Top 100 Quotes About Breaking
#1. Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, morn of toil, nor night of waking.
Walter Scott
#2. Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding ... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy
Kahlil Gibran
#3. I leaned my head back and closed my eyes, my mind a jumble. So much for breaking it off gently, I thought. The humor helped my mind clear, but I couldn't laugh. What would happen next?
Margaret Peterson Haddix
#4. pastors need themselves to have been mastered by the unconditional grace of God. From them the vestiges of a self-defensive pharisaism and conditionalism need to be torn. Like the Savior they need to handle bruised reeds without breaking them and dimly burning wicks without quenching them.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#5. I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.
Hank Aaron
#6. If Damon Wayans is not breaking, it's a miracle. He is so funny that he makes everyone die laughing.
Casey Wilson
#7. Never a right time, honey, I know. There never is when it comes to breaking someone's heart
Samantha Towle
#8. 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
#9. But old women faced certain dangers in Fairyland, such as breaking a hip while riding a wild velocipede, or having everyone do what you say just because you had wrinkles.
Catherynne M Valente
#10. The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses, the shimmering of leaves.
Terry Tempest Williams
#11. As a child I was always taking things apart. My idea was that I was 'fixing' things, but I guess I was breaking them really.
Haroon Mirza
#12. It frightens me how much I like it," Celia finishes, turning her face back to his. "How tempting it is to lose myself in you. To let go. To let you keep me from breaking chandeliers rather than constantly worrying about it, myself.
Erin Morgenstern
#13. I met my wife by breaking two of my rules: never date a girl seriously that you meet at a nightclub and never date a fan.
Corey Feldman
#14. The settle, followed by 10 for power will give you that grasp on their nuts that you need. Once you've got that, squeeze, squeeze, squeeze and squeeze and don't ever let up! You'll just be breaking 1500 meters down when you hear them yelp. Listen for the yelp, and then bring it into the dock.
Christopher Allsopp
#15. Amy wondered if Bonaparte could declare war on Miss Gwen alone without breaking his peace with England
Lauren Willig
#16. My son is pre-K and my daughter is in elementary school. So they don't watch the show. But my son knows that I'm on it - he says that 'Breaking Bad' is his favorite show even though he's never seen it. It's really great that he says that, because it makes me look like mother of the year.
Betsy Brandt
#17. Death would ease her pain and suffering, but it had succeeded in breaking his heart.
A.A. Gupte
#18. I'm putting up a great front, then because I feel like I'm breaking apart inside.
Christine Feehan
#19. I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual
Virginia Woolf
#20. I wish I had more breaks in life, rather than life breaking me.
Anthony Liccione
#21. You're not broken.' I touch the angel between the wings on his back for emphasis. 'You're putting your life back together. Building isn't breaking, Chase.
S.R. Grey
#22. Some of the most lasting contacts and friendships that I have developed began by just grabbing a drink or breaking bread with a stranger at an industry event.
Jay Samit
#23. I'm still getting to the good part / the breaking down / learning how to write my story.
Lucy Hale
#24. My sense of South Africa is that whenever we have a problem we've got to go to the brink before we sort it out. Why do we have to fuck this place up before we fix it? Let's start building now with what we have instead of breaking it first.
Jennifer Lindsey-Renton
#25. In breaking away from the familiar and the expected, you'll be forced and privileged to face greater challenges, learn harder lessons, and really get to know yourself.
Kelly Cutrone
#26. I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn't going to be able to walk soon, you know? I wanted to be a pro skateboarder, but it was too hard. I was trying, but it wasn't going to happen.
Travis Barker
#27. Forty-five years since I made my first paycheck, and I'm telling you that 'Breaking Bad' is as good as it gets.
Jonathan Banks
#28. The old days, they arrive back in the oddest ways, suddenly taut, breaking the surface, a salmon leap.
Colum McCann
#29. I thought heroin was evil and morally, myself, I thought that pot was okay. That it wasn't a bad thing and so therefore thought I wasn't doing a bad thing. I knew I was breaking the law but I thought that the law was wrong also. So I morally justified what I was doing.
George Jung
#30. You know I'm the first rapper to adopt a tabby cat. You know I adopted straight from the ASPCA, you feel me? Just breaking the boundaries, man, showing everybody it's okay to be yourself. Embrace yourself. Embrace your health. Ayyy! Just continue to love yourself and accept.
Brandon McCartney
#31. I knew I was breaking about a dozen laws but I guess I had different attitudes to stuff like that since the war. Laws were for the stupid the immature the irresponsible. The inflexible and the narrow-minded. The prejudiced. The obsessive. The lazy and careless and selfish and spoilt. The violent.
John Marsden
#33. That will save me from me breaking the window or picking her lock, he thought.
Deborah Harkness
#34. She could sit around listening to her heart breaking, or she could go watch a grown man piss himself.
"How crossed are her eyes?" Dove asked.
Duke gave her the shit-eating grin of victory. "So fucking crossed that she can see herself change her mind.
