Quotes about break (2383 quotes, page 24)

“You give me love
Just to break my heart
Put me back together
Just to pull me a part
You give me a hand and kick me to the ground”

Paul Rey (1992) Swedish singer

Source: Song Tear me down

Heart , Love , Making love , Parting

“The border still doesn't make much sense in my mind. It's a place that has so many things going on, a lot of sad stories, a lot of positive ones, a lot of people who are looking to break the rules and I identify a lot with that. I like to break the rules.”

Lila Downs (1968) Mexican American singer-songwriter

On how the border between the U.S. and Mexico influenced her work in “Mex factor” https://www.theguardian.com/music/2003/feb/10/artsfeatures.popandrock in The Guardian (2003 Feb 10)
Heritage and indigenous peoples

Sense , Sadness , Making love , People

“By a miracle the 19th amendment has been ratified, we women now have a weapon of defense ... it will be a shame to us if we do not use it … we shall give our enemies a stick with which to break our head, Hold meetings, every time you meet a woman talk to her about going to the polls and vote!”

Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954) African Americans' rights activist

Source: p.310

Time , Women

“I think we should be snorkeling and swimming on reefs. Because I think people only develop a passion for protecting things if they know what is at risk. I would hardly be one to say that we shouldn’t go near them. That said, its important to manage tourism properly. If you have a lot of people going onto reefs, stepping on reefs, collecting things from reefs, breaking corals off, or throwing anchors on top of reefs, that’s not good. It’s important to properly manage the numbers of people and their behavior when they’re in water. It’s also important to make sure that the hotels that support that tourism have good water treatment for the sewage that they release, and that they aren’t also feeding this large population of visitors critically important reef fish. That is ecologically sound tourism. But you can’t just let it develop willy-nilly. It has to be managed carefully. Otherwise, you end up with lots of people and not much reef.”

Nancy Knowlton (1949) American biologist

Source: Nancy Knowlton https://web.archive.org/web/20081008104046/http://www.smithsonianmag.com:80/specialsections/ocean-hall/atm-qa-200809.html (September 2008)

Support , People , Water , Thinking

“Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?”

Charlotte Brontë book Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

Soul , Time , Law

“Our true choice is not between tax reduction, on the one hand, and the avoidance of large Federal deficits on the other. It is increasingly clear that no matter what party is in power, so long as our national security needs keep rising, an economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenue to balance our budget just as it will never produce enough jobs or enough profits. Surely the lesson of the last decade is that budget deficits are not caused by wild-eyed spenders but by slow economic growth and periodic recessions, and any new recession would break all deficit records. In short, it is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now. The experience of a number of European countries and Japan have borne this out. This country's own experience with tax reduction in 1954 has borne this out. And the reason is that only full employment can balance the budget, and tax reduction can pave the way to that employment. The purpose of cutting taxes now is not to incur a budget deficit, but to achieve the more prosperous, expanding economy which can bring a budget surplus.”

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

Source: 1962, Address and Question and Answer Period at the Economic Club of New York

Way , Truth , Country

“Never quit. You can’t wait for yourself to happen, you have to go out there and make it happen. If you truly believe in something you can make it happen. Get a good agent. They cost money, but that’s your first step. Your first film opportunities will most likely not be big, but that’s how you’re discovered by others. Eventually a director or a casting director will see you in a minor film/commercial/broadway, etc. and you’ll get your big break. Always be polite and professional. There are often many, many other people auditioning for the same part as you. If you’re not polite or professional they won’t even waste their time with you.”

Mackenzie Rosman (1989) American actress

Source: Mack’s Fan’s Questions & Answers http://mackrosman.net/press-release (March 19, 2008)

Money , Time , Waiting , People

“Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.”

Mark Zuckerberg (1984) American internet entrepreneur

“When was the last time anybody made a billion of anything safely and reliably? Never. Plants go offline, crap breaks, you can't find a part. There's a ton of things that can go wrong just on manufacturing”

Arthur Caplan (1950) American academic

a billion COVID-19 vaccines
Source: Arthur Caplan (2020) cited in " This Is How We’ll Vaccinate the World Against COVID-19 https://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/devices/this-is-how-well-vaccinate-the-world-against-covid19" on IEEE Spectrum, 15 December 2020.

