Break

Famous quotes containing the word break:

    Pluck down my officers, break my decrees,
    For now a time is come to mock at form.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Then there is confusion
    Even out of happiness, like a smoke
    The words get heavy, some topple over, you break others.
    And outlines disappear once again.
    John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act would ... be confined to one single deed from which we could never recover; we would remain the victims of its consequences forever, not unlike the sorcerer’s apprentice who lacked the magic formula to break the spell.
    Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)