Debra Anastasia
#35. I looked down at my chest, figuring there had to be a bullet hole. Or an arrow sticking out. Something to explain the pain. But then I realized it was just my heart. Breaking.
A&E Kirk
#36. Forgive me," he said in a hard voice. "My heart is breaking over here. I'm doing the best I can.
Corrine Jackson
#37. She crept around the house listening for breathing, chocolate eating, breaking porcelain, or any of the other peculiar little noises children make.
R.A. Spratt
#38. Painting a line across canvas with a brush is similar to the motion of a wave breaking.
Mary Heilmann
#39. Took two drags off the blunts, and started breaking down the flag:
The blue is for the Crips, the red is for the Bloods,
The whites for the cops, and the stars come from the clubs
Or the slugs that ignite, through the night,
By the dawn early light, why is sons fighting for the stripe?
RZA
#40. This concept could easily have gone awry. Stories about love tend to go that way sometimes. They wander into the realm of cheese and never return, which I think is a shame, because there is a way to write about romantic love without breaking out the Velveeta.
Veronica Roth
#41. 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
#42. We stand a professional distance apart, as if I can't feel his pain screaming in my head. Mine amplifies his; they share a joint sound - that of glass breaking - until they swell to a crescendo that deafens.
Ann Aguirre
#43. Commercialism and Privilege hold their powers in what they devalue. They sometimes prevent raw talent from breaking light
Dew Platt
#44. Simply by recounting their stories and breaking that silence, survivors of sexual assault strike a powerful blow against their assailants.
Jon Krakauer
#45. Aye, a very bad business indeed. A new sort of way this, for a young fellow to be making love, by breaking his mistress's head, is not it, Miss Elliot? This is breaking a head and giving a plaister truly!
Jane Austen
#46. Not worrying is a skill. It's a skill not breaking down every single moment.
John Mayer
#47. Acting is fun and I refuse to get involved in the semantics and the politics of strategy and breaking out of something or doing something because you need to do something else. For me it's all about what fuels my soul and if I'm passionate about a screenplay then that's what I'll do next.
Shailene Woodley
#48. What always strikes me in the story of Cain and Abel is how often the word "brother" is used. Cain killed his "brother." God says it was "the blood of your brother." The killing was done to another human being, a child of God like you, breaking that sacred bond of common humanity.
Allan Boesak
#49. I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. Trying to control what cannot be controlled. I am tired of denying myself what I want for fear of breaking things I cannot fix. They will break no matter what we do.
Erin Morgenstern
#50. When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
Orson Welles
#51. So what building are we breaking into? Give me all the information you've got and I'll hunt down the rest. By the way, when are we doing this?"
I glanced up. "Tonight."
Tonight? Oh, boy ... Miracles 'R' Us. I assume that we're not going to go and ask permission for this.
Kat Richardson
#52. This was the setting in which the most troubled and most precious days of my life were lived: an abode from which our adventurings flowed out, to flow back again like waves breaking on a lonely headland.
Alain-Fournier
#53. Don't you get it?" he asked. "Every time you try to protect me, you end up breaking my heart.
Katie Alender
#54. Dean flashed me a smile that promised rule-breaking and breathlessness.
Caitlin Kittredge
#55. Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities.
Jared Polis
#56. He could be breaking apart inside and you'd never know it from the way he acted. He'd be just as pleasant and polite as if he didn't have a care in the world. You had to be careful with someone like that. You could never know what he was thinking.
Jim Thompson
#57. 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
#58. Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.
Jack Davenport
#59. To say I have frizzy hair is an understatement. It is kinky, more pubic than cranial, and whitish blond, breaking off easily, like hay.
Kathryn Stockett
#60. The logistics of breaking you are easy. The only question is when."
"Right. If you could do it, you would have done it already."
"Maybe you entertain me." He says with supreme confidence as if he's in control of the situation.
"Like a monkey with an attitude and a pair of scissors.
Susan Ee
#61. Or - but this more rarely happened - she would be convulsed with a rage of grief, and sob out her love for her mother, in broken words, and seem intent on proving that she had a heart, by breaking it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#62. Winter does adversely affect [the roads] and our roads have been let go, so they're more and more porous. We're going to have to put more and more emphasis on permanent patch and maintenance, so I expect a great deal of roads breaking up in the spring.
Bill Vaughan
#63. After divorce of Pompeia in 62 BC I feel that members of my family should never be suspected of breaking the law. -Meos tam suspicione quam crimine iudico carere oportere
Julius Caesar
#64. Breaking the ice in the pitcher seems to be a feature of the early lives of all great men.
Robert Benchley
#65. Music wasn't really music unless your soul was exposed, unless your heart was either bursting or breaking.
Rachel Van Dyken
#66. Is it possible to feel your heart breaking, even when you're falling in love?" I
L.J. Shen
#67. Breaking up is just hard, even if you're the one breaking up. It's not fun. It can be dramatic and complicated. And then you get a little distance and you think, why did it have to be so complicated and dramatic?
