Quotation Explorer - 'Break'

You are the captain of your emotions. No one and nothing can control those feelings except you. You have the sole ability to either let these make or break you, inspire or destroy you."- Elizabeth's Quotes - Elizabeth E. Castillo
Overwork can cause a break down. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Break the leg of a bad habit. - Puerto Rican Proverb
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
To resist and subdue Nature is to make for one's self a personal and imperishable life: it is to break free from the vicissitudes of Life and Death. - Aleister Crowley
funny how our heartswere designed to loveso fiercely.but break ever so gently. - Sanober Khan
Success is there when you continue to break your own records. - Debasish Mridha
For waters break forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert; the burning sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water - Isaiah Bible ESV
Trying to fit in will not change a society. To change it, you have to be brave, fearless, and strong enough to withstand societal criticism so that you may break the boundary and let light come in. - Debasish Mridha
Even a man who had survived a hundred battle can break in his hundred-and-first. - George R.R. Martin
Sometimes we have to step out of our comfort zones. We have to break the rules. And we have to discover the sensuality of fear. We need to face it, challenge it, dance with it. - Kyra Davis
People are going to break promises, and they will have every right to till the point you realize that you don't change plans based on someone else's words. - Sanhita Baruah
Loving someone isn’t a hard task, it’s not a chore, you don’t wake up one day and decide to break their heart because you got all hot and bothered, that doesn’t happen! he boomed. - Holly Hood
Strength of character isn't always about how much you can handle before you break, it's also about how much you can handle after you've broken. - Robert Tew
Just because you are available for a relationship, doesn't mean you are ready for one. Sometimes you need a break from external relationships to nourish the internal one. - Steve Maraboli
when your emotions are in motion, take a break and ponder! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
From this day onward whatever circumstances may jam my way I'll break through it unscathed for in the end who will but suffer but me, so much so that I will reach for the unreachable, I'll break that which is unbreakable and attain that is impossible! - Liliosa Hilao
There is something incredibly beautiful about a woman, who knows herself, she can't break, she just falls but in every fall she rises, past who she was before. - Nikki Rowe
Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different. - John Steinbeck
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. - Ernest Hemingway
When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings. - William Shakespeare
I don't want to break my memories with you. - Arzum Uzun
The idea of freedom is a piece of dry bread thrown to people so that they can break their teeth with it. - Marino Baccarini
If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you. - Martha Beck
Don't imprison yourself through self-doubt. Break out of your self-imposed prison with intentional action. - Tony Curl
I don't believe in writer's block. Who can function working seven days a week at at job. It's the same with writing. Take a break and let the words come to you. It rarely comes if you force it and if it does, you'll probably regret what you wrote down on paper. - Lillian R. Melendez
We teachers break our bodies to give you a shirt that you will wear in the future, to conferences, to presidential speeches, to autograph signings. That is up to you and if you can do that for at least in a little thank to us. Then thank you, thank you all. - Pedro A. Pérez Raymond
The shell must break before the bird can fly. - Alfred Tennyson
Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can break hearts. - Tim Minchin
There's a light, a light of hope, to break, destroy, recreat, unite and reform grounds of a future, our sustenance. And until that light shines so bright, we the people, our generation will forever March on to failure, otherwise eternal victory is assured!!!!!!!! - Samuel Gyekye Mensah
I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news - John Muir
I’m sorry I broke you. It’s just that you’re so pretty, and I break pretty things. - Denice Envall
You have to believe what you're saying if you're going to convince me. I just can't break that rule, even if I want to. - Ashly Lorenzana
Sometimes, we are unable to break free because we are held captive by divine assignment because in our problem God has given us a unique purpose. - Shannon L. Alder
You cannot break me. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Recognizing your own progress is a huge part of feeling motivated to do more. Your brain is a great tool for your success. It is hard at work and automating the new things you are doing even when you are taking a break. - Prince Akwarandu
In this abundant earth no doubtIs little room for things worn out:Disdain them, break them, throw them by!And if before the days grew roughWe once were lov'd, us'd -- well enough,I think, we've far'd, my heart and I. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Maturity is only a short break in adolescence. - Jules Feiffer
It's okay if you mess up. You should give yourself a break. - Billy Joel
Don't break your shin on a stool that is not in your way. - Irish Proverb
So I would choose to be with you,That's if the choice were mine to make,But you can make decisions too,And you can have this heart to break - Billy Joel
There is never another one of you in exactly the same spot you are in right now, so give yourself a break and release blame from the past so you can be free to move around the future!! - Monika Zands
If you are in a prison of fear ... break out! - Stephen Richards
Draw a circle, not a heart, around the one you love because a heart can break but a circle goes on forever. - Danny Kaye
[W]hen you try too hard to hold on to something, you break it. Sometimes, we need to let go so that other people can have their chance at the magic. - Cassie Beasley
People would say - to break free, to soar, and sadly, to chop your wings too. The moment you listen to them, you voluntarily put yourself in a cage. Be a free soul - fly or fall on your own terms. - Saru Singhal
I don't like the memories because the tears come easily, and once again I break my promise to myself for this day. It's a constant battle. a war between remembering and forgetting. - E.E. Cummings
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them. - Benjamin Franklin
Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do. - Robert Frost
