Break Quotes

Pedigree matters: if you break your shoulder trying to open a door, it's much harder to play the game once you get in the room.

If you want the ultimate thrill, you've got to be willing to pay the ultimate price.

Sometimes you have to take a break from being a crazy kid. You can’t be doing that all the time. Sometimes you just have to pay respect to your own simple-ness.

Success doesn't make you and failure doesn't break you.

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

My beloved child, break your heart no longer. Each time you judge yourself, you break your own heart.

If you dissent without breaking the law then you are legitimizing the system that allows this kind of latitude. You have to break the law to touch the state.

Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.

You break her heart, I'll break your neck.

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

Condoms will break, but I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms.

Not everything is going to go exactly as you plan. It's what you do when everything breaks down.

We must be wise taskmasters and not require of ourselves what we cannot possibly perform. Recreation we must have. Otherwise, the strings of our soul, wound up to an unnatural tension, will break.

We come crawling through these cracks, orphans, lobotomies; if you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything. Whole rotten world come down and break. Let me spread my legs.

Mind over matter. Weak minded people are easily influenced. Strong minded people you can't break their will.

I fight myself. I don't fight to break Ali's record or Sugar Ray Robinson's record. I fight to please myself. I know in my heart where I'm rated. I didn't fight in Ali's era. This is my era.

I don't do what I do to try and break a glass ceiling.

(After the losses) I decided I had to break through. I had to set a goal. My goal that I set was to never be pinned.

Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.

There's moments where I want to break down and cry, but not give up.

People who say "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all" never felt a broken heart.

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.

Big breaks come from small fractures.

I just wrapped this movie called The Wedding Crashers which was a pretty big break for me.

No one is out to break your heart, it only seems that way.

It is a curious thing in human experience, but to live through a period of stress and sorrow with another person, creates a bond which nothing seems able to break.

Only love can break your heart.

Golf is very much like a love affair. If you don't take it seriously, it's no fun, if you do, it breaks your heart. Don't break your heart, but flirt with the possibility.

So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away.

I've taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them.

There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.

To a Young Poet Time cannot break the bird's wing from the bird. Bird and wing together Go down, one feather. No thing that ever flew, Not the lark, not you, Can die as others do.

I find that I'm at my least creative point when I am doing something that I've done in repetition and I know all the rules - I never break the rules because I know them.

The great sins and fires break out of me like the terrible leaves from the bough in the violent spring. I am a walking fire, I am all leaves.

As you walk the road of life, be careful of your friends. They can make you or break you.

Nature cannot be surprised in undress. Beauty breaks in everywhere.

It may be over but it won't stop there, I am here for you if you'd only care

There's nothing terrible in death; 'Tis but to cast our robes away, And sleep at night, without a breath To break repose till dawn of day.

Don't let a little sin in; all hell will break loose.

Can't break free from the things that you do. I wanna walk, but I run back to you, that's why I hate myself for loving you.

You have played, (I think) And broke the toys you were fondest of, And are a little tired now; Tired of things that break, and— Just tired. So am I.

Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.

Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.

The only way to break the cycle of unwed motherhood, fatherless children, poverty, crime, and welfare is to recognize that welfare causes more problems than it cures.

we need to break the habit of overreacting because of our speedy assumption and judgments

I felt my face stretch in a victorious smile. The potion had worked. I was inside. I had to suppress an urge to break into a soft shoe routine. Sometimes being able to use magic was so cool.

I think we really have to take a good, hard look at our system of corporate consolidated press. We need to break them up.

I've seen it all before. Now that it's over I shoulda known better than to think this was real and you could be mine.

I looked up at the dark sky and prayed to God for a better break in life and a better chance to do something for the little people I loved.

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.