120 Breaking Away Quotes

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Famous Breaking Away Quotes

Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. — John Muir

All significant breakthroughs are break -“withs” old ways of thinking. — Thomas Kuhn

Pushing me away so I give her space, awww. Dealing wit a heart that I didn't break. — Drake

Selfhood begins with a walking away, And love is proved in letting go. — Cecil Day-Lewis

More and more people seem to be separating from nature. I'm trying to go in a different direction. I'm getting closer and closer. — Dean Potter

Sometimes you need to run away just to see who will come after you. — Lisa Page Brooks

It takes great courage to break with one's past history and stand alone. — Marion Woodman

Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of nature's darlings. — John Muir

I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born. — Paula Cole

Adventure must start with running away from home. — William Bolitho

Run for daylight. — Vince Lombardi

Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking. — Stephen Covey

When a man loves a woman, periodically he needs to pull away before he can get closer. — John Gray

Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. — John Muir

the shell must break before the bird can fly. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Short Breaking Away Quotes

  • Leave my loneliness unbroken — Edgar Allan Poe
  • When people can walk away from you: Let them walk. — T. D. Jakes
  • Sometimes, you just have to follow your own path. — Markiplier
  • I leave before being left. I decide. — Brigitte Bardot
  • Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves. — Robert Neelly Bellah
  • Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together. — Unknown
  • A smart girl leaves before she is left. — Marilyn Monroe
  • When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge. — Tuli Kupferberg
  • Don't hold together what must fall apart. The familiar life crumbles so the new life can begin. — Bryant H. McGill
  • Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction. — Alice Hoffman

Breaking Away Image Quotes

Breaking away quote Maturity is learning to walk away from people and situation that threaten your peace of mind, self r
Maturity is learning to walk away from people and situation that threaten your peace of mind, self respect, values, morals and self worth.

Breaking Apart Quotes

I will not stop. I will not slow down. I will not pull over to ask for directions. I will build the road that takes me where I want to be and I will drive, drive, drive. I will drive until the vehicle around me breaks down, falls apart and tumbles into useless debris... and then I will walk. — Shane Koyczan

Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together. — Marilyn Monroe

A team divided against itself can break down at any moment. The least bit of pressure or adversity will crack it apart — Bill Parcells

Breaking away quote Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass away.

Six feet under the stars is a place that doesn't exist. It's a place in your mind where everything and anything is possible. It's a place with no rules or limitations. It's a place where only two people can be at a time where no one can judge them and no one could try to break them apart. — Alex Gaskarth

Break the rules, stand apart, ignore your head, and follow your heart. — Paula Abdul

Life is good, life is great. Always love and never hate. Break the rules, stand apart. Ignore your head and follow your heart. — Ashley Purdy

Breaking away quote One of the most important decisions you'll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try
One of the most important decisions you'll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.

Gonna be a twister to blow everything down That ain't got the faith to stand its ground Blow away the dreams that tear you apart Blow away the dreams that break your heart Blow away the lies that leave you nothing but lost and brokenhearted. — Bruce Springsteen

One's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs of thought, ideas decompose into stones of unknowing, and conceptual crystallizations break apart into deposits of gritty reason. — Robert Smithson

A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Will African-Americans break away from the pack thinking and reject immorality-- because that's the reason the family's breaking apart--alcohol, drugs, infidelity. You have to reject that, and it doesn't seem--and I'm broadly speaking here, but a lot of African-Americans won't reject it — Bill O'Reilly

Term Break Quotes

Long term, people who understand the underlying product and how to build it and can sell it, these are catnip to investors, these people can break down walls if they have enough energy, and they can get almost anything done. — Naval Ravikant

I think in terms of me shying away from modelling, I would like to clarify in some way that I was taking a break from many things in my life and obviously what people in the public see is that I'm pulling away from what is more public. — Gemma Ward

I think the Internet's been a tremendous tool in terms of breaking down the power structure of information and entertainment, particularly at a time when so much information and entertainment were in the hands of so few people, with multinationals owning everything. — Dave Foley

Breaking away quote Sometimes, a break from your routine is the very thing you need.
Sometimes, a break from your routine is the very thing you need.