the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against the walls and the men drink too much and nobody finds the one but keep looking crawling in and out of beds. flesh covers the bone and the flesh searches for more than flesh. - Charles Bukowski
Take a break to listen to the song of the wind, talk to the whispering trees, feel the love of flowers, dance with the dancing leaves, and enjoy the tranquility and serenity of nature. - Debasish Mridha
Sometimes I just want to break free but the chains are too heavy. - Neelam Nasir
people say don't trust everyone but trust everyone and let them know you are different trust me they will never break your trust - MK PRINCE
You will meet many opponents in your time that will come face to face with your flaws, trust the chaos ~ pain & confusion is the pathway to break open and become free. - Nikki Rowe
At sixteen I was stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self- confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence? - Jules Feiffer
My heart is yours to break - Kiera Cass
Sometimes we need to just brush away our pride, break down the walls around our hearts, and open up to those we truly care for. - Imania Margria
I pray moms will use ... [my] book[s] as a reference to arm themselves with God's grace and His Word to break away from the enemy's bondage and begin to experience peace and freedom in their homeschool journeys right away. - Tamara L. Chilver
You have played, (I think) And broke the toys you were fondest of, And are a little tired now; Tired of things that break, and— Just tired. So am I. - E.E. Cummings
Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it. - Henry Rollins
Let us make this world a house of love and peace. Let us forget and forgive all hate and prejudice. Let us break all the walls of pride and prejudice. Let us open our door to welcome joy and peace. - Debasish Mridha
Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled. Instead of trying to break up new fields with its plough, it simply tries to break up the plough. - G.K. Chesterton
Write until your fingers break. It may be the cure for everything. - Kelly O'Connor McNees
At the end of all things, why do lovers break up? Because love is magic. You have to believe, for it to exist. - Timothy Joshua
EACH MORNING I SAY WAKE UP,I GOT A CHANCE TO MAKE UP,MY WRONGS HAS TO BE CLEAN UP,MY PAST IS A BREAK UP,I HAVE TO THINK FOR FUTURE BACK UP. - merlin8thomas
And may be between building and breaking we find our lives somewhere.Building dreams, each time, watching them break and then picking the broken pieces,building again with a new Hope more courage. ......And may be this effort is Life. - Wordions
Eggshells become hard to break after walking on them for so long. - Mia Castile
One must learn the rules so one can break them properly. - A.D. Posey
Man is often the prisoner of the culture he lives in. Question your culture to break the prison doors! Question it so that you can be able to see the incredible stupidities in your culture! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The woman of my dreams knows how to break into systems.
Conformity is the biggest enemy of progress. Break those limiting social rules. - Debasish Mridha
Sometimes everything breaks up so something new can break through. - Lynn A. Robinson
You shouldn't throw stones if you live in a glass house and if you got a glass jaw, you should watch yo mouth: cause I'll break yo face. - 50 Cent
There are two prerequisites to growing wings: the first is to feel encircled and the second is to believe that you can break the circle. - Fatema Mernissi
Sticks and stones can break your bones, yet words can never hurt you…unless you believe them. - Charles F. Glassman
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures...
Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts... - Robert Fulghum
If you want to succeed then please break that relationship which is interfering with your brain. - Tanmaya Guru
Until you break through the walls of fear, you will not be able to reach the door of opportunity. - Debasish Mridha
Sticks and stones may break my bones but your words were always the hardest. - Dominic Riccitello
A man would rather break his donkeys back than give it the carrot it requires to progress. - R.P. Falconer
Don't stop til you get to the top. And then break out the sledge hammer and keep on going - Juliet C. Obodo
In life we come across people who ditch us, break us. But we still continue to trust. We are scared of getting hurt again but we still trust, still share and still open our hearts to them. Why? Why do we trust even after knowing that people change? - Anonymous
Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent. - Pierre Trudeau
Always win; but if you must lose, make the person in front of you break the record.
We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory shall swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of nature. - Abraham Lincoln
We must accept the idea that having a male child has a unique social and psychological meaning for a woman. Even women who led the movement to break out the passivity and sublimation of the female role were deeply influenced by the belief in superior masculine power. - Klein Carole
Women are soft, loving, and kind. Do not mistake softness and kindness as weakness. Water is soft, but stone cannot break the water. However, water can break the stone. - Debasish Mridha
Some people will never know how close they really were to success because they threw in the towel right before their big break. - Dawn Gluskin
Those who are coming from the gutters know that from time to time a piece of us will break off and float back to the floor from whence it came. Wealth can gray your eyes at the edges, money does not make you hover above human qualities, you are only a flawed being with much material gain. - Crystal Evans
I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters. - Horton Foote
A horse loves freedom, and the weariest old work horse will roll on the ground or break into a lumbering gallop when he is turned loose into the open. - Gerald Raftery
The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.
There's nothing on Earth like really nailing the last line of a big book. You have 200 pages to tickle their fancy, and seven words to break their heart. - Alex de Campi
I have a tendency to break rules and shake things up. I would say that with me people never know what is real and what is fiction. And I like that because reality is relative. - Nuno Roque
Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will break my soul. - Kathryn Lopez
Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres, unspeakable carnage, a doomsday chaos. How can so many human beings coexist in a space so confined without hating each other to death? - Emil Cioran
I take you and pile high the memories. Death will break her claws on some I keep. - Carl Sandburg
Beat me, hate me, you can never break me.