Time , Parting

“You get a tax break for a racehorse, why in God's name couldn't we provide an $8,000 tax credit for everybody who has childcare costs? It would put 720 million women back in the workforce. It would increase the GDP, to sound like a wonk here, by about eight-tenths of one percent. It would grow the economy.”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

17 September 2019
Biden vows tax credit will put '720 million women' back in workforce
Joseph Wulfsohn
Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-gaffe-put-720-million-women-in-workforce
2010s, 2019

God , Women

“Every election we know features some illegality and irregularity, and of course that’s unacceptable. I support strong state-led voting reforms. Last year’s bizarre pandemic procedures must not become the new norm, but my colleagues, nothing before us proves illegality anywhere near the massive scale, the massive scale that would have tipped the entire election, nor can public doubt alone justify a radical break when the doubt itself was incited without any evidence.”

Mitch McConnell (1942) US Senator from Kentucky, Senate Majority Leader

2021, Remarks on Electoral College votes (2021)

Strong , Support

“…it’s just another front in the battle against racism. And that’s what it was, because New Mexico was much more colonial than any other area, but it was all the same damn racism. And so I never felt like I was breaking any life pattern; I was just shifting to another front.…”

Elizabeth Martinez (1925) American community organizer, activist, author, and educator

On how she joined the Chicano Movement in “ELIZABETH (BETITA) MARTINEZ” https://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/ssc/vof/transcripts/MartinezBetita.pdf (Voices of Feminism Oral History Project; 2006)

Life

“Those who find the strength to break the mold go beyond the border.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Chi trova la forza di rompere gli schemi va oltre il confine.
Source: prevale.net

“I am not smarter than anybody else but I can out work you – and my key to success for you, or anybody else is make sure you are the first one in there every day and the last one to leave. Don’t ever take a lunch break or go to the bathroom, you keep working.”

Michael Bloomberg (1942) American businessman and politician, former mayor of New York City

Source: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2013/08/bloomberg-bathroom-break-success-quote.html

Making love , Success

“Friends . . old friends. . .
So it breaks, so it ends.
There let it rest.
It has fought and won,
And is still the best
That either has done.
Each as he stands
The work of its hands,
Which shall be more
As he was before?
What is it ends
With friends?”

William Ernest Henley (1849–1903) English poet, critic and editor

A Book of Verses (1888)

“Achieving strategic clarity is hard. It takes asking tough questions about tradeoffs, deep concentration to get to the very essence of the issues and real courage to cut off competing priorities. It is worth the effort because with real clarity, people, teams and organizations can fully mobilize, break through to the next level and achieve something truly great.”

Greg McKeown (author) book Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

Popular Quotes, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, Journal Articles

Courage , Effort , People , Question

“And I
in terror
but not in doubt of
what I must do
in anguish, in haste,
wrenched from the earth root after root,
the soil heaving and cracking, the moss tearing asunder —
and behind me the others: my brothers
forgotten since dawn. In the forest
they too had heard,
and were pulling their roots in pain
out of a thousand years' layers of dead leaves,
rolling the rocks away,
breaking themselves
out of
their depths.”

Denise Levertov (1923–1997) Poet

A Tree Telling of Orpheus (1968)

Pain , Tear , Dead

“Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can hurt like hell.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 14

Hurtful , Hurt , Hell

“You can't win, you can't break even, and you can't get out of the fucking game.”

Harlan Ellison (1934–2018) American writer

Interview with Gary K. Wolfe (28 July 1987), quoted in Harlan Ellison : The Edge of Forever (2002), by Ellen Weil and Gary K. Wolfe
Borrowing a common scientific joke expressing the laws of thermodynamics.

Game

“The Communists say that there are the only two means of establishing communism. The first is violence. Nothing short of it will suffice to break up the existing system. The other is dictatorship of the proletariat. Nothing short of it will suffice to continue the new system.”

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956) Father of republic India, champion of human rights, father of India's Constitution, polymath, revolutionary…

On Communism, Thoughts of Dr. Baba Saheb Ambedkar https://books.google.com/books?id=6nolAQAAIAAJ, p. 107

Communication

“We have a bunch of yahoos out in the front of Queen’s Park sitting there protesting that the place isn’t open, as they are breaking the law. And putting everyone in jeopardy, putting themselves in jeopardy, putting workers in jeopardy and god forbid one of them ends up in the hospital down the street.”

