Quotes About Breaking

Rules, established with reason and justice, can easily outlive their usefulness as circumstances change, yet can remain in force through inertia. It is then not only right, but useful, to break those rules as a way of advertising the fact that they have become useless—or even actually harmful.

At its best, a live show is completely transcendent. The image I get is breaking through glass or shooting out into the free zone.

I'm glad I've established this as my zone: 'the taboo breaker.'

The children in Holland take pleasure in making What the children in England take pleasure in breaking.

Don't try to squeeze into a glass slipper. Instead, shatter the glass ceiling.

I think it's the responsibility of a designer to try to break rules and barriers.

I start to crack at four hundred to one.

Breaking Benjamin, talk about songwriting, I mean, some of the greatest songwriters of the modern era. And, obviously, it's a little heavier.

We're gonna do a Bowling for Dollars-type thing, but it'll be Breakdancing on Cardboard for Yen for the ozone layer, so it'll be called Breaking in Space.

Its foolishness to claim that one is faithful towards God, when one is habitual of breaking the trust of those who love and respect him.

They say love is all about raging hormones. For me, it's mind's way of breaking through its self-imposed limitations in order to set the eternally ecstatic soul free.

Ice layered the marble steps leading up to the Capitol, making the stairs treacherous. More than one scythe slipped, spraining an ankle or breaking an arm.

In the Laundry we supposedly pride ourselves on our procedures. We've got procedures for breaking and entering offices, procedures for reporting a shortage of paper clips, procedures for summoning demons from the vasty deeps, and procedures for writing procedures. We may actually be on track to be the world's first ISO-9000 total-quality-certified intelligence agency.

The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing.

A crazy place in my mind laughs to keep the world and my heart from breaking in two.

Some people will not respond to reason. Others refuse to consider alternatives to their normal pattern of behavior. In such cases, an unexpected breaking of one's own patterns can be an effective tool.

The roller coaster of emotions following a suicide causes intense feelings of isolation and a breaking apart from all that once seemed familiar.

Although immersed in leftism since childhood, he never left the shallow end of the pool. He proved so adept at breaking promises because he did not care deeply enough to keep them. What mattered more was that he be seen striking the right pose, finding the right groove, spinning the right narrative.

Twitter became a major place to find out what was breaking on the Internet. Facebook became a place to share links. Social media really grew up.

I like to keep breaking the typecast and cliches.

I believe that actors should be open to breaking stereotypes and television has now a lot to offer. So, being typecast is not my style.

Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.

Anybody I have spoken to who has held a record says 'Records are meant to be broken.' They get excited when somebody has an opportunity to break one of their records and take the sport even further.

I am constantly trying to push my boundaries and break the mould that has been made for leading actresses, and it is such great fun.