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“What’d I tell you about musicians? That bad boy type will only break your heart.”

Heart Boys Break Type Musician Break Your Heart Bad Boy

Book:Lola and the Boy Next Door

Source: Lola and the Boy Next Door

“Why do so many young people literally die to belong to fraternities, sororities, and other college social organizations? The answer is complicated, but here is a starting point: Ever since the medieval universities were founded, young people have done whatever it takes to gain acceptance, to break with their past lives, to achieve a sense of power, to carve out a society of their own that isn't quite what their tutors and teachers had in mind. In the United States, hazing and drinking have been endemic since colonial days.”

Source: Wrongs of Passage: Fraternities, Sororities, Hazing, and Binge Drinking

“My big break was back in the third grade playing the third monkey in 'Horton Hears a Who.”

Bigs Break Thirds Grades Monkeys Third Grade

Author:Sebastian Arcelus

“I didn't want to break with my family. I wasn't about to make waves. But I had this feeling I wanted to do something that I liked to do. Acting's what I liked to do most. There must have been a moment when I felt, 'Oh, my God, I like this and what am I going to do about it?”

Want Has Beens Moments Feelings Wanted Felt Acting Break My Family Wave

Author:Charles Kimbrough

“It has taken me most of my adult life to come to terms with who I am. To do that, I had to break free of attitudes that brought me down.”

Term Attitude Break Taken Adults Who I Am

Book:True You: A Journey to Finding and Loving Yourself

Source: True You: A Journey to Finding and Loving Yourself

“When everything else breaks down, I don't hesitate to roam out of the pocket and do the boogaloo.”

Break Football Pockets Breaking Down

Author:Fran Tarkenton

“Something will break very bad.”

Author:Marc Faber

“Most people have a blank slate and can start from nothing. But for me, I had to break a bad habit that I've been doing all of my life, which is freestyle hip-hop.”

People Break Habit Hip Hop Hips Hops Blank Bad Habits Slate Freestyle Blank Slates

Author:Roshon Fegan

“When WWII ended, the Cold War started, and the interest of the Western world was not to completely break Germany. So all those Nazis who had been controlling the country now had the power to rebuild it. I think there were many of them who just continued their life in society; it's a very known fact.”

Thinking World War Country Facts Interest Known Break Cold Western Germany Cold War Nazi Wwii Western World

Author:Arnon Goldfinger

“My big break was really Liz Meriwether saw me in a movie called 'Paper Heart' and really liked it, and then saw me in a movie called 'Ceremony' because she knew Max Winkler and said, 'I want you to be in 'No Strings Attached,' but you gotta audition for it.' From that it was easier for her to get me in 'New Girl.”

Want Heart Said Bigs Girl Break Saws Easier Paper Strings I Want You Auditions Ceremony Max Liz Strings Attached New Girl No Strings Attached

Author:Jake M. Johnson

“Women tend to break the network of friends they make, but it is a habit that men have learned. It is an approach to life that involves planning almost without thinking about it. And men sustain this. I came from a northern grammar school. I had a good education, but I didn't have a good network.”

Thinking Men School Break Habit Approach Planning Grammar Good Education Grammar School

Author:Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

“When I hear about something allegedly happening in the world I always ask: who is doing it? Trends break out because they're based on real demographics, like there being fewer nuclear families or more people living alone. If 10 people in Shoreditch are doing it, it's a 10-minute fad.”

People Ifs World Real Asks Break Minutes Happenings Nuclear Trends Fewer Break Out Demographics Fads Living Alone Nuclear Families

Author:Peter York

“I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style.”

People Knows Certain Easy Break Style Theory Musician Songwriting Amused Writing Style Music Theory

Author:Black Francis

“I always say, 'I really need to take a break.' It's three days in and I'm getting pretty bored.”

Needs Three Break Bored

Author:Stephen Daldry

“To judge from all Communist papers, magazines and brochures, and from all public assemblies, one might even surmise that a revolt of the poor peasants in Western Europe might break out at any moment!”

Moments Might Poor Break Judging Paper Europe Western Magazines Communist Papers Peasants Assembly Revolt Break Out Western Europe Brochures

Author:Herman Gorter

“It is a major sin to break a contract, especially in military situations.”

Sin Situation Break Military Majors Contracts

Author:John Walker Lindh

“Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing.”