Doug Ford (1964) 26th Premier of Ontario

On anti-lockdown protestors in Queen's Park https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/a-bunch-of-yahoos-ont-premier-says-of-people-protesting-covid-19-emergency-measures-1.4911861 (25 April 2020)
2020

God , Law

“Spiritual evolution is the progressive advance of mankind toward a state of things in which the light of ethical perfection shall be reflected from the face of human society; that is, in which all men shall live and move and have their being in mutually promoting the highest life of each and all. It means that the object of social reformation shall not be a mere change in the conditions under which men live, but a change in human nature itself. It means that we shall look forward consciously to the breaking forth of new powers in ourselves, to the release, through our own efforts, of capacities dimly latent in us.”

Felix Adler (1851–1933) German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer

Some Characteristics of the American Ethical Movement (1925)

Perfection , Men , Light , Effort

“The question what to believe is perhaps the most momentous that anyone can put to himself. Our beliefs are not to be classed among the luxuries, but among the necessaries of existence. They become particularly important in times of trouble. They are like the life-boats carried by ocean ships. As long as the sea is smooth and there is every appearance of a prosperous voyage, the passengers seldom take note of the boats or inquire into their sea-worthiness. But when the storm breaks and danger approaches, then the capacity of the boats and their soundness become matters of the first importance.”

Felix Adler (1851–1933) German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer

Section 9 : Ethical Outlook
Life and Destiny (1913)

Time , Appearance , Relation ships , Question

“I am a dreamer and when I wake,
You can't break my spirit - it's my dreams you take.
And as you move on, remember me.
Remember us and all we used to be.”

James Blunt (1974) English singer-songwriter

"Goodbye My Lover", written by James Blunt and Sacha Skarbek
Song lyrics, Back to Bedlam (2004)

Dreams

“It is now an established fact that there is a complete lack of fear of law in the minds of criminals and instead the laxity of the system emboldens them to commit gruesome crimes against women and girls in the country. The justice delivery mechanism in the country is painfully long and cumbersome which more often than not breaks the spirit of the girl or woman who has been raped,”

Swati Maliwal (1984) women activist who fights for women rights

Zee News https://zeenews.india.com/delhi/dcw-chief-swati-maliwal-asks-delhi-lg-anil-baijal-to-fast-track-two-delhi-rape-cases-ensure-death-penalty-for-accused-2308623.html, accessed May 9, 2021

Justice , Law , Country , Girl

“Knowledge breaks down the barriers of prejudice and opens doors for embrace.”

Valter Bitencourt Júnior (1994) Brazilian poet and writer

Knowledge

“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 (1933) American writer

Future , Dreams , Life

“I like a chapter to have design of tone, as well as of form. A chapter should be a perfect cell in the whole book and should be almost able to stand alone. If this is done then the breaks we call chapters are not arbitrary but rather articulations which allow the free movement of the story.”

John Steinbeck book Journal of a Novel

March 7, 1951
Journal of a Novel (1969)

Perfection , Books

“Now I'm going into darkness
trying to find my light
my heart is like an eclipse
every hour's midnight
Feel like time is running out
I need to break free
cos I'm going into darkness
and you're the only one who can't see”

Example (musician) (1982) English rapper and singer

"Into Darkness" (song)
("Into Darkness" on YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbZu6nL3IeE
Mixtapes, Bangers & Ballads (2018)

Light , Time , Heart , Feeling

“If only I could fly away
Revel in the moonlight
Try to find a good life
Find a way to break the chains
Find a way to break the chains
Struggle just to hear the call
It's easy now, easy now
Heaven is a mile away
I'll burn it all and leave today”

Example (musician) (1982) English rapper and singer

"Break the Chains" (song), with Rationale (Tinashé Fazakerley)
("Break the Chains" on YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvosF7mbrnE
Studio albums, Some Nights Last for Days (2020)

Way , Flying , Life

“Admonish your wives with kindness, because woman were created from a crooked bone of the side; therefore, if you wish to straighten it, you will break it, and if you let it alone, it will always be crooked."”

