Breaking Promises Quotes - Page 3

• The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something.

  Barney Ross

  Break Up, Locks, Might

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• The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.

  Alvin Dark

  Mistake, Curves, Want

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• You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school.

  David James Elliott

  Break Up, School, Musician

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There's a pattern when tours start - a pattern of infighting, of making up, of breaking up, of addiction. There's a pattern of going to jail. There's a pattern of passion for music.

  Nikki Sixx

  Passion, Jail, Addiction

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• It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

  Xiaolu Guo

  Dance, Courage, Heart

  Xiaolu Guo (2014). “Kleines Wörterbuch für Liebende: Roman”, p.95, Albrecht Knaus Verlag

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• I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.

  Nat King Cole

  Helping, Wonder, Well Known

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• To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

  Sun Tzu

  Peace, War, Fighting

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.11, Lulu.com

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• A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists.

  Matt Cameron

  Success, Congratulations, Artist

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• Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

  Norman O. Brown

  Freedom, Common Sense, Liberty

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• I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.

  Faye Dunaway

  Mean, People

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• No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.

  Grover Cleveland

  Men, Law, Political

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• Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.

  Wally Schirra

  Break Up, Wife, Apollo

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• Amin hid nothing. Everybody knew everything. Yet the American Senate only introduced a resolution breaking off trade with Amin three months before his overthrow.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Three, Months, Resolution

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• Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.

  Jack Davenport

  Mother, Advice, Show Business

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• The best ally you can have in breaking up a street fight is a grandmother.

  Joe Bob Briggs

  Break Up, Fighting, Grandmother

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• Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale.

  David Bohm

  Communication, Feelings, Promise

  David Bohm, Lee Nichol (2004). “On Dialogue”, p.1, Psychology Press

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• The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Artist, Promise, Tears

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• It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.

  Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn

  People, Promise, Cry

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• What we want is a lasting peace. We will oppose soft measures which invite the breaking of the peace.

  James F. Byrnes

  Promise, Want, Lasting

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• If the breaking news story had to do with hard news, politics specifically, I had a lot to do with it. If it had to do with music, Kurt Loder was more involved.

  Tabitha Soren

  News Stories, Promise, Breaking News

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• There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.

  J. Carter Brown

  Point Break, Promise, No Point

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• Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities.

  Jared Polis

  Government, Priorities, Promise

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• Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.

  John Dryden

  Death, Body, Spirit

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• The Democratic Party, all the candidates from Washington, they all know each other, they all move in the same circles, and what I'm doing is breaking into the country club.

  Howard Dean

  Country, Party, Moving

  "Running on Instinct" by Mark Singer, www.newyorker.com. January 12, 2004.

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• Pakistan could be uneasy on the position of Indian military. But both the countries should take a bold decision, breaking from their past, to transform their relationship.

  Simon Cameron

  Country, Military, Past

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