Writing Break Nice Isolation Conventions Providing Attending

Author:Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

“We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something going on in a small minority, perpetually beleaguered in a few walled towns. Now and then the horde of barbarians outside breaks through, and we have an armed effort to halt the process. That is, we have a Reformation, a French Revolution, a war for democracy, a Great Awakening. The minority is decimated and driven to cover. But a few survive- and a few are enough to carry on.”

“Them that has china plates themsel's is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others”

Break Careful China Caring Plates

Author:James M. Barrie

“To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible.”

Easy Break Impossible Married Bread Host Betray Salt Covenant Comrade Matrimony Married Women Disloyal

Book:The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

“A line will take us hours maybe; / Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, / Our stitching and unstitching has been naught... Better go down upon your marrow-bones / And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones... For to articulate sweet sounds together / Is to work harder than all these, and yet / Be thought an idler by the noisy set.”

Ifs Doe Has Beens Moments Seems Together Sound Hours Lines Break Sweet Hard Work Stones Harder Bones Kitchen Work Harder Noisy Pavement Marrow Idlers

Book:Later Poems

Source: Later Poems

“With these shreds They vented their complainings, which being answered And a petition granted them, a strange one, To break the heart of generosity, And make bold power look pale, they threw their caps As they would hang them on the horns o' th' moon, Shouting their emulation.”

Looks Heart Break Strange Moon Complaining Granted Generosity Pale Horns Applause Caps Shouting Petitions Emulation

Author:William Shakespeare

“Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast, yet love breaks through and picks them all at last.”

Lasts Beauty Break Picks Twenties Locks Break Through

Book:The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint

Source: The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint

“The only whole heart is a broken one because it lets the light in.”

Heart Whole Light Break Broken Breakup Break Up After Break Up

Author:David Wolpe

“God is a philosophical black hole-the point where reason breaks down.”

Reason Philosophy God Black Break Philosophical Holes Breaking Down Black Hole

Author:Kedar Joshi

“The Buddha is your real body, your original mind. This mind has no form or characteristics, no cause or effect, no tendons or bones. It's like space. You can't hold it. It's not the mind of materialists or nihilists. If you don't see your own miraculously aware nature, you'll never find a Buddha, even if you break your body into atoms.”

Ifs Mind Real Wisdom Body Form Causes Understanding Space Break Effects Originals Bones Your Body Characteristics Atoms Nihilist

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“If you know that everything comes from the mind, don't become attached. Once attached, you're unaware. But once you see your own nature, the entire Canon becomes so much prose. It's thousands of sutras and shastras only amount to a clear mind. Understanding comes in midsentence. What good are doctrines? The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way. The Way is wordless. Words are illusions. . . . Don't cling to appearances, and you'll break through all barriers. . . .”

Ifs Knows Way Mind Truth Understanding Break Clear Amount Truth Is Illusion Ultimate Appearance Doctrine Prose Barriers Break Through Canon Ultimate Truth Clear Minds

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.”

Happiness Break Habit Terrible Inner Peace Hardest

Author:Theodosia Garrison

“Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.”

Self Joy Break Servant Serving Choke Serving Others Shackles Absorption Servant Leadership Joy Of Living Self Absorption

Author:James Hunter

“I think that there's a strong crossover in that Janis, studying the visual arts, was learning how to break it down into details and see how to get the expression that we wanted. And her visual art is emotionally expressive as her singing was. And, I think, when she switched over to singing, she already knew that it was something serious that you broke into pieces so she developed the ability to break it down and learn little riffs that she could throw in here and there.”

Thinking Littles Art Wanted Strong Ability Break Study Pieces Serious Expression Singing Art Is Down And Details Broke Visuals Here And There Expressive Visual Art Crossover

Author:Laura Joplin

“Cry to god. If you do that just for a couple minutes with your whole being, just like a child who so badly wants a cookie. You will break through the barrier of the mind.”

Ifs Want Mind Children Whole Break Minutes Cry Couple Barriers Cookies Visualization Break Through

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Men always fool themselves when they give up experience for systems born of the imagination. Man is the work of nature, he exists in nature, he is subject to its laws, he can not break free, he can not leave even in thought; it is in vain that his spirit wants to soar beyond the bounds of the visible world, he is always forced to return.”

Men World Want Giving Law Science Spirit Nature Born Imagination Natural Break Subjects Fool Return Giving Up Bounds Vain Visible Can Not Soar

Author:Baron d'Holbach

“I cannot help but wonder whether, by continuing and expanding the school lunch program, we aren't witnessing, if not encouraging, the slow demise of yet another American tradition: the brown bag. Perhaps we are beholding yet another break in the chain that links child to home.”

