Best Break Off Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A Frenchwoman, when double-crossed, will kill her rival; the Italian woman would rather kill her deceitful lover; the Englishwoman simply breaks off relations-but they all will console themselves with another man.”

Men Break Lovers Relation Killing Italian Rivals Another Man Console Deceitful Break Off

Author:Charles Boyer

“If you light upon an impertinent talker, that sticks to you like a bur, to the disappointment of your important occasions, deal freely with him, break off the discourse, and pursue your business.”

Ifs Important Light Deals Talking Break Sticks Disappointment Pursue Occasions Discourse Talkers Break Off

Book:Plutarch's Morals

Source: Plutarch's Morals

“We break off obsession by laughing at ourselves, by learning to be funny, by just seeing the joy in life and by having a terrific love for this world.”

World Joy Break Laughing Seeing This World Buddhism Obsession Terrific Break Off

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is better to break off a thousand friendships, than to endure the sight of a single enemy.”

Enemy Break Thousand Sight Endure Break Off

Book:Gulistan or Rose Garden

Source: Gulistan or Rose Garden

“Once committed to an attack, fly in at full speed. After scoring crippling or disabling hits, I would clear myself and then repeat the process. I never pursued the enemy once they had eluded me. Better to break off and set up again for a new assault. I always began my attacks from full strength, if possible, my ideal flying height being 22,000 ft because at that altitude I could best utilize the performance of my aircraft. Combat flying is based on the slashing attack and rough maneuvering.”

Ifs Process Enemy Break Clear Ideals Performances Committed Speed Flying Height Repeats Aviation Rough Combat Assault Pursued Aircraft Break Off

Author:Erich Hartmann

“You have to have short fingernails or they'd just break off, and you can't wear red polish - it looks like your fingers are bleeding.”

Looks Break Like You Red Fingers Polish Bleeding Fingernails Break Off

Author:Elizabeth Smart

“Watching 40 mile chunks of ice break off of Antarctica will change your life forever, but realizing that driving a car, or flying a plane, or having a nice steak, or drinking from a plastic bottle all contributed to the destruction of the environment - it's a bit complex, but music needs to pave the way for getting people to think about this kind of complexity. I'm just doing my share.”

“Until my legs break off or I get paralyzed, I can play this way. It helps me be me.”

Way I Can Play Helping Break Legs Help Me Paralyzed Break Off

Author:Metta World Peace

“Every day huge amounts of information break off like icebergs and melt away. What worries me is that much information in electronic form is never reduced to paper. Some people have described this as being on the edge of a digital Dark Age and fear we may commit a massive act of amnesia.”

People May Age Form Dark Break Worry Information Huge Amount Paper Edges Commit Digital Massive Dark Ages Amnesia Iceberg Break Off

Author:Paul Saffo

“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.”

“The lives of individuals of the human race form a constant plot, in which every attempt to isolate one piece of living that has a meaning separate from the rest-for example, the meeting of two people, which will become decisive for both-must bear in mind that each of the two brings with himself a texture of events, environments, other people, and that from the meeting, in turn, other stories will be derived which will break off from their common story.”

People Mind Humans Two Stories Form Turns Individual Common Race Break Environment Pieces Events Example Bears Constant Meetings Human Race Plot Texture One Piece Break Off

Author:Italo Calvino

“As you get older, the heart shed its leaves like a tree. You cannot hold out against certain winds. Each day tears away a few more leaves; and then there are the storms that break off several branches at one go. And while nature’s greenery grows back again in the spring, that of the heart never grows back.”

Heart Certain Grows Break Tree Tears Wind Spring Storm Branches Each Day Shed Back Again Greenery Break Off

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you. Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you. And without feet I can make my way to you, without a mouth I can swear your name. Break off my arms, I'll take hold of you with my heart as with a hand. Stop my heart, and my brain will start to beat. And if you consume my brain with fire, I'll feel you burn in every drop of my blood.”

Ifs Way Feels Heart I Can Hands Eye Names Brain Break Fire Seeing Blood Feet Arms Goes On My Heart Beats Mouths Ears Hearing My Way Swear Seals Break Off

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“It was cold autumn weather, but in spite of the cold they wandered up and down the roads of the Park for nearly three hours. They agreed to break off their intercourse; every bond, he said, is a bond to sorrow.”

Said Three Hours Break Cold Sorrow Weather Parks Spite Autumn Up And Down Intercourse Break Off

Book:James Joyce The Dover Reader

Source: James Joyce The Dover Reader

“an expression of surprise falls from her face, though she's trying to keep it. it breaks off and she seems to catch it and fidget with it in her hands.”

