Break A Leg Quotes

• The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Atheist, Government

  Notes on the State of Virginia, query 17 (1781 - 1785)

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• I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Motivational, Witty

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• Pornography does not inspire violence, but you can break a leg trying to imitate it.

  Mason Cooley

  Broken, Inspire, Trying

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• We seldom break a leg as long as we are climbing wearily upwards in our lives, instead we do it when we start going easy on ourselves and choosing the comfortable paths.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Climbing, Long, Legs

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• The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks a leg, he will be able to walk better himself

  Helmut Schoeck

  Men, Thinking, Atheism

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• May I wish for you the knowledge...that marriages do not take place, they are made by hand; that there is always an element of discipline involved; that however perfect the honeymoon, the time will come, however brief it is, when you wish she would fall downstairs and break a leg. This goes for her too. But the mood will pass, if you give it time.

  Raymond Chandler

  Fall, Hands, Giving

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• Wherever primitive man put up a word, he believed he had made a discovery. How utterly mistaken he really was! He had touched a problem, and while supposing he had solved it, he had created and obstacle to its solution. Now, with every new knowledge we stumble over flint-like and petrified words and, in so doing, break a leg sooner than a word.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Discovery, Primitive Man

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• An elephant is vastly more efficient, metabolically, than a mouse. It's the same for a megacity as opposed to a village. But an elephant can break a leg very easily, whereas you can toss a mouse out of a window and it'll be fine. Size makes you fragile.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Elephants, Growth, Village

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• In this business you break a leg and 150 other people are out of work while production is shut down. It's not like you were an accountant and could still work with your leg in a cast.

  Ken Curtis

  People, Legs, Like You

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• All his life he [the American] jumps into the train after it has started and jumps out before it has stopped; and he never once gets left behind, or breaks a leg.

  George Santayana

  Legs, Left Behind, Behinds

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.82, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I've never been involved with anyone who's set out to hurt people, to break legs. It is a bit of a dying art

  Steve Bruce

  Art, Hurt, People

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• I'll call if I break a leg or get eaten by a bear." "Play like a rock." "Now?" "No, if a bear starts eating you." I thought for a moment before replying. "Do they have screaming, sobbing rocks, 'cause that's probably what I'll be doing if a bear is gnawing my arm off." "It would be difficult to just lay there and be eaten alive, huh?" "Ya think?

  Darynda Jones

  Thinking, Rocks, Play

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• Break a leg up there, and I'll be down here hopefully breaking someone elses.

  Cassandra Clare

  Legs, Breaking Someone, Hopefully

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1544, Simon and Schuster

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