“Don't pretend that you can just be oblivious to politics. You can't. What you never do is break your personal code. Have a code and keep it. You should never compromise what your priorities are.” ShouldBreakPrioritiesCompromiseCodeObliviousNever Compromise Author:Kamala Harris
“If I get married I get a tax break, if I have a kid I get a tax break, if I get a mortgage I get a tax break. I don't have any kids and I drive a hybrid, I think I should get a tax break. I'm trying to pay off my apartment so I have something tangible. I actually figured out if I paid off my place my reward would be that I would pay an extra four grand a year in taxes.” IfsThinkingShouldTryingYearsWould BeKidsPayBreakFourTaxesMarriedPaidRewardsExtrasApartmentTangibleMortgageHybridTax BreaksPaid Off Author:Bill Burr
“I would advise puppeteering for any artist. It's a way to break down pretensions. It's a sculpture that can talk. It's a painting that can talk. And it's pure play. I think every artist needs to stay in touch with the idea of playing. The artist should always be playing, always. All art is performance.” ThinkingWayNeedsShouldArtIdeasPlayArtistBreakPaintingPureArt IsPerformancesBreaking DownSculptureAdvisePretension Author:Wayne White
“I should think that many of our poets, the honest ones, will confess to having no manifesto. It is a painful confession but the art of poetry carries its own powers without having to break them down into critical listings. I do not mean that poetry should be raffish and irresponsible clown tossing off words into the void. But the very feeling of a good poem carries its own reason for being... Art is its own excuse, and it’s either Art or it’s something else. It’s either a poem or a piece of cheese.” ThinkingShouldMeanArtReasonFeelingsBreakPiecesHonestPoetArt IsPainfulExcuseCriticalCarrieVoidConfessionCheeseClownIrresponsibleManifestos Book:On Writing Source: On Writing
“[Joseph Smith] foresaw the time when the destiny of the nation would be in danger and would hang as by a thread. Thank God he did not see the thread break. He also indicated the important part that this people should yet play in standing for the principles embodied in these sacred documents - the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.” PeopleShouldImportantPlayWould BeNationsPrinciplesBreakDestinyDangerStandingConstitutionIndependenceSacredThank GodThreadDocumentsDeclarationDeclaration Of IndependenceJoseph Smith Author:Ezra Taft Benson
“And all of you, all your lives, should be telling those of us in the media leadership positions to tell the whole truth and calling us to complain when we don't. Break this know-nothing pact now and you will have taken as mighty a step as you can as an individual to help see to it that we as a nation move together toward a lively, hopeful, confident, and all-embracing future.” KnowsShouldWholeHelpingTogetherMovingIndividualNationsStepsBreakTakenMediaPositionCallingComplainingHopefulLivelyPactWhole Truth Author:Geneva Overholser
“It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.” ShouldYearsHeartChildrenHas BeensFatherBreakMy HeartShould HaveMy ChildrenShould Have BeenBreaking My Heart Author:Bear Grylls
“Sports and sex and movies are not inherently bad - But for you they're addictions, not enjoyments. You use them to distract you from what you know you should do. Break free!” KnowsShouldUseSexSportsBreakAddictionEnjoyment Author:Dan Millman
“Every candidate running for president has got to answer the following very simple question: At a time when we need to address the planetary crisis of climate change, and transform our energy system away from fossil fuels and into energy efficiency and sustainability, should we continue to give $135 billion in tax breaks and subsidies over the next decade to fossil fuel companies?” NeedsGivingShouldRunningNextEnergyPresidentSimpleAnswersCompanyBreakTaxesCrisisClimateClimate ChangeFollowingDecadesBillionsCandidatesFuelAddressesSustainabilityEfficiencyFossilsFossil FuelSubsidiesTax BreaksEnergy Efficiency Author:Bernie Sanders
“I'm not sure about this Live 8 thing. Correct me if I am wrong, but are they hoping that one of these guys from the G8 is on a quick 15-minute break at Gleneagles and sees Annie Lennox singing "Sweet Dreams" and thinks: "F... me, she might have a point there, you know." It's not going to f... happen, is it? Keane doing "Somewhere Only We Know" and some Japanese businessman going: "Aw, look at him...we should really f... drop that debt, you know." It's not going to happen, is it?” IfsThinkingKnowsShouldLooksDreamMightHappensGuyBreakMinutesSweetSingingDebtNot SureBusinessmanAnnieSweet Dreams Author:Noel Gallagher
“I believe that the officers, and, especially, the directors, of corporations should be held personally responsible when any corporation breaks the law.” ShouldBelieveLawI BelieveBreakDirectorsResponsibleCorporationsOfficers Book:The New Nationalism Source: The New Nationalism
“There should be more of an off-season in the game. I think you need to have less tournaments, more of a break at the end of the year so guys can recover.” ThinkingNeedsShouldYearsEndsGuyGamesBreakSeasonsTournamentsOff Season Author:Pete Sampras
“In the present age when communication is so rapid, we should create a different tradition, traditions are created everyday. Five years now is like 100 years before. We are living in a society that has no history. There’s no precedent for this kind of society so we can break the old patterns.” ShouldYearsKindDifferentAgeBreakFiveCommunicationTraditionEverydayPatternsFive YearsRapidsPrecedent Author:Yoko Ono
“When sinners are careless and stupid, and sinking into hell unconcerned, it is time the church should bestir themselves. It is as much the duty of the church to awake, as it is for the firemen to awake when a fire breaks out in the night in a great city.” ShouldNightChurchCitiesBreakHellFireStupidDutyAwakeSinnerCarelessSinkingBreak OutGreat CitiesFiremanUnconcerned Book:Lectures on Revivals of Religion Source: Lectures on Revivals of Religion
“When you're in a relationship, if you just break it down to regular terms, people are attracted to something, and that's what they want you to be, and that's what you should just be, and for me, it's very simple - if I meet a girl and I say, 'This is what I like about you. Just continue. Every day'” PeopleIfsWantShouldGirlTermSimpleBreak Author:Marilyn Manson
“Kind looks, kind actions, kind words, and a lovely, holy deportment towards them will bind our children to us with bands that cannot easily be broken; while abuse and unkindness will drive them from us, and break asunder every holy tie that should bind them to us and to the everlasting covenant in which we are all embraced.” ShouldLooksKindChildrenActionBreakBrokenHolyBandAbuseOur ChildrenLovelyTiesEverlastingCovenantKind WordsUnkindness Author:Brigham Young
“Everyone should occasionally break the law in some small and delightful way. It's good for the hygiene of the brain.” WayShouldLawBrainBreakDelightfulHygiene Author:Terry Pratchett
“f the government is going to put money into the automobile sector, it should break up GM and Chrysler as a condition of financial aid, and it should be even-handed in its treatment of start-up firms like Tesla, Miles, Fisker, and others. It would be terrible to kill the entrepreneurs who have taken great risks to bring new automotive technologies to market by pumping tax dollars into the behemoths that have done everything wrong for the last years.” ShouldYearsDoneGovernmentWould BeLastsBreakTechnologyTakenRiskConditionsTerribleTaxesDollarsEntrepreneurFinancialAidsMilesFirmTreatmentLast YearAutomobileGreat RiskTeslaTax DollarsChryslerBehemothFinancial Aid Author:Denis Hayes