Breaking Quotes - page 24

And he stood for hours on the lawn, watching the smashing of bottles and the breaking up of casks and feeding on fanatical pleasure: the pleasure his strange, cold, courageous nature could not get from food or wine or woman. (G. K. Chesterton)
Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible. View quote
Jean Genet
One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships between the main characters and their reactions to the situations they would face; there was a lot of comedy in that show without ever breaking its reality. View quote
J. J. Abrams
In Heathrow a vast chunk of memory detached itself from a blank bowl of airport sky and fell on him. He vomited into a blue plastic container without breaking stride. When he arrived at the counter at the end of corridor, he changed his ticket. View quote
William Gibson
I never thought I was breaking a glass ceiling. I just had to do what I had to do, and it never occurred to me not to. View quote
Marian Wright Edelman
SCEPTER, n. A king's staff of office, the sign and symbol of his authority. It was originally a mace with which the sovereign admonished his jester and vetoed ministerial measures by breaking the bones of their proponents. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
I love indie movies. I think that independent cinema is where it's at and where a lot of trends begin. It's where new filmmakers are breaking through. View quote
Zooey Deschanel
Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws. View quote
Michael Badnarik
Population growth is straining the Earth's resources to the breaking point, and educating girls is the single most important factor in stabilizing that. That, plus helping women gain political and economic power and safeguarding their reproductive rights. View quote
Al Gore
Doing stand-up is like running across a frozen pond with the ice breaking behind you. I love it because it's dangerous. View quote
Steven Wright
I haven't ever really found a place that I call home I never stick around quite long enough to make it I apologize that once again I'm not in love But it's not as if I mind that your heart ain't exactly breaking. (Dido)
If any country were indeed filled with men, each thus diligently discharging the duties of his own station without breaking in upon the rights of others, but on the contrary endeavoring, so far as he might be able, to forward their views and promote their happiness, all would be active and harmonious in the goodly frame of human society. View quote
William Wilberforce
The Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder. View quote
Megan Whalen Turner
I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law. View quote
Stephen Colbert
I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them. View quote
Hank Aaron
Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine. View quote
G. I. Gurdjieff
In the old covenants the people were sprinkled with blood of calves without, in their bodies, to bind them to keep the law; else we were bound to just damnation, for the breaking of it. View quote
William Tyndale
There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart. View quote
Colleen McCullough
There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them. View quote
Fiona Apple
I guess I'm breaking out a little of what's comfortable and easy. View quote
Angela Bassett
The heart may think it knows better the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart. (Elizabeth Bowen)
Magnus did not have enormous respect for the Law, but if he was breaking it he wanted to look good doing it. View quote
Cassandra Clare
He had been through a hundred heartbreaks, but he found himself afraid when he thought of Alexander Lightwood breaking his heart. View quote
Cassandra Clare
We are at an extraordinary moment in human history: never before has the possibility of true democracy been so close to realisation. At the cost of publishing and duplication has dropped to near zero, a truly free press, and a truly informed public, becomes a reality. A new Information Enlightment is dawning where knowledge flows freely, beyond national boundaries. Technology is breaking down traditional social barriers of status, class, power, wealth and geography, replacing them with an ethos of collaboration and transparency. In this new Enlightenment it isn't just scientific truths that are the goal, but discovering truths about the way we live, about politics and power. View quote
Heather Brooke
When we saw our plane on TV as breaking news, it was the most surreal experience. A lot of the women were crying. There was a gentleman who was writing in his journal and crying. Seeing that isn't easy. View quote
Taryn Manning