Break Quotes - Page 7

Sometimes you wake up from a dream. Sometimes you wake up in a dream. And sometimes, every once in a while, you wake up in someone else's dream.

Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe.

Individuals who break through by inventing a new paradigm are almost always either very young men or very new to the field whose paradigm they change. These are the men who, being little committed by prior practice to the traditional rules of normal science, are particularly likely to see that those rules no longer define a playable game and conceive another set that can replace them.

I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten.

In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted -- atrocious.

What's meant to be will always find a way.

If someone breaks your heart, just punch them in the face. Seriously. Punch them in the face and go get some ice cream.

In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.

Never give a sucker an even break.

Right now I'm taking a break from hip-hop documentaries. But I would do it if things lined up.

I liked you because you could make me smile. I fell in love with you because you made me want to be a better person. Now that you're leaving me, what am I supposed to do?

In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric.

Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.

I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you.

Love demands expression. It will not stay still, stay silent, be good, be modest, be seen and not heard, no. It will break out in tongues of praise, the high note that smashes the glass and spills the liquid.

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.

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.

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. The heart will break... but broken live on.

To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to.

Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.

Did I really want to stay on this road longer, knowing it was only going to end in devastation?

The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything - gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness - rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations.... To break through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the theatre.

The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.

A stout heart breaks bad luck.

I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go.