Break Quotes

6142 quotes by 3697 authors

Life, with all it's sorrows, cares, perplexities and heart-breaks, is more interesting than bovine placidity, hence more desirable. The more interesting it is, the happier… — William Lyon Phelps
Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, Makes the night morning, and the noontide night. — William Shakespeare
The break from the supposedly culturally-narrow religious bases of knowledge in favor of supposedly trans-cultural scientific bases of knowledge served as the self-justification of a… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Was there nought better than to enjoy? No feat which, done, would make time break, And let us pent-up creatures through Into eternity, our due?… — Robert Browning
Anything you grab hold of on the bank breaks with the river's pressure. When you do things from your soul, the river itself moves through… — Coleman Barks
Men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the 'culture of waste.' If a computer breaks it is a… — Pope Francis
It is done. Once again the Fire has penetrated the earth, not with the sudden crash of thunderbolt, riving the mountain tops: does the Master… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
To some extent, this urge to break out of the ordinary is present in every generation. Part of being young is desiring something beyond everyday… — Pope Benedict XVI
When I sat on the chair at 5-0, I was like, 'Okay, now you can try to break her, and if not, you have the… — Petra Kvitova
The man, who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A farmer's horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind. Like his master he is… — Anthony Trollope
When music sounds, gone is the earth I know, And all her lovelier things even lovelier grow; Her flowers in vision flame, her forest trees… — Walter de La Mare
The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar with intention to… — Samuel Johnson
Among the numerous advantages promised by a well-constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence… — James Madison
Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for I think it… — Thomas Paine
The human mind is kind of like a piÃ±ata. When it breaks open, there's a lot of surprises inside. Once you get the piÃ±ata perspective,… — Jane Wagner
Let nothing and nobody break your spirit. Let the unity in the community remain intact. — Jesse Jackson
By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. Dare to look in thy chest; for 'Tis thine… — George Herbert
When a task seems too daunting to even approach, break it up into little bits. — Unknown Author
As an example of just how useless these philosophers are for any practice in life there is Socrates himself, the one and only wise man,… — Desiderius Erasmus

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