A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench. - Bible
I tell you, I'm half tempted to break into CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon out of CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon - Ally Carter Only the Good Spy Young
Sometimes, inflexibility creates a callus, scarring over all the bitterness and disappointment improperly, and there is no honest way to break that silence or that infinite distance, not even in death, not even in memory. - Víctor del Árbol
Your heart can break at any age. - Cecelia Ahern
Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words. - Ann Patchett
An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters. - Henry Clay
I can sit here and say I've survived heart break and all those nights I thought I couldn't bare to live without you, yeah I just want to thank them, because I did & now I couldn't imagine a life with you. - Nikki Rowe
The one, who doesn’t break your heart, will break your balls. - M.F. Moonzajer
Sticks and stones may break your bones but words will never hurt. Lies. Words hurt. The words we remember. Well, the hurt feeling the words caused stays with us forever. - Jill Telford
I was just sitting and just realised how much she loved meThe least I should have done was fight for her, for our winThis is a great mistake about love but I have learnt from itHeart break sucks but it eventually gives you much to eat - D WordSmith
Be soft enough not to break; be kind enough to not get angry. - Debasish Mridha
Going through life regretting your past decisions is like being a repeat offender in jail. You never break free because you won't allow your mentality to move on".~The Roadblock is You - Demia Avery
Do you have to make me feel like there's nothing left of me? You can take everything I have, you can break everything I am, like I am made of glass, like I am made of paper.Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground like a Skyscraper... - Demi Lovato
Greatness is a wall; the moment you break a brick you will start falling...And if not rebuilt you will fall flat - TopsyGift
When I take a break, even just a brief one, the creative energy flows in. Only then do I have anything of value to share with others. Once I recognized this, I stopped feeling guilty about taking time for myself. - Holly Mosier
Examine your beliefs and break free. - Maria Erving
We do not leave those whom we truly love. We only break the hearts of those whom we can tolerate their hurts and can move away from their pain" From "The Jasmine Tree: Love in the time of revolutions - Maha Khlaid
If God lived on earth, people would break his windows. - Jewish Proverb
Love is... Something that is easily done by those who know how to respect itHard for those who don't know how to comprehend or accept itA feeling that can break through any barrierOr disable the harness of the strongest carrier - Nausha Miller
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. - Thomas Fuller
What good is a song that doesn't break your heart? - Marty Rubin
Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic. - Carl Sagan
When machines break down, it's people who suffer. - Marty Rubin
Give winter nothing; hold; and let the flake Poise or dissolve along your upheld arms. All flawless hexagons may melt and break; While you must feel the summer's rage of fire, Beyond this frigid season's empty storms. Banished to bloom, and bear the birds' desire. - James Wright
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
I have a RAGING SEA inside of me, trying to break free from ALL of me. - Joanna Brandow
The world is continuously discontinuous. It is continuous for intuition and thinking; discontinuous for reason and observation. The human senses break it down but the unconvinced mind unites it. - Thiruman Archunan
One stone is enough to break a glass, One sentence is enough to break a heart,One smile is enough to fall in love,& one God is enough to live a fulfilling life.. - KulsumAbdullah
If "IT" doesn't break you, you have the opportunity to overtake "IT"! - Sanjo Jendayi
From darkness; take me unto Light.O God! Help me today, make my maiden flight.From sorrow; give me the strength to break. And help me to love and to care.From darkness take me unto Light.O God! Hear my prayers and let in the sunlight. (excerpts of my poem from my book 'From the Silence Within') - Madhavi Sood
A story has to break your heart or it's not worth telling. - Marty Rubin
Virtues are common, but the virtuous are very few. This is because ordinarily, people know but do not apply what they know. To break the culture, look for more information; learn more and apply more. This is wisdom. - Israelmore Ayivor
Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them. - Robert Graves
Father Break my heart for what breaks yoursGive me open hands and open doorsPut your light in my eyes and let me seeThat my own little world is not about me - Matthew West
break the system use your imagination - - Lars
Sometimes the heart breaks... Sometimes you break... Sometimes you break your heart by breaking yourself for someone who wouldn't do the same... - Marston James
you'd take one look at me and whole pieces of the earth would break off and fall away finally leaving me alone with you. - Ava
I will take all the action there is, and even if I fail and fail and fail and fail and fail, I know like I know, that the door to this opportunity will one day get weakened by the forces of my attempts, and break wide open for me to get in. - Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
Let's hope that for every time that we get hurt or break our heart, there is something somewhere being written to make up for it, to make the happiness due even bigger and laughters even merrier, for after all good things must happen to good people. - Mansi Soni
Why wait for later when there might not be a later? Why wait for next time when there might not be a next time? We all have just today to express our love. If no one ever told you they loved you, then now’s the perfect time liberate yourself, break that cycle and express yourself. - Ron Baratono
It's always a kind of liberation to leave the classroom during a lesson, even just for a few minutes. As if you have managed to steal a little time for yourself, to take a break from reality - Sara Bergmark Elfgren
You are your own leader. Where are you driving yourself to now? You can't afford to go wayward! Rise up and break new territories and live life so well. - Israelmore Ayivor
The problem with being an author in this modern world is such: computers break often; books don't - Emma Iadanza
May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in. - Mother Teresa
Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway. "Shhh," I urged.I'll love you until my very last breath. Every beat of my heart is yours. I don't want to die without you knowing that."Please don't," I choked. - Prince Maxon, "The One" by Kiera Cass
Never give a sucker an even break, but don't cheat a friend. - Cary Grant Mr. Lucky
every loss, every mistake, was seared into her soul, creating a different kind of tattoo, one made from rage and abandonment, heart break and tears - Kami Garcia
Sometimes you gotta take a break from all the noise to appreciate the beauty of silence. - Robert Tew
