Break Out Quotes

• I once locked my keys out of my car. I had to break out of my car with a coat hanger.

  Steven Wright

  Keys, Car, Coats

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• Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

  Edward de Bono

  Inspirational, Education, Creativity

  Edward De Bono (1982). “Lateral thinking for management: a handbook”

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• Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.

  Thornton Wilder

  Talking, Perspective, People

  Thornton Wilder (1966). “Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker”

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• A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future.

  Denis Waitley

  Dream, Creative, Vision

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• Excitement and depression, fortune and misfortune, pleasure and pain are storms in a tiny private, shell-bound realm - which we take to be the whole of existence. Yet we can break out of this shell and enter a new world.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Pain, Storm, Shells

  Eknath Easwaran (2007). “The Dhammapada: (Classics of Indian Spirituality)”, p.66, Nilgiri Press

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• I will remember what I was, I am sick of rope and chains - I will remember my old strength and all my forest affairs. I will not sell my back to man for a bundle of sugar cane; I will go out to my own kind, and the wood-folk in their lairs. I will go out until the day, until the morning break - Out to the wind's untainted kiss, the water's clean caress; I will forget my ankle-ring and snap my picket stake. I will revisit my lost love and playmates masterless!

  Rudyard Kipling

  Morning, Lost Love, Kissing

  Rudyard Kipling (1993). “The Jungle Book”, p.140, Wordsworth Editions

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• You are born and then you die, but in between you can do anything you want. It's society that creates rules for us, but you can break out of that.

  Zola Jesus

  Want, Born, Can Do

  "20 Q&As: Zola Jesus". Interview with Karen Orton, www.dazeddigital.com. October 3, 2011.

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• Don't be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found. It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.

  Alan Alda

  Compassion, Long, People

  "Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself". Book by Alan Alda, abcnews.go.com. September 4, 2007.

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• If you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind that it will break out upon those who are your friends, or those who are indifferent to you.

  Plutarch

  Hate, Hatred, Mind

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• Culture as art is the peak expression of man's creativity, his capacity to break out of nature's narrow bounds, and hence out of the degrading interpretation of man in modern natural and political science.

  Allan Bloom

  Art, Creativity, Men

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• ...by the time we understand the pattern we are in, the definition we are making for ourselves, it's too late to break out of the box. We can only live in terms of the definition, like the prisoner in the cage in which he cannot lie or stand or sit, hung up in justice to be viewed by the populace. Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But how can the self make a new self when the selfness which it is, is the only substance from which the new self can be made?

  Robert Penn Warren

  Lying, Self, Justice

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• I don’t think I’m making myself very clear Low,” he’d lowered his voice and the effect made goose bumps break out over my body. “I was only interested in one person at that bar last night. I only came to see one person,” he tucked a strand of hair behind my ear and softly caressed my earlobe before tracing the line of my jaw. “I was there for you.

  Abbi Glines

  Night, Thinking, Voice

  Abbi Glines (2012). “Because of Low”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.

  Denis Waitley

  Life, Dream, Creativity

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• Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But how can the self make a new self when the selflessness which it is, is the only substance from which the new self can be made?

  Robert Penn Warren

  Happiness, Self, Substance

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• Don't waste your time, do something worthwhile with it." But what can that mean: worthwhile? Finally to start realizing long-cherished wishes. To attack the error that there will always be time for it later....Take the long-dreamed-of trip, learn this language, read those books, buy yourself this jewelry, spend a night in that famous hotel. Don't miss out on yourself. Bigger things are also part of that: to give up the loathed profession, break out of a hated milieu. Do what contributes to making you more genuine, moves you closer to yourself.

  Pascal Mercier

  Giving Up, Book, Moving

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• Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at all.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Years, Suffering

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• The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music... The trees, the stars, and the blue hills ache with a meaning which can never be uttered in words.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Music, Stars, Blue

  Rabindranath Tagore (2006). “Sadhana”, p.43, 1st World Publishing

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• I try to be good but sometimes a person just has to break out and act like the wild and springy thing one used to be. It's impossible not to remember wild an want it back.

  Mary Oliver

  Trying, Want, Impossible

  Mary Oliver (2012). “A Thousand Mornings: Poems”, p.33, Penguin

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• The bigger the mistake looks, the better chance I'll have to break out and live a real life. Our real discoveries come from chaos. - Brandy Alexander

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Real, Mistake, Discovery

  "Invisible Monsters". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 1999.

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• All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that,and I intend to end up there. Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul? I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks. I didn’t come here of my own accord, and I can’t leave that way. Whoever brought me here, will have to take me home.

  Rumi

  Home, Eye, Night

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Who Says Words With My Mouth?”

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• The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Courage, Art, Real

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• There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.

  Sam Peckinpah

  War, Violence, Madness

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Unfortunately for many Aboriginal people, of course, they've been in the situation of being herded on government reserves. Their own responsibility's been assumed by Protectors of Aborigines and by government officials and if you become part of that system, it's always difficult to break out of it.

  Lowitja O'Donoghue

  Leadership, Responsibility, Government

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• I don't drink these days. I am allergic to alcohol and narcotics. I break out in handcuffs.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Drinking, Beer, Addiction

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is time enough, for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere [in the propagation of religious teachings] when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Teaching, Government

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