Breaking Quotes

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The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing. — Mignon McLaughlin
The earth for us is a place to live in, where we must put up with sights, with sounds, with smells, too, by Jove! -… — Joseph Conrad
The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul, breaking the mental manacles, getting the brain out of bondage, giving courage to thought,… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Hey Mason, wipe the drool off your face. If you're going to think about me naked, do it on your own time." [...] "This is… — Richelle Mead
In a murderous time/the heart breaks and breaks/and lives by breaking. — Stanley Kunitz
Isola doesn't approve of small talk and believes in breaking the ice by stomping on it. — Mary Ann Shaffer
Back and forth she went each morning by the river, spring arriving once again; foolish, foolish spring, breaking open its tiny buds, and what she… — Elizabeth Strout
Ogbuef Ezedudu,who was the oldest man in the village, was telling two other men when they came to visit him that the punishment for breaking… — Chinua Achebe
And long there he lay, an image of the splendour of the Kings of Men in glory undimmed before the breaking of the world. — J.R.R. Tolkien
The nightingales are sobbing in The orchards of our mothers, And hearts that we broke long ago Have long been breaking others; Tears are round,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Then a lawyer said, But what of our laws, master? And he answered: 'You delight in laying down laws. Yet you delight more in breaking… — Khalil Gibran
Let's be in awe which doesn't mean anything but the courage to gape like fish at the surface breaking around our mouths as we meet… — Mark Nepo
I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking. — Kurt Vonnegut
Because you can never go from going out to being friends, just like that. It's a lie. It's just something that people say they'll do… — Sarah Dessen
Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind their terminal. It… — Iain Banks
She had heard Papa sing so many songs about the heart; the heart that was breaking - was aching - was dancing -was heavy laden… — Betty Smith
When love awakens in your life, in the night of your heart, it is like the dawn breaking within you. Where before there was anonymity,… — John O'Donohue
And you said we wouldn't make it But look how far we've come For so long my heart was breaking But now we're standing strong… — Demi Lovato
Bess had become the ocean, always breaking against the rocks but never staying broken. Her love was the ocean, too, endless and always changing, yet… — Megan Hart
Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of the necessity to… — Georges Bataille

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