Quotation Explorer - 'Breaks'

Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Maybe... combat some of the ugliness in the world. - Goldie Hawn
Saying of the Prophet.Lies, promises, trustHe is not of mine who lies, breaks a promise or fails in his trust. - Idries Shah
Having confidence in yourself breaks the chain of doubt - Marcelle Hinkson
He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart. - Jerome K. Jerome
Tortured Soul 101: The depth of despair one experiences during the creative process (as experienced say, in an abysmally blank page or canvas) is directly proportional to the scope and power of the work that emerges when it breaks. - F.T. McKinstry
All clocks break, and what breaks them is Time. - Marty Rubin
Anger is brittle fire that consumes and breaks whatever it engulfs. - Tish Grier
Sometimes everything breaks up so something new can break through. - Lynn A. Robinson
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
Your heart doesn't think. Your heart is stupid. It doesn't consider the relativity of tragedy when it breaks. - Molly Ringwald
The thing that breaks the heart of God and makes him to cry out of frustration for his men and their whereabouts is when equity has been squeezed out of the public square - Sunday Adelaja
Reason is the hero who breaks the chains of our prejudice, saving us from the prison of our comfortable acquiescence in the way of the world. - Montague Brown
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 same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. - Rabindranath Tagore
Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates. - George Eliot
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. - William Shakespeare
Anything that breaks silence is music...! - Milind K
Pain halts you sometimes to take a moment and potentiate yourself again, pain breaks you sometimes to shed what is faulty in yourself!Pain has a meaning for those who search the answers - raja shakeel mushtaque
He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.
God is a philosophical black hole the point where reason breaks down. - Kedar Joshi
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
Hold the thoughts, know the thoughts and you realize the thoughts have slowed showing breaks and gaps, be the witness to them and you shall be meditating - Maitreya Rudrabhayananda
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills. - Gautama Buddha
When a head and a wall collide, it's never the wall that breaks. - Marty Rubin
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus. - Oprah Winfrey
A no hurts but a broken promise hurts more, Listening to a no is not easy but a shattered wish stabs more! Don't ever promise anything that you will not be able to give, BECAUSE THE HEART BREAKS INTO A ZILLION PIECES WHEN PEOPLE PROMISE BUT DON'T GIVE . - Akanksha Wadhavkar( Motivational poems for starlit souls)
She stabbed him with her wicked pretty knife, disrupted his simple life.She's a player, a heartbreaker,and now she breaks alone. - Coco J. Ginger
It’s the law, Jack. When the government breaks the law, they have to toe the line. - Kenneth Eade
I wish that love could be broken down the way it breaks me down. - Jennifer Elisabeth
When limitations breaks ,multiplication sets in. Brimekonsult - brimekonsult
The best mistakes are made when the worst of heart breaks occur. When Love is blind and the captive, faithful. - Solange nicole
Do not scream, when a child breaks a glass, only touch the shoulder, and say gracious words; do not worry! - Lailah Gifty Akita
It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit. - William Shakespeare
It’s not possible for a person who has one to one fellowship with God, someone who breaks through in prayer and who knows how to wait for God not to have open success. It’s just not possible! - Sunday Adelaja
Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. - Oprah Winfrey
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 breaks wide open for me to get in. - Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
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
When dealing with writers it breaks down like this: a regular writer is your average everyday megalomaniac. Like every artist, there's a part of them that believes--nay, knows--the world turns for them. Most are harmless. Some are obnoxious. Some are Bret Easton Ellis. - Hannah Strom-Martin
Trust is the base for all relations. If it breaks, then it’s not easy to rejoin. It’s very easy to say ‘I don’t trust you’, but the pain these words cause is immense. - Faraaz Kazi
It's indifference that breaks hearts, not love. - Marty Rubin
All dreams of empire end because day breaks in the hearts of the slaves used to build it. - Luke Montgomery
One becomes sated with platitudes no less than honey, so that one often breaks another's bones in one's vexation. - Jack Vance
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. - Oprah Winfrey
The light is supposed to enter through your breaks, wounds, and cracks. - Darnell Lamont Walker
Building a trust to a friend or to anyone else is like sewing an elegant gown, once betrayed the string or needle breaks and you gonna need to replace them.The relationship will go on but it will never have the same treatment. - Bradley B. Dalina
Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving toward the watcher on the shore. - Edith Wharton
Sometimes you feel other people's pain worse than your own. We're armored against our own troubles. We can't afford to give in to despair. Then you see someone else struggling, and it breaks your... heart. - Sean Stewart
When love breaks your heart, you need to remember, even a broken heart still has a beat. - Dixie Waters
Wind either breaks a tree or teaches it to dance. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Tears are the sound the heart makes when it breaks. - Matshona Dhliwayo
What makes or breaks us ultimately is our attitude toward the things we can't control. - Marty Rubin
Everything passes, everything breaks, everything wearies. - French Proverb
Poverty only tries men's souls. It is loneliness that breaks the heart. - Sam Rayburn
