Break Quotes - Page 15

• In the end it seems we're just toys,easy to break and hard to mend

  Mark Lawrence

  Toys, Easy, Ends

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.49, Penguin

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• The difference between the extras here and in France is the French extras read books. Actually, they hide the book and pretend that they're acting. Here (in Hollywood), you can see everybody wants his break.

  Berenice Bejo

  Book, Differences, Acting

  "Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo THE ARTIST Interview". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 23, 2011.

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• I have a bold plan to break from the Bloomberg years, and end the 'Tale of Two Cities' by providing real opportunity to all New Yorkers, no matter where they live.

  Bill de Blasio

  Real, Opportunity, Years

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

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• But it's not enough to be in love. It's about how you spend your days, what you do together, who you choose as friends, and most of all it's what work you do ... Better to break both our hearts now than watch them wither away over time.

  Helen Simonson

  Heart, Together, Watches

  Helen Simonson (2010). “Major Pettigrew's Last Stand”, p.380, A&C Black

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• Life is very much about rule breaking, about confrontation. Otherwise history would just stand still. Someone has to come along and break the rules and try for whatever reason to go about things a different way. Even if it is a simple sense of adventure, a sense of exploration. You explore concepts and things that interest you, but you are also exploring inside of yourself.

  Ed Paschke

  Adventure, Simple, Trying

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• Although we human adults are really good at understanding other minds, we weren't always that way. It takes children a long time to break into the system.

  Rebecca Saxe

  Children, Motivation, Inspiration

  "How Do We Know What Other People Are Thinking?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. February 20, 2015.

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• For this my mother wrapped me warm,
  And called me home against the storm,
  And coaxed my infant nights to quiet,
  And gave me roughage in my diet,
  And tucked me in my bed at eight,
  And clipped my hair, and marked my weight,
  And watched me as I sat and stood:
  That I might grow to womanhood
  To hear a whistle and drop my wits
  And break my heart to clattering bits.

  Dorothy Parker

  Broken Heart, Mother, Home

  Dorothy Parker (1992). “The Sayings of Dorothy Parker”, Duckbacks

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• And then she realized that his presence was the wall, his presence was destroying her. Unless she could break out, she must die most fearfully, walled up in horror. And he was the wall. She must break down the wall. She must break him down before her, the awful obstruction of him who obstructed her life to the last. It must be done, or she must perish most horribly.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Broken Heart, Wall, Break Out

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• I was stuck for 16 months without a win there, and now I've had five this year. Once you break that barrier for yourself it makes it easier; you're not thinking about it... It opened up the floodgate for me.

  Kelly Slater

  Winning, Thinking, Years

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• I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.

  Vince McMahon

  Real, Common Sense, Guy

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• The 55% of American households that make less than $40,000 will get a tax break of only $7 while the households that make more than $1 million will receive an average tax break of $32,000.

  Marty Meehan

  Average, Taxes, Household

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• What's interesting is there are $12 billion of breaks in the energy bill that passed, yet we see that the sixth major oil companies in America last year made $1.1 trillion.

  Marty Meehan

  Years, Oil, America

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• Who would want to break into [the music business]? It's like a bank that's already been robbed.

  Randy Newman

  Want, Music Business

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• I think in the darkest moments, we need a break.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Thinking, Needs, Moments

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• That I should turn up at the precise moment was one of those extraordinarily lucky breaks which we all need at some time or other during this life, but don't always get.

  Peter Cushing

  Lucky, Needs, Moments

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• I pray a simple prayer every morning. It's an ecumenical prayer. Whether you're Catholic or Jewish or Muslim or Hindu, I think it speaks to the heart of every faith. It goes “Lord please break the laws of the universe for my convenience. Amen.”

  Emo Philips

  Morning, Prayer, Heart

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• There's always the possibility that you're going to come across a record that transforms your life. And it happens weekly. It's like a leaf on the stream. There are little currents and eddies and sticks lying in the water that nudge you in a slightly different direction. And then you break loose and carry on down the current. There's nothing that actually stops you and lifts you out of the water and puts you on the bank but there are diversions and distractions and alarums and excursions which is what makes life interesting really. It's fantastic.

  John Peel

  Lying, Water, Interesting

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• Life's had to break you down so you could be rebuilt

  Robin S

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• You can't break my heart. It's made of water.

  Naomi Wallace

  Heart, Water, Made

  Naomi Wallace (2010). “In the Heart of America and Other Plays”, p.109, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A Communist breaks because he must choose at last between irreconcilable opposites-God or Man, Soul or Mind, Freedom or Communism.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Men, Mind Freedom, Opposites

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.16, Regnery Publishing

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• There always comes, I think, a sort of peak in suffering at which either you win over your pain or your pain wins over you, according as to whether you can, or cannot, call up that extra ounce of endurance that helps you to break through the circle of yourself and do the hitherto impossible. That extra ounce carries you through 'le dernier quart d' heure.' Psychologist have a name for it, I believe. Christians call it the Grace of God.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Christian, Pain, Believe

  Elizabeth Goudge (1942). “The Castle on the Hill”

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• That's the challenging thing with TV; it's not the action scenes per se, and it's not the location scenes and the heavy dialog scenes, but the fact that there is just no let-up; there is no break.

  Jason O'Mara

  Challenges, Location, Facts

  "'Terra Nova' Goes Prehistoric With Star Jason O'mara". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. September 23, 2011.

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• From the perfection of Allah's ihsan is that He allows His slave to taste the bitterness of the break before the sweetness of the mend. So He does not break his believing slave, except to mend him. And He does not withhold from him, except to give him. And He does not test him (with hardship), except to cure him.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Believe, Heart, Giving

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• Break in the hands of God, He'll unbreak you. Break in the hands of people, you'll remain forever broken. Break to no one, your heart will remain hard.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Heart, Hands, People

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• Why should you row a boat race? Why endure the long months of pain in preparation for a fierce half hour that will leave you all but dead? Does anyone ask the question? Is there anyone who would not go through all the costs, and more, for the moment when anguish breaks into triumph or even for the glory of having nobly lost? Is life less than a boat race? If a man will give the blood in his body to win the one, will he spend all the might of his soul to prevail in the other?

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Pain, Winning, Men

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