I don't believe in writer's block. Who can function working seven days a week at job. It's the same with writing. Take a break and let the words come to you. It rarely comes if you force it and if it does, you'll probably regret what you wrote down on paper. - Lillian R. Melendez
The softest grass can break any stone in her quest to find the sun. Rise again, woman, RISE AGAIN! - Autumn Morning Star
You cannot break me. My spirit is stronger. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Sometimes It feels like time is an evil clown that we always imagine. It gives you everything you ask for, and when you are about to happily embrace every gift that you have received it snatches away everything laughing and clapping at you, watching you fall on your knees and break into pieces. - Akshay Vasu
Learn rules carefully so you can break them properly - Anonymous
We may shine, we may shatter,We may be picking up the pieces here on after,We are fragile, we are human,And we are shaped by the light we let through us,We break fast, cause we are glass.We are glass. - Thompson Square
Be kind to all and trust all. If you do so, only a few will break your trust. - Debasish Mridha
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time. - Saint Francis de Sales
I write small poems— the kind that fit on a postcard… and still can break your heart - John Geddes
The value of darkness can never be measuredif you don’t break its cheap spell secretly treasured - Munia Khan
Thus many a melody passed to and fro between the two nightingales, drunk with their passion. Those who heard them listened in delight, and so similar were the two voices that they sounded like a single chant. Born of pain and longing, their song had the power to break the unhappiness of the world. - Nizami Ganjavi
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown. - Dennis Waitley
However long the night, the dawn will break. - African Proverb
we are prisoners of our own lives, until we find the courage to break free from the prison that we created ourselves. - Amanda Ashton-Booth
I would have kept you safe,' he said.I closed my eyes, forcing the tears down my cheek to break against the dam of his fingers. 'I know. - Meagan Spooner
Damnnnnn. No need to be serious all the time, for we are only dust and to dust we shall return. Just enjoy life to the fullest. Take responsibility for your actions whether good or bad. Just keep moving forward, take a break if necessary but don't ever damn stop, you fool. - I am Night Owl
Don't let the bonds of fear and doubt keep you from attempting the impossible. Each attempt will loosen the chains and you'll eventually break free, thus finding the 'impossible' was actually possible all along. - J.E.B. Spredemann
A diamond is just a rock that refused to break under heat and pressure. - Matshona Dhliwayo
People will try to break you, hate you, ignore you, but if you accept them with love, nothing will touch you. - Debasish Mridha
Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. - William Arthur Ward
If you have bought the law enforcement department, then you have done nothing wrong when you willfully break multiple laws. - Steven Magee
You can break the walls of limitations with the power of your dreams and imagination. - Debasish Mridha
The only way to make a spoilt machine work again is to break it down, work on its inner system and fix it again. Screw out the bolts of your life, examine and work on yourself, fix your life again and get going. - Israelmore Ayivor
i know it all ends the same, but i was interested in seeing how you would break my heart. - Ava
There are times when looking on the bright side takes a lot ot work. I'm taking a break from it tonight. I'll be back at it tomorrow. - C.C. Alma
If it aint broke, break it. Then build something better. - Jonathan Culver
You break me the hardest, make me the strongest, and keep me the softest. - Coco J. Ginger
It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage. - Oscar Wilde
Real dishes break. That's how you know they're real. - Marty Rubin
Never give a sucker an even break. - W. C. Fields
You have to, take a deep breath. and allow the music to flow through you. Revel in it, allow yourself to awe. When you play allow the music to break your heart with its beauty. - Kelly White
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. - Robert A. Heinlein
You and I have a connection that nothing, not on heaven or earth, or even hell, could ever break. If you want to talk to me, talk to me. I’ll hear you… - Cynthia Hand
All objects in the universe are unique. No two things that happen by chance ever happen in exactly the same way. No two things are ever constructed or manufactured in exactly the same way. No two things wear in exactly the same way. No two things ever break in exactly the same way. - Joe Nickell
our hearts break, and take us out of relationships that are too painful for us - John Geddes
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 break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore wonders. - Andrew Harvey
Our mothers were largely silent about what happened to them as they passed through this midlife change. But a new generation of women has already started to break the wall of silence. - Trisha Posner
It’s amazing how someone can break your heart, but you still love them with all the little pieces. - Ella Harper
I wait, you play. You speak, I cave. I promise, you break. You game me, daily, you play me. - Coco J. Ginger
The bird dares to break the shell, then the shell breaks open and the bird can fly openly. This is the simplest principle of success. You dream, you dare and and you fly. - Israelmore Ayivor
No matter how strong you claim your self, but there is always a weak point, where you break & shatter like a glass.!! - Ridhdhesh Jivawala
There is no real bravery in getting paid to save someone's life. However, there is a large amount of bravery in a nurse break dancing at the hospital's Christmas party. - Shannon L. Alder
i know it all ends the same,but i was interested in seeinghow you would break my heart. - AVA.
It is much easier to break the rules when one s surrounded by strangers. One does not know any of them, so one cannot really care for their opinion. - Monica Fairview
Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey. - Pat Conroy
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them. - Fulton J. Sheen
If you let people break your spirit and detour you from your path, then you have not been true to yourself or those you're here to touch, those who believe in you. - Allison DuBois
Sticks and stones can break your bones, yet words will never hurt you…unless you believe them. - Charles F. Glassman
Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers, that the mind can never break off from the journey. - Pat Conroy
There's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't sit still;So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will.They range the field and rove the flood, And they climb the mountain's crest; Their's is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don't know how to rest. - Robert W. Service
It’s not ever easy telling a person what they don’t want to hear. Because we love them! There will be times; we have to do things in life that will break our own heart. - Ron Baratono
Sticks and stones can break your bones, but words can never hurt you…unless you believe them. - Charles F. Glassman
Let me tell your something. I'm from Chicago. I don't break. - Barack Obama
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.