One of the saddest things I hear as I travel is "I don't know enough to be a feminist." Or even "I'm not smart enough to be a feminist." It breaks my heart. - Gloria Steinem
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
The fastest and easiest way to accomplish any task is to do it with minimum breaks and pauses. - Amit Kalantri
A heart never breaks in the same pattern of pieces - John Geddes
It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it. - Frank Warren
I believe i am hard as a stone, but even a stone breaks if you smash it real hard..... - Andy Flynn
As soon as reality breaks, as soon as we're separated from the phsical world, the cracks begin to appear in our minds. And through them seeps the madness that has always been there, flowing into your skull like a liquid nightmare .. - Alexander Gordon Smith
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. - Thomas Jefferson
Failure is not able to have what you planned for, you planning for 'F' and having 'A' is a failure. Success is having what you do expect or planned, having 'F' when you planned for it is a success. Miracle is having a success you dont planned for, it breaks the law. - adelaja precious
I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing for the unexpected tiny thing that always makes or breaks a story. - Pam Houston
He who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself. - George Herbert
It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. - Lou Holtz
Does my soul sufferWhen my body breaks downWhen I feel mortalWhen my body is weakDoes the soul rejoiceThe end is near - A.A. Patawaran
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down. - Russell Baker
When we force something to fit where it doesn't belong, it breaks. When surrounded by people who can't appreciate our beauty, humans essentially do the same. - Kayla Krantz
Music repairs us when it breaks the silence. - Gwen Calvo
Break my heart for what breaks yoursEverything I am for Your Kingdom's causeAs I walk from earth into eternity - Hillsong United
When a heart breaks, million stories inside us get shattered. - Prassant Kevin
You read enough books in which people like you are disposable, or are dirt, or are silent, absent, or worthless, and it makes an impact on you. Because art makes the world, because it matters, because it makes us. Or breaks us. - Rebecca Solnit
I wish I had more breaks in life, rather than life breaking me. - Anthony Liccione
When a head and a wall collide it's never the wall that breaks. - Marty Rubin
Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it. - John Henry Newman
historical arguments; traditional apologetics breaks down here. Since man is here dealing with God and this by definition means with the invisible, impalpable, uncontrollable, only one attitude is appropriate and required : believing trust, trusting faith. - Hans Küng
When a child reaches puberty, parents become so curious about their sex lives and whereabouts, put them behind bars to their own detriment. When such a child breaks free, don't be surprised to see him/her in porn movies. - Michael Bassey Johnson
The world breaks everyone and afterwards many are strong at the broken places. - Ernest Hemingway
Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks and courage. - Charles Luckman
It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart. - Jerome K. Jerome
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. - Thomas Jefferson
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. - Martin Luther King Jr.
If you don’t write the book you have to write, everything breaks. - A.M. Homes
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun! Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou her maid are far more fair than she. - William Shakespeare
To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages that today determine success...with a society that provides opportunities for all. - Malcolm Gladwell
Trust is like a glass vase, beautiful except there is no way of putting it back together when it breaks. - Willi Way
suffering breaks us until there’s nothing left but gentleness - John Geddes
Everyone gets broken. Everyone. Some grow stronger in those breaks. Others never recover. - Darnell Lamont Walker
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
Building a trust to a friend or to anyone else is like sewing a an elegant gown, once betrayed the string or needle breaks and gonna need to replace them.The relationship will go on but it will never have the same treatment. - Bradley B. Dalina
Break my heart for what breaks yours. Everything I am for you kingdom's cause, as I walk from nothing to eternity. - Kiera Cass
When a war breaks out, everyone is on the wrong side. - Marty Rubin
Constant and determined effort breaks down all resistence and sweeps away all obstacles.
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven. - Thomas Fuller
Success is that old ABC -- ability, breaks, and courage. - Charles Luckman
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
Perhaps we now need to engineer scarcity in our communications, in our interactions, and in the things we consume. Otherwise our lives become like a Morse code transmission that's lacking breaks - a swarm of noise blanketing the valuable data beneath. - Michael Harris
You can only shove shit under your bed for so long before it starts moving around and wanting to get out. You can only cope for so long before everything breaks. - Lili St. Crow
What gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we all have. - Elizabeth Benedict
If there is silence between us, please be the one who breaks it. - Daniel Englisch
What breaks in a moment may take years to mend. - Swedish proverb
When a bird breaks out of its shell it is defying its greatest opponent: fear. - Matshona Dhliwayo
And Death it calls as the stone crow breaks. Streaks of blood malform its face.Death becomes its withered eyes and the shadows whisper, Lies. Excerpt from "Lies - Angela B. Chrysler
If my eyes have pain, I close them; If my body aches, I rest it; If my heart breaks, I mend it; If my soul is lost, I pray for it - Jeremy Aldana
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
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