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Be relentless and then you'll break through. -- Downtown Julie Brown
If you're not controversial, you'll never break through the din of all the commentary. -- Roger Stone
Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means. -- Theodor Adorno
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. -- Jonathan Swift
No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it. -- Zola Jesus
You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through. -- Ilya Ehrenburg
This lie of political correctness is bringing this country down. You just want to break through it all. -- Jon Voight
No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart. -- Nancy Thayer
I don't think I have thick skin, but I heal fast. It's easy to break through, but I heal fast. -- Trevor Noah
Some candidates need to say provocative things that make noise to break through the media muffle and get themselves noticed. -- John Podhoretz
The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime. -- Alma Gluck
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them. -- Anacharsis
Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it. -- William Shenstone
What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind. -- Vernon Howard
Be relentless and then you'll break through. -- Downtown Julie Brown
With persistent perseverance, you can break through any barrier. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
We've got to be able to break through the barrier of logic -- Bob Proctor
We've got to break through the wall of secrecy. It's America's fate. -- Helen Thomas
Love can give a person strength to break through glamours and magicks. -- Melissa Marr
Just before you break through the sound barrier, the cockpit shakes the most. -- Chuck Yeager
The past is always knocking at the door, trying to break through into today. -- Neil Gaiman
Every year, I'm depressed that so few of the documentaries I've loved break through. -- David Edelstein
Poetry, like dreams, will eventually break through every person's consciousness, even the tightest iconoclast's. -- Sheila Bender
The glass ceiling will go away when women help other women break through that ceiling. -- Indra Nooyi
It's hard to break through the clutter of fighters out there trying to get attention. -- Larry Merchant
What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through! -- Thomas Carlyle
To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater. -- Antonin Artaud
We must break through the provincial crust if we are to reach the core of all-India nationalism. -- Mahatma Gandhi
You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen. -- Don DeLillo
The noise distorts the truth but we can break through, we need to base our foundation upon the Rock. -- Eric Samuel Timm
Keep your life so constantly in touch with God that His surprising power can break through at any point. -- Oswald Chambers
God only knows how much I'd love you if you let me, but I can't break through at all. -- John Mayer
Remember anything you want that's valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure. -- Tony Robbins
You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path. -- Les Brown
The human spirit must transcend number and break through multiplicity, and God will break through him; and just as He -- Meister Eckhart
You've got to break through this idea of being light as a ballerina. The heavier you'll feel, the lighter you'll look. -- Gelsey Kirkland
If you want your dream more than you have to have people's affirmation, that's how you break through your border bullies. -- Bruce Wilkinson
Rock is fine. No structural damage to rock. Rock can break through paper at any point. Just say the word. Paper sucks. -- Demetri Martin
Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape. -- Solon
Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them. -- Isadora Duncan
When we learn new behaviors and break through to higher levels of consciousness and love, we can fulfill the deeper spiritual hunger within. -- Judith Wright
Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession. -- Georg Simmel
Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. -- Mary Shelley
Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. -- Mary Shelley
In my own work I am invested in art as a way to break through impasses, whether those impasses are personal, social, or political. -- Jill Soloway
A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising. -- Robert Morgan
There's the space that you soar into, the space that you sometimes break through to, and hang in. A sort of gasp or gap. -- Selima Hill
My books are more about people experimenting with different identities and social models in a short-term way before they can break through to something authentic. -- Chuck Palahniuk
If you don't break a hole through the brick wall, don't just start digging a new hole. Keep going until you break through that wall. -- Russell Simmons
That's what really seems to be the more difficult aspect - to have the men break through and challenge the best players in the world. -- Michael Chang
I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making. -- Akio Morita
It is you who must someday break through the protective polish of who you are, to become naked and powerful to who you can truly be. -- Carew Papritz
The organic laws of construction tangled me in my desires, and only with great pain, effort, and struggle did I break through these 'walls around art. -- Wassily Kandinsky
My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function. -- Zola Jesus
It is only by questioning what people take for granted, what people hold to be true, that we can break through the hypnosis of social conditioning. -- Deepak Chopra
I have been very, very consistent. But at the same time I kept kind of hitting my head on the ceiling and I couldn't break through. -- Jay Haas
I'm constantly striving to break through to something new. You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself. -- Al Pacino
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
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