Breaking the cycle takes time. Be Patient and Gentle with yourself. Set long term goals. And be persistent! Remember to Stretch, Laugh and be Unshakable! — Sathya Sai Baba

The World Wide Web is precisely what we were trying to PREVENT. We long ago foresaw the problems of one-way links, links that break (no guaranteed long-term publishing), no way to publish comments, no version management, no rights management. — Ted Nelson

Remember anything you want that's valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure. — Tony Robbins

Breaking away quote A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life
A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life throws at them.

In terms of the way people see me, it breaks down into two very clear and distinct groups: those who think they know me from reading the papers and those who really know me by reading my books. — David Icke

When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up, as were John and Christine. By the time Rumours was being recorded, things got worse in terms of psychology and drug use. It was a large exercise in denial - in order for me to get work done. — Lindsey Buckingham

The restaurant chefs in Spain are breaking ground, but in terms of the everyday cooking in Spain I still hear people coming back and saying they were disappointed. I think it's because they're expecting the chef stuff. — Sally Schneider

I would like to break out of this "dark, brooding" image, cause I'm actually not like that at all. In Ireland, brooding is a term we use for hens. A brooding hen is supposed to lay eggs. Everytime somebody says "He's dark and brooding" I think: "He's about to lay an egg". — Gabriel Byrne

When You Are Broke Quotes

My bank is the worst. They are screwing me. You know what they did to me? They're charging me money for not having enough money. Apparently, when you're broke, that costs money. — Louis C. K.

Get a sales tax, small on necessities and large on luxuries; then a stiff inheritance tax on the fellow that saves and don't spend. That will get him either way. A tax paid on the day you buy is not as tough as asking you for it the next year when you are broke. — Will Rogers

When Julia and I broke up and I was really scared to go into a market or anywhere because I thought, 'Oh God, everyone must hate me. And that wasn't the case. People said, 'I'm sorry this happened, man. Are you alright?' — Kiefer Sutherland

Breaking away quote It's okay to be a glowstick. Sometimes we have to break before we shine.
It's okay to be a glowstick. Sometimes we have to break before we shine.

I've done my time in being broke in Indonesia. Eating Goat soup. Australia's a developed country, you've got a lot of taxes, rents are high and its quite difficult to survive as an artist especially when you are just coming up. — Andrew Jack

Kid problems are when you're bummed because girls don't like you or something silly, but then you get older and people start dying and going broke and whatever. People get sick. When you get older these things just happen. — Patrick Stump

When you have your heart broken wide, you are also open to things of beauty as well as things of sadness. Once people are not here physically, the spiritual remains, we still connect, we can communicate, we can give and receive love and forgiveness. There is love after someone dies. — Sandra Cisneros

Breaking away quote You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.
You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

I'm not prejudiced about what type of movies I'm in, what form they take or whether they're studio or independent. I just want to make films that are going to be good. The main reason is not to make money, although at some points it's really difficult when you're broke. — Michael Pitt

When people don't know what you are, you get your heart broken daily. — Sayings

When you do a good turn you feel rich, even if you are broke. — Lionel Blue

You ever taunt me with Tasha again," she said in a harsh whisper when they broke the kiss to gasp for air, "and I will geld you." Raphael winced. "That would take at least a day to repair. Are you sure you want to lose my....attributes for that long? — Nalini Singh

Breaking Free Quotes

Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner! — Max Lucado

Freedom from slavery is achieved only when a person starts to feel and understand that he would prefer death to life as a slave. — Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. — Robert A. Heinlein

Breaking away quote The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.
The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. — Robert A. Heinlein

Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away. — Solon

Just practice good, do good for others, without thinking of making yourself known so that you may gain reward. Really bring benefit to others, gaining nothing for yourself. This is the primary requisite for breaking free of attachments to the Self. — Dogen

A kite can't really fly free,that's just an expression. In order to soar high in the sky the string of a kite needs to be anchored. If the string breaks the kite drops back to the ground. The kite's freedom depends on it not being as free as he thinks it is. — Simon Napier-Bell

I encourage breaking free of self inflicted holding pens. I encourage the use of intelligence in every decision. I encourage creating. — Erykah Badu

History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads. — Charles De Gaulle

Be faithful, be vigilant, be untiring in your efforts to break every yoke, and let the oppressed go free. Come what may - cost what it may - inscribe on the banner which you unfurl to the breeze, as your religious and political motto - "NO COMPROMISE WITH SLAVERY! NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS — William Lloyd Garrison

Walking Away Quotes

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. — Kahlil Gibran

When people walk away from you, let them go. Your destiny is never tied to anyone who leaves you, and it doesn't mean they are bad people. It just means that their part in your story is over. — T. D. Jakes

Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that who cares?... He's a mile away and you've got his shoes! — Billy Connolly

All I care about is that people are being entertained. It's not about being the world champion [in wrestling], it's about exciting the people. If you walk away entertained, then I did my job, and that's all I care about. — Randy Savage

Walk away from 'friendships' that make you feel small and insecure, and seek out people who inspire you and support you — Michelle Obama

I was born to catch dragons in their dens And pick flowers To tell tales and laugh away the morning To drift and dream like a lazy stream And walk barefoot across sunshine days. — James Kavanaugh

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from. - Vernon Howard

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from. — Vernon Howard

You have to love what you do, and you have to need it like you need air. And there's nothing else that would give me the same degree of satisfaction as acting, which is why I can't walk away from it. — Wentworth Miller

When they saw me in my space suit and the parachute dragging alongside as I walked, they started to back away in fear. I told them, don’t be afraid, I am a Soviet like you, who has descended from space and I must find a telephone to call Moscow! — Yuri Gagarin

If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing. — Chuck Yeager

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More Breaking Away Quotes

Men throw broken things away, but God never uses anything until he first breaks it. — Adrian Rogers

Don't let anything poison your individuality. Break away & look in, not outward. — Rodney Mullen

Not even a mighty warrior can break a frail arrow when it is multiplied and supported by its fellows. As long as you brothers support one another and render assistance to one another, your enemies can never gain the victory over you. But if you fall away from each other your enemy can brake you like frail arrows, one at a time. — Genghis Khan

It is the constant and determined effort that breaks down resistance and sweeps away all obstacles. — Claude M. Bristol

I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news — John Muir

A mother's love is something that no one can explain — It is made of deep devotion and of sacrifice and pain. It is endless and unselfish and enduring, come what may, For nothing can destroy it or take that love away. It is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, And it never fails or falters even though the heart is breaking. — Helen Steiner Rice

Art is the heart's explosion on the world. Music. Dance. Poetry. Art on cars, on walls, on our skins. There is probably no more powerful force for change in this uncertain and crisis-ridden world than young people and their art. It is the consciousness of the world breaking away from the strangle grip of an archaic social order. — Luis J. Rodriguez

Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break into pieces. — Etienne de La Boetie

If people say that here and there someone has been taken away and maltreated, I can only reply: You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. — Hermann Goring

I break away from all conventions that do not lead to my earthly success and happiness. — Anton Szandor LaVey

Your smile brightens the lives of all who see it. To someone who has seen a dozen people frown, scowl or turn their faces away, your smile is like the sun breaking through the clouds. — Dale Carnegie

Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play! — John Greenleaf Whittier

It's a lose-lose situation to get in a confrontation on the street. If you can break contact and get away, break contact and get away. That's what you should learn self-defense for. — Jocko Willink

