Breach Quotes

• Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Memorial Day, Peace

  'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 1

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• I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me.

  Patrick Stewart

  Space, Bed, Warp

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• Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall with our English dead.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Memorial Day, Wall

  'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 1

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• The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their own minds.

  Freda Adler

  Sex, Mind, Crosses

  "Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal". Book by Freda Adler, 1975.

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• In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorial Day, Peace, War

  'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 1

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• In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; . . . . Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, War, Humility

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.496, Wordsworth Editions

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• Then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorial Day, War, Adversity

  'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 1

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• I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game's afoot; Follow your spirit: and upon this charge, Cry — God for Harry! England and Saint George!

  William Shakespeare

  Saint George, Games, England

  'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 31

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• The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them.

  Mitt Romney

  Freedom, Leader, World

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• When one is engaged in a desperate defense of one's world and its values, nothing can be given away, any breach in the walls might be fatal, every point must be defended to the death.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Wall, Defense, World

  Isaiah Berlin (2013). “The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas”, p.161, Princeton University Press

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• That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The people disregarded those laws they did not like and suffered the penalties for their breach.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, People, Should

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.48, Penguin Books India

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• You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt. I am satisfied that a scholar who tries to combine these parts sells his birthright for a mess of pottage; that, when the final count is made, it will be found that the impairment of his powers far outweighs any possible contribution to the causes he has espoused.

  Learned Hand

  Voice, Doubt, Mind

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• The representatives of the people, in a popular assembly, seem sometimes to fancy that they are the people themselves, and betray strong symptoms of impatience and disgust at the least sign of opposition from any other quarter; as if the exercise of its rights, by either the executive or judiciary, were a breach of their privilege and an outrage to their dignity.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Strong, Exercise, Rights

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.351, Coventry House Publishing

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• Love is a breach in the walls, a broken gate, Love sells the proud heart's citadel to fate.

  Rupert Brooke

  Wall, Heart, Fate

  Rupert Brooke (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)”, p.59, Delphi Classics

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• in reality we are one and all from the unthinkable first to the no less unthinkable last glued together in a vast imbrication of flesh without breach or fissure

  Samuel Beckett

  Reality, Together, Flesh

  Samuel Beckett (1964). “How it is”, p.140, Grove Press

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• It appears that when life is broken by tragedy God shines through the breach.

  George Arthur Buttrick

  Adversity, Broken, Shining

  George Arthur Buttrick (1942). “Prayer”

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• But to my mind, though I am native here, And to the manner born, it is a custom, More honored in the breach than the observance.

  William Shakespeare

  Mind, Denmark In Hamlet, Hamlet And Ophelia

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 4, l. 14

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• There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Respect, Decorum, Revulsion

  Thorstein Veblen (2016). “THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS: An Economic Study of American Institutions and a Social Critique of Conspicuous Consumption: Development of Institutions That Shape Society and Influence the Livelihood of Citizens: Based on Sociological & Economical Theories of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Adam Smith and Herbert Spencer”, p.32, e-artnow

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• Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Keeping Promises, Kept Promises

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach.

  Hugo Black

  Religious, Wall, Church

  Writing for the court, Everson v. Board of Education, 330 U.S. 1, 1947.

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• The security of computers and the Internet is a horrible and dangerous mess. Every week we hear about breaches of databases of Social Security numbers and financial information and health records, and about critical infrastructure being insecure.

  Matt Blaze

  Insecure, Numbers, Records

  Source: www.politico.com

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• To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the penalty of it when he takes the first opportunity of doing precisely the very thing which brought about the breach.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Opportunity, Broken, Weakness

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Counsels and maxims (illustrated)”, p.55, Full Moon Publications

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• Are they really gods?" "I never worry about theological questions," said Nightingale. "They exist, they have power and they can breach the Queen's peace - that makes them a police matter.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Queens, Worry, Police

  Ben Aaronovitch (2011). “Midnight Riot”, p.100, Del Rey

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• Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the center sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Suth wilt thou be to me, who must Like th' other foot, obliquely run; Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I began.

  John Donne

  Running, Moving, Home

  c.1595-1605 'A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning', collected in Songs and Sonnets (1633).

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• The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to 'tear down this wall,' a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire.

  Mitt Romney

  Confidence, Wall, Evil

  "Never Retreat, Never Apologize" by David Weigel, www.slate.com. July 25, 2012.

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