“If you break little promises, you'll break big ones.”

“I love you John Tyree, and I'm going to hold you to the promise you once made me. If you come back, I'll marry you. If you break your promise, you'll break my heart.”

“Things break all the time.
Day breaks, waves break, voices break.
Promises break.
Hearts break.”

“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.”

“If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.”

“When you have a big problem to solve, break it down to smaller ones first.”

“They (i. e., the Olympian gods) operate on moral principles. You have to break a promise to them, or break a rule, for them to get power over you.”

“consider the big fists breaking your little bones,
or consider the vague bureaucrats
stumbling, fumbling through Paper.”

“Sometimes you have to break a little more to heal a little more.”

“Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.”