Breaks Quotes

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When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid; it can't last long." But though a war may well be "too stupid," that doesn't… — Albert Camus
It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavors look interesting and lively; that was merely… — Bill Bryson
it just breaks / a man's heart, watching / a girl so involved with her life, / without him like that. — Michelle Tea
America is proud of what it does to its writers, the way it breaks and bedevils them, rendering them deluded or drunken or dead by… — Martin Amis
I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes… — May Sarton
I loathe the expression â€œWhat makes him tick.â€ It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solutions, that uses the foolish expression. A… — James Thurber
But be careful; sand is already broken but glass breaks. The shoes are for dancing, not running away. — Francesca Lia Block
The blade must past threw the fire, else it breaks. — Margaret Weis
The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
For I am Saruman the Wise, Saruman Ring-maker, Saruman of Many Colours!' I looked then and saw that his robes, which had seemed white, were… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the… — Rabindranath Tagore
So, is there hope for a truly democratic Africa? Long answer: Only if continent-wide improvements in education, human rights and public health are coupled with… — Jon Stewart
...there are two ways to meet life; you may refuse to care until indifference becomes a habit, a defensive armor, and you are safe -… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher
by then I'd figured out the gift of failure, which is that it breaks through all that held breath and isometric tension about needing to… — Anne Lamott
What Hamlet suffers from is a lack of zombies. Let us say Rosencrantz and Guildenstern show upâ€”Ho-HO! Now youâ€™ve got something that stirs the, um,… — Libba Bray
Thatâ€™s what religion does. It points a finger. It causes wars. It breaks apart countries. Itâ€™s a petri dish for stereotypes to grow in. Religionâ€™s… — Jodi Picoult
Art breaks open a dimension inaccessible to other experience, a dimension in which human beings, nature, and things no longer stand under the law of… — Herbert Marcuse
The fantastic breaks the crust of appearance â€¦ something grabs us by the shoulders to throw us outside ourselves. I have always known that the… — Julio Cortazar
...it is only when a man goes out into the world with the thought that there are heroisms all round him, and with the desire… — Arthur Conan Doyle
If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to… — Andrew Harvey

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