(After the losses) I decided I had to break through. I had to set a goal. My goal that I set was to never be pinned. -- Kyle Maynard
Remakes, in general, are a result of necessity being the mother of invention. They can't open movies consistently and break through the advertising clutter that's out there. -- John Carpenter
I wish I could find people who just would fight me and break through to me and hold me down and scream their life into my face. -- Angelina Jolie
If you want to move to a new level in your life, you must break through your comfort zone and practice doing things that are not comfortable. -- T. Harv Eker
Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away. -- Solon
One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through. -- Francis Bacon
I'm like a twenty-two-year-old kid in a new band trying to get noticed and break through, because the vast majority of people have never seen me play live. -- John Fogerty
The journalist's job is to get the story by breaking into their offices, by bribing, by seducing people, by lying, by anything else to break through the palace guard. -- Robert Scheer
It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with. -- Marat Safin
Tennis's beauty's infinite roots are self-competitive. You compete with your own limits to transcend the self in imagination and execution. Disappear inside the game: break through limits: transcend: improve: win. -- David Foster
Now and then, when I look round on my books, they seem to waver as if a wind rippled their solid mass, and another world were about to break through. -- George MacDonald
We are either going to dissolve as a human race or we are going to break through into a new understanding of what it is to be a human being. -- Terry Riley
A lot of artists start out as failed poets, then move on to being failed short-story writers before they finally break through to the big time and become failed novelists. -- Gary Reilly
I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show. -- D. B. Sweeney
I'm like a twenty two year old kid in a new band trying to get noticed and break through, because the vast majority of people have never seen me play live. -- John Fogerty
There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power. -- Karen Nussbaum
The affected modesty of most women is a decoy for the generous, the delicate, and unsuspecting; while the artful, the bold, and unfeeling either see or break through its slender disguises. -- William Hazlitt
...the routine of life goes on, whatever happens, we do the same things, go through the little performance of eating, sleeping, washing. No crisis can break through the crust of habit. -- Daphne du Maurier
To write good SF today...you must push further and harder, reach deeper into your own mind until you break through into the strange and terrible country wherein live your own dreams. -- Gardner Dozois
I'm very inspired by personal transformation. I'm so inspired when people who have been living with or struggling against significant obstacles break through and reach the other side of that challenge victoriously. -- Edwina Findley
People were concerned about national security, and that precluded us from having the opportunity to break through on the issues that we cared most about - the economy, education and health care. -- Tom Daschle
Paradoxically, the more you are yourself, the more universal your message. As you develop and individuate more deeply, you break through into deeper layers of the collective consciousness and the collective unconsciousness. -- Stephen Nachmanovitch
A crafty enemy will set a weak ambush you are meant to break through. Confident because you have dealt with the threat, your guard relaxed, you walk into the second, stronger ambush. -- Robert Jordan
I have an expression I say a lot: I'm in a hurry. There's suffering on this planet that is so easy to break through if the mind is open to doing so. -- Byron Katie
Love was never meant to be contained solely in our hearts, just as life in a seed was always meant to break through into the world and become beauty to be shared. -- Forrest Curran
Humanity is the start of the race; I say Humanity is the mould to break away from, the crust to break through, the coal to break into fire, The atom to be split. -- Robinson Jeffers
That's what I try to do as a writer and as the editor of HuffPost: cover important stories in an obsessive way that enables them to break through the din of our multimedia universe. -- Arianna Huffington
It's not all that different with the orchestra. There are orchestras that seem to be encased in dough, so that first you have to break through the normal routine, and clear out the openings. -- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
When independent films break through and actually make it into any level of mainstream-ness or get seen by people or find a life actually in theaters, it's extraordinary. And it doesn't happen that often. -- Karen Allen
One of the wonderful aspects of the human imagination is its power to break through the barriers of time and space. It can see things not as they are but as the can be. -- Denis Waitley
You know the way trees break through the canopy in the rainforest and they go from having this tiny column of light to having all this light - the Internet is kind of like that. -- John Collison
So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents, or kids belong to their families, and recognize that kids belong to whole communities. -- Melissa Harris-Perry
Cry to god. If you do that just for a couple minutes with your whole being, just like a child who so badly wants a cookie. You will break through the barrier of the mind. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments. When you're headed for a breakthrough moment, it's kind of scary because you say, 'If I break through then I have to make great change in my life.' -- Dane Cook
You are trying to pierce the veil, to break through the Frisbee so that it doesn't exist, to break through the football so it doesn't exist, and to break through your opponent so they don't exist. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ghost Dog: In the words of the ancients, one should make his decision within the space of seven breaths. It is a matter of being determined and having the spirit to break through to the other side. -- Jim Jarmusch