Roots creep under the ground to make a firm foundation. Shoots seems new and small, but to reach the light they can break through brick walls. - Jane Goodall
Life is a powerful force, it either make you or break you. - Abdulazeez Henry Musa
Selfishness, control, and fear will break almost any relationship. Generosity, freedom, and love will create the most beautiful relationship: an ongoing romance. - Don Miguel Ruiz
The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives - Anne Sexton
Words can make or break, use your words carefully - Bangambiki Habyarimana
One wonders what would happen in a society where there were no rules to break. Doubtlessly everyone would quickly die of boredom. - Susan Howatch
It's a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old. - Mark Twain
To create new rules, use the power of love, courage, and kindness to break the rules. - Debasish Mridha
[A]ny ecstatic experience can be healing not just for you but for others. Therapy is good to help you think differently and break patterns of pessimistic thinking or negative self-talk. But we have to be joyful, dance, and bring pleasure into our lives deliberately. - Christiane Northrup
When you are deeply in love,. even the smallest thing can hurt u like hell and break u into pieces... - BHARAT SHARMA
Break the lockup of thoughts and live free. - Rajesh Walecha
Bend the rules only if you have learned them; break the rules only if you have mastered them. - Matshona Dhliwayo
To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yourself and come out of your mental limitations. - Debasish Mridha
Within everyone there is a place, hidden deep inside, which yearns for 'that' kiss. You know the one I mean, the one that sends your senses reeling, leaving you breathless and when you break away, and finally regain your senses, you know you will never see the world in the same light... - Virginia Alison
Getting all emotionally wrapped up in made-up people's lives gives me a chance to take a break from my own life [...]. - Arlaina Tibensky
If I could find one wordthat would shudder the airlike that frightened sob,that wordless prayerof my newly-born,who drew one breath,and with unopened eyessank back into death;If I could break the world's cold heartwith that cry,then this grief would liftand I could die. - Kenneth L. Patton
Trust is a gossamer thread, and it takes only a breath of suspicion to break it. - Jason Worthley
The only reason a true friend won't be there to pick you up is because they are lying beneath you from trying to break your fall. - Tommy Cotton
There just seems to be too much violence everywhere, even the news can't help break now and then on TV - Nikhil Sharda
¨Someday, I'm going to have to break some of your rules, Mom.¨¨I know,¨ she said. ¨Try to do it behind my back, will you?¨¨You can bet on that, Mom.¨We both sat there and laughed. - Benjamin Alire Sáenz
The laws are made to be broken,... if nobody will break them why they are made??? - Deyth Banger
Never test good people because they are like diamonds. when you hit them, they will not break but they will only slip away from your life - Moywaywa
We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience. - Edward de Bono
A sacrifice is not about expecting God to break the bond you have with another person. You make the sacrifice on your own because God is more important than the bond. - Shannon L. Alder
Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure. - Piero Ferrucci
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporarily out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience. - Mitch Hedberg
Break my heart for what breaks yoursEverything I am for Your Kingdom's causeAs I walk from earth into eternity - Hillsong United
He does not regard the quantity of faith, but the quality. He does not measure its degree, but its truth. He will not break any bruised reed, nor quench any smoking flax. He will never let it be said that any perished at the foot of the cross. - J.C. Ryle
When they try to judge you,remember, they themselves are judged.When they try to condemn you,remember, they themselves are condemned.When they try to break you,remember, they themselves are broken.When they try to hurt you,remember, they themselves are hurting. - Matshona Dhliwayo
All things are possible to those who believe in themselves. Live a life without limits. Believe in yourself. Break through the ceiling of limitation. Develop high confidence and connect yourself to total success. - Mark F. LaMoure
I’m going to break one of the rules of the trade here. I’m going to tell you some of the secrets of improvisation. Just remember—it’s always a good idea to follow the directions exactly the first time you try a recipe. But from then on, you’re on your own. - James Beard
As children we are taught, "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me!" As adults we teach those same words to our own children while simultaneously we sue one another for defamation or verbal assault. Ah, the naked leading the blind. - Bryan Oftedahl
Through the heartfelt mercies of our God, God's Sunrise will break in upon us, Shining on those in the darkness, those sitting in the shadow of death, Then showing us the way, one foot at a time, down the path of peace. - Anonymous
I like the moment when I break a man's ego - Bobby Fischer
Weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society -- things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed. - E. B. White
Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one’s strength, to read a book I call that viciousness! - Friedrich Nietzsche
No single food will make or break good health. But the kinds of food you choose day in and day out have a major impact. - Walter Willet
If you wish to break with tradition, learn your craft well, and embrace adversity - Soke Behzad Ahmadi
A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart. - Neil Gaiman
I don't really enjoy it, Mom.""And you've always felt this way?""I don't know. I guess I want a break. - Julie Murphy
Ever hear a song you love so much you wanna break sh*t? - Juliet Simms
As it happened, all three of us turned out to be real writers--a coincidence almost too large to be termed mere coincidence in a society where literally tens of thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands) of college students aspire to the writer's trade and where bare hundreds actually break through. - Stephen King
There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that. - Steve Martin
Comfort yields complacency. Break free. - A.D. Posey
If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so carefully shut? Why not open it, only a little? Do they know there is many a bird will not break its wings against the bars, but would fly if the doors were open? - Olive Schreiner
I agree with Abhijit Naskar that the path of tolerance is the only way—but it must be accompanied by continued pressure to break down barriers to access to information, so that our tolerance isn’t exploited to further the ends of totalitarian religious groups. - Daniel C. Dennett
