Break Quotes - Page 3

• If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational, Religious, Freedom

  Civil Disobedience (1849) See Savio 1

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• But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Real, People, World

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• Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.

  James F. Cooper

  Break Up, Government, United States

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• The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA.

  Marion Jones

  Break Up, Sports, Couple

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We usually break our records every Monday, so we'll see what turns up tonight after midnight. Next month it'll probably be higher, which is always weird.

  Drew Curtis

  Break Up, Monday, Midnight

  Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. March 6, 2012.

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• Although the Internet makes it seem as if you have a direct connection to the securities market, you don't. Lines may clog; systems may break; orders may back-up.

  Arthur Levitt Jr

  Break Up, Order, Connections

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• I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone.

  Joichi Ito

  Break Up, Government, Roles

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• I think my biggest break though came probably on Patriot Games because it was the biggest, longest second unit up to that point. It was like five months of shooting and a huge crew.

  David R. Ellis

  Break Up, Thinking, Games

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There's moments where I want to break down and cry, but not give up.

  Ashlee Simpson

  Break Up, Giving Up, Want

  "CNN Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. October 22, 2005.

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• The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like Afghanistan cannot be left to break up into anarchy and chaos without consequences for the whole world.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

  Break Up, Country, People

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• I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my wife. It's a weird thing to listen to a news report about the break-up of your marriage.

  Rory Bremner

  Break Up, Home, Wife

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• I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence.

  James Laughlin

  Break Up, Block, Writing

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• I already hated that gray suit and then having to go through putting on that wig with a false front - again made me feel so trapped inside this person who was desperately wanting to break out of it but she was so caught up in the web of deception that she couldn't.

  Kim Novak

  Break Up, Deception, Break Out

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• She didn't break his heart, but I feel like a man is supposed to be a man, he ain't supposed to be all involved in that. That's why she got sisters and friend for. Just show up with the ring and act right.

  Mike Epps

  Break Up, Heart, Men

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 19, 2003.

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• It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.

  A. E. van Vogt

  Break Up, Breakup, Interesting

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• When Bob came through Cincinnati, he wanted a girl singer to be on his show. There was a local contest, and my sister and I entered, but Bob said, Gee, I wouldn't break up the team.

  Rosemary Clooney

  Break Up, Girl, Team

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• It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist. As soon as the leaders of a country lie to you, they have no authority over you. These maniacs have no authority over us. And they might be able to put our bodies in prison, but they can't put our spirits in prison.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Break Up, Country, Lying

  Cindy Sheehan (2005). “Not One More Mother's Child”, Koa Books Incorporated

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• When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.

  Barry Levinson

  Break Up, Thinking, Ideas

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2000.

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• I get up around 6:30. I work from about 8:00 to 1:00, take a break for lunch, work again until about 5:00, and then go for a long walk and have dinner. Then, if my wife and I have no previous plans, we decide what to do for the evening.

  Chaim Potok

  Break Up, Long Walks, Lunch

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• It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Law, People, Immoral

  Cindy Sheehan (2005). “Not One More Mother's Child”, Koa Books Incorporated

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• Until we all start to take responsibility, until we do all we can to improve the character of our communities, we'll never break the cycle of violence and indifference.

  Carrie P. Meek

  Character, Responsibility, Community

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• It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.

  Ferdinand Mount

  Writing, Taking A Break, Columns

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• I don't know if I want to break my own record. I think I would rather leave it as it is.

  Mark McGwire

  Sports, Thinking, Records

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

  John Muir

  Nature, Heart, I Hate You

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• As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive.

  Kevin Bacon

  Break Up, New York, Make Or Break

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