Trying Hands Seems Faces Fall Break Expression Surprise Break Off

Book:Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger

Source: Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger

“Now to sum it up,' said Bernard. 'Now to explain to you the meaning of my life. Since we do not know each other (though I met you once I think, on board a ship going to Africa), we can talk freely. The illusion is upon me that something adheres for a moment, has roundness, weight, depth, is completed. This, for the moment, seems to be my life. If it were possible, I would hand it you entire. I would break it off as one breaks off a bunch of grapes. I would say, "Take it. This is my life.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Said Moments Hands Seems Break Mets Illusion Weight Depth Bunch Ships Boards Grapes Break Off

Book:The Waves

Source: The Waves

“The Amoeba?" she asked Aiden. "The gang," he said, tossing his hand to indicate all around. "My people. A large amorphous mass that keeps on changing size, hasn't much apparent use, sometimes makes you sick, and occasionally breaks off into smaller parts that act exactly like the parent.”

People Said Sometimes Use Hands Parent Break Mass Sick Size Gang Break Off Amoeba

Book:Blood and Chocolate

Source: Blood and Chocolate

“She serves me a piece of it a few minutes out of the oven. A little steam rises from the slits on top. Sugar and spice - cinnamon - burned into the crust. But she's wearing these dark glasses in the kitchen at ten o'clock in the morning - everything nice - as she watches me break off a piece, bring it to my mouth, and blow on it. My daughter's kitchen, in winter. I fork the pie in and tell myself to stay out of it. She says she loves him. No way could it be worse.”

Source: All of Us: The Collected Poems

“It was the kind of talk that made me want to break off a limb and take to whacking her and that bunch of hypocrites across the back of the head.”

Want Kind Made Break Bunch Limbs Hypocrite Break Off

Book:Edge of Dark Water

Source: Edge of Dark Water

“To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off”

Remember Sin Break Conversation Recalls Break Off

Book:Mortality

Source: Mortality

“Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.”

Doe Break Activity Distance Long Distance Distance Relationship Long Distance Relationship Long Distance Relation Good Long Distance Relationship Long Distance Relationship Love Short Long Distance Relationship Inspiring Long Distance Relationship Strong Long Distance Relationship New Long Distance Relationship Long Distant Relationship Distant Relationship Break Off

Book:Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

“I figure the world is basically a machine. I don't know who made it, if it was the Fates, or the gods, or the capital-G god or whatever. But it chugs along the way it's supposed to most of the time. Sure, little pieces break off and stuff goes haywire once in a while, but mostly... things happen for a reason.”

Ifs Knows World Way Littles Made Reason Happens Stuff Break Pieces Fate Figures Machines Things Happen Made It Happens For A Reason Leo Valdez House Of Hades Break Off

Author:Rick Riordan

“As an example of just how useless these philosophers are for any practice in life there is Socrates himself, the one and only wise man, according to the Delphic Oracle. Whenever he tried to do anything in public he had to break off amid general laughter. While he was philosophizing about clouds and ideas, measuring a flea's foot and marveling at a midge's humming, he learned nothing about the affairs of ordinary life.”

Men Life Ideas Philosophy Break Practice Wise Feet Example Laughter Ordinary Affair Clouds Philosopher Useless Measuring Ordinary Life Fleas Oracles Humming Break Off Marveling Midges

Author:Desiderius Erasmus

“If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Break Strikes Wit Entanglement Break Off

Book:The Frogs: And Three Other Plays. Translated by Frere, Hickie, Mitchell and Cumberland

Source: The Frogs: And Three Other Plays. Translated by Frere, Hickie, Mitchell and Cumberland

“So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Which sucks two souls, and vapors both away.”

Two Soul Lasts Break Kissing Vapor Two Souls Break Off

Book:The Poetical Works of Dr. John Donne: With a Memoir

Source: The Poetical Works of Dr. John Donne: With a Memoir

“A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspend their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward; a thought which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies, which breaks off on the approach of human feet.”

Ifs Humans Said Poetry Waiting Break Feet Approach Deeds Woods Forests Fairy Riding Faerie Break Off

Book:The Annotated Emerson

Source: The Annotated Emerson

“...when the words pour out of you just right, you understand that these sentences are all part of a river flowing out of your own distant, hidden ranges, and all words become the dissolving snow that feeds your mountain streams forever. The language locks itself in the icy slopes of our own high passes, and it is up to us, the writers, to melt the glaciers within us. When these glaciers break off, we get to call them novels, the changelings of our burning spirits, our life's work.”

Spirit Language Break Novel Forever Our Lives Mountain Rivers Sentences Snow Burning Range Streams Locks Slopes Icy Glaciers Dissolving Changelings Break Off Mountain Streams

Author:Pat Conroy

“Other times I say: I would very much like to try to do something with this music, but after playing for a few minutes, I have to break off.”

Trying Break Minutes Break Off

Author:Jan Garbarek

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