Young girls think they know what their hearts desire, what they want the most. When really, we know nothing of love, devotion and utter loyalty. Not until we break our own hearts when we learn that what we desire is nothing like what we thought it would be. ~Papercut Doll - Alexia Purdy
They are dragged to the withered bracken by the load, And they seem not to break; though once they are bowed So low for long, they never right themselves. - Robert Frost
If it were not for hope, the heart would break. - Thomas Fuller
How many hearts must you break in order to fix your own? - Vanshicca Dhyani
You may forget the toys you buy and break, but you'll always remember the experiences and memories you create. - Richie Norton
Politicians are like little cats: They are never serious; they always mess up the things; they are fainthearted and spoilt. And when they look at the mirror, they see a tiger there, till the hammer of reality break that mirror very harshly! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The only way you will ever be free is when you decide you have had enough of living up to the standards other people force upon you through shame. Never wear their chains of judgment when they can’t break free of their own. - Shannon L. Alder
Heartbreak is stupid and impossible. Hearts don't break. Hearts squeeze, they wrench, they ache, they shrivel. Hearts pull apart in wet chunks like canned tomatoes. - Jael McHenry
We are all lies waiting for the day when we will break free from our cocoon and become the beautiful truth we waited for. - Shannon L. Alder
At moments when life is at its worst there are two things you can do: 1.) break down,lose hope and refuse to go on while lying face down on the ground banging your fists and kicking your legs, or 2.) laugh. Bobby and I did the latter. - Cecelia Ahern
It is very difficult to break free from the prison of conformity and fixed false beliefs without changing our level of consciousness and awareness. - Debasish Mridha
Sometimes you need to take a break from everyone and spend time alone, to experience, appreciate and love yourself. - Robert Tew
Dare to Explore. Dare to Dream. Dare to Discover. Dare to break the rules. Dear to Leave. Dare to Begin. Dare to Live. Dear to Love. Dare to be You. - Oksana Rus
If you are a boat and your lake is frozen, what can you do? You will wait for the spring! We are lucky that we are humans, we don’t have to wait for the spring; we can break the ice if necessary, we can use fire to open our way! Nothing can stop the mind if the mind decides to move to his target! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. - Pablo Picasso
Never trust a person more than you, when they break the trust you lost the life of happiness,it shakes the heart and gives the tears for ever - Debolina
I beseech Christ for this one thing only, that He will enable me to endure all things courageously, and that He break me as a potter’s vessel or make me strong, as it pleases Him. - Huldrych Zwingli
I often wonder if my imagination is one of God’s choicest gifts bestowed upon me to deliberately break me free from the frequent doldrums of my humanity. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Life doesn't change when you meet a guy and life doesn't fall apart when you break up with one. We are teaching young female readers the wrong things through books not only expressing this point, but also using these two concepts as turning plot points of novels. - Meghan Blistinsky
God will bring you a gift. However, it is up to you to stop shaking the same box and expecting something wonderful will fall out of it again. After a while, you are going to break that box and it won't remind you of that moment when it meant everything to you. - Shannon L. Alder
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but your words will always kill me. - Denice Envall
If I could find the words, if I could shake the world,If I could turn back time would you still be there?If I could find the words to say,If I could shake the world to break you down,Then would you still be there? - Of Mice & Men
My tongue will tell the anger of mine heart, Or else my heart, concealing it, will break. - William Shakespeare
Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence. - Og Mandino
When you need to borrow money the Mob seems like a better deal I think. 'You don't pay me back I break both yer legs.' Is that all? You won't take my house or wreck my credit rating? Fine where do I sign. Legs? Fine. You don't even have to sign anything. - Craig Ferguson
The greatest storms on our Earth break not in nature but in our minds! - Mehmet Murat ildan
I want to take a break from everything,to find out if.....i'm still ALIVE! - Mareez Reyes
Some may decide to build homes somewhere new, and others have homes that await them. Like a break in a relationship, we simply needed some time apart to be better for the future. - klarfeld
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it. - Ernst Fischer
Great leaders do not fear challenges, because challenges don't break leaders but sharpens them. - Gugu Mona
A bird that does not break out of its shell will die in its egg. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Too many people confuse real magic with magical thinking. Real magic isn't a trick and it transforms our lives. Magical thinking is denial.Real magic is what happens when we break old belief patterns and have the courage to employ the native laws of the Universe - Jacob Nordby
You can break through every barrier with persistent effort. - Lailah Gifty Akita
There are no words in that fleeting moment between hope and the knowledge. There is no way to express how a heart can burst and break at the same time, how the sun can cut through the darkness but will case shadows everywhere. - Marieke Nijkamp
I'll bet she's beautiful, that girl he talks about, and she's got everything that I have to live without... He's the reason for the teardrops on my guitar, the only one who's got enough of me to break my heart. He's the song in the car I keep singing; don't know why I do. - Taylor Swift
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break. - Marie de Rabutin-Chantal
Don’t aim to break the glass ceiling; aim to shatter it. - Matshona Dhliwayo
It makes me happier, more secure, to think that I do not have to plan and manage everything for myself, that I am only a sword made sharp to smite the unclean forces, an enchanted sword to cleave and disperse them.Grant, O Lord, that I may not break as I strike! Let me not fall from Thy hand! - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Loving someone is giving them the power to break your heart, but trusting them not to. - Julianne Moore
I hope my forgiveness reminds you,Of the part you forgot to break in me. - Jenim Dibie
If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away. - Victor Hugo
Why keep on enacting laws when we already have more than we can break.
