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Quotes About Break

In the beginnings of that silence, he knew something. Clearly. Once you throw down that gauntlet of ultimatum, the "one more thing" will happen. Nat figured it probably wouldn't even matter much what it was. It would be the straw that broke her. And it had been defined. Prepared for. So it would happen. It was only a matter of time.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
No cricketer is so dependent on the turf on which the game is played as the spinner; it can make, break, enfang or defang him.
~ Gideon Haigh
do not believe in divine retribution or karma or any hand of god or fate that takes a sentient interest in the happenings of our world. But what I know: there are circumstances that unearth you irrevocably, that break you, that leave you never again an unbroken whole.
~ Gina Frangello
La Presidenta había sido muy gráfica explicando con metáforas deportivas por qué iban a descansar de los hombres por una temporada. Dijo que era como cuando en el béisbol había jugadores que se quedaban en el dog out. Las mujeres necesitaban que los hombres se quedaran en él temporalmente, porque aquel partido lo tenían que pichar, batear, cachar y correr las mujeres.
~ Gioconda Belli
Il cuore si stanca anche lui, vedi; e se ne va a pezzo a pezzo, come le robe vecchie si disfanno nel bucato.
~ Giovanni Verga
There are events that divide our life into before and after.
~ Gloria Steinem
Retirement is one great big giant coffee break.
~ Author Unknown
Death is never a clean break — some stardust always remains.
~ Terri Guillemets
February makes a bridge and March breaks it.
~ Proverb
Hatred, revenge—they're just as bad as trying to protect yourself from more hurt—they can make you brittle inside. And if you're brittle, you break. One way or another, you break.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
Language being the break with madness, it adheres more thoroughly to its essence and vocation, makes a cleaner break with madness, if it pits itself against madness more freely and gets closer and closer to it: to the point of being separated from it only by the "transparent sheet" of which Joyce speaks, that is, by itself—for this diaphaneity is nothing other than the language, meaning, possibility, and elementary discretion of a nothing that neutralizes everything.
~ Jacques Derrida
No person of quality ever remembers social restrictions save when considering how most piquantly to break them.
~ James Branch Cabell
1. You can't win; 2. You can't break even either." But this is the cosmic, fateful one. The universe is running down. It is a degenerative one-way street. The final state of maximum entropy is our destiny.
~ James Gleick
I took a break from acting for four years to get a degree in mathematics at UCLA, and during that time I had the rare opportunity to actually do research as an undergraduate. And myself and two other people co-authored a new theorem: Percolation and Gibbs States Multiplicity for Ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller Models on Two Dimensions, or Z2.
~ Danica McKellar
It will undoubtedly happen, that the enemy will make the attempt, today, tomorrow or the next day, at some time, to break into this fortress of Europe at one point or another. That will undoubtedly be the case.
~ Heinrich Himmler
We should just go back to, like, episode 30 and re-break from there and just make it a spaceship. That would be the unexpected reboot of 'Lost.'
~ Carlton Cuse
For good or bad, there is a certain level of generalisation when it comes to my work. I want to break that perception. My decision to direct 'Bombay Talkies' or to present 'The Lunchbox' is an attempt to do that. These are the films that gel well with my sensibility, and it's unfortunate, it's not the perception out there.
~ Karan Johar
One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through.
~ Francis Bacon
The value of darkness can never be measuredif you don't break its cheap spell secretly treasured
~ Munia Khan
The Rules of Marriage hasn't changed since Adam. Break the Rules and Break your Marriage
~ Samuel Asumadu-Sarkodie
An egg's true value is only known when it is broken.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Sometimes you have to break a rule to save the system.
~ Dean Koontz, Dragon Tears
There's been an awful lot of silence in make culture about this ongoing tragedy of men's violence against women and children... we need to break that silence, and we need more men to do that.
~ Jackson Katz
Nonni's Biscotti Bites fit perfectly in my camera bag for a spontaneous break between photo shoots.
~ Nigel Barker