Norah Jones
#68. Anyone who knows the history of the Pete Best Band or the Combo, we were on the verge of breaking in in America. In the mid-'60s, I had great songwriters; we wrote some great stuff.
Pete Best
#70. Breaking childhood teachings is never easy, and in essence, they are like white noise that can sometimes stop us from listening to ourselves, or having to listen to ourselves.
Ramani Durvasula
#71. Everybody wants to have their 'Breaking Bad.' It went to Bryan Cranston. It couldn't have happened to a better guy or a better actor.
Tim Daly
#72. I don't want a gang of shouting, arguing, law-breaking photographers to camp out everywhere we are, all day every day, to continue traumatizing my kids,
Jennifer Garner
#73. Today the mockingbird does not sound very happy. It sounds if it is coming apart. As of the very heart of itself-its song-is breaking into pieces and flying off in a hundred directions.
Jerry Spinelli
#74. I come shackled with shadow, consumed with rage and fire, I'm close to breaking, the urge is quaking, raping, I'm the devil, and there's no hope.
Pepper Winters
#75. I was very depressed after breaking off my engagement with Johnny ten years ago. I was embarrassingly dramatic at the time, but you have to remember I was only 19 years old.
Winona Ryder
#76. Faces don't freeze like that unless pushed to breaking, where death itself becomes the kindness.
Karen Marie Moning
#77. Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.
Thornton Wilder
#78. With Twilight's core of under-18 fans, "it would be a crime against our audience to go R-rated." However, "this is based on a much more mature book [Breaking Dawn,Stephenie Meyer]. We need to progress and be more sophisticated."
Wyck Godfrey
#79. I'd die of a broken heart before breaking yours.
Emm Cole
#80. For us, it is all about breaking the boundaries between different genres of music and combining different styles of music and performing what we are passionate about. We are so lucky that we can experience both worlds: the more intimate classical world and the wild and crazy world of rock n' roll.
Luka Sulic
#81. It's as if I'm Finnick, watching images of my life flash by. The mast of a boat, a silver parachute, Mags laughing, a pink sky, Beetee's trident, Annie in her wedding dress, waves breaking over rocks. Then its over.
Suzanne Collins
#82. I don't use airplane bathrooms. As a rule. And I really don't like breaking rules. (It's kind of one of my rules.) I mean, if I'm going to plummet to my death, it's not going to be with my pants around my ankles.
Lauren Morrill
#83. He's been breaking Olympic records like ninepins
Des Lynam
#84. In the middle of the night, I saw chaos bleeding out of darkness and peace. Everything that was said and seen before seemed like a paradox. I saw the graves of lies breaking open and the truth crawling out silently into the cold hearts.
Akshay Vasu
#85. My inner bitch could handle this peon without even breaking a sweat.
Kathy Bryson
#86. Don't tell me what I won't do Serena, because when it comes to you, I seem to be breaking all of my own rules
Beckie Stevenson
#87. Having spent all of my decision-making years as a Pagan of one stripe or another, I have long found it condescending at best to assume one cannot worship the old gods or believe in magick without breaking out the leather bracers, wings, or Ye Broken Olde English.
Thomm Quackenbush
#88. And like a soprano shattering glass, Juliet heard something snap deep inside.
It was the sound of her heart breaking.
Alexandra Potter
#89. Stupid Ape: I had to quantify this with the word "stupid" so as not to offend the ape community. Large of limb, impotent of intellect, he was the kind of guy who lettered in leg-breaking at thug school but flunked the written exam because he didn't know which end of the e-pencil to use.
John Zakour
#90. Because every relationship will end up one of two ways: you'll end up breaking up, or you end up
marrying the person. And I don't like wasting my time.
Mariana Zapata
#91. The real secret to my success was I could shoot with either hand. Ironically, I became ambidextrous as a direct result of breaking my right hand.
Dolph Schayes
#92. I really just like breaking down the barriers, whether it means doing an album with Linkin Park, an album with R. Kelly, or playing at the Brandenburg Gate with Bono.
Jay-Z
#93. The sense of anxiety and guilt doesn't come from having too much to do; it's the automatic result of breaking agreements with yourself.
David Allen
#94. 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
#95. You are standing at the foot of His cross, trusting alone in the merit of Jesus' precious blood, and no rise or fall of the markets can interfere with your salvation in Him; no breaking of banks, no failures and bankruptcies can touch that.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#96. You must remember that he was a boy. That he had a mother. And that her heart is breaking.
Clare Mackintosh
#97. In effect we are, bending and breaking the rules of the language. And if someone were to ask why we do it, the answer is simply: for fun
David Crystal
#98. 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
#99. When people say sex is a filth of society, I say, yes! You're born by enchanting mantras and breaking coconuts!
Himmilicious
#100. More hearts are breaking in this world of ours Than one would say. In distant villages And solitudes remote, where winds have wafted The barbed seeds of love, or birds of passage Scattered them in their flight, do they take root, And grow in silence, and in silence perish.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