Let my heart be broken by the things that break the heart of God. - Bob Pierce
The processing of universals is the job of the unconscious. If we feed it the opposite it breaks; when it breaks we break and the people around us break. - Stefan Molyneux
This storm we are in concerns me greatly. Even in the midst of the storm I know the Son shines from behind the clouds and will eventually break through completely. There is hope. Let's impact this change together. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
Life will test you, hurt you, betray you, break you, swallow you, shatter you... but as long as it doesn't leave you, you still have a shot. - Manoj Vaz
Not all things that fall down break. Some develop wings. - Neelam Saxena Chandra
Your attitude will either make or break you, we cannot change fate and the tragedies that enter our lives but we can choose how we want them to change us. - Nikki Rowe
i am so crammedfull of fearsthat if you were to touch me i might eitherfly or break. - Sanober Khan
What I always say is that Japanese are like willow. We can be bent easily, but once you try to break us, it would not be so easy. - Hiroko Sakai
Our honour is that we make the law to violate and break it, and we stay to do that. - Ehsan Sehgal
All clocks break, and what breaks them is Time. - Marty Rubin
Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself. - Audrey Giorgi
Sometimes those we love break us to bind us whole within the transition. - Robert M. Drake
A man or a woman can inspire such deep fantasy and emotion that through the lovemaking embrace of a partners body we make break through the limits of the human condition to touch upon another level of reality. - Thomas Moore
...stories break silence and nourish those who work, feel, and dream.From Costa Rica: A Traveler's Literary Companion - Carmen Naranjo
One should not be obstinate even in worldly interaction. If you are obstinate with a ‘collector’, what will he do? He will throw you in jail. So then what will happen if you are obstinate with God? God won’t put you in jail, but his happiness upon you will break (will go away). - Dada Bhagwan
Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole. - Derek Walcott
Too many words left unsaid, instead of everything could come at once and break you all for once. - Sara Keddar
your relationship with air—that’s key. You can’t break up with air. You’re kind of stuck together. Only slightly less crucial is water. And then food. You can’t be dropping food to hang with someone else. You need to strike up an agreement with it. - Ned Vizzini
People that you meet, are pebbles in your river, but those that you hold true shall follow your current, like a leaf atop a stream. The boulder that blocks your path however, you just have to be willing to climb, or break it down with time. - Hieu
I've learned that just because I don't know how to break up with someone, doesn't mean they were worth keeping. - Steve Maraboli
You cannot break me. I believe in my self. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Being strong doesn't mean that you never break! Being strong means that even if you break into a million pieces, you still have the courage to pick those pieces up, put them back together, and keep going on. - Manprit Kaur
As children we are taught, "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me!" As adults we teach those same words to our own children while simultaneously we sue one another for defamation. Ah, the naked leading the blind. - Bryan Oftedahl
I had artistic classical training, and when you learn the classics for so many years, you might gain audacity, power and confidence to subvert everything. I am like the originals buffoons. I love the rules because I can break them. - Nuno Roque
The Lord has to break us down at the strongest part of our self-life before He can have His own way of blessing us. - James H. McConkey
If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields. - John McCrae
Be sure to bend but never break - Nikki Rowe
Be flexible like trees; when the wind blows bend, but do not break. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Fall open. Break open. Sit with others' openness. Let love be your medicine. - Vironika Tugaleva
We're all a little broken, it's how we feed our brokenness that defines us; some you wouldn't believe ever broke and some you will see never grew through the break but one thing certain, everyone is a little broken, it's how we feed our brokenness that defines us. - Nikki Rowe
Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone.
