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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres. -- John Dryden
There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood. -- Charles Dickens
The truth of human freedom lies in the love that breaks down barriers. -- JÃ¼rgen Moltmann
Every generation deals with the breaking down of its tradition, and I think that they rediscovered the film. -- Norman Jewison
It is so easy to break down and destroy. The heroes are those who make peace and build. -- Nelson Mandela
Seek the ones who never stop caring, who break down your walls, and help you come back to yourself -- Yasmin Mogahed
I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers. -- Nat King Cole
Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door. -- Brooke Shields
One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody. -- Alvin Ailey
We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety. -- John Lubbock
Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the breaking down of tradition. -- Norman Jewison
Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe. -- W. Averell Harriman
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. -- Oprah Winfrey
I find that through the sad times, work is what made my continuing, not breaking down, possible. In work, I was always someone else and I subconsciously reveled in that. -- Lauren Bacall
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
I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions. And the fact that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate these basic human emotions. -- Mark Rothko
You don't want to move toward some utopian literary situation where everybody's free of all conventions. That's ridiculous! Conventions are what you need. You have nothing to break down if you don't have conventions. -- Lev Grossman
The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that. -- Oscar Peterson
Your relationship may be Breaking Up, but you won't be Breaking Down. If anything your correcting a mistake that was hurting four people, you and the person your with, not to mention the two people who you were destined to meet. -- D. Ivan Young
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
Women are leaders everywhere you look - from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. Our country was built by strong women and we will continue to break down walls and defy stereotypes. -- Nancy Pelosi
At the beginning of a novel, a writer needs confidence, but after that what's required is persistence. These traits sound similar. They aren't. Confidence is what politicians, seducers and currency speculators have, but persistence is a quality found in termites. It's the blind drive to keep on working that persists after confidence breaks down. -- Walter Kirn
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
We should be breaking down barriers, not building walls. -- Ted Cruz
This body is breaking down, but I am not. -- Ann Brashares
A great sculpture can roll down a hill without breaking. -- Michelangelo
Breaking tasks down into smaller sub-tasks can be very useful. -- James Surowiecki
When you feel yourself breaking down, may you break open instead. -- Elizabeth Lesser
Once you have your basics down, you can start breaking the rules. -- Tom Colicchio
The system might be breaking down but something else is breaking through. -- Mark Victor Hansen
Iowans do understand the importance of breaking down barriers and increasing international trade. -- Terry Branstad
I'm sorry for breaking down when I should've been stitching myself back up -- Real Friends
People who have been initiated broke through in what felt like breaking down. -- Richard Rohr
Not worrying is a skill. It's a skill not breaking down every single moment. -- John Mayer
Break a leg up there, and I'll be down here hopefully breaking someone elses. -- Cassandra Clare
I cannot read a fortune cookie without breaking down and crying. I am sensitive. -- Thom Yorke
As actors, we're a little faster than other people, with breaking down the walls. -- Paula Malcomson
My entire life has been devoted to breaking down barriers, to finding common ground. -- Edward Brooke
To speak against religion (the Christian) is breaking down the bond of good government. -- James L. Petigru
The concept of the strong linkage to the family is breaking down in Western nations. -- Azim Premji
I can forgive the body breaking down. It's a little tougher to forgive that mental lapse. -- Hale Irwin
I believe that the dissolution of a marriage comes about by the breaking down of self-esteem. -- Dixie Carter
I'm still getting to the good part / the breaking down / learning how to write my story. -- Lucy Hale
The struggles I'm facing The chances I'm taking Sometimes might knock me down But no, I'm not breaking. -- Miley Cyrus
I know that I'm breaking down barriers. And I know that in the end I'm doing a great thing. -- Hope Solo
My strength is breaking people down. I may not outrun or outsize you, but I will make you miss. -- Priest Holmes
Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down. -- Daniel Dennett
I support the world and love everybody. It's about spreading love and breaking down barriers, not building up hate. -- Lil B
When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. -- Gordon Sinclair
The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas. -- David Bailey
My favourite job hands down - and I think I can speak for everyone involved - was 'Breaking Bad.' -- Aaron Paul
Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. -- Nelson Mandela
It's the kind of democratization of the Internet that has led to the breaking down of barriers into the creative arts. -- Kevin Spacey
It's not about breaking down borders. It's about pushing off of them, and seeing what amazing places they might bring us. -- Amy Purdy
Teachers today are breaking down obstacles, finding innovative ways to instill old lessons, proving that greatness can be found in everyday places. -- Taylor Mali
Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities. -- Jared Polis
Nothing on earth is so weak and yielding as water, but for breaking down the firm and strong it has no equal. -- Laozi
When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you've always got a different ache or pain. -- Tom Petty
Paul Jewell's sides are always hard to break down, although Manchester United have a habit of breaking his sides down pretty easily. -- Charlie Nicholas
The only reason I've shared my story is to take that tiny baby step of breaking down the stigma attached to depression. -- Clara Hughes
This is the way the world ends; not with a bang or a whimper, but with zombies breaking down the back door. -- Amanda Hocking
Don't you feel a change a coming From another side of time, Breaking down the walls of silence, Lifting shadows from your mind. -- Cat Stevens