Thomas Hughes (priest) (1838–1911) British missionary

Muhammad's teaching on wives, as given in the Traditions. Quoted from T.P. Hughes: Dictionary of Islam.
Dictionary of Islam

“Know the right time to break away from your ignorance and join the ship of those who have chosen wisdom.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Time , Wisdom

“Sometimes, we resist to accept different views or break away from the kinds of nonsense that we hold dear to ourselves.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“There are only two options in life: Either you refrain yourself from making promises or from breaking them after you have failed the first test.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Life

“I wanted to break the linearity of poetic text to mess with it, if you will. The poem is meant to be a network rather than a single rope of thought.”

Adunis (1930) Essayist, poet

Adunis, in: " https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/books/18adonis.html" at nytimes, October 17, 2010

“Sometimes in life, you have to run, sometimes you fall down, and sometimes you have to take a break, but it seems I have always focused on running.”

Moon So-ri (1974) South Korean actress

As quoted in "Moon So-ri interview: “People usually run in sneakers, whereas I had to run in high heels”" in Eastern Kicks (20 May 2018) https://www.easternkicks.com/features/moon-so-ri-interview-people-usually-run-in-sneakers-whereas-i-had-to-run-in-high-heels

Life

“What if the Internet breaks tomorrow? Then you'd realize that you're a human being, and you're not validated by what other people think of you - it's how you think of yourself.”

Lana Condor (1997) Vietnamese-American actress

As quoted in "Lana Condor of To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before on Her Newfound Instagram Fame, and How She Unplugs" in W Magazine (1 September 2018) https://www.wmagazine.com/story/lana-condor-all-the-boys-ive-loved-before-instagram

People , Thinking

“A thousand creeds and battle-cries,
A thousand warring social schemes,
A thousand new moralities,
And twenty thousand thousand dreams!

Each on his own anarchic way,
From the old order breaking free, —
Our ruined world desires, you say,
License, once more, not Liberty.”

Alfred Noyes (1880–1958) English poet

Forward
The Lord of Misrule and Other Poems (1915)

War , World , Dreams , Way

“Descend, descend, Urania, speak
To men in their own tongue!
Leave not the breaking heart to break
Because thine own is strong.
This is the law, in dream and deed,
That heaven must walk on earth!
O, shine upon the humble creed
That holds the heavenly birth.”

Alfred Noyes (1880–1958) English poet

"The Secret Inn : 'The Kingdom is Within You'" in Master Mind Magazine, Vol. VII, No. 3 (December 1914), p. 99

Strong , Birth , Law , Dreams

“It is better to leave when When someone takes advantage of your straightforwardness. You should not go where your innocence is made fun of. It is better not to go there, where you are humiliated again and again, the person with whom all this happens, breaks up.”

Shabdon Ka Jahan

Personality

“I'm the same as a key piece of machinery in a steel mill, which is needed to make steel and to make money for the mill owners. If I break down, it's their problem. My problem is to build some kind of decent life for myself in this crazy unreal world in which I make my living.”

Elizabeth Taylor (1932–2011) British-American actress

Source: As quoted in "The Frail Goddess," The Real and the Unreal (1961) by Bill Davidson, p. 78

Money , World , Problem , Life

“There is always a chance for a person to break out of the cycle, but there is no such chance for an animal unless it incarnates as a human and develops "I" consciousness.”

Baba Hari Dass (1923–2018) master yogi, author, builder, commentator of Indian spiritual tradition

Source: Fire without Fuel - The Aphorisms of Baba Hari Dass (1986), Ch.III: Mind - Its Functions and Its Fantasies, p.36-7

Personality , Chance , Animals

“Those who value music pay for it. When left unmanaged, they can be left astray and lose the right path. As the listening level rises, the music progresses. The musicians of my generation tried to break the rule of singing.”

Reza Tajbakhsh (1981) Musical artist

Singing , Music

“A jest breaks no bones.”

Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer

June 4, 1781
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV

“Of course, we in the so-called developed countries thought we were civilized. At least war wasn't respectable any more, and the United Nations was always doing its best to stop the wars that did break out. Not very successfully: I'd give it about three out of ten...”

Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host

1990s, 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997)

War , Country

“The old condition is passing away. The new dawn of another civilized nation is breaking into the lives of the human race.”

