Break Quotes - page 7

Too young to hold on and too old to just break free and run. (Jeff Buckley)
From his brimstone bed, at break of day, A-walking the Devil is gone, To look at his little, snug farm of the World, And see how his stock went on. View quote
Robert Southey
If you come back; I'll marry you. If you break your promise, you'll break my heart. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
If the system breaks down the consequences will still be very painful. But the bigger the system grows the more disastrous the results of its breakdown will be, so if it is to break down it had best break down sooner rather than later. View quote
Theodore Kaczynski
The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine. View quote
Theodore Kaczynski
No, what worries me is that I might in a sense adapt to this environment and come to be comfortable here and not resent it anymore. And I am afraid that as the years go by that I may forget, I may begin to lose my memories of the mountains and the woods and that's what really worries me, that I might lose those memories, and lose that sense of contact with wild nature in general. But I am not afraid they are going to break my spirit. View quote
Theodore Kaczynski
There were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law. "Obedience keeps the rules," he would say. "Love knows when to break them." View quote
Anthony de Mello
Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity. View quote
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time. View quote
Francis de Sales
An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience. View quote
Mitch Hedberg
Life is short, Break the rules, Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly, Love truly, Laugh uncontrollably ... And never regret anything that made you smile. (Ruslana Korshunova)
This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way to break in. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
While the happy couple are enjoying the thrill of the rose garden, the in-laws are saying that they are just not right for each other. We keep telling them that they cannot pay couples to stay together, and it is clear that it will take more than a three-quid-a-week tax break to keep this marriage together. View quote
Harriet Harman
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
You really want to know what else it was my mom said about you?" he asked. She shook her head. He didn't seem to notice. "She said you'd break my heart. View quote
Cassandra Clare
Weapons, when they break and are mended, can be stronger at the mended places. Perhaps hearts are the same. View quote
Cassandra Clare
What they had between them was still as fragile as a flickering candle flame, as delicate as eggshell - and he knew that if it shattered, if he somehow let it break and be destroyed, something inside him would shatter too, something that could never be fixed. View quote
Cassandra Clare
I have nothing against a community that is made up of people who are Polish, or who are Czechoslovakians, or who are French Canadians or who are blacks trying to maintain the ethnic purity of their neighborhoods. This is a natural inclination... Government should not break up a neighborhood on a numerical basis. As soon as the Government does, the white folks flee. View quote
Jimmy Carter
Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport. View quote
Maria Edgeworth
I think every once in a while I feel the need to break my medium... if I have been doing a very large painting I like to drop into something in small scale. It is a challenge to go into this size. It is just to hold my own interest, and then each media has its own conditions. View quote
Lee Krasner
In Hollywood there's a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there's a great suspicion of the new. In cultural terms, that can be a good thing, but when you're trying to break into the film industry, it's definitely a bad thing. (Christopher Nolan)
We've got to break through the wall of secrecy. It's America's fate. View quote
Helen Thomas
Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free. View quote
Camille Paglia
I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them. View quote
Ringo Starr
The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them. View quote
George Harrison