the intent was clear, said Edward.

Stephenie Meyer

#100. 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