The wretch that fears to drown, will break through flames; Or, in his dread of flames, will plunge in waves. When eagles are in view, the screaming doves Will cower beneath the feet of man for safety. -- Colley Cibber
When you are gripped by fear in the face of an experience that will take you beyond your comfort zone, you may be at a point of supreme opportunity. You can either break down or break through. -- Robert Moss
Don't give up.I know you've made a thousand attempts to reach your goal, but look at it this way: after repeatedly banging your head against the wall, you ought to be numb enough break through this time. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
Through all the darkness, through all the shame of which men are capable, the spirit of man will remain alive on this earth. It may sleep, but it will awaken. It may wear chains, but it will break through. -- Ayn Rand
People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena. To see one in all and all in one is to break through the great barrier which narrows one's perception of reality. -- Nhat Hanh
His angry expression softens, and then he shoves my shoulder playfully. "Hey!" I push him back, to which he retaliates until I'm finally smiling. I love how we can do that--break through the misery to always find each other. -- Suzanne Young
Marvel's got a crowded universe, and there are already so many characters hogging the spotlight that it's hard to break through that. First off, whatever character you're creating, odds are, there's already someone similar in one way or another. -- Kurt Busiek
Let us break through some of the inhibitions that have existed to talk together across the flimsy lines of separation of faith, to talk together, to study together, to pray together, and ultimately to sing together His Holy name. -- Joe Lieberman
The Beatles had some juice when it came to distortion, but Clapton was finally able to break through those early studio engineers' fear of overloading. He defined the sound that guitarists spend the rest of their lives trying to get. -- Joe Perry
It occurred to me then that it was in times of struggle that I found the best parts of myself - courage, loyalty, an unexpected peace - and I always discovered what I needed to break through and go on. -- Patrick Carman
Men with common minds seldom break through general rules. Prudence is ever the resort of weakness; and they rarely go as far as as they may in any undertaking, who are determined not to go beyond it on any account. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
When I started, rock and roll itself was the basic revolution to people of my age and situation. We needed something loud and clear to break through all the unfeeling and repression that had been coming down on us kids. -- John Lennon
I'm in favor of destruction, aggression, hating things. Not bearing things anymore. We think the breakdown comes because our life is in bad shape. But maybe the ideas cause the disorder. Something tries to break through and causes the disorder. -- James Hillman
Not even God can make something fair out of what is intrinsically unfair. Only one thing can be done. Something must break through the crust of unfairness and create a chance for a new fairness. Only forgiveness can make the breakthrough. -- Lewis B. Smedes
I have... had a disturbing dream in which I break through a cave wall near Nag Hammadi and discover urns full of ancient Coptic scrolls. As I unfurl the first scroll, a subscription card to some Gnostic exercise magazine flutters out. -- Colin McEnroe
If I dream that I'm directing, it's not a film, it's like a commercial for cotton candy, and I've got four feet of cotton candy all around me that I've got to break through, like a brick wall or a fortress. -- Mike Birbiglia
The overall campaign launch is designed to break through the clutter and reach out to consumers. At the end of the day, consumers are the ones who benefit from the convenience and value never before seen in a free checking account. -- Chris Matthews
I'm just a butterfly, a mourning cloak, sealed inside a cocoon with blnd eyes and stiky wings. And suddenly I wonder if the cocoons sometimes do not open, if the butterfly inside is ever simply not strong enough to break through. -- Ally Condie
Usually, if you have a new idea, you very rarely break through to anything like recognizable development or implementation of that idea the first time around - it takes two or three goes for the research community to return to the topic. -- Martin Fleischmann
Hundreds and thousands of young people around the world can break through and can make this a better world for all living things. Once young people know the problems and are empowered to act, they have great power to impact the world. -- Jane Goodall
When love is our guiding light, we can break through barriers to be of loving service to the world. Gaining the courage and confidence to stand up for what you believe in is not always easy, but it's fully within your reach. -- Marianne Williamson
Precedents are treated by powerful minds as fetters with which to bind down the weak, as reasons with which to mistify the moderately informed, and as reeds which they themselves fearlessly break through whenever new combinations and difficult emergencies demand their highest efforts. -- Charles Babbage
The purpose is to be in gratitude forever. Live with applied consciousness, prosperity will break through the walls, flood you with it. You do prayer when you are in difficulty. Pray when you are not in difficulty! That is the attitude of gratitude. -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
No one wants to sell to just 12% of the population for the entire length of their careers. It creates a difficult and less-profitable environment. But Hollywood has lived with that limiting mantra, and only a few black stars have managed to break through. -- Russell Simmons

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