Break Quotes · Page 13

It is better for the heart to break, than not to break.

— Mary Oliver

I understand the power and the alarm of words - Not those that they applaud from theatre-boxes, but those which make coffins…

— Vladimir Mayakovsky

The tests of life are to make, not break us. Trouble may demolish a man's business but build up his character. The…

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.

— Edward Abbey

All day long the thoughts that occupy your mind, your Secret Place, as Jesus calls it, are moulding your destiny for good…

— Emmet Fox

My whole purpose of taking on miniature painting was to break the tradition, to experiment with it, to find new ways of…

— Shahzia Sikander

The heart of a woman falls back with the night, / And enters some alien cage in its plight, / And tries…

— Georgia Douglas Johnson

The problem was that Panama technically belonged to Colombia, which refused to sign a treaty leasing it to the United States. So…

— Dave Barry

If I play badly I'll pick a fight in the third, just to get into a fight. I'll break a guy's leg…

— Derek Sanderson

Poetic power is great, strong as a primitive instinct; it has its own unyielding rhythms in itself and breaks out as out…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.

— Anonymous

I’m overwhelmed. My biggest downfall is my brightest blessing, I feel too much, all the time. Ya Allah, if it’ll keep my…

— Warsan Shire

Be careful to be gentle, lest in removing the rust, you break the whole instrument.

— Benedict of Nursia

Real isn't what they try to tell you. Time isn't. Grown-ups hammer down all these markers, bells, schedules, coffee-breaks, to stake down…

— Tana French

If you're not seeing each other anymore because things are so strained, and your only communication is a weekly e-mail, and you're…

— Amber Heard

We desire peace. However, if imperialism insists on fighting a war, we will have no alternative but to take the firm resolution…

— Mao Zedong

If you're going to break cinema, film, and movies apart, very rarely to you get the opportunity to even think that you've…

— Kiefer Sutherland

Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities, are the greatest cozenage men can put upon the Providence of God, and make…

— Oliver Cromwell

In New York, the dunk is not the thing. To break somebody down and shoot a J-that's as big as a dunk…

— Lamar Odom

[One task of intellectuals is] to break down the stereotypes and reductive categories that are . . . limiting to human thought and communication.

— Edward Said

If you come back; I'll marry you. If you break your promise, you'll break my heart

— Nicholas Sparks

I've been a Keanu Reeves fan for a very long time, since 'Bill and Ted' and 'Point Break' and stuff like that.

— Thomas Middleditch

Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.

— Stephen King

Music and dance is universal, and I want to break borders and represent.

— Nora Fatehi

People who want to express themselves need to be given an opportunity. For me, it's a very fundamental premise: you break the…

— Bob Buckhorn