Break Quotes

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. (Marcus Aurelius)
I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft. View quote
Steve Ballmer
Laws are like Cobwebs which may catch small Flies, but let Wasps and Hornets break through. View quote
Jonathan Swift
When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him. View quote
Mike Tyson
Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy. View quote
William Hazlitt
Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline. View quote
Graham Greene
I desire no future that will break the ties of the past. View quote
George Eliot
The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it. View quote
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones. View quote
George Orwell
Never give a sucker an even break. View quote
W. C. Fields
I write movies about mavericks, about people who break rules, and I don't like movies about people who are pulverised for being mavericks. (Quentin Tarantino)
To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes. View quote
Ray Bradbury
I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading. View quote
Vera Brittain
Habit is a cable we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it. View quote
Horace Mann
I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin. View quote
Aaliyah
They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon. View quote
Bobby Sands
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves. View quote
William Ellery Channing
I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect. View quote
George Carlin
The shell must break before the bird can fly. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window-or break down a door. View quote
Brooke Shields
One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake. (Robert Browning)
The village is a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is Number Six and will live there happily as Number Six for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break. View quote
Patrick McGoohan
An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters. View quote
Henry Clay
Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. View quote
John Muir
We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience. View quote
Edward de Bono
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