Mary Harris Jones (1837–1930) Irish-born American labor and community organizer

Source: Speech in Williamson, WV. (20 June 1920)

“See, what I would do right here now is throw him out and I'd piledrive him on the steps. That way you crack his head open and you break both shoulders at the same time. Good amateur move.”

Bobby Heenan (1944–2017) American professional wrestler, professional wrestling commentator and manager

Misc.

Time , Way

“A lot of Hollywood is very dark. Girls my age, I find a lot of them that I have literally grown up and auditioned with take these different paths that break their hearts, but they felt like they had to do it in order to get where they want to go. It’s just so hard on their spirit.”

Madeline Carroll (1996) American actress

Source: Madeline Carroll: I Almost Quit Acting ForGood Before Being Cast In ‘I Can OnlyImagine’ https://hollywoodlife.com/2018/03/16/i-can-only-imagine-movie-madeline-carroll-interview/ (March 16, 2018)

Girl , Age , Heart

“And when old words die out on the tongue,
new melodies break forth from the heart,
and where the old tracks are lost,
new country is revealed with its wonders.
So, don’t give up on love
when it seems that all is lost,
for there is always hope
if we’re prepared to pay the cost”

Alexis Karpouzos (1967)

Source: https://twitter.com/AKarpouzos/status/1467166433176084481

Country , Hope , Heart , Love

“I think they’re getting more visible. The fight is getting louder. I don’t know if it’s getting better for everyone, for those that are already in the limelight and have gotten their break, probably.”

Simisola Kosoko (1988) Nigerian singer and songwriter

Source: https://notjustok.com/article/interviews/simi-in-conversation-with-notjustok-for-womens-history-month/ Simi talking about Women in the music industry

Thinking , Fight

“You are captive of your lower-self (ego); you nullify it and break the snare so that you arrive at your real nest.”

Bu Ali Shah Qalandar (1209–1324) Indian Sufi saint

Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 271

“I’m an old-fashioned copper–I don’t believe in breaking the laws of thermodynamics.”

Ben Aaronovitch book Moon Over Soho

Source: Moon Over Soho (2011), Chapter 7, “Almost Like Being in Love” (p. 141)

Law , Fashion

“Urban folk, dealing as they do in ideas and abstractions, become conditioned to unreality. Then, wherever the fabric of civilization breaks, these people are as helpless as fish out of water.”

Jack Vance book The Gray Prince

Source: The Gray Prince (1975 [serialized 1974]), Chapter 4 (p. 49)

People , Water , Fish , Idea

“You may have given me the breaks,
amended all my life's mistakes,
ooh, but wait a minute,
you don't own me.
You may be more than just a friend
on whose assistance I depend
ooh, but wait a minute,
you don't own me.”

Gilbert O'Sullivan (1946) Irish singer-songwriter

"You Don't Own Me"/"If I Know You" (song)
Gilbert O'Sullivan, "You Don't Own Me"/"If I Know You" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5180atue8I (song combination on YouTube)
Song lyrics

Waiting , Dependency , Life

“The highest degree of knowledge. To become a Buddha one has to break through the bondage of sense and personality; to acquire a complete perception of the REAL SELF and learn not to separate it from all otherselves; to learn by experience the utter unreality of all phenomena of the visible Kosmos foremost of all; to reach a complete detachment from all that is evanescent and finite, and live while yet on Earth in the immortal and the everlasting alone, in a supreme state of holiness.”

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831–1891) occult writer

Buddha (Sk.). Lit., “The Enlightened.”
The Theosophical Glossary (1892)

Personality , Learning , Knowledge , Sense

“"It's not exactly to my best
But it may pass the final test;
And should it break, no man can know
It was my hand that made it so.
The thing is faulty, but perhaps
We'll never hear it when it snaps."
Of course the workman couldn't see
The mangled car beneath the tree,
The dead man, and the tortured wife
Doomed to a cripple's chair for life –
His chief concern was getting by
The stern inspector's eager eye.”

