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  • Give me a break." -- John Stossel
  • Give me a break, I'm trying to Gratefully Condescend." -- Chloe Neill
  • With four-appetizer, four-entree menus, it's like, give me a break. That's not a restaurant, that's a dinner party." -- Joe Bastianich
  • If we must part forever,Give me but one kind word to think uponand please myself with, while my heart's breaking." -- Thomas Otway
  • Getting all emotionally wrapped up in made-up people's lives gives me a chance to take a break from my own life [...]." -- Arlaina Tibensky
  • Staying in luxury hotels still gives me a kick, especially Oulton Hall in Yorkshire. I'd stay in a hotel for the breakfast and room service." -- Jimmy Carr
  • The best advice I can give women at all levels is increase training. There are still areas where we have to break through that glass ceiling." -- Hilda Solis
  • But people in masks were always assholes. It was a scientific law. Give someone anonymity and all social niceties break down. The Internet had proven that." -- Chelsea Cain
  • Remember, I'm the only person her who's paid to be nice to you. But not too nice. Give me any lip and I'll break your face. OK?" -- Orson Scott Card
  • Anyway. Give me your ten.""I've had sex with more than ten women in one week."Cancun. Spring Break 2004. Mexico is awesome."Uck. Is that supposed to impress me?" -- Emma Chase
  • Give me a break. You're smart; you're capable. You even have a disturbing streak of honesty, which you occasionally acknowledge. And I suppose some people wouldn't mind looking at you.'" -- Tara Lain
  • Life is achievement....Give yourself an aim, something you want to do, then go after it, breaking through everything, with nothing in mind but your aim, all will, all concentration, and get it." -- Ayn Rand
  • Give me a reason, to end this discussion, to break with tradition, to fall and divide. So let's not get carried, away with the process, of healing relations, I don't want to waste your time!" -- Testy McTesterson
  • It's OK to do cute little things like kissing a turtle, but you can't kiss another person because he's a different color? Give me a break. And you have to remember, I'm from Dallas, Texas." -- Aaron Spelling
  • I don't give books as gifts. Books are extremely personal, and I would hate to give someone a book that they don't like or want, because it would break my heart if they didn't read it." -- Meg Cabot
  • A fire will burn itself out, unless you open a window and give it fuel.. And when flames are licking at your heels you've got to break a wall or two if you want to escape." -- Jodi Picoult
  • I often write two books simultaneously. Usually one of them starts out as a fun experiment designed to give me a daily break from the real book I'm writing. And then that becomes a real book too." -- Lauren Oliver
  • Stand up to an obstacle. Just stand up to it, that's all, and don't give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break, and it won't be you, it will be the obstacle." -- Norman Vincent Peale
  • We are ready to sacrifice our souls, our children and our families so as not to give up Iraq. We say this so no one will think that America is capable of breaking the will of the Iraqis with its weapons." -- Saddam Hussein
  • I certainly have routines in my day-to-day life that are important to me and still give me feelings of security and control, but the capacity to break out of them every so often as I travel has given me a second wind." -- Daniel Tammet
  • Hey, I know planet earth is dying. So what do you want me to say?Grumble? Give me a break! These all mean that we should live ourlife to love and to be loved while we still have some time to do that." -- Toba Beta
  • I can live a totally normal life and do everything I want to do just as long as I take my medication. My body will give me signals if it gets weak or fatigued, so I know when I need to take a break." -- Toni Braxton
  • Taking in and blowing out smoke? And now you see girls smoking cigars. It got to be such a fad. Girls on the covers of magazines, smoking cigars. Give me a break. I didn't want to be a part of that. I don't like 'popular.'" -- James Coburn
  • For God's sake, don't let her watch Cinderella. What kind of example is that? A mindless twit who can't even remember where she left her damn shoe, so she has to wait for some douchebag in tights to bring it to her? Give me a frigging break!" -- Emma Chase
  • Please don't give me words; give me a hug. Don't tell me that I'm holding up so well; break down with me and admit our shared wretchedness. Don't feign some bright mountaintop; walk with me through the dark valley where neither of us can utter a word." -- Robert Dykstra
  • Given the choice, a yeast cell's ideal state is to be diploid. But if it's in an environment with a lack of nutrients, you know what happens?The diploids break into haploids again. Solitary little haploids. Because, in a crisis, it's easier to survive as a single cell." -- Jeffrey Eugenides
  • That was really so upsetting when you are trying to pass on some very serious knowledge and be basically, treated worse than a student coming off the street because his father pays the tuition. Come on. Give me a break. This is no school. This is a joke." -- Miroslav Vitous
  • I give you a week, maybe two, before you're driven to bite someone.""I don't know how to... to bite or drink! But you could teach me.""And what could you possibly do in return?" Lothaire waved a negligent handPlay football for me? Break in my jeans really well?" -- Kresley Cole
  • I'm no spring chicken. The same arthritis that ate up my left hip that finally got replaced hasn't stopped there... And touring is a lot of work. I'm impressed when I see people like Eric Clapton out there. Gee whiz, Eric, give me a break! I know it's gotta hurt somewhere." -- Steve Perry
