Things Break Quotes

#1. As competitive as I am, I want to get the best of a play and make sure to use it's full potential even when things break down. But sometimes you need to just say 'uncle' and let it go and avoid a hit.

Mark Sanchez

#2. Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.

Solon

#3. In any offense you put me in, when things break down, I'm going to get outside the pocket and move ... West Coast, East Coast. It doesn't matter. I'm taking off if I have to, to make things happen.

Michael Vick

#4. Things break all the time.
Day breaks, waves break, voices break.
Promises break.
Hearts break.

Jodi Picoult

#5. When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. it's because a little piece gets lost
the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. the whole shape has changed.

David Levithan

#6. When I do a 30-minute meal, for instance, on Food Network, that's my food you see at the end of the show and it's not perfect. And if sometimes things break or drop or the pasta hits the wall when I'm draining it, they never stop tape. They just kind of let me go with it.

Rachael Ray

#7. Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting.

Jimmy Wales

#8. I want somebody to love, and I want somebody to love me. And nobody ever will. And that's why it hurts. Because it makes a difference. And when nobody cares, it makes you all mad inside and it makes you want to say things, tear up things, break things, get through the glass.

Flora Rheta Schreiber

#9. It had always fascinated her - what happens when things break down, what are the basic units of life?

Tatjana Soli

#10. I like emotions, but I really don't like sentimentality, and I don't like when things break their spell.

Tony Gilroy

#11. Intelligence is not necessarily a good thing, something to value or cultivate. It's more like a fifth wheel - necessary or desirable when things break down. When things go well, it's better to be stupid ... Stupidity is as much a value as intelligence.

Susan Sontag

#12. I will not do work that isn't done well or right. Stuff happens - things break, contractors don't come through - but I don't want to be responsible for not doing something correctly.

Genevieve Gorder

#13. There are many in this old world of ours who hold that things break about even for all of us. I have observed, for example, that we all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summertime and the poor get it in the winter.

Bat Masterson

#14. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.

Henry Petroski

#15. [T]he House of Maidens was for little girls whose whole duty in life was to spill things, break things, and forget things ... until they had spilled, broken, and forgotten everything they could, and thus made room in their lives for a little wisdom.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#16. Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to
wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Wallace Stegner

#17. 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

#18. Well I think a lot of times we're putting things off and I'm going to do it later. I'm going to break this bad habit or I'm going to pursue this dream or I'm going to treat my spouse better.

Joel Osteen

#19. Practitioners of tantra don't decide to break the rules. They are not particularly hung up on having sex or eating meat or drinking alcohol. They don't strive to do these things, nor do they strive to avoid them.

Frederick Lenz

#20. I think the hip hop world and the rock world still have a lot in common, but it certainly seems like things happen and break at a much faster pace in the hip hop world.

Bubba Sparxxx

#21. Let my heart be broken with the things that break God's heart.

Robert Pierce

#22. What compels any of us to do the things we do when deep down a part of us just wants to break free from it all?

J.A. Redmerski

#23. Is the peace of God in the soul disturbed by things down here? No, never! If waters break in stormy currents against a rock, the rock is unmoved; it is only the waters that are disturbed.

George Wigram

#24. Instead of fixing things, of making changes, of making improvements, all they'e done has been to break them in reverse.

Holly Bodger

#25. My mind is like a little house,
My peers break into.
They rearrange my furniture,
And the cabinets rifle through.
They throw things out;
They put things in,
And erase the writing on the wall,
And by the time that they walk out,
It's not my mind at all.

Margo T. Rose

#26. As for my constant low-grade state of confusion - the Blur is a term that seems to be sticking - let me break it into three categories: (1) things I should know but never learned, (2) things I choose not to know, and (3) things I know but totally screw up.

Maria Semple

#27. I'm starting to learn that if things are messy, or pieces don't get put back right, they are going to hurt, either way.

R. YS Perez

#28. You be as angry as you need to be," she said. "Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Not your grandma, not your dad, no one. And if you need to break things, then by God, you break them good and hard.

Patrick Ness

#29. If you're not seeing each other anymore because things are so strained, and your only communication is a weekly e-mail, and you're wondering which medium is most appropriate for announcing your desire to break up - guess what, you've already broken up.

Amber Heard

#30. I know that in my family there are histories of violence that are internal family things and that are oftentimes dealt with internally. By internally, I mean inside the family group, but also partly inside ourselves. You know, self-hatred and hostility and rage and this cycle that won't break.

Kara Walker

#31. Like their parents, kids flock to see James Bond and Derek Flint movies - outrageously antiheroic heroes who break all the taboos, making attractive the very things the kids are told they shouldn't do themselves.

Johnny Carson

#32. You fight, you try your best, but if you lose, you don't have to break five racquets and smash up the locker room. You can do those things, but when you've finished, nothing's changed. You've still lost. If something positive came from that, I probably would do it. But I see only negativity.

Rafael Nadal

#33. Go," Marasi said. "Do what you do best, Waxillium Ladrian."
"Which is what? Break things?"
"Break things," Marasi said, "with style.