Edgar Guest (1881–1959) American writer

The Broken Wheel, fourth and fifth stanzas.
The Passing Throng (1923)

Tree , Dead , Cars , Life

“When I'm alone with you it seems all my dreams come true
It makes me feel so good I just can't help loving you
Cos you're everything I could hope for:
that's why I love you
Sometimes I tell myself this girl don't love you no more
and that some day with someone new she'll walk from your door
But if you did, my world would break in two,
that's why I love you
And any time I see your face
something very unusual takes place:
all my inhibitions disappear
now that you are here”

Gilbert O'Sullivan (1946) Irish singer-songwriter

"That's Why I Love You" (song)
Song lyrics
Source: Gilbert O'Sullivan, "That's Why I Love You" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zpN5iej40E (song on YouTube)

Girl , World , Time , Dreams

“The stick-together families are happier by far
Than the brothers and the sisters who take separate highways are.
The gladdest people living are the wholesome folks who make
A circle at the fireside that no power but death can break.
And the finest of conventions ever held beneath the sun
Are the little family gatherings when the busy day is done.”

Edgar Guest (1881–1959) American writer

Source: Just Folks (1917), The Stick-Together Families, stanza 1.

People , Family , Business , Sun

“For your art, always aim high and break the rules. To be able to realize, one must love the freedom to create.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Per la tua arte, punta sempre in alto e infrangi le regole. Per poter realizzare, bisogna amare la libertà di creare.
Source: prevale.net

Freedom , Art , Love

“The heart has a resiliency. Strained to breaking, it can contract again. Even the waiting women, Iseult and Penelope, learned, as they sat sorrowing and watching, to sing to the swing of the sea.”

Fannie Hurst (1889–1968) novelist

Gaslight Sonatas (1918)

Singing , Waiting , Learning , Heart

“Houston women I wine-and-dine and take to the house
My moral compass is janky, it breaks in the South”

Drake (1986) Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor

"Is There More," Scorpion (2018)

Housing , Wine , Women

“Her eyes held that long-distance prairie look, a look knowing wind and fire and hard times, stuff that either breaks people or leaves them wise.”

Jack Cady book The Night We Buried Road Dog

Source: The Night We Buried Road Dog (1993), p. 495

Time , People

“Stand on the edge of the abyss and when you feel that it is beyond your strength, break off and have a cup of tea.”

Sophrony (Sakharov) (1896–1993) Russian monk, theologian and writer

In conversation with Archimandrite Ephraim of Vatopedi, 20 September 1992
Others
Source: [PEMPTOUSIA: A Conversation with Elder Sophrony, 12 July 2015, https://pemptousia.com/2015/07/a-conversation-with-the-elder-sophrony/, 11 July 2021]

Feeling , Tea

“Those who break the rules ethically are those who have mastered them first and disciplined themselves to understand the necessity of those rules, and break them in keeping with the spirit rather than the letter of the law.”

Jordan Peterson book Beyond Order

Source: Books, Beyond Order (2021), p. 85

Law , Understanding

“Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, "Love your enemies." It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. That's why Jesus says, "Love your enemies." Because if you hate your enemies, you have no way to redeem and to transform your enemies. But if you love your enemies, you will discover that at the very root of love is the power of redemption. You just keep loving people and keep loving them, even though they're mistreating you. Here's the person who is a neighbor, and this person is doing something wrong to you and all of that. Just keep being friendly to that person. Keep loving them. Don't do anything to embarrass them. Just keep loving them, and they can't stand it too long. Oh, they react in many ways in the beginning. They react with bitterness because they're mad because you love them like that. They react with guilt feelings, and sometimes they'll hate you a little more at that transition period, but just keep loving them. And by the power of your love they will break down under the load. That's love, you see. It is redemptive, and this is why Jesus says love. There's something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

1950s, Loving Your Enemies (November 1957)

Personality , Madness , Thinking , Love

“I light a candle for you
and pray for your return,
ask God to lead you back,
'cause I can't find the words
to break through your palace wall,
and make you clearly see
it's safe to take my hand and fall
with me in that great deep.”

Marian Renta

Music lyrics, Great Deep (2021) —"Great Deep"

God , Light

“When I worked in Asia for a long time, I just felt like I needed a break. I needed to relearn everything about myself and unlearn a lot of things.”

Fala Chen (1982) Hong Kong actress

"'Shang-Chi' Star Fala Chen Duels And Woos Tony Leung, But She Almost Quit Acting" in SyFy https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/shang-chi-ten-rings-fala-chen-marvel-interview (26 August 2021)

Time

“In China, literally in elementary school, we have to sit a certain way. You can't raise your hand anytime, you can’t speak in class. So, it takes a lot of courage and experimenting to kind of try to break that.”

