Break Through Quotes - Page 7

• To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.

  Antonin Artaud

  Order, Theatre, Gestures

  Antonin Artaud (1958). “The Theater and Its Double”, p.13, Grove Press

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• A well-defined backup plan is sabotage waiting to happen. Why push through the dip, why take the risk, why blow it all when there's the comfortable alternative instead? The people who break through usually have nothing to lose, and they almost never have a backup plan.

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Success, Blow

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.101, Penguin

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• Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.

  Solon

  Law, Spiders, Internet

  In Diogenes Laertius 'Lives of the Eminent Philosophers' bk. 1, ch. 58.

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• My books are more about people experimenting with different identities and social models in a short-term way before they can break through to something authentic.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Book, People, Identity

  "Chuck Palahniuk in conversation with Tom Spanbauer". Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com. May 2014.

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• We must break through the provincial crust if we are to reach the core of all-India nationalism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Ifs, Core

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.205, Rajpal & Sons

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• The only thing that's real in any universe [is] that brilliant fire of Love that burns to the exclusion of everything else. As we recognize the presence of Love, we break through the wall of grief that would try to convince us that the dear soul with whom we have learned and loved so much no longer exists, or that she or he cannot speak with us. There is no wall that Love cannot vaporize. We may believe in death, Love doesn't.

  Richard Bach

  Wall, Real, Grief

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• I like "Rock, Paper, Scissors Two-Thirds." You know. "Rock breaks scissors." "These scissors are bent. They're destroyed. I can't cut stuff. So I lose." "Scissors cuts paper." "These are strips. This is not even paper. It's gonna take me forever to put this back together." "Paper covers rock." "Rock is fine. No structural damage to rock. Rock can break through paper at any point. Just say the word. Paper sucks." There should be "Rock, Dynamite with a Cutable Wick, Scissors."

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Humor, Cutting

  "Demetri Martin. Person". Documentary, Comedy, Music, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• I think after time goes by and you earn certain rights or you break through certain barriers, you could sometimes, maybe, take it for granted what you have now that you didn't have before. And then that would lead to a certain lack of community, in a way, caring in a way, that I saw before [in gay society].

  Madonna Ciccone

  Gay, Caring, Thinking

  "The Unapologetic Madonna Interview: The Queen Of Pop On Grindr, Song Leaks, Her Kids, And More". Interview with Dan Avery, www.newnownext.com. March 10, 2015.

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• He that loves the world, how active is he! He will break his peace and sleep for it. He that loves honour, what hazards will he run! He will swim to the throne in blood.... Love heaven, and you cannot miss it; love breaks through all opposition-it takes heaven by storm.

  Thomas Watson

  Christian, Running, Sleep

  Thomas Watson (1838). “A body of practical divinity, consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster: with a suppl. of some sermons on several texts of Scripture”, p.618

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• You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.

  Les Brown

  Dream, Powerful, Risk

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• God only knows how much I'd love you if you let me, but I can't break through at all.

  John Mayer

  Love, Let Me, I Can

  Song: Heartbreak Warfare, Album: Battle Studies, 2009

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• Language is the net that holds thought trapped within a particular culture. But if one could only strike the ball with sufficient force, with perfect timing, it would perhaps break through the netting, continue on its course, never fall to earth, but go into orbit around the world.

  David Lodge

  Fall, Perfect, World

  David Lodge (2011). “The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work”, p.342, Penguin

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• Remakes, in general, are a result of necessity being the mother of invention. They can't open movies consistently and break through the advertising clutter that's out there.

  John Carpenter

  Mother, Advertising, Invention

  Source: collider.com

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• No one wants to sell to just 12% of the population for the entire length of their careers. It creates a difficult and less-profitable environment. But Hollywood has lived with that limiting mantra, and only a few black stars have managed to break through.

  Russell Simmons

  Stars, Careers, Black

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Earthly joy can take but a bat-like flight, always checked, always limited, in dusk and darkness. But the love of Christ breaks through the vaulting, and leads us up into the free sky above, expanding to the very throne of Jehovah, and drawing us still upward to the infinite heights of glory.

  Frances Ridley Havergal

  Sky, Drawing, Joy

  Frances Ridley Havergal (1892). “Golden Thoughts from the Life and Works of Frances Ridley Havergal ...”

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• We've got to break through the wall of secrecy. It's America's fate.

  Helen Thomas

  Wall, Fate, America

  Phone interview on "The Majority Report" with Sam Seder, April 2, 2004.

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• Humanity has been sleeping-and still sleeps-lulled within the narrowly confining joys of its little closed loves. In the depths of the human multitude there slumbers an immense spiritual power which will manifest itself only when we have learnt how to break through the dividing walls of our egoism and raise ourselves up to an entirely new perspective, so that habitually and in a practical fashion we fix our gaze on the universal realities.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Spiritual, Fashion, Wall

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• If you don't break a hole through the brick wall, don't just start digging a new hole. Keep going until you break through that wall.

  Russell Simmons

  Wall, Digging, Bricks

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• It's useful to know how much society's holding you back. My mother would talk about how she was told by the head of her art school that she was the best painter, but that she wouldn't get the biggest prize because she would waste her talent by having children. I think we have to get honest with girls about how they can expect the world to block them, and we have to prepare girls, and ourselves, to break through those blocks.

  Erica Jong

  Girl, Mother, Art

  "Erica Jong on Feminism for the Future". Omega Institute Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2014.

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• Gold loves to make its way through guards, and breaks through barriers of stone more easily than the lightning's bolt.

  Horace

  Gold, Stones, Way

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• If once a woman breaks through the barriers of decency, her ease is desperate; and if she goes greater lengths than the men, and leaves the pale of propriety farther behind her, it is because she is aware that all return is prohibited, and by none so strongly as by her own sex.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Sex, Men, Ease

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• For poetry exists to break through to below the level of reason where the angels and monsters that the amenities keep in the cellar may come out to dance, to rove and roar, growling and singing, to bring life back to the enclosed rooms where too often we are only 'living and partly living.

  May Sarton

  Angel, Singing, Monsters

  May Sarton (2015). “Writings on Writing”, p.47, Open Road Media

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• The wretch that fears to drown, will break through flames;
  Or, in his dread of flames, will plunge in waves.
  When eagles are in view, the screaming doves
  Will cower beneath the feet of man for safety.

  Colley Cibber

  Fear, Men, Feet

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• Men with common minds seldom break through general rules. Prudence is ever the resort of weakness; and they rarely go as far as as they may in any undertaking, who are determined not to go beyond it on any account.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Men, Mind, Weakness

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (Illustrated)”, p.1034, Delphi Classics

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• One of the wonderful aspects of the human imagination is its power to break through the barriers of time and space. It can see things not as they are but as the can be.

  Denis Waitley

  Space, Imagination, Wonderful

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