  • Language, at least, may give up the secrets of life and death, leading us through the maze to the original Word as monster or angel, to the mournful place where we may meet Job and hear his cry, 'How long will you vex my soul and break me in pieces with words?" -- Janet Frame
  • My Mom and Dad and brother have grown through the years into my closest friends, the people who tell me the most searing truth, who give me soft places to rest and present to me a bright future when the only one I can see from my vantage point is dim and breaking before my eyes." -- Shauna Niequist
  • ... without the incarnation, Christianity isn't even a very good story, and most sadly, it means nothingBe nice to one another" is not a message that can give my life meaning, assure me of love beyond brokenness, and break open the dark doors of death with the key of hope.The incarnation is an essential part of Jesus-shaped spirituality." -- Michael Spencer
  • All right. Let's give you something to tell your grandkids about. Or great-grandkids. Or great-great-grandkids." I snort with glee, delirious with excitement. Charlie winks and pours me another finger's worth of whiskey. Then, on second thought, he tips the bottle again. I reach out and grab its neckBetter not," I sayDon't want to get tipsy and break a hip." -- Sara Gruen
  • Just as you take care of the birds and the fields every morning, every morning I wind my own spring. I give it some thirty-six good twists by the time I've gotten up, brushed my teeth, shaved, eaten breakfast, changed my clothes, left the dorm, and arrived at the university. I tell myself, Ok, let's make this day another good one." -- Haruki Murakami
  • I will keep the law given by God; sanctioned by man. Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour; stringent are they; inviolate they shall be. If at my individual convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?" -- Charlotte Bronte
  • I'll give you your Christmas present now if you'll give me mine."I shook my headAt breakfast.""But it's Christmas now.""Breakfast.""Whatever you're giving me," she said, "I hope I don't like it.""You'll have to keep them anyway, because the man at the Aquarium said he positively wouldn't take them back. He said they'd already bitten the tails off the..." -- Dashiell Hammett
  • It is not at all coincidental that Darwinian psychology has the same difficulty explaining the unity and integration of human reasoning as Darwinian biology has explaining the unity and integration of irreducibly complex functions. Practical and theoretical reasoning is often irreducibly complex. A given argument has several well-matched, interacting reasons, and the removal of any one of them makes the argument break down." -- Angus Menuge
  • I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life." -- Jerry Lewis
  • Give me hunger,O you gods that sit and giveThe world its orders.Give me hunger, pain and want,Shut me out with shame and failureFrom your doors of gold and fame,Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger!But leave me a little love,A voice to speak to me in the day end,A hand to touch me in the dark roomBreaking the long loneliness." -- Carl Sandburg
  • How could you turn your back and walk off when there was so much left to say,How could you give up on me when it was nothing but just a evil phase,Why would you build boundaries when you knew they were going to break,Why wouldn't you come back as you know i will always cross your way cause this is real and not a mistake." -- Khushboo Suneja
  • Give me a break. -- John Stossel
  • Superheroes in New York, Give me a break! -- Stan Lee
  • Does anybody in this room really believe that [I win]? Give me a break. -- Donald Trump
  • I give in to nothing or nobody. Cut me, break my bones, it was all the same. -- Rocky Graziano
  • Pushing me away so I give her space, awww. Dealing wit a heart that I didn't break. -- Drake
  • With four-appetizer, four-entree menus, it's like, give me a break. That's not a restaurant, that's a dinner party. -- Joe Bastianich
  • Give me a break - They say taxes are inevitable, like death. At least death doesn't come every year. -- John Stossel
  • My acting technique is to look up at God just before the camera rolls and say, 'Give me a break.' -- James Caan
  • We actors always say how difficult and physically demanding a role was. But give me a break, it's only a movie. -- Javier Bardem
  • You can take my life, but you'll never break me. So bring me your worst... And I will definitely give you mine. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • Write to me and don't be so lazy. Otherwise I shall have to give you a thrashing. What fun! I'll break your head. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • You can give me 400,000 hostile people and I won't even break sweat. If you give me 200 adoring people, my mouth will dry out. -- Joni Mitchell
  • People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can. -- Jennifer Weiner
  • Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life. -- Jerry Lewis
  • Remember, I'm the only person her who's paid to be nice to you. But not too nice. Give me any lip and I'll break your face. OK? -- Orson Scott Card
  • You can't give up on me. If you give up, then I'm going to break into a million pieces. I'm here. I'll give you everything I've got. -- Caitlin Kittredge
  • Then you got Newt Gingrich up here who - didn't he leave his wife while she was dying to marry the next wife? Give me a break, Newt. -- Star Jones
  • The whole thing about whether you smoke marijuana or not is so ridiculous. That and whether you protested the Vietnam War. Give me a break. Especially the marijuana thing. -- Dave Barry
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