Fala Chen (1982) Hong Kong actress

"Fala Chen Came to America to Find Herself—And Wound Up Being Cast in a Groundbreaking Marvel Movie" in Harpers Bazaar https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/film-tv/a37711969/fala-chen-shang-chi-and-the-legend-of-the-ten-rings/ (24 September 2021)

School , Courage , Way

“I wanted to break boundaries for myself as an actor, where it's not to tell the story and do a good job, but to go to another level where I feel free.”

Fala Chen (1982) Hong Kong actress

"Fala Chen Came to America to Find Herself—And Wound Up Being Cast in a Groundbreaking Marvel Movie" in Harpers Bazaar https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/film-tv/a37711969/fala-chen-shang-chi-and-the-legend-of-the-ten-rings/ (24 September 2021)

Feeling

“We need to break the cycle where marginalized communities are hit the hardest by disasters and have the fewest resources to recover from crises and prepare for the next one.”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

2022, June 2022, Remarks by President Biden at the Inaugural Ceremony of the Ninth Summit of the Americas

Communication

“I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound.”

Franz Liszt (1811–1886) Hungarian romantic composer and virtuoso pianist

As quoted in Walker, 1997.

Sadness , Heart

“Soul, my soul, don't let them break you,
all these troubles. Never yield:
though their force is overwhelming,
up! attack them shield to shield...”

Archilochus (-680–-645 BC) Ancient Greek lyric poet

Fragment 67

Soul

“The partisan wants to change the law, the criminal break it; the anarch wants neither. He is not for or against the law. While not acknowledging the law, he does try to recognize it like the laws of nature, and he adjusts accordingly.”

Ernst Jünger book Eumeswil

Eumeswil (1977)

Law , Nature , Change

“Nothing is more irritating and hurtful than a person who makes promises and breaks them over and over again. It shows lack of consideration for the other's feelings and also means the person cannot be trusted or relied upon. Do not make promises you feel you may not be able to keep, because besides being irritating, it also ruins character.”

Stephie Pahlavi Zan

Hurt , Personality , Feeling

“When life challenges you… and with time, patience, resistance and courage you will break down all the difficulties, she it will equalize its accounts: giving you the impossible.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Quando la vita ti sfida... e con il tempo, la pazienza, la resistenza ed il coraggio abbatterai tutte le difficoltà, lei pareggerà i suoi conti: donandoti l'impossibile.
Source: prevale.net

Patience , Courage , Time , Life

“Humanity will break out of any web, it only has to comprehend the value of love and truth.”

Zafar Mirzo (1972)

Truth , Love

“The biggest obstacle for rulers is upholding the commitments they have been entrusted with since they came to power. How easy it is for rulers to forget what they have said and how easy it is for them to break the promises they are supposed to keep.”

Titon Rahmawan

Forgetting

“A round of applause to those who are out of every scheme, to those who break the rules, dare, risk, do not adapt or settle, but stand out.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Un applauso a chi è fuori da ogni schema, a chi rompe le regole, osa, rischia, non si adatta o si accontenta, ma si distingue.
Source: prevale.net

“Never give up the truth, even if many times to find it you necessary breaking some rules.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Non rinunciate mai alla verità, anche se molte volte per trovarla è necessario infrangere alcune regole.
Source: prevale.net

Time , Truth

“Apologizing by acknowledging your mistakes breaks down all forms of pride, often the root cause of the interruption of many friendly, sentimental and professional relationships.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Scusarsi riconoscendo i propri errori abbatte ogni forma di orgoglio, spesso causa principale dell'interruzione di molte relazioni amichevoli, sentimentali e professionali.
Source: prevale.net

“Always be the novelty that breaks down every habit.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Siate sempre la novità che abbatte ogni abitudine.
Source: prevale.net

“Disrespect can forever break relationships of trust that even the most sincere apology could not recreate.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: La mancanza di rispetto può interrompere per sempre rapporti di fiducia che neanche le scuse più sincere potrebbero ricreare.
Source: prevale.net

Sincerity

“Authentic love it burns the rules, it breaks the patterns, it's not predictable and makes free.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: L'amore autentico brucia le regole, rompe gli schemi, non è prevedibile e rende liberi.
Source: prevale.net

Love

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