Break famous quotes

The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.
-- A. E. Housman

#Angel #Fairy #Break

No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
-- A. J. P. Taylor

#War #Break #Inevitable

If you don’t write the book you have to write, everything breaks.
-- A.M. Homes

#Book #Writing #Break

I know this because I understand now what love really feels like. The kind that consumes you. Love holds the power to break you. It holds the power to complete you.
-- Abbi Glines

#Kind #Break #Feels

I couldn't forget. I couldn't break. She had the power to break me. No one had ever been given that power, ever.
-- Abbi Glines

#Forget #Break #Given

I wanted to break the record, of course, and become the youngest person to sail around the world solo and unassisted.
-- Abby Sunderland

#Records #World #Break

We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.
-- Abdolkarim Soroush

#Use #Problem #Break

As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Men #Lasts #Break

So is it over is this really it You've given up so easily I thought you loved me more than this
-- Adele

#Break Up #Break #Given

Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
-- Adrienne Rich

#Silence #Overcoming #Break

If the preservation of the home means the enslavement of women, economically or morally, then we had better break it.
-- Agnes Macphail

#Home #Mean #Break

I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.
-- Akio Morita

#Different #Weapons #Break

I could break bricks with my hands when I was 12.
-- Akshay Kumar

#Hands #Bricks #Break

In this life all that I have is my word and my balls and I do not break them for nobody.
-- Al Capone

#Balls #Break #This Life

Switching to the outfield was the best break I ever got.
-- Al Kaline

#Break #Switching

I'm constantly striving to break through to something new. You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
-- Al Pacino

#Trying #Strive #Break

I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.
-- Alain Prost

#Car #Break #Hated

I don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.
-- Albert Brooks

#Want #Break

One dies if necessary, one breaks rather than bending. But I bend, because I continue to love myself.
-- Albert Camus

#Bending #Love Myself #Break

The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules—but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are not in a position to transcend them.
-- Aleister Crowley

#Mastery #Way #Break

BOAT = Break Out Another Thousand
-- Alex Blackwell

#Sailing #Boat #Break

I play with microbes. There are, of course, many rules to this play...but when you have acquired knowledge and experience it is very pleasant to break the rules and to be able to find something nobody has thought of.
-- Alexander Fleming

#Playing Games #Able #Break

You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.
-- Alexander McQueen

#Tradition #Break

I'm okay. Russian machine never breaks.
-- Alexander Ovechkin

#Hockey #Machines #Break

If a heart could break once, it shouldn't have been able to happen again.
-- Alexandra Bracken

#Heart #Able #Break

If only' repeated again and again in her head like a battering ram...'if only' could break your heart.
-- Alexandra Ripley

#Heart #Rams #Break

Fear that makes faith may break faith.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne

#Fear #May #Break

The fisher droppeth his net in the stream, And a hundred streams are the same as one; And the maiden dreameth her love-lit dream; And what is it all, when all is done? The net of the fisher the burden breaks, And always the dreaming the dreamer wakes.
-- Alice Cary

#Dream #Done #Break

I tell you, I'm half tempted to break into CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon out of CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon.
-- Ally Carter

#Half #Custody #Break

I was so happy to go to prom so I could have a mental break because I've been working so hard. It felt so good to feel normal for once, and then the next day, I was in the gym again.
-- Aly Raisman

#Next #Normal #Break

Everybody's got a story that could break your heart.
-- Amanda Marshall

#Heart #Stories #Break

What you have to do is break all the rules.
-- Andrew Wyeth

#Freedom #Break

I bring my bike to work, and I make laps around our parking lot on my lunch break.
-- Angela Kinsey

#Lunch #Lap #Break

I might bend, but I will NEVER break because it's in my nature as a strong woman.
-- Angela Merkel

#Strong Women #Might #Break

What doesn't bend, breaks.
-- Ani DiFranco

#Insanity #Break

In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives.
-- Ann Voskamp

#Rushing #Bulls #Break

Men are prostrated by misfortune; women bend, but do not break, and martyr-like live on.
-- Anna Cora Mowatt

#Men #Break #Martyr

Like the pioneers of old, a creative person breaks new ground daily.
-- Anna Olson

#Creative #Pioneers #Break

Break any problem into, or make any changes in, small increments.
-- Anne Grant

#Problem #Break

by then I'd figured out the gift of failure, which is that it breaks through all that held breath and isometric tension about needing to look good: it's the gift of feeling floppier.
-- Anne Lamott

#Feelings #Looks #Break

You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you.
-- Annie Dillard

#Heart #Brain #Break

Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.
-- Anthony de Mello

#Obedience #Break

I break away from all conventions that do not lead to my earthly success and happiness.
-- Anton Szandor LaVey

#Break #Conventions

If you beat your head against the wall, it is your head that breaks and not the wall.
-- Antonio Gramsci

#Wall #Break #Beats

At the very smallest wheel of our reasoning it is possible for a handful of questions to break the bank of our answers.
-- Antonio Machado

#Answers #Wheels #Break

When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.
-- Antonio Porchia

#Philosophy #Philosophical #Break

It was a culture that business is something bad - it was a leftist-oriented psychology. We have to break this. We are pro-business.
-- Antonis Samaras

#Psychology #Culture #Break

I'll break your chains; so sing, Takuto. As loud and as much as you want. You don't have to hold back anything.
-- Arina Tanemura

