Break Quotes - Page 2

• We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.

  Edward de Bono

  Creativity, Order, Imagination

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

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• Sticks and stones may break my bones, but chains and whips excite me.

  Rihanna

  Bullying, Dry Bones, Useless Life

  Song: S&M, Album: Loud

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• I understand why marriages break up over golf. I can't even talk about my own handicap because it's too upsetting.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Break Up, Breakup, Golf

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• Break open
  A cherry tree
  And there are no flowers;
  But the spring breeze
  Brings forth myriad blossoms.

  Ikkyu

  Nature, Spring, Flower

  Ikkyū (2003). “Wild Ways: Zen Poems”, White Pine Press (NY)

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• The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Artist, Promise, Tears

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• If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.

  Robert Collier

  Time, Procrastination, Problem

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• Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.

  Randall Munroe

  Math, Thinking, May

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• I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft.

  Steve Ballmer

  Break Up, Thinking, Trying

  "DOJ Case: Your Voice Counts!". Freedom to Innovate Network Newsletter, January 17, 2000.

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• Break up the printing presses and you break up rebellion.

  Dudley Nichols

  Break Up, Uprising, Rebellion

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• Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.

  Drew Barrymore

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

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• Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Break Up, Revenge, Men

  Jeremy Taylor (1834). “The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings”, p.45

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• Never give a sucker an even break.

  W. C. Fields

  Drinking, Wine, Break Even

  Quoted in Boston Daily Globe, 9 Sept. 1923.

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• A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Philosophical, Art Of War, Keeping Promises

  Niccolo Machiavelli (1979). “The Portable Machiavelli”, p.95, Penguin

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• Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.

  Jean Plaidy

  Life, Motivational, Happiness

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• For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority.

  Theodore White

  Break Up, Time, Men

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• That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.

  Jackson Browne

  Break Up, Important, Doe

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• Why do you have to break up with her? Be a man. Just stop calling.

  Matt LeBlanc

  Moving On, Break Up, Breakup

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• I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound. I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Break Up, Sound, Records

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• Talking about our problems is our greatest additction. Break the habit. Talk about your joys.

  Rita Schiano

  Inspirational, Happiness, Grieving

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• I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose.

  Rita Rudner

  Break Up, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

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• We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.

  Bill McCollum

  Break Up, Demand, Computer

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• We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

  E. M. Forster

  Break Up, Letting Go, Breakup

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• It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Sports, Attitude

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• Although the Internet makes it seem as if you have a direct connection to the securities market, you don't. Lines may clog; systems may break; orders may back-up.

  Arthur Levitt Jr

  Break Up, Order, Connections

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• We usually break our records every Monday, so we'll see what turns up tonight after midnight. Next month it'll probably be higher, which is always weird.

  Drew Curtis

  Break Up, Monday, Midnight

  Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. March 6, 2012.

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