Break Quotes - Page 8

• We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

  David Hyde Pierce

  Good Day, Legs, Skiing

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• The dance is the mother of the arts, The dance breaks down the distinction of body & soul.

  Curt Sachs

  Dance, Mother, Art

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• Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.

  John Milton

  Time, Power, Night

  John Milton (1859). “The poems of John Milton”, p.98

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• The one who bets the most wins. Cards just break ties.

  Sam Farha

  Winning, Ties, Cards

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• I don't believe, for instance, that evolutionary biology or any scientific endeavor has much to say about love. I'm sure a lot can be learned about the importance of hormones and their effects on our feelings. But do the bleak implications of evolution have any impact on the love I feel for my family? Do they make me more likely to break the law of flaunt society's expectations of me? No. I simply does not follow that human relationships are meaningless just because we live in a godless universe subject to the natural laws of biology.

  Greg Graffin

  Believe, Impact, Law

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• IF YOUR OPPONENT strikes with fire, counter with water, becoming completely fluid and free-flowing. Water, by its nature, never collides with or breaks against anything. On the contrary, it swallows up any attack harmlessly.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Fire, Water, Opponents

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.110, Shambhala Publications

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• The entire party and country should hurl into the fire and break the neck of anyone who dared trample underfoot the sacred edict of the party on the defense of women's rights.

  Enver Hoxha

  Country, Party, Fire

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• I had crashes when I was small and Gumby-like that would have killed me now. I would just fly off jumps and go 40 or 50 meters when I was 6 years old - break skis, smash my goggles and get a bloody nose and go crawl inside for a little while and then come back out and ski more in the afternoon.

  Bode Miller

  Years, Goggles, Noses

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• Salvation does not lie where strong thrones are defended by swords, where the smoke of censers ascend to heaven or where thousands of strong men pace the rich fields of harvest. The revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Strong, Lying, Men

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• It is not people who break ethical standards who are regarded as aliens. It is people like me who are isolated.

  Grigori Perelman

  Ethical Standards, People, Aliens

  "TIL a Russian mathematician solved a 100 year old math problem. He declined the Fields medal, $1 million in awards, and later retired from math because he hated the recognition the math community gives to people who prove things", rebrn.com.

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• Lord please break the laws of the universe for my convenience. Amen.

  Emo Philips

  Law, Lord, Convenience

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• Hearts are united when they ache and break together.

  Jack Hyles

  Heart, Together, Ache

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• As competitive as I am, I want to get the best of a play and make sure to use it's full potential even when things break down. But sometimes you need to just say 'uncle' and let it go and avoid a hit

  Mark Sanchez

  Uncles, Play, Let It Go

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• So we can say, reverently, that God never gave us the Law to keep: he gave us the Law to break! He well knew that we could not keep it.

  Watchman Nee

  Law, Wells

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.124, CLC Publications

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• I want to inspire the next generation. I want to be in mission control with someone younger than me wanting to break my record.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Inspire, Generations, Records

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• I liked you because you could make me smile. I fell in love with you because you made me want to be a better person. Now that you're leaving me, what am I supposed to do?

  Lisa Gilbert

  Break Up, Love You, Leaving

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• God has given us a universe. It's really an expensive toy with no instructions. We're gonna break it sooner or later.

  Kevin Maurer

  Religious, Toys, Instruction

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• I would seriously question whether anybody is really foolish enough to really say what they mean. Sometimes I think that civilization as we know it would kind of break down if we all were completely honest.

  Elizabeth Hurley

  Mean, Thinking, Civilization

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

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• Gotta take a risk, take a chance, make a change, and break away. I won't forget the place I came from.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Life, Risk, Chance

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• I had such extraordinary breaks from the moment I entered the theater.

  Dorothy McGuire

  Moments, Theater, Extraordinary

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

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• Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so.

  Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

  School, Government, Patterns

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• Greatness breaks laws.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Greatness, Law

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• The main American naval forces were shifted to the Pacific region and an American admiral made a strong declaration to the effect that if war were to break out between Japan and the United States, the Japanese navy could be sunk in a matter of weeks.

  Hideki Tojo

  Strong, War, Japan

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• If you can give it, I can take it
  'Cause if this heart is gonna break it's gonna take a lot to break it
  I know tonight, somebody's gonna win the fight
  So if you're so tough, come on and prove it
  Your heart is down for the count and you know you're gonna lose it
  Tonight you're gonna go down in flames
  Just like Jesse James

  Cher

  Song, Heart, Fighting

  Song: Just Like Jesse James, Album: Heart of Stone

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• In high school, we studied a lot of poetical forms. I was really interested in the math that was involved and the strange live break ups. That gave me a great amount of respect for a rhymed stanza.

  Joanna Newsom

  School, Math, Rhyming

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

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