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Quotes About Breaking

There were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law. 'Obedience keeps the rules,' he would say. 'Love knows when to break them.'
~ Anthony de Mello
I've never slept with a virgin, but I love breaking the seal on a new peanut butter.
~ Dana Gould
The requiem of the twain was the roar of the breaking waves and the scream of the white birds that circled round the Watter's Mou'.
~ Bram Stoker
We don't have a good legal justification for breaking up the banking system.
~ Kenneth C. Griffin
He walks through social barriers and taboos as if they were cobwebs.
~ Garry Wills
Routine is necessary for efficiency; breaking routine is necessary for adaptation.
~ Brett N. Steenbarger
There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.
~ Brian Ferneyhough
My goal is to send a message to Muslim women and young women everywhere that it's okay to break stereotypes and be yourself.
~ Halima Aden
When I was young in the 1960s, all the world watched the youth. Everywhere was the sensation of wanting to break the chains but to do something beautiful. It is my privilege to have beauty always near me.
~ Yves Saint Laurent
I've seen other people getting into trouble for glamorising breaking the law.
~ Amy Macdonald
All it needs,' she said, memories clouding her mind, 'is the breaking of one rule, one law. A breaking that no one then calls to account. Once that happens, once the shock passes, every law shatters. Every rule of conduct, of proper behaviour, it all vanishes. Then the hounds inside each and every one of us are unleashed.
~ Steven Erikson
I wait, you play. You speak, I cave. I promise, you break. You game me, daily, you play me.
~ Coco J. Ginger
I'm mistaken….for thinking you were someone with a heart worth breaking.
~ Coco J. Ginger
My heart is responsible of My Pain & Heart Breaking ...So I not Blame Any One ...
~ M Kashif Khan
Obey, obey, obey -obey what? My body catching this wind is obeying the pulse of the breathtaking Divine. You, canoeing those rapids, are breaking into the spray of larger, unseen Waves.
~ Mohja Kahf
The virus and the vaccine were just the stimuli. What had really been accomplished was the breaking of America.
~ Naomi Wolf
Cormick! Anything even remotely resembling trespassing and breaking and entering is going to look bad to a parole officer!' Cormick stopped, then turned and headed back to the car, 'I hate that.' I thought a moment, 'I'm not on parole.' I started for the box... 'Don't touch anything you find,' Cormick said as we passed each other.
~ Carrie Vaughn
His life had been tied to the past. He'd seen himself a point on a moving wavefront, propagating through sterile history—a known past, a projectable future. But Jessica was the breaking of the wave. Suddenly there was a beach, the unpredictable . . . new life.
~ Thomas Pynchon
I was sorry I'd scared them, but some lessons you ought to learn as soon as you can: never trust a woman once she's loved you. It's a spell whose breaking takes many tries; she'll think she's through, then call you back, conjure you up out of air. And at last, she'll do anything, just to be free.
~ Katie Chase
Situations like this only reinforce my deep suspicion of developers: They're often carelessly breaking things and then disappearing, leaving Operations to clean up the mess.
~ Gene Kim
Situations like this only reinforce my deep suspicion of developers: They're often carelessly breaking things and then disappearing, leaving Operations to clean up the mess. The only thing more dangerous than a developer is a developer conspiring with Security. The two working together gives us means, motive, and opportunity.
~ Gene Kim
Does it involve breaking and entering?" A little smile stretched Raphael's lips. "I see His Majesty made a move. Has he asked you to make him dinner yet?" I growled. "This isn't about me and Curran.
~ Ilona Andrews
Somehow this new, on-his-best-behavior version was scarier than witnessing him calmly breaking a man with his bare hands. After what we'd been through, I would've expected him to hole up somewhere dark, eating raw meat, chain-smoking, guzzling some sort of ridiculously tough drink, like whiskey or kerosene or something, and thinking grim thoughts about life and death. But no, here he was, charming and untroubled, sipping coffee.
~ Ilona Andrews
Breaking and entering was an essential part of the shapeshifter courtship.
~ Ilona Andrews