Break Quotes - Page 31

• Precedents are treated by powerful minds as fetters with which to bind down the weak, as reasons with which to mistify the moderately informed, and as reeds which they themselves fearlessly break through whenever new combinations and difficult emergencies demand their highest efforts.

  Charles Babbage

  Powerful, Science, Break Through

  Charles Babbage, Anthony Hyman (1989). “Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage”, p.202, Cambridge University Press

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• I know the rules of the game, you hit it once, then break away clean.

  Ray Parker, Jr.

  Games, Infidelity, Adultery

  Song: The Other Woman, Album: The Other Woman

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• If that mockingbird don't sing and that ring don't shine, I'm a break that birdie's neck.

  Eminem

  Games, Shining, Necks

  Song: Mockingbird, Album: Encore, 2004

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• Sticks and stones may break bones, but the Gat will kill you quicker.

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Games, May, Stones

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• Sticks and stones may break me, but the words you said just tore my heart in two.

  Tracy Lawrence

  Heart, Games, Two

  Song: Sticks and Stones

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• The daughter never ever gives up on the mother, just as the mother never gives up on the daughter. There is a tie there so strong that nothing can break it.

  Rachel Billington

  Family, Daughter, Mother

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• Because we have put ourselves in our own zoo, we find it difficult to break out.

  Edward T. Hall

  Zoos, Culture, Break Out

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• Everybody nose dive, hold your breath, count to five. Back slap, booby trap, cover it up in bubble wrap. Room shake, earth quake, find a way to stay awake. It's going to blow, it's going to break, this is more than I can take.

  Peter Gabriel

  Blow, Poetry, Noses

  Song: Steam, Album: Us, 1992

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• I want to reach out and grab his hand and hold it to me, right over my heart, right where it aches the most. I don't know if doing that would heal me or make my heart break entirely, but either way this constant hungry waiting would be over.

  Ally Condie

  Heart, Hands, Waiting

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• We've got a tax code that is encouraging flight of jobs and outsourcing. And that's why we've specifically recommended in this campaign that Congress change our tax code so that we stop giving tax breaks to companies that are moving to Mexico and China and other places, and start putting those tax breaks into companies that are investing here in the United States.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Moving, Giving

  Barack Obama and Alan Keyes Illinois Senate Debate hosted by Illinois Radio Network in the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois, www.keyesarchives.com. October 12, 2004.

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• Break the chains in our brains that make us fear.

  Tupac Shakur

  Brain, Chains, Adages

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• Only love can break a heart, only love can mend it again.

  Gene Pitney

  Heart, Adages, Only Love

  Song: Only Love Can Break A Heart

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• So break me to small parts, let go in small doses, but spare some for spare parts.

  Regina Spektor

  Letting Go, Rejection, Spare Parts

  Song: Ode to Divorce, Album: Soviet Kitsch, 2004

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• You'll never get to heaven, if you break my heart.

  Dionne Warwick

  Religious, Heart, Heaven

  Song: You'll Never Get To Heaven If You Break My Heart

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• In my last band, Soundgarden, I had a couple of different drummers sit in on some stuff and it was fun for me to kind of take a break and watch the band.

  Matt Cameron

  Couple, Fun, Different

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• I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you.

  Dan Farmer

  Writing, Connections, Protection

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• Sometimes I don't even pull my shoes off for six weeks at a time, except, you know, just to take a shower. I just take breaks between 24 hours a day, just a break now and then, it don't take me long to rest; maybe 20 to30 minutes sometime, or maybe an hour.

  Howard Finster

  Shoes, Long, Six

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• My parents said sticks and stones will break your bones but names will never hurt you. But I always felt a sense of exhilaration after a fight; it was the names that really hurt me.

  Michael Franti

  Hurt, Fighting, Names

  "'The troops thought: this guy's got balls'". Interview with Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2006.

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• Life is a glass of wine and having your feet washed - it's a biblical event, might I add. This is part of mankind's story. You are always looking for a moment to take a break.

  Mick Fleetwood

  Wine, Biblical, Glasses

  "Bartender Wisdom: Mick Fleetwood Edition" by Mark Mikin, www.esquire.com. October 11, 2011.

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• We must break up the eurozone. We must set those Mediterranean countries free.

  Nigel Farage

  Country, Eurozone

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• I take the no-doughnut pledge, and then I break it.

  Lauren Graham

  Doughnut, Pledge

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• I am gonna go into my coaching badges after my England days are finished and I have the time on my international break.

  Steven Gerrard

  Coaching, England, Badges

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are lots of actors out there who are hugely, hugely talented and haven't got the breaks I've had.

  Kit Harington

  Actors, Havens

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

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• Filming is long - you get very tired, and your skin breaks out and you get lumps and bumps. It's easier if you're allowed to have bags under your eyes.

  Shirley Henderson

  Tired, Eye, Long

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Children born of married parents in America face a higher risk of seeing them break up than children born of unmarried parents in Sweden.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Children, America, Parent

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