Break Quotes - Page 8

• Fasting breaks the spirit of heaviness.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Fasting, Spirit, Heaviness

  Jentezen Franklin (2012). “Fasting Student Edition: Go Deeper and Further with God than Ever Before”, p.57, Charisma Media

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• Short of preventing harm to the child, the standard of 'best interest of the child' is insufficient to serve as a compelling state interest overruling a parent's fundamental rights.... To suggest otherwise would be the logical equivalent to asserting that the state has the authority to break up stable families and redistribute its infant population to provide each child with the 'best family.' It is not within the province of the state to make significant decisions concerning the custody of children merely because it could make a 'better' decision.

  Barbara Madsen

  Children, Rights, Adoption

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• September twenty-second, Sir, the bough cracks with unpicked apples, and at dawn the small-mouth bass breaks water, gorged with spawn.

  Robert Lowell

  Apples, Water, Dawn

  Robert Lowell (1955). “Poesie: 1943-1952”

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• The purpose of theatre is... making an event in which a group of fragments are sudde nly brought together... in a community which, by the natural laws that make every community, gradually breaks up... At certain moments this fragmented world comes together and for a certain time it can rediscover the marvel of organic life ... The marvel of being one.

  Peter Brook

  Law, Community, Theatre

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• When heaven breaks, who fixes it?

  Jodi Picoult

  Heaven

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.

  Oscar Wilde

  Heart, Reality, Law

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Ballad of Reading Gaol”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• What we know from lab studies is that it's never too late to break a habit. Habits are malleable throughout your entire life. But we also know that the best way to change a habit is to understand its structure - that once you tell people about the cue and the reward and you force them to recognize what those factors are in a behavior, it becomes much, much easier to change.

  Charles Duhigg

  People, Too Late, Labs

  "How to Turn Drinking from One of Life’s Pleasures to a Habit in Three Easy Steps" by Leah Odze Epstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2012.

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• The LA Lakers are so good they could run a fast break with a medicine ball.

  Rich Donnelly

  Basketball, Running, Medicine

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• The European powers had been anxious to see the United States become embroiled in a civil war and eventually break into two smaller and weaker nations. That would pave the way for their further colonization of Latin American without fear of the Americans being able to enforce the Monroe Doctrine.

  G. Edward Griffin

  War, Latin, Two

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• Doubt is a powerful tool. Doubt challenges my beliefs and breaks the spell of all the lies and superstitions that control my world. I use doubt to recover faith in myself, to take my power back from every superstition I believe in, and return that power to myself.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Faith, Powerful, Lying

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• A man's greatest work is to break his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them all the things that have been theirs, to hear the weeping of those who cherished them, to take their horses between his knees and to press in his arms the most desirable of their women.

  Genghis Khan

  Horse, Men, Enemy

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• God, as I may say, is forced to break men's hearts, before he can make them willing to cry to him, or be willing that he should have any concerns with them; the rest shut their eyes, stop their ears, withdraw their hearts, or say unto God, Be gone.

  John Bunyan

  Heart, Eye, Men

  John Bunyan (2015). “The Acceptable Sacrifice”, p.16, Gideon House Books

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• When we cling to thoughts and memories, we are clinging to what cannot be grasped. When we touch these phantoms and let them go, we may discover a space, a break in the chatter, a glimpse of open sky. This is our birthright—the wisdom with which we were born, the vast unfolding display of primordial richness, primordial openness, primordial wisdom itself. When one thought has ended and another has not yet begun, we can rest in that space.

  Pema Chodron

  Memories, Sky, Space

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• The ties that I have here were too strong to break.

  Patrick Vieira

  Strong, Ties

  "Vieira decides to stay at Arsenal". www.cnn.com. August 13, 2004.

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• This is about an admitted attempt, encouraged from outside, to challenge and break the State's authority. That is intolerable. Whoever deviates from this policy that I have established, privately or publicly, will be expelled from the Union Nationale.

  Maurice Duplessis

  Challenges, Unions, Authority

  Response to the 1949 asbestos miners' strike on CBC radio,

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• I want to be honest about the world that we live in, and sometimes my political persuasions come through in my work. Fashion can be really racist, looking at the clothes of other cultures as costumes. . . . That’s mundane and it’s old hat. Let’s break down some barriers.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Other Cultures, Clothes

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• But now the world breaks in on us, the world is shocked, the world looks upon our idyll as madness. The world maintains that no rational man or woman would have chosen this way of life - therefore, it is madness. Alone I confront them and tell them that nothing could be saner or truer! What do people really know about life? We fall in line, follow the pattern established by our mentors. Everything is based on assumptions; even time, space, motion, matter are nothing but supposition. The world has no new knowledge to impart; it merely accepts what is there.

  Knut Hamsun

  Fall, Men, Space

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• Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can hurt like hell.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Hurt, May, Stones

  "Lullaby". Chapter 14. Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2002.

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• I never understood what rules I was supposed to learn, and what rules I was supposed to break

  Morton Feldman

  Understood

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• Trust is maintained when values and beliefs are actively managed. If companies do not actively work to keep clarity, discipline and consistency in balance, then trust starts to break down.

  Simon Sinek

  Discipline, Consistency, Balance

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• Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

  Judith Guest

  Love, Break Up, Soul And Body

  Judith Guest (1980). “Ordinary people”

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• Music is something I must do, business is something I need to do, and Africa is something I have to do. That's the way it breaks down in my life.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Needs, Way, Breaking Down

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• You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have to break it up into smaller chunks. But those smaller chunks aren't good old familiar short stories. Novels aren't built out of short stories. They are built out of scenes.

  Orson Scott Card

  Writing, Whales, Stories

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• February makes a bridge and March breaks it.

  Georges Hebert

  Bridges, March, February

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• I do believe that political arrangements which are based upon violence, intimidation and theft will eventually break down - and will deserve to do so.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Believe, Political, Down And

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