Wisdom is stronger than steel. It can break and it can heal. - Debasish Mridha
The mint from your breath, the milk from your breast, the best of your mind, now in its worst state of condition. From the womb to the tomb, as a mild flower, you break your petals upon blossom, and seize death openly. Leaving your fragrance to spin and dance, one last time before being blown away. - Anthony Liccione
Give yourself a break. Embrace and accept yourself for who YOU are. Love yourself and be kind to yourself. See the best in yourself! Be brave and have courage to be comfortable in your own skin. Knowing your self-worth is everything. - Stephanie Lahart
Slavery is impossible without the consent of the slave. Fear imprisons the mind, Faith. You either accept this prison by following the rules made by others. Or you break free, by making your own. - Christofer Emgard
Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts... - Robert Fulghum
Let's still be friends" (things that are never true in a break up, but you have to say). - Lauren Leto
And for the rest of her life, the girl, the woman, she never made a mark on anyone either that proved anything absolutely for certain, that she could ever see, about what she had done at any time, and this does not break her heart."Cloud - Diane Williams
You and I, my son, are that "below." That was true in 1776. It is true today. There is no them without you, and without the right to break you they must necessarily fall from the mountain, lose their divinity, and tumble out of the Dream. - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Love is the strongest bond. Nothing can break it, not even death. - Debasish Mridha
Cartooning will destroy you; it will break your heart. - Charles M. Schulz
My scars tell a story. They are a reminder of times when life tried to break me, but failed. They are markings of where the structure of my character was welded. - Steve Maraboli
Saying goodbye to a lover is like giving them the last wine drop in a glass about to break. - Farid F. Ibrahim
Many people are not ready to pay for advice they can use, so the few that do, break boundaries and soar higher. - Bernard Kelvin Clive
Please don´t drown into his fears, his concrete fists don´t let him again, break the bridge of your nose with his cruel born hits. Then disappear into that mask of misery. - Anthony Liccione
The chains that break you, are the chains that make you. And the chains that make you, are the chains you break. - Anthony Liccione
I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect. - George Carlin
Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them. - Solon
Our life experiences only teaches us but not break us. - Abdulazeez Henry Musa
...I wanna a break from this corrupted humanity what more to say??? Going in so down level, that the stupidy is going in the paradox of stupidity. The cleverness is lost in the black hole, for god sake! - Deyth Banger
She wasn’t his kind of woman, and she didn’t want to fall in love with a man who would break her heart like a Dorito. - Rachel Gibson
True friendship is the hardest thing to break... - Mykyta Isagulov
He who says, "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me," has not been hit by a dictionary.
Suffering can bend & break us. But it can also break us open to become the persons God intended us to be. It depends on what we do with the pain. If we offer it back to God, He will use it to do great things in us & through us, because suffering is fertile... it an grow new life. - John Green
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me', said some idiot who,1. Didn't realize HOW much words hurt2. Wasn't so smart - Oreo Queen
We hold that happenings which may even compel the heart to break cannot break the human spirit, or rob it of its most essential qualities. - May Kendall
Love me or hate me, i swear it won't make or break me. - Lil Wayne
Break free from the binding robes of passion that feels like a lump in your heart, perform that surgery today, and you'll be set free forever. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Break my heart for what breaks yours. Everything I am for you kingdom's cause, as I walk from nothing to eternity. - Kiera Cass
I realize parenting is hard and boring at times and a four-hour break would be super, but this is the job we signed up for. Some days it sucks, but most days it's great. - Jen Mann
It is not enough to knock on successes' door; you have to knock hard enough. And if no one answers,either go through a window, or break down the door. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Revive your inner spirit! Break free from all things weighing you down, grab hold of your strong rope and lift yourself out of hopelessness! - Amaka Imani Nkosazana
To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off - Christopher Hitchens
When we lift our hands in praise and worship, we break spiritual jars of perfume over Jesus. The fragrance of our praise fills the whole earth and touches the heart of God. - Dennis Ignatius
I love fictional characters...they can't break your heart. - Julia Hall
When you carry resentment towards another, you are effectively strengthening your relationship with that person. Let go of the resentment and you break the ties that bind you. - Steven Aitchison
After all one break is good idea, some useful stuff should be done. Then the hard work should come it in the new hands! - Deyth Banger
People will try to break you, hate you, ignore youBut if you accept them with love, nothing will touch you. - Debasish Mridha
When flash of hope scans through your dreams. When news of goodness skims the surface of your expectations and bravery abates, break not, keep pressing less the dreams of your fingers suffer extinction. - Darmie Orem
Life must be terrible for working people, considering they spend every Friday night celebrating a two day break from it. - Robert Black
Your job is to focus on my personal happiness, she said, & I've got big plans, so break time is over. - Brian Andreas
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Don’t break a neck looking up for God. Try looking down at inspiring human deeds. - Gloria D. Gonsalves
Let us find someone who will never break our heart, who will always be there for us, who will make us happy all the time, who will respect, love and cherish us in everything, and we can't go far in the search because such personality is within us, not in the world we are living now! - Michael Bassey Johnson
We spend so much of our life in activity…we almost feel uncomfortable just being but that is huge restorative break in the wild swirl of activity around us it’s like pulling back the bow in archery like taking that big deep breath in before you dive into your day. - davidji
Lineation can make your break your poems. - Katerina Stoykova Klemer
Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild. - John Muir
When nothing else worked, we created a holistic, hand-tailored program that saved Pax's life. At Passages, he and I use what we learned in curing him to help other discover the roots of their addiction or alcoholism and break free. - Chris Prentiss
Break open your heart so that I may enter it. - Kamand Kojouri
You know, when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living in someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up, and our hearts break in two."Ted Brautigan, Hearts in Atlantis - Deyth Banger
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. - Russell Baker
We get stuck in life saying, This is what I do, this is who I am. You never break out of that realm. - Cherie Mathews
When you break the promises, you loose the credibility. When you loose the credibility, you loose the trust. So, keep your promises, because trust is the foundation of soulfully inspired life. - Vishwas Chavan
Oh, I simply can’t think. When I really want to depress myself, I think of all the brilliant men I know, married to their stupid wives. Enough to break your heart, it really is - Doris Lessing
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. - Jonathan Swift
It is better for the heart to break, than not to break. - Mary Oliver
Yes. Oh no! I don't subject myself to a leadership that does not break new territories! It is the job of leadership to succeed in landing its limbs on new grounds. - Israelmore Ayivor
It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart. - David Gilmour
All that technical expertise isn't worth a damn if you don't get the best out of people, though. . . . These were leaders who saw strength in ordinary people and showed them how to break tyranny. - Noël Coward
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