Holding on to things only breaks your heart.
Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
It breaks my heart to think about a family weeping over the loss of a loved one. I understand the anguish that some feel about the death that takes place.
Anyone worth knowing breaks once. Once. No shame, no foul if you survive it. You did.
Had I known that the heart breaks slowly, dismantling itself into unrecognizable plots of misery. . . had I known yet I would have loved you, your brash and insolent beauty, your heavy comedic face and knowledge of sweet delights, but from a distance I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less.
Nothing's a break for me. Not even the breaks are breaks.
Your heart is like glass, if it breaks, it's pretty hard to put it back together again.
Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
Defense doesn't break down on the help, it breaks down on the recovery.
Nature never breaks her own laws.
The young girl in my story is to be as sensitive to praise as a prism is to light. Whenever anybody praises her she breaks into colors.
So you're just moving along and suddenly you get this moment that breaks your ability to continue, and yet you continue. I wanted those kinds of moments. And initially people would say, "I don't think I have any. " Their initial reaction was to render invisible those moments weaved into a kind of everydayness.
If a man breaks a pledge, the public ought to know it.
I believe in acknowledging all breaks, big and small, personal and professional.
To be successful in show business, all you need are 50 good breaks.
There are lots of actors out there who are hugely, hugely talented and haven't got the breaks I've had.
If someone breaks into your home when you're there - that is, they don't wait to be sure that the house is empty - it's a bad situation. Honor doesn't come into it at all. Anything you need to do to survive at that point becomes A-OK.
I cant believe anybody would celebrate a holiday where a jolly prowler breaks into your house and leaves gifts.
Virtue's office never breaks men's troth.
He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.