Quotes for All
Once committed to an attack, fly in at full speed. After scoring crippling or disabling hits, I would clear myself and then repeat the process. I never pursued the enemy once they had eluded me. Better to break off and set up again for a new assault. I always began my attacks from full strength, … Read more
You have to have short fingernails or they’d just break off, and you can’t wear red polish – it looks like your fingers are bleeding. Elizabeth Smart
We break off obsession by laughing at ourselves, by learning to be funny, by just seeing the joy in life and by having a terrific love for this world. Frederick Lenz
Watching 40 mile chunks of ice break off of Antarctica will change your life forever, but realizing that driving a car, or flying a plane, or having a nice steak, or drinking from a plastic bottle all contributed to the destruction of the environment – it’s a bit complex, but music needs to pave the … Read more
As an example of just how useless these philosophers are for any practice in life there is Socrates himself, the one and only wise man, according to the Delphic Oracle. Whenever he tried to do anything in public he had to break off amid general laughter. While he was philosophizing about clouds and ideas, measuring … Read more
To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off Christopher Hitchens
A Frenchwoman, when double-crossed, will kill her rival; the Italian woman would rather kill her deceitful lover; the Englishwoman simply breaks off relations-but they all will console themselves with another man. Charles Boyer
Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it. Aristotle
If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again. Aristophanes
The Amoeba?” she asked Aiden. “The gang,” he said, tossing his hand to indicate all around. “My people. A large amorphous mass that keeps on changing size, hasn’t much apparent use, sometimes makes you sick, and occasionally breaks off into smaller parts that act exactly like the parent. Annette Curtis Klause