#Want #Break #Loud

If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.
-- Aristophanes

#Thinking #Trying #Break

When you spend your life in a creative mode all the time mindless leaf blowing can be a welcome break.
-- Art Wolfe

#Creative #Welcome #Break

It is a fool's sheep that breaks loose twice.
-- Ashanti

#Sheep #Fool #Break

You have to believe what you're saying if you're going to convince me. I just can't break that rule, even if I want to.
-- Ashly Lorenzana

#Believe #Want #Break

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. The heart will break... but broken live on.
-- Barbara De Angelis

#Broken Heart #Loving You #Break

Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
-- Barbara Deming

#Punishment #Spirit #Break

Good habits were the easiest ones to break ...
-- Barbara Seranella

#Habit #Break #Good Habits

You don’t break up with someone just because of an argument, Josh. At least, I don’t.
-- Barry Lyga

#Argument #Break #Josh

I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I'd fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.
-- Bebe Neuwirth

#Easter #New York #Break

I didn’t break his jaw, but if he lays a hand on you, it will be the first of many things to break,” Patch said.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick

#Hands #Firsts #Break

Move fast and break things.
-- Ben Barry

#Moving #Social Media #Break

All other things being equal, greens break to the west.
-- Ben Hogan

#Golf #West #Break

I don't need to pat myself on the back until my arm breaks. I don't need any of that.
-- Bernie Mac

#Needs #Arms #Break

I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers.
-- Bill James

#Trying #Answers #Break

Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break.
-- Bill James

#Causes #Break #Rigidity

Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade?
-- Bill Maher

#Home #Break #Restraint

The basic unit of any society is the home. When the home begins to break, the society is on the way to disintegration.
-- Billy Graham

#Home #Way #Break

It's OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
-- Billy Joel

#Acceptance #Giving #Break

I'm so miserable without you, it's almost as if you're here!
-- Billy Ray Cyrus

#Break Up #Miserable #Break

God doesn't break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them.
-- Bob Goff

#Broken #Use #Break

We are programmed; we are literally programmed genetically and then we are programmed environmentally and most people never break out of that programming.
-- Bob Proctor

#People #Break #Programming

Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently
-- Boris Pasternak

#Break #Solitary

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

#Break #Bigs

We all go through life bristling at our external limitations, but the most difficult chains to break are inside us.
-- Bradley Whitford

#Graduation #Break #Chains

I definitely felt like I needed a break, because when you do so much, you're not able to appreciate the things that you accomplish.
-- Brandy Norwood

#Appreciate #Able #Break

You are not broken. You break again and again because that's what breaking means. To be whole.
-- Brenda Shaughnessy

#Mean #Broken #Break

That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to... grapple with the unfamiliar.
-- Brian Aldiss

#Artist #Roles #Break

It breaks towards the center of the earth when it is above the hole.
-- Brian Weiss

#Golf #Earth #Break

Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can't break.
-- Bruce Schneier

#Clueless #Algorithms #Break

These days, you don't just break into comics once. You have to break in again and again after each job is finished.
-- C. B. Cebulski

#Jobs #Break #These Days

Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Heart #Mediocrity #Break

I love the vast surface of silence; and it is my chief delight to break it.
-- Carl Nielsen

#Silence #Delight #Break

Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
-- Carl Sagan

#Book #Magic #Break

The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life breaks through the crust of a mechanism that has become torpid by repetition.
-- Carl Schmitt

#Real #Interesting #Break

I am not much about rules, I like to break 'em and don't like to make 'em.
-- Carson Kressley

#Ems #Break

Our break-up had been a resounding anti-climax. I wanted to be wept over, bitterly. I wanted to be fought for. Mourned, or regretted just a little. I wanted to feel like I was someone who'd been worth having in the first place.
-- Catherine Sanderson

#Firsts #Littles #Break

Your heart can break at any age.
-- Cecelia Ahern

#Heart #Age #Break

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.
-- Cecil B. DeMille

#Law #Impossible #Break

The Thin Man was a good break, because it was highly popular. I played a gigolo in it.
-- Cesar Romero

#Men #Break #Thin Man

Get comfortable being uncomfortable, that's how you break the plateau and reach the next level.
-- Chalene Johnson

#Next Level #Levels #Break

So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk.
-- Charles Baudelaire

#Drunk #Earth #Break

Love breaks my bones and I laugh
-- Charles Bukowski

#Laughing #Bones #Break

Nothing changes what alreaday happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't.
-- Charles Frazier

#Break

Success is that old ABC: ability, breaks and courage.
-- Charles Luckman

#Success #Courage #Break

One thing about prejudices -- once you break one of them, you're screwed, because then they all have got to go.
-- Cher

#Prejudice #Break

I'd like to break some new ground, maybe in TV presenting, rather than just be an actress.
-- Cherie Lunghi

#Actresses #Tvs #Break

To me, music that breaks your heart is the music that stays with you forever,
-- Chris Botti

#Heart #Forever #Break

Somtimes when you know the right thing to do, you simply have to do it, even though it breaks your heart.
-- Chris Fabry

#Heart #Break #Break Your Heart

I only train, I don't know what a break is.
-- Chris Weidman

#Mma #Break #Train

I just want to be married, or just engaged. Basically, I just want a ring. And the tax break.
-- Christina Ricci

#Want #Married #Break

Luck is a combination of confidence and getting the breaks.
-- Christy Mathewson

#Luck #Break #Combination

People whine, 'I haven't succeeded because I haven't had the breaks.' You create your own breaks.
-- Chuck Norris

#Motivational #People #Break