Ifs Children Helping Home School Politics Wonder Break Program Tradition Chains Brown Bags Links Lunch Continuing Expanding Demise American Tradition School Lunch

Author:Charles Mathias

“All the work I did was to challenge politics, culture, and women's rights. I felt like I really wanted to break out. That's why I wanted to use graffiti. It's more open. I don't need people to come to an exhibition. Graffiti gives a voice to the walls.”

People Needs Giving Use Wanted Culture Felt Voice Challenges Break Rights Wall Womens Rights Break Out Exhibitions Graffiti

Author:Malina Suliman

“If people say harsh words to me though, I don't care. It's a risk to my life. The Taliban don't want us to be working, so they'll shoot us. And women who break their rules, they put acid on them. I said, if they shoot me, OK, but if they put acid on me, I will be alive as a dead body. I was always so afraid of that.”

People Ifs Want Said Body Care Break Alive Risk Don't Care I Don't Care Harsh Want U Acid Taliban Harsh Words

Author:Malina Suliman

“It's very important, at least to me as a writer, that there be some rules on the table when I'm writing. Rules come from genres. You're writing in a genre, there are rules, which is great because then you can break the rules. That's when really exciting things happen.”

Writing Important Happens Break Exciting Tables Things Happen Genre Exciting Things

Author:Lev Grossman

“You don't want to move toward some utopian literary situation where everybody's free of all conventions. That's ridiculous! Conventions are what you need. You have nothing to break down if you don't have conventions.”

Ifs Want Needs Moving Situation Break Ridiculous Conventions Breaking Down Need You Utopian

Author:Lev Grossman

“You have to break your fingers to learn how to play guitar.”

Play Break Fingers Guitar

Author:Ester Dean

“I don't like not saying anything. I don't like having a wall between me and the audience. I want to break down that wall and communicate with the people in the room, 'cause we're there together and we're having a nice moment.”

People Want Moments Together Causes Rooms Break Audience Nice Wall Communicate Breaking Down

Author:Aurora Aksnes

“The world is full of what seem like intractable problems. Often we let that paralyze us. Instead, let is spur you to action. There are some people in the world that we can't help, but there are so many more that we can. So when you see a mother and her children suffering in another part of the world, don't look away. Look right at them. Let them break your heart, then let your empathy and your talents help you make a difference in the lives of others. Whether you volunteer every week or just a few times a year, your time and unique skills are invaluable.”

“Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, oh sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.”

Break Sea Cold Ocean Stones Tongue Arise Gray

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course; Through watchful guards its passage make, And loves through solid walls to break.”

Courses Force Powerful Break Wall Gold And Love Stronger Speed Passages Thunder

Book:The Works of Horace, Translated by Philip Francis

Source: The Works of Horace, Translated by Philip Francis

“When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet. This morality is by no means self-evident. Christianity is a system, a whole view of things thought out together. By breaking one main concept out of it, the faith in God, one breaks the whole. It stands or falls with faith in God.”

Giving Mean Self Whole Christian Together Fall Views Christianity Break Feet Morality Giving Up Concepts Faith In God Evident Christian Faith Christian Morality

Book:Twilight of the Idols

Source: Twilight of the Idols

“People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena. To see one in all and all in one is to break through the great barrier which narrows one's perception of reality.”

People Reality Break Cutting Perception Oneness Barriers Break Through Interdependence Perception Reality

Book:Collected Wheel Publications Volume XVI: Numbers 231–247

Source: Collected Wheel Publications Volume XVI: Numbers 231–247

“You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.”

Hands Break Faults Careful Commit Crystals Careless

Author:Martial

“A stout heart breaks bad luck.”

Heart Break Luck Boldness Bad Luck Heart Break Stout

Book:Don Quixote: Easyread Large Edition

Source: Don Quixote: Easyread Large Edition

“Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.”

Heart Break Stones Sticks Bones Sticks And Stones

Author:Robert Fulghum

“If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.”

Source: Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door

“We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We ought to break our days and our marches into two.”

Made Two Play Sleep Break Morning Ought Eight Clock March Midnight

Book:My Early Life: 1874-1904

Source: My Early Life: 1874-1904

“That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to... grapple with the unfamiliar.”

Artist Roles Break Strikes Something New Unfamiliar

Author:Brian Aldiss