Break Quotes - page 2

MGM never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles, but cast me in programme pictures. (Laraine Day)
I've never seen American Idol but I am grateful to them. That show is one of Fox's biggest moneymakers, and some of that money goes to pay for shows like Prison Break. Simon Cowell's been signing my paychecks and for that I say thanks. View quote
Wentworth Miller
I bend and do not break. View quote
Jean de La Fontaine
It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent. View quote
Pierre Trudeau
Trust is a fragile thing - difficult to build, easy to break. It cannot be bargained for. Only if it is freely given it can be expected in return. View quote
Peter Lerangis
You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition. View quote
James Agee
Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces. View quote
Judith Viorst
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it. View quote
Ernst Fischer
If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. View quote
Charles Darwin
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. (Robert A. Heinlein)
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. View quote
Thomas Fuller
You can't break my spirit, it's my dreams you take. View quote
James Blunt
Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole. View quote
Derek Walcott
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
Though you break your heart, men will go on as before. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I'm not religious in the normal sense. I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws. View quote
Stephen Hawking
Should the whole frame of Nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world. View quote
Joseph Addison
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours. View quote
Eric Idle
Was there nought better than to enjoy No feat which, done, would make time break, And let us pent-up creatures through Into eternity, our due No forcing earth teach heaven's employ. (Robert Browning)
The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection. View quote
Arianna Huffington
Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words can hurt like hell. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits. View quote
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break. View quote
Sara Teasdale