Brandon Sanderson

#34. Well, a lot of things surprised me. There were things that I had never thought about, in my life. I never thought about how loud prison was. I've never thought about how your ears never really get a break from all this noise. That was actually replicated on our set pretty well.

Taylor Schilling

#35. Writing is not magic. It's a craft, a process, a set of steps. As with any process, things sometimes break down. Even in a good story, the writer runs into problems. So the act of writing always includes problem solving.

Roy Peter Clark

#36. But things don't just fall apart. People break them.

Robin Wasserman

#37. What do cells do when they see a broken piece of DNA? Cells don't like such breaks. They'll do pretty much anything they can to fix things up. If a chromosome is broken, the cells will repair the break using an intact chromosome.

Jack W. Szostak

#38. Beauty is as beauty is. It is no more complicated than that. The moment you try to understand some things is the moment you break the spell.

Stuart Ayris

#39. Paul Robeson was an athlete, Rutgers valedictorian, lawyer, writer, actor in movies and plays, great voice - a black male doing it all, back when some people thought he shouldn't. One reason I do all the things I do is to break stereotypes that people can only do certain things.

Dhani Jones

#40. Organize yourself & bring rhythm to your life: Because you have things to do, habits to break, dreams to achieve, peace to discover and one life to live

V.V. Rao

#41. We seldom break our leg so long as life continues a toilsome upward climb. The danger comes when we begin to take things easily and choose the convenient paths.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#42. Resuming the sequence after just a single day of a break is much easier to do than after two or more days. Things

Dan Luca

#43. I fell back into the sofa, letting my head thump against the wall. Of course, there would be something else to complicate things. I couldn't catch a break with a net the size of Texas.

K.J. McPike

#44. I think that when you're taking pictures with my principles, you can try anything. Dare to do a lot of things - dare with sexuality, dare to break taboos as long as it remains photogenic. As long as I find an elegance and beauty in it, I am not afraid to tackle anything.

Carine Roitfeld

#45. We had to break up, though. We wanted different things - like he wanted kids and I wanted him to hear.

Amy Schumer

#46. First things that a hurting person needs to do is break the habit of using other people as a narcotic to numb the dull aching of an inner void.

T.D. Jakes

#47. He smiled, a real one this time, though his voice remained teasing. "So, what do you think I am?" Naive, I thought at once. Naive, brave, selfless, incredible and much too kind to survive this world. It'll break you in the end, if you keep going like this. Good things never last.

Julie Kagawa

#48. It's very important, at least to me as a writer, that there be some rules on the table when I'm writing. Rules come from genres. You're writing in a genre, there are rules, which is great because then you can break the rules. That's when really exciting things happen.

Lev Grossman

#49. The more you own, the more it owns you, and I'm tired of it. I'm tired of having to take care of everything. I'm tired of things breaking and having to fix them. It adds stress, and frankly, I'm giving myself a break." In

Nicholas Sparks

#50. One of my favorite things about basketball is that you can't break it down into some sort of science that makes total sense.

Bill Simmons

#51. You can make or break an outfit by not knowing your body type - certain things work on certain people. Make sure you're dressing for your leg-length, hip/chest size, etc.

AnnaLynne McCord

#52. My passion is for playing music and although everyone needs a break sometimes just to keep things interesting and fresh, there's no way I would ever give that up.

Jonny Lang

#53. Seriously, how many times can a person break before the only things left are shattered fragments too small to piece back together?

Jay McLean

#54. I did 75 films. I didn't take a break; I didn't spend my money. I have my savings, so when you're not working for money anymore, then you should find things that are meaningful and not just be like, 'OK, that's another day gone.'

Maggie Cheung

#55. I thought Big Sur would be a great break after the tour. You'd walk down this rickety ladder to this not-very-pretty beach scene; crashing waves, moss-covered rocks, weird ocean life. It was scary. It summed up alot of things in my life, like 'I should be enjoying this, but I'm not.

Trent Reznor

#56. You are a lucky lady to be marrying a man who can fix things. Most husbands just break things.

Alexander McCall Smith

#57. If you wish to strengthen your confidence in God still more, often recall the loving way in which He has acted toward you, and how mercifully He has tried to bring you out of your sinful life, to break your attachment to the things of earth and draw you to His love.

Alphonsus Liguori

#58. We both spend our money on things that break too easily like ... people.

Buddy Wakefield

#59. In diplomacy, like in great many other things, the rules of engagement survive only until one remarkable person decides to break them.

Ilona Andrews

#60. I think religion is a funny thing because, when you see somebody who can really break it down, sometimes it feels foolish what you believe.

Kevin Costner

#61. This is a day for things to break, he thought. My heart. The fellowship of the folk who had come here together. We all move apart from one another today.

Robin Hobb

#62. I see lines of space. I break things down into lines and space, and I balance.

Michael Moschen

#63. Even in the Belt, youth brought invulnerability, immortality, the unshakable conviction that for you, things would be different. The laws of physics would cut you a break, the missiles would never hit, the air would never hiss out into nothing.

James S.A. Corey

#64. I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through ... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.