Beethoven’s music always struck me. Always. He had this fire you know. I remember reading this story of him going deaf and pushing himself into self-isolation and that’s where he became himself. And to me that was, wow. Don’t let anything poison your individuality. Be away, break away and look in not outward. — Rodney Mullen

We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to Him; throwing away all defensive armour. If our hearts need to be broken, and if He chooses this as the way in which they should break, so be it. — C. S. Lewis

Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. — Maya Angelou

There is nothing more genuine than breaking away from the chorus to learn the sound of your own voice. — Po Bronson

Here is the paradox of the thing we call freedom: the farther we wander from God and the more we try to break free from him, the more enchained we become. Every step we take away from Him leads us farther from the freedom of Jesus and closer to the cruelty of Cain. — Steven James

It is not that we had any unfair knowledge that other people didn't have, it is just that we did our homework. People just don't want to believe that anyone can break away from the crowd and rise above mediocrity. — Paul Tudor Jones

The way to freedom is through service to others. The way to happiness is through meditation and being in tune with God... break the barriers of your ego, shed selfishness, free yourself from the consciousness of the body, forget yourself, do away with this prison house of incarnations, melt your heart in all, be one with creation. — Paramahansa Yogananda

Time is a factory where everyone slaves away earning enough love to break their own chains. — Hafez

If laws were real they wouldn’t need to be enforced, because if they were real they couldn’t be broken. Try breaking the law of gravity. Now that’s a law. Laws made by man are rules reflecting the current status of his moral codes. As he alters and whittles away his morality, casting bits and pieces aside, his codes change to reflect it. — Boyd Rice

The glass ceiling will go away when women help other women break through that ceiling. — Indra Nooyi

I may cry ruining my make up, Wash away all things you've taken.. I don't care if I don't look pretty, Big girls cry when their hearts are breaking. — Sia Furler

So I went to the Doctor's yesterday. He said, "What appears to be the problem?" I said, "I keep having this dream, night after night, beautiful girls rushing towards me and I keep pushing them away." He said, "How can I help?" I said: "Break my arms." — Tommy Cooper

The torments of hell abide for ever.... If all the earth and sea were sand, and every thousandth year a bird should come, and take away one grain of this sand, it would be a long time ere that vast heap of sand were emptied; yet, if after all that time the damned may come out of hell, there were some hope; but this word EVER breaks the heart. — Thomas Watson

Far over misty mountains cold To dungeons deep and caverns old We must away, ere break of day, To find our long-forgotten gold. — J. R. R. Tolkien

Each of us is a moving center, a space of divine mystery. And though we spend most of our time on the surface in the daily details of ordinary existence, most us hunger to connect to this space within, to break through to bliss, to be swept away into something bigger than us. — Gabrielle Roth

The essential thing about mothers is that one needs to know that they are there, particularly at that age when, paradoxically, one is trying so hard to break away from parental influence. — Margot Fonteyn

Perhaps one central reason for loving dogs is that they take us away from this obsession with ourselves. When our thoughts start to go in circles, and we seem unable to break away, wondering what horrible event the future holds for us, the dog opens a window into the delight of the moment. — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

I really can't break away from wearing black and leather! — Natalia Kills

It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go. — Jean Genet

We said that each time a country is liberated it is a defeat for the world imperialist system. But we must agree that the break is not achieved by the mere act of proclaiming independence or winning an armed victory in a revolution. It is achieved when imperialist economic domination over a people is brought to an end. — Che Guevara

We are empty shells if we do not possess, if we do not fill our life with furniture, with music, with knowledge, with this or that. And that shell makes a lot of noise, and that noise we call living, and with that we are satisfied. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was. — D. H. Lawrence

After their return from Babylon, the practice of human sacrifice died out among the Jews, but survived as an ideal in one of its break-away sects, which believed that God accepted the torture-sacrifice of an innocent man in exchange for not visiting a worse fate on the rest of humanity. The sect is called Christianity. — Steven Pinker

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. — Samuel Johnson

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