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Quotes About Breaking

A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.
~ G. I. Gurdjieff
It wasn't you, you know,' Michael said in the end. 'That wasn't the reason. You were just a device in the machine of our breaking, and we needed to break. It's not so bad, when it finally happens. You think the world is going to collapse around you but it doesn't. You can see yourself clearly again. You realise that the fear was the worst thing.
~ Diana Evans
The Scriptures speak of three kinds of community at the table that Jesus keeps with his own: the daily breaking of bread together at meals, the breaking of bread together at the Lord's Supper, and the final breaking of bread together in the reign of God.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It is so often self who tries to live the Christian life. No wonder we need breaking. As long as self is in control, God can do little with us.
~ Roy Hession
It might be my imagination, but I think I hear his heart beating. His is beating and mine feels like it's breaking.
~ Jenny Han
might be my imagination, but I think I hear his heart beating. His is beating and mine feels like it's breaking.
~ Jenny Han
The U.S. incarceration binge is not tied to crime. It's a strategy to control the surplus population in a capitalist system that is breaking down.
~ Jerry Brown
Protocols are ideals. They're things we aspire to." I throw in an analogy that Jillian gave me when I explained the situation. "They're not enchanted proclamations from the Ministry of Magic that can't be broken. We break them all the time. I'm sure there's some protocol here that says I shouldn't interrupt you, but here I am, interrupting you.
~ Andrew Mayne
Ava DuVernay, Sheryl Crow, Diane von Furstenberg, Ashley Graham, Tracy Reese, Pat Benatar, Issa Rae, Betty White - they've all shattered glass ceilings, whether in music, fashion, or film.
~ Brooke Baldwin
Leftist law breaking, rule breaking, violence, and disruption have already marred the public Kavanaugh confirmation hearings.
~ Tom Fitton
I never have broken up in comedy, ever. There's something about me that I just don't break on camera - maybe because I'm just so cheap, and I know how expensive it is to shoot - but I broke on 'Sordid Lives,' and I broke on 'The Office.' Those are the only two times in my life.
~ Beth Grant
I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Records are meant to be broken and they should be broken, but fairly.
~ P. T. Usha
Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.
~ Miuccia Prada
Judy Blume especially sort of broke the boundaries of what is appropriate and what should be written about - what teenagers are actually doing.
~ Sara Shepard
Faced with the accusations, De Salvo admitted to breaking into over 400 apartments and assaulting over 300 women.
~ Robert Keller
If God is the sort of reality Christians believe God to be, that is to say, if God is the beginning and end of all things, then logically and grammatically God does not fit into any of these categories. But since such categories are the only tools available in our language and grammar for talking about anything at all, God included, asserting God's reality requires purposefully breaking the rules in a way that indirectly displays what cannot be directly described.
~ Robert Masson
The records I always maintained were there to serve just one purpose - that was to be broken
~ Tommy Woodcock
I'd never be more than a toy to him, and the men in his family had a history of breaking their toys. They just did it in different ways.
~ Joanna Wylde
It broke the bounds of credibility, said the news, but lots of things in life break bounds of credibility. Breaking credibility, I was coming to understand, seemed to be what life was about.
~ Anna Burns
chorus should we discuss your philanthropy prometheus I went a bit too far chorus how do you mean prometheus I stopped them seeing death before them chorus who prometheus human beings chorus how prometheus I planted blind hope in their hearts chorus why prometheus they were breaking chorus you fool
~ Anne Carson
Out of all the records, my proudest was breaking Coach Johnny Dawkins's scoring record.
~ J. J. Redick
Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work-the big sudden blows that come, or seem to come, from outside-the ones you remember and blame things on and, in moments of weakness, tell your friends about, don't show their effect all at once.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I think it's very difficult, and people don't give enough credit to how hard it is to do in-game commentary. I'd have a lot of work to do, but I'd definitely be interested. I'm always interested in breaking down the game, and I'd love to see more females doing it.
~ Megan Rapinoe