D. B. Sweeney

#65. One of the great things about writing middle-grade books is that it's really a nice break, when you're writing super intense stuff like 'Coldtown', to be able to write something a little lighter - calm down and do something different.

Holly Black

#66. We are not bound by time. But there are things we cannot speak of because the repercussions of particular thoughts can break lives.

F.K. Preston

#67. It's easy to break things. Much, much easier, it seems, than building them.

Steven Weber

#68. I have taken so many wrong turns and been so careless with precious things and managed to lose, or break, or leave out in the rain so much that I loved.

Garrison Keillor

#69. I'm tired of fixing things that always break.

Ryan Graudin

#70. I believe love isn't simple, and it's one of the things that makes people break all the rules.

Martine McCutcheon

#71. When the Commander-in-Chief of a nation finds it necessary to order employees of the government or agencies of the government to do things that would technically break the law, he has to be able to declare it legal for them to do that.

Ronald Reagan

#72. I beseech Christ for this one thing only, that He will enable me to endure all things courageously, and that He break me as a potter's vessel or make me strong, as it pleases Him.

Huldrych Zwingli

#73. If you want to catch a dream
That lifts you high above the ground
You must break free of the things
That are intent to hold you down.
Because the secret to success,
The only way to ever grow,
Is to learn what to hold on to
And what things you must let go.

Emily Hanson

#74. Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts ...

Robert Fulghum

#75. In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice by some one whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance.

Francis Bacon

#76. There's a really unique relationship between a single parent and their child. Marriages so easily break up. There's kind of this temporary deal about marriages. That's one of the things that makes it stressful, and that's something that's nonexistent in a parent-child relationship.

Jeremy Sisto

#77. We like the idea of a guy who gets away with it ("it" in this case being a variety of things: murder, robbery, general mayhem, adultery, screwing over the government, basic intimidation and thuggery, etc.). It's a very American ideal - the freedom to break the law.

Tod Goldberg

#78. If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#79. There are lots of things, including changing the kind of inner dialog, that can mitigate anxiety. And yes, there are people who have the glass half full and glass half empty, and I'm afraid the glass is going to break and I'll cut myself on the shards.

Scott Stossel

#80. This is why we give up on things that break our heart because it requires change.

Andy Stanley

#81. Sometimes it was daunting, knowing how easily I could break things. This one simple curse seemed to dominate my entire life.

Brandon Sanderson

#82. I definitely felt like I needed a break, because when you do so much, you're not able to appreciate the things that you accomplish.

Brandy Norwood

#83. There is a lesson we learn early and harmlessly, or late and traumatically - that there are things we can break that our parents can't fix.

Robert Breault

#84. Women need to hear the words, 'It's okay if things don't go exactly the way you want them to.' Give yourself a break!

Brooke Burke

#85. It's only when you look closely that things seem to break down.

David Peak

#86. Life is short, break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you smile. Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did.

Mark Twain

#87. Getting all emotionally wrapped up in made-up people's lives gives me a chance to take a break from my own life [ ... ].

Arlaina Tibensky

#88. There are so many ways to betray someone.
You can whisper behind his back.
You can deceive him on purpose.
You can deliver him into the hands of his enemy, when he trusts you.
You can break a promise.
The question is, if you do any of those things, are you also betraying yourself?

Jodi Picoult

#89. If you live in Europe ... things change ... but continuity never seems to break. You don't have to throw the past away.

Nadine Gordimer

#90. Prison does strange things to men. Although its purpose is to break the free spirit of a man, in many cases it just adds fuel to the fire that has never been and will never be extinguished.

William Powell

#91. 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

#92. Unfortunately, you choose things because they're safer---that is understandable, though. Inanimate objects don't do unexpected things or break your heart or betray you. Objects are safe. People are complicated.

J.R. Ward

#93. As long as there are things and idiots, idiots will break things.

Mykle Hansen

#94. I guess it's going to have to hurt, I guess I'm going to have to cry, And let go of some things I've loved to get to the other side
I guess it's going to break me down, Like fallin when you try to fly,
Sad but sometimes moving on with the rest of your life starts with goodbye

Carrie Underwood

#95. If you're looking for a story about nice people doing nice things, this isn't for you. You will be burdened with an unreliable narrator who will disappoint and repel you at every turn.
Still with me?
Too bad for you.
I can't wait to break your heart.

Christopher Buehlman

#96. There are rules to everything, even if nobody made them up, even if nobody calls it a game. And if you want things to work out well, it's best to know the rules and only break them if you're playing a different game and following those rules.

Orson Scott Card

#97. I've had people break into profiles on my Internet; they got into my accounts. This was at the beginning of my career. There is a fair bit of alarm when something like that happens. It definitely bothered me a lot at the time. But you move on from these things.

Laura Donnelly

#98. Hard times in love can make or break things; all the while showing us what's worth it.

Alexandra Elle

#99. Some women are born with an instinct for knowing how things work - and what to do when they break.

Barbara Delinsky

#100. September felt sure that her shadow and everyone's shadows were all part of the same broken thing, and broken things were to be fixed, whatever the cost, especially if you had been the one to break it in the first place.

Catherynne M Valente