For lack of a better word, acting is therapeutic. You really are breaking down barriers, exorcising demons and finding more out about yourself. -- Charlie Bewley
In a lot of ways Berlin is a symbol for me of Facebook's mission: bringing people together, connecting people and breaking down boundaries. -- Mark Zuckerberg
Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful. -- Annie Leibovitz
And I got out of there without punching anyone, kicking anyone, or breaking down in tears. Some days the small victories are all you achieve. -- Molly Ringle
I remember my dad working with me on breaking down my script and writing out a back story for my character and all that stuff. -- Jason Bateman
I thought of breaking down the door, but there's nothing left to say. That Chevy four by four says it all, sitting in my place. -- Rhett Akins
We have to seek the essence of all religions; then we can see how spirituality actually unites us and empowers us instead of breaking us down. -- Radhanath Swami
Then a lawyer said, But what of our laws, master? And he answered: 'You delight in laying down laws. Yet you delight more in breaking them. -- Khalil Gibran
The U.S. incarceration binge is not tied to crime. It's a strategy to control the surplus population in a capitalist system that is breaking down. -- Jerry Brown
At its core, 90 percent of my job is still sitting down in a room full of people, and breaking stories... and that requires virtually no technology. -- Steven Levitan
But at its core, 90 percent of my job is still sitting down in a room full of people, and breaking storiesand that requires virtually no technology. -- Steven Levitan
No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the States and compounding the American people into one common mass. -- John Marshall
The process of breaking down fear was always my greatest challenge and it was made easier by the careful work and gentle voices of my female workers. -- Muhammad Yunus
There can be few situations more fearful than breaking down in darkness on the highway leading to Casablanca. I have rarely felt quite so vulnerable or alone. -- Tahir Shah
Writing must be a machine for breaking down, that is, allowing the now uncontrolled and uncontrollable reconstitutions of thoughts and expressions. All other kinds of writing simply express. -- Kathy Acker
Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale. -- David Bohm
We all know about the car breaking down on a deserted road scenario. That's clichÃ©. I'm thinking more of Cider with Rosie, as in, the dark side. -- Quentin S. Crisp
I'm mortal. You really don't want me falling down stairs and breaking my neck." "I'd catch you," he assured her solemnly. "I'll always be there to catch you, Inez. -- Lynsay Sands
You've been busy using your breaking and entering skills," I said. "I just enter. I don't usually break." "You broke down Pitch's door." "Lost my temper." -Ranger and Stephanie -- Janet Evanovich
I really just like breaking down the barriers, whether it means doing an album with Linkin Park, an album with R. Kelly, or playing at the Brandenburg Gate with Bono. -- Jay-Z
I never used to see anything on TV where the man was in the weaker position. It was always the female showing emotion, breaking down, being emotionally torn apart by men. -- Sharon Horgan
Once you feel the desire to engage, think about what you're good at and what you can contribute. It's about breaking down the idea that there are activists and ordinary people. -- Avi Lewis
Why are you breaking down, incidentally? I mean if you're able to go into a collapse with all your might, why can't you use the same energy to stay well and busy? -- J. D. Salinger
I'm all for sharing music, but when people can download a whole record and pay nothing for it and then they share it with 100,000 other people, it's breaking down the whole business. -- Richie Sambora
The music, the prayers, the bowing and rising, the incense--all of it was breaking down my defenses. That's what good liturgy does. It breaks your heart open and turns you toward God. -- Fred Bahnson
Coming to know one another based on a shared humanity through dialogue is the key to breaking down the walls of isolation and reversing the decline of life-to-life bonds among human beings. -- Vinessa Shaw
"?In every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature's way of forcing change - breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that something new and better can take their place. -- Susan L. Taylor
Frontline love. It is our one hope for breaking down barriers and for restoring the sense of community, of caring for one another, that our decadent, impersonalized culture has sucked out of us. -- Charles Colson
I wanted to take nouvelle cuisine further, to the point where we were breaking down the essence of taste and sensation, reconfiguring food as a series of really intense hits on the tongue. -- Ferran Adria
The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine. -- Ernest Rutherford
Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down. -- Frances McDormand
The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and The Yiddish Policemen's Union. He's a writer who's determined to break down genre barriers. He's done amazing things. -- George R. R. Martin
The line between inner and outer landscapes is breaking down. Earthquakes can result from seismic upheavals within the human mind. The whole random universe of the industrial age is breaking down into cryptic fragments. -- William S. Burroughs
There is no modern prototype for a campus. You have to have a completely different model which has to do with transparency and exposing social connectivity and breaking down the Balkanization that happens departmentally. -- Thom Mayne
Paul patted Mrs. O'Leary's snout. The living room shook "?BOOM, BOOM, BOOM"?which either meant a SWAT team was breaking down the door or Mrs. O'Leary was wagging her tail. I couldn't help but smile. -- Rick Riordan
While our country has made great strides in breaking down the barriers which for so long denied equal opportunity to all Americans, we are not yet the beautiful symphony of brotherhood of Dr. King's dream. -- Adam Schiff
There's nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you're not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I'm the worst. I'm the worst at that. -- Tom Waits
De-radicalisation begins by breaking down the logic which once seemed unassailable and rethinking what you are fighting for and why. That is hard to do when Islamists and Islamophobes feed off each other's hateful cliches. -- Maajid Nawaz
What was so interesting about the glam era was that it was about bisexuality and breaking down the boundaries between gays and straights, breaking down the boundaries between masculinity and femininity with this androgyny thing. -- Todd Haynes

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