Quotes with break

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  • Bob Barr Defending the Constitution is always important. That duty is even more vital today, when the president and top administration officials argue that the executive branch may break the law whenever the president deems it to be necessary in a time which he declares to be wartime.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Bret Harte Don't be too quick
    To break bad habits: better stick,
    Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.
    East and West Poems, Part I The Wonderful Spring of San Joaquin
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Brooke Shields Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Helen Rowland Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Mervyn Peake Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape.
    Mervyn Peake
    English author and illustrator (1911 - 1968)
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  • Benjamin Stillingfleet Each moss, Each shell, each drawling insect, holds a rank Important in the plan of Him who fram'd This scale of beings; holds a rack which, lost Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap Which Nature's self would rue.
    Benjamin Stillingfleet
    British botanist, translator and author (1702 - 1771)
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  • Bayard Taylor Each separate star Seems nothing, but a myriad scattered stars Break up the Night, and make it beautiful.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book - I call that vicious!
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Dwight L. Moody Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • Camille Paglia Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • William Hazlitt Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Fitzhugh Dodson First you write down your goal; your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with steps which are absurdly easy.
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  • Bill Medley For Bobby and I to sing R&B and sound black was probably the stupidest thing we could do. White radio stations wouldn't play us because they thought we were black. Black stations wouldn't play us because they thought we were white. Any time you break ground, you go against the grain.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon Freedom is a timeless value. The United Nations Charter calls for encouraging respect for fundamental freedoms. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights mentions freedom more than twenty times. All countries have committed to protecting individual freedoms on paper - but in practice, too many break their pledge.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bernadette Peters George M. is where I met my dear friend Joel Grey. We connected at rehearsal one day during a five-minute break. We were both looking out the same window and we knew in five minutes that we'd made a connection.
    Bernadette Peters
    American actress, singer, and author (1948 - )
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  • Luis Bunuel God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.
    Luis Bunuel
    Spanish director (1900 - 1983)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Gonna be a twister to blow everything down
    That ain't got the faith to stand its ground
    Blow away the dreams that tear you apart
    Blow away the dreams that break your heart
    Blow away the lies that leave you nothing but lost and brokenhearted.
    Darkness On The Edge Of Town (1978) The Promised Land
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Horace Mann Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Richard Thalheimer Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.
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  • John Gay How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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