Breaking Quotes

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The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there… — Barney Ross
The best ally you can have in breaking up a street fight is a grandmother. — Joe Bob Briggs
As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up. — Roger Mudd
You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept… — David James Elliott
I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in.… — Barry Manilow
When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up, as were John and Christine. By the time Rumours was… — Lindsey Buckingham
I mean that the time where we need International agreement more than ever on the environment and the rest, poverty we are breaking up our… — Clare Short
In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original elements, - into hostile atoms,… — Edward Everett
I was very depressed after breaking off my engagement with Johnny ten years ago. I was embarrassingly dramatic at the time, but you have to… — Winona Ryder
If people live in constant fear of death, and if breaking the law is punished by death, then who would dare? — Laozi
Bamboo is flexible, bending with the wind but never breaking, capable of adapting to any circumstance. It suggests resilience, meaning that we have the ability… — Ping Fu
The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking. — Alvin Dark
Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the close confining prison… — David Bentley Hart
There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and… — Brian Ferneyhough
Modernist discourse [...] incorporates semantic devices - such as the labeling of theism as 'religion' and naturalism as 'science' - that work to prevent a… — Phillip E. Johnson
Breaking an old business model is always going to require leaders to follow their instinct. There will always be persuasive reasons not to take a… — Clayton Christensen
Should I abide by the rules until they're changed, or help speed the change by breaking them? — Ashleigh Brilliant
Because sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge just as each… — Timothy Keller
Many women have been successful at breaking the glass ceiling only to find a layer of men. — Jane Harman
Kino-Eye uses every possible means in montage, comparing and linking all points of the universe in any temporal order, breaking, when necessary, all the laws… — Dziga Vertov

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