Break Quotes

6142 quotes by 3697 authors

Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too â€“ If one says no to the other, let his wing break. — Chinua Achebe
The emotionally sound person should be able to take risks, to ask himself what he really would like to do in life, and then to… — Albert Ellis
Sycophancy toward those who hold power is a fact in every regime, and especially in a democracy, where, unlike tyranny, there is an accepted principle… — Allan Bloom
Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again. If somewhere in the Hollywood-entertainment world someone has managed to break through with something… — Pauline Kael
Never lose yourself on the stage. Always act in your own person, as an artist. The moment you lose yourself on the stage marks the… — Constantin Stanislavski
Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it breaks down than… — Karl Marx
I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of Marxism, phenomenology and existentialism. For… — Michel Foucault
Walter Benjamin knew that the break in tradition and loss of authority which occurred in his lifetime were irreparable, and he concluded that he had… — Hannah Arendt
That is what deconstruction is made of: not the mixture but the tension between memory, fidelity, the preservation of something that has been given to… — Jacques Derrida
Nietzsche's break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary or multiple. — Gilles Deleuze
The fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions.. the people who… — Mark Rothko
We don't have a crime problem, a gun problem or even a violence problem. What we have is a sin problem. And since we've ordered… — Mike Huckabee
Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are. — Tennessee Williams
What were we doing here? Traveling hundreds or thousands of light-years, to break our hearts? — Frederik Pohl
When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture. — Robert Venturi
Since changing interfaces breaks clients you should consider them as immutable once you've published them. — Erich Gamma
Whatever you want, especially when youâ€™re striving to be the best in the world at something, thereâ€™ll always be disappointments, and you canâ€™t be emotionally… — Mike Tyson
I believe that Thomas Jefferson said: 'If it neither breaks my leg nor picks my pocket, what difference is it to me?' — Glenn Beck
I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can't imagine someone else's point of view. — Sonia Sotomayor
Living your life is a long and doggy business. . . . And stories and books help. Some help you with the living itself. Some… — Anne Fine

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