Break Quotes

An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
Mitch Hedberg

Sorry, Become, Order

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
Robert A. Heinlein

Alone, Everything, Find

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

Nature, Government, Law

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
C. S. Lewis

Nature, Fact, Miracles

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
Benjamin Franklin

Bad, Habits, Easier

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, Away

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
Thomas Fuller

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
Denis Waitley

Life, Future, Become

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.
Barack Obama

Hope, Future, Fear

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Promise, Reasons, Prince

I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect.
George Carlin

Hell, Concerned, Harder

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
William Arthur Ward

Men, Others, Adversity

For college seniors there should be a week of being allowed to cry. Just break down and cry because you are scared and don't know what's next.
Bill Cosby

Down, College, Cry

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
Mae West

Long, Few, Laws

When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him.
Mike Tyson

Heart, Fight, Someone

Well I think a lot of times we're putting things off and I'm going to do it later. I'm going to break this bad habit or I'm going to pursue this dream or I'm going to treat my spouse better.
Joel Osteen

Bad, Dream, Treat

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

Love, Difficult, Habit

If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we've got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship.
Barack Obama

Keep, Kids, Off

Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.
Warren Buffett

Time, Fear, Takes

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
Ernst Fischer

Change, Faith, Art

You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.
Norman Vincent Peale

Keep, Soon, Stretched

Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
Carlos Santana

Bad, Talk, Excuses

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Denis Waitley

Winners, Keep, Often

They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.
Bobby Sands

Freedom, Heart, Show

Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door.
Brooke Shields

Happy, Down, Door

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.
Harry S. Truman

Men, Parents, Free

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.
Henry Rollins

Life, Heart, Crush

Never give a sucker an even break.
W. C. Fields

I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.
Jerry Lewis

Life, Friendship, Loyalty

They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken.
Bobby Sands

Nothing, Broken, Whole

Share with your Friends

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.

Related Definition

Break Definition

Heraclitus

Popular Topics

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Get Social with BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote of the Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

Syndication

Funny Quote Feed

Love Quote Feed

Nature Quote Feed

About Us