Break Quotes - Page 2

• After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Break Up, Breakup, Father

  Catherine Helen Spence, Susan Magarey, Maryan Beams (2005). “Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)”, p.40, Wakefield Press

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• Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.

  Morton Hunt

  Positive, Moving On, Break Up

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• Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.

  Paul Simon

  Break Up, People, Track

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• When I first went on tour with PJ in '98, I was still in shock having gone through the Soundgarden break up.

  Matt Cameron

  Break Up, Pjs, Gone

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• I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft.

  Steve Ballmer

  Break Up, Thinking, Trying

  "DOJ Case: Your Voice Counts!". Freedom to Innovate Network Newsletter, January 17, 2000.

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• While you're improvising, you may come up with something which will break him up. As soon as that smile comes out, you know that, hey, we're having fun.

  Shelley Berman

  Smile, Break Up, Fun

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I say, break the law.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Law, Morality, Lawyer

  Civil Disobedience (1849) See Savio 1

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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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• Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.

  Randall Munroe

  Math, Thinking, May

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• Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.

  Drew Barrymore

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

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• Never give a sucker an even break.

  W. C. Fields

  Drinking, Wine, Break Even

  Quoted in Boston Daily Globe, 9 Sept. 1923.

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• A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Philosophical, Art Of War, Keeping Promises

  Niccolo Machiavelli (1979). “The Portable Machiavelli”, p.95, Penguin

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• Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Break Up, Revenge, Men

  Jeremy Taylor (1834). “The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings”, p.45

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• Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.

  Jean Plaidy

  Life, Motivational, Happiness

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• Why do you have to break up with her? Be a man. Just stop calling.

  Matt LeBlanc

  Moving On, Break Up, Breakup

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• That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.

  Jackson Browne

  Break Up, Important, Doe

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• I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound. I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Break Up, Sound, Records

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• For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority.

  Theodore White

  Break Up, Time, Men

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• Talking about our problems is our greatest additction. Break the habit. Talk about your joys.

  Rita Schiano

  Inspirational, Happiness, Grieving

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• I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose.

  Rita Rudner

  Break Up, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

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• We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.

  Bill McCollum

  Break Up, Demand, Computer

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• We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

  E. M. Forster

  Break Up, Letting Go, Breakup

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• It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Sports, Attitude

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• Move fast and break things.

  Ben Barry

  Moving, Entrepreneur, Social Media

  "Facebook’s Analog Research Lab: The Slogan Factory Where Techies Get Tactile" by Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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• I'm always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do theater, wanting to do independent film. Wanting to break into television or radio.

  Frank Rich

  Break Up, New York, Kids

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