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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• 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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• 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: 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• One of the first TV shows that I did was this prank show. And we did a prank where we took a Michael Jackson impersonator and I played his publisher.I was just really good at my job.We were just about to go onto the field to throw out the first pitch just two weeks after 9\11. It was a huge security breach, and we made a lot of cops look really dumb. Producers of the show thought it would be really funny and I didn't think about it because I was a young dumb comedian. So I got arrested and went to jail in the Bronx, and now I can never go back to Yankee Stadium.

  Rob Huebel

  Jobs, Thinking, Jail

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Love Each Other, Seems, Estrangement

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1869). “Run to Earth: A Novel”, p.156

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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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• 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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• 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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• The club continued to make significant player decisions without involving me. In the end such a breach of trust and confidence meant that I had no option but to leave.

  Alan Curbishley

  Soccer, Football, Player

  "Alan Curbishley resigns as West Ham manager" by Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2008.

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• Breach of promise is no less an act of insolvency than a refusal to pay one's debt.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Promise, Debt

  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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• It is easy enough to say, I do not believe in God. For God permits all things to be said of Him with impunity. he looks at our acts. And any breach of His Law carries with it, not its vindictive, but it purifying, compelling punishment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Law, Punishment

  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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• Humility is the great preserver of peace and order in all Christian churches and societies, consequently pride is the great disturber of them, and the cause of most dissensions and breaches in the church.

  Matthew Henry

  Christian, Humility, Pride

  Matthew Henry, Thomas Scott (1839). “The Comprehensive Commentary on the Holy Bible: Acts-Revelation”, p.610

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• From the dim morning hours of history when the father was king and priest down to this modern time of history's high noon when nations stand forth full grown and self-governed, the law of coherence and continuity in political development has suffered no serious breach.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Morning, Kings, Father

  Woodrow Wilson (1895). “The State: Elements of Historical and Practical Politics. A Sketch of Institutional History and Administration”

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• Let us hear the dangers of thralldom to our consciences from ignorance, extreme poverty, and dependence; in short, from civil and political slavery. Let us see delineated before us the true map of man. Let us hear the dignity of his nature, and the noble rank he holds among the works of God-that consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust, as offensive in the sight of God as it is derogatory from our own honor or interest or happiness-and that God Almighty has promulgated from heaven liberty, peace, and goodwill to man!

  John Adams

  Peace, Ignorance, Men

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• Nothing leads more directly to the breach of charity, and to the injury and molestation of our fellow-creatures, than the indulgence of an ill temper.

  Hugh Blair

  Charity, Molestation, Injury

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• We are used to facing the United States as a fortress from the outside. Now we are finding a breach to penetrate the country (the U.S.) and confront it from within.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Country, Islam, United States

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