#break

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#breaking #destroying #devised #different #down

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

#away #before #breaking #felicity #flights

It might have been easier to retire, to say my knee couldn't handle it and let that be that. At the same time, the prospect of not being able to compete in gymnastics anymore was heartbreaking. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#anymore #been #being #compete #easier

It's funny, though, because when I first started going to races after we met, I was extremely nervous. It's like being backstage and hoping you don't trip over something or break an amp or accidentally speak into a live microphone, so I was really hesitant. ↗

— Ashley Judd

#after #amp #backstage #because #being

I don't think God cares if I wear nail polish or not. I don't think that's a deal breaker for him. ↗

— Sofia Vergara

#cares #deal #god #him #i

We are losing our superstars like Johnny and June Carter Cash and that breaks my heart. ↗

— Wynonna Judd

#carter #cash #heart #johnny #june

My number one inspiration was my mother. She worked two jobs and had breakfast and dinner prepared. I essentially called my mother, The Lion. She's fierce and she's proud. I'd like to think some of that rubbed off on me. ↗

— Christopher Judge

#called #dinner #essentially #fierce #had

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#art #becomes #beyond #boundaries #breaking

In Hollywood, what they last saw you in is what you are. It's hard to break away from that. ↗

— Chris Kattan

#break #hard #hollywood #last #saw

Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even. ↗

— Maynard James Keenan

#even #half #just #like #million