Break Quotes - Page 17

• They look at what's more important, like subjects to help with the SAT's, etc. They miss that music is vital. It offers a break from a stressful day of science and math and it's different.

  Justin Guarini

  Math, Missing, Important

  7 Copy quote

• The only 'break' anyone can afford to rely upon is a self-made 'break'.

  Napoleon Hill

  Self, Rely Upon, Made

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “Think & Grow Rich”, p.157, Courier Corporation

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• That's my private ant. You're liable to break its legs.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Equality, Legs, Ants

  4 Copy quote

• If one yearns to see the face of the Divine, one must break out of the aquarium, escape the fish farm, to go swim up wild cataracts, dive in deep fjords. One must explore the labyrinth of the reef, the shadows of the lily pads. How limiting, how insulting to think of God as a benevolent warden, an absentee hatchery manager who imprisons us in the 'comfort' of artificial pools, where intermediaries sprinkle our restrictive waters with sanitized flakes of processed nutriment.

  Tom Robbins

  God, Thinking, Fjords

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.195, Bantam

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Renewable ethanol represents a clear opportunity to grow a significant portion of our own fuel locally and begin to break the hold imported fuels have on us.

  Mike May

  Opportunity, Fuel, Holding On

  7 Copy quote

• If we truly believe in our public schools, then we have a moral responsibility to do better - to break the either-or mentality around school reform, and embrace a both-and mentality. Good schools will require both the structural reform and the resources necessary to prepare our kids for the future.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Believe, School

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The deep problem facing everyone is how to break free when being a prisoner is the only comfortable way you know how to live.

  Deepak Chopra

  Change, Way, Problem

  4 Copy quote

• In order to benefit; however, you must believe that life is plotting for you. We often resist this emerging impulse or this urge to emerge because we are afraid of change, right? To the ego, change is equivalent to danger or death. But when we deny this evolutionary call, it causes an inner pressure that must find an outlet, sometimes in destructive ways. And this can break out as disease, financial collapse, or relationship meltdown.

  Derek Rydall

  Believe, Order, Ego

  7 Copy quote

• I agree with Dreher when he writes, 'we can't build anything good unless we live by the belief that man does not exist to serve the economy, but the economy exists to serve man...A society built on consumerism must break down eventually for the same reason socialism did'

  Paul Weyrich

  Writing, Men, Doe

  4 Copy quote

• Eating, loving, singing, and digesting are, in truth, the four acts of the comic opera known as life, and they pass like bubbles of a bottle of champagne. Whoever lets them break without having enjoyed them is a complete fool.

  Gioachino Rossini

  Life, Singing, Bottles

  54 Copy quote

• I wondered at him, so wise and so foolish, to have lived with me all these months and not know that the worst storms break inside a man.

  Maria McCann

  Life, Wise, Men

  4 Copy quote

• Nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side.

  Peter Straub

  Life, Pain, Half

  Peter Straub (2015). “Ghost Story”, p.302, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It's the mathematical logic of being alive. If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness-cry and then walk-but what really breaks us cleanest are the losses that happen out of order.

  Aimee Bender

  Life, Sadness, Loss

  4 Copy quote

• I need one of those chapter breaks. I just want to catch my breath, but I have no idea how.

  Colleen Hoover

  Life, Ideas, Needs

  Colleen Hoover (2013). “Hopeless”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• ...when the words pour out of you just right, you understand that these sentences are all part of a river flowing out of your own distant, hidden ranges, and all words become the dissolving snow that feeds your mountain streams forever. The language locks itself in the icy slopes of our own high passes, and it is up to us, the writers, to melt the glaciers within us. When these glaciers break off, we get to call them novels, the changelings of our burning spirits, our life's work.

  Pat Conroy

  Break Off, Rivers, Snow

  5 Copy quote

• Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks,
  you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.

  Garry Trudeau

  Life Is Like, Bathroom, Get Up

  7 Copy quote

• My heart is the throne of the Beloved, the Beloved the heart's destiny: Whoever breaks another's heart will find no homecoming in this world or any other.

  Yunus Emre

  Heartbreak, Betrayal, Destiny

  112 Copy quote

• You have to learn the opponent psychologically inside out and mental strength is one of the important makers. You're either gonna break it or make it.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Motivation, Important, Opponents

  4 Copy quote

• When we are in the grasp of illusion - or, for that matter, whenever we have a new idea - instead of searching for ways to prove our ideas wrong, we usually attempt to prove them correct. Psychologists call this the confirmation bias, and it presents a major impediment of our ability to break free from the misinterpretation of randomness.

  Leonard Mlodinow

  Ideas, Matter, Way

  Leonard Mlodinow (2009). “The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives”, p.164, Penguin UK

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Until I became a nurse, no one had ever asked me to sign a book contract. I had been writing for decades, read thousands of books, and even worked in publishing for 10 years. Who knew that nursing would be my break?

  Steven Amsterdam

  Book, Writing, Nursing

  "How to Make a Bed" by Steven Amsterdam, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 20, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Being able to break security doesn't make you a hacker anymore than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Car, Able, Computer

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.196, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Surely death acquires a new and deeper significance when we regard it no longer as a single and unexplained break in an unending life, but as a part of the continuously recurring rhythm of progress-as inevitable, as natural and benevolent as sleep.

  J. M. E. McTaggart

  Death, Sleep, Progress

  5 Copy quote

• Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

  Ben Nicholson

  Stuff, Serious, Breaking Down

  5 Copy quote

• All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination.

  Napoleon Hill

  Temporary Defeat, Imagination, Waiting

  10 Copy quote

• If everything works out for me & if it's my special day I'll try to break AB de Villiers record for the fastest hundred.

  Shahid Afridi

  Work Out, Special, Trying

  31 Copy quote