#break

People break down after a couple of hours. All the defenses go down, and there's a kind of communication that if I spent 20 years in a living room with one of these people, I would never, never know as much about them as I do in that one day. ↗

— Lee Grant

#after #break #communication #couple #day

Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres. ↗

— John Dryden

#breaking #down #perseveres #shame #spirit

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity. ↗

— Isadora Duncan

#breaker #capable #certainly #commandments #first

Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine. ↗

— George Gurdjieff

#change #every #habit #machine #produces

But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it's by way of heartbreak, sometimes it's by way of injustice, sometimes it's by way of fate. There's an infinite number of ways to examine it. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#deal #examine #fate #finite number #great

Strong efforts may be made to deny the place, to silence the authentic, but the spirit of things will break through that silence. ↗

— John Haynes

#break #deny #efforts #made #may

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#breach #break #break up #dine #engagements

Last month, the House of Representatives passed the Veterans Opportunity to Work Act, which would provide training and assistance to unemployed veterans, and break down bureaucratic barriers preventing them from finding work. It's smart legislation that members of both parties support, and I'm pleased the Senate passed it. ↗

— Joe Heck

#assistance #barriers #both #break #bureaucratic

It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#deep #enforced #gnawing #heartbreaking #idleness

Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#broken #every #family #heartbreak #heavy