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Tag Name "Break" (3314)

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The best break anybody ever gets is in bein' alive in the first place. An' you don't unnerstan' what a perfect deal it is until you realizes that you ain't gone be stuck with it forever, either.
Walt Kelly
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In the past, when I'd recorded during a break in a tour, it was so easy to sing, because I felt strong. Also, like so many new mothers, I wasn't getting a lot of sleep, and sleeping is such a huge part of being able to sing.
Amy Grant
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Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse to do.
Amy Goodman
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The ability to break a loved one's heart is the essential contradiction in human relationships.
Amy Dickinson
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To behold the day-break! The little light fades the immense and diaphanous shadows, The air tastes good to my palate.
Walt Whitman
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History breaks down into images, not into stories.
Walter Benjamin
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I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, let's say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing!
Henry Miller
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Those who participate in [sabbath] break the anxiety cycle. They are invited to awareness that life does not consist in frantic production and consumption that reduces everyone else to threat and competition.
Walter Brueggemann
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Marriage is only good for two things: tax breaks and adultery.
Brendon Small
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Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.
Walter Darby Bannard
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You might be a redneck if your wheelbarrow breaks and it takes four relatives to figure out how to fix it.
Jeff Foxworthy
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In my life I had come to realize that when things were going very well indeed it was just the time to anticipate trouble. And, conversely, I learned from pleasant experience that at the most despairing crisis, when all looked sour beyond words, some delightful break was apt to lurk just around the corner.
Amelia Earhart
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One of my favorite phobias is that girls, especially those whose tastes aren't routine, often don't get a fair break... It has come down through the generations, an inheritance of age-old customs, which produced the corollary that women are bred to timidity.
Amelia Earhart
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I hurl the glass teapot to the ground. we both stare at it, stunned. it was supposed to break, I explain after a pause, and that was going to signify that yes, I would throw something away . If I knew it wasn't right for me.
Sophie Kinsella
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Only love can break a heart into so many pieces. -Risika(In The Forest Of The Night)
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
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The wiser a man is, it seems to me, the more vividly he can see the future as part of the evolving present. He doesn't break the flow of life, he directs it, hastens it, but preserves its continuity.
Walter Lippmann
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If every hypocrite in the United States were to break his leg to-day the country could be successfully invaded to-morrow by the warlike hypocrites of Canada.
Ambrose Bierce
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RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have been done by the prosecuting attorney. Any break in the continuity of a disagreeable expectation.
Ambrose Bierce
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To be successful in show business, all you need are 50 good breaks.
Walter Matthau
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We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.
Walter Mosley
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If you break a discipline once, the next transgression becomes much easier.
Gil Blake
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A good friend doesn't try to break up a fight. A good friend comes in with a flying kick.
Renzo Gracie
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By ecstasy I mean inner joyousness, and by inner joyousness I mean those inspirational fires which burn within the consciousness of great geniuses, fires which give to them an inconquerable vitality of spirit which breaks down all barriers as wheat bends before the wind.
Walter Russell
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In the business world, unwise men take more that they give. They do not realize that they are breaking the Universal Law which will eventually break them to an equal extent. It may not be balanced in the form of dollars and cents but in the loss of good-will upon which their future business depends.
Walter Russell
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