Break Quotes - page 3

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break. (Robert Anton Wilson)
Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it. View quote
Henry Rollins
Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement. View quote
Yitzhak Rabin
Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed. View quote
Brad Pitt
What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart. View quote
Raymond Williams
Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities . . . are the greatest cozenage that men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by. View quote
Oliver Cromwell
You convinced yourselves we're just a bunch of regular lads who got a bad break in life. Anything else would have cracked your dream open and made you face reality. Illusion is easy. Illusion is the loser's way out. Your way. View quote
Peter F. Hamilton
There are also half bricks. ...As the bricks are always laid so as to break joints, this lends strength and a not unattractive appearance to both sides of such walls. View quote
Vitruvius
But, true, I've wept too much! Dawns break hearts./ Every moon is brutal, every sun bitter. View quote
Arthur Rimbaud
A wise man once said, Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through. (Learned Hand)
God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed. View quote
Luis Buñuel
The heart will break, but broken live on. View quote
Lord Byron
The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
The philosopher ... subjects experience to his critical judgment, and this contains a value judgment namely, that freedom from toil is preferable to toil, and an intelligent life is preferable to a stupid life. It so happened that philosophy was born with these values. Scientific thought had to break this union of value judgment and analysis, for it became increasingly clear that the philosophic values did not guide the organisation of society. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy. View quote
Drew Barrymore
The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality. View quote
Arthur Miller
Here I swear, and as I break my oath may eternity blast me, here I swear that never will I forgive Christianity It is the only point on which I allow myself to encourage revenge. Oh, how I wish I were the Antichrist, that it were mine to crush the Demon to hurl him to his native Hell never to rise again I expect to gratify some of this insatiable feeling in Poetry. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . . . to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right. View quote
Maxwell Anderson
If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you. (Martha Beck)
You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
It occurred to me then that it was in times of struggle that I found the best parts of myself - courage, loyalty, an unexpected peace - and I always discovered what I needed to break through and go on. View quote
Patrick Carman
I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow? View quote
Pierre Loti
It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law. View quote
Cecil B. DeMille