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Break Quotes - Page 13

Each time we try to express ourselves we have to break with ourselves.

Octavio Paz (1985). “The Labyrinth of Solitude: And the Other Mexico ; Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude ; Mexico and the United States ; The Philanthropic Ogre”, p.53, Grove Press

Have a smile for breakfast, you'll be shitting joy by lunch.

Joe Abercrombie (2015). “The Great Leveller: Best Served Cold, The Heroes and Red Country”, p.388, Hachette UK

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

"Quaid: Split From Ryan Was 'Like Death'". W Magazine Interview, abcnews.go.com. July 19, 2001.

The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on.

Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.194, University of Virginia Press

Every time I go to Washington, I break out in a cold sweat. So I try not to spend too much time there.

"Kasich: 'Obama Should Let Me Run Ohio'" by John Kasich, www.foxnews.com. February 25, 2011.

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

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3689, e-artnow

Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can't break.

"Memo to the Amateur Cipher Designer". Cryptogram Newsletter, www.schneier.com. October 15, 1998.

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

Arthur Miller (2015). “After the Fall”, p.96, Bloomsbury Publishing