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It was really a pleasure to play someone who's literally pushed past her breaking point repeatedly. -- Jeri Ryan
I love to play characters who are stuffy and nerdy who either then have a dark side or are pushed to a breaking point. -- Andy Daly
It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go to trying to prove their points take reason to its breaking point. -- Henry Rollins
I'm a filmmaker, so I always think: When is the breaking point? Sometimes you've got to go beyond the breaking point, and then you catch it. When is long enough? It's one of those things you have to look at, walk away, and go home and find out what it is. -- Steven Rodney McQueen
Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don't see it because we make it look so efficient. But internally, for a guy to be successful, you have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time. -- Dave Winfield
Make your breaking point your turning point. -- Dennis Kimbro
Just underneath your breaking point lies your true strength. -- Jennifer Tindugan-Adoviso
God knows your breaking point. You simply don't know your own strength. -- Swami Satchidananda
The Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder. -- Megan Whalen Turner
A program designed for inputs from people is usually stressed beyond breaking point by computer-generated inputs. -- Dennis Ritchie
Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible. -- Jean Genet
Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is -- Russell Baker
For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
In order to be the best, you have to know your breaking point-go to the edge of it, but never go beyond. -- Rebecca Twigg
I don't know about your true form, but the weight of your ego sure is pushing the crust of the earth toward the breaking point. -- Jim Butcher
Every painting has a weakness and a breaking point, where the essence of a painting lies. In my case it is never in the centre. -- Luc Tuymans
Each man has a breaking point, no matter how strong his spirit. Somewhere, deep inside him, there is a flaw that only the fickle cruelty of fate can find. -- David Gemmell
I think that cinema and television have nothing in common. There is a breaking point between photography and cinema on the one hand and television and virtual reality on the other hand. -- Paul Virilio
There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation. -- Brian Ferneyhough
That morning each of us found a breaking point. Not only a physical barrier, but a point where determination, stamina and duty clashed and were overcome not so much by pain but by absurdity. -- Stefan Kieszling
Taoism means streching your being, becoming both a man and a woman and joining within yourself, to be the heavens themselves, to stretch your awareness beyond the breaking point until all opposites are reconciled within yourself. -- Frederick Lenz
Again and again our Lord allows the world to crumble to the breaking point, so that people may feel the pain and learn to understand their place in the universe under a sovereign and loving Creator. -- Justin Steckbauer
Endure, put up with whatever comes your way, learn to overcome weakness and pain, push yourself to breaking point but never cave in. If you don't learn that lesson, you'll never succeed as an elite athlete. -- Toni Nadal
Population growth is straining the Earth's resources to the breaking point, and educating girls is the single most important factor in stabilizing that. That, plus helping women gain political and economic power and safeguarding their reproductive rights. -- Al Gore
I felt like I was at that breaking point. I just prayed and took my mind off of dreams - I went to church. I felt like a lot of things came together. I'm not perfect but I strive to be. -- Boi-1da
Everyone has a breaking point, Riley. He hit his long time ago. But you didn't. He smiled and sqeezed her hand.'Because of you.' Weaving his arm around her waist, they walked up the stairs in tandem. - Riley Blackthorne and Paul Blackthorne -- Jana Oliver
All my life, I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and to console mankind. -- Nikos Kazantzakis
All my life I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and to console mankind. -- Nikos Kazantzakis
Borderlines create the vicious circles they fear most. They become angry and drive the relationship to the breaking point, then switch to a posture of helplessness and contrition, beg for reconciliation. If both parties are equally enmeshed, chaos and conflict become the soul of the relationship. -- Theodore Millon
With the Roxbury guys (on 'Saturday Night Live'), I think the breaking point was when Stallone came on and wanted to do the sketch just because. And we're, like, 'Well, now we've got to create a story, so, what, are we bopping our heads with Rocky? What are we doing?' -- Chris Kattan
I'm interested in that thing that happens where there's a breaking point for some people and not for others. You go through such hardship, things that are almost impossibly difficult, and there's no sign that it's going to get any better, and that's the point when people quit. But some don't. -- Robert Redford
I'm the type of person who can get a feel for what you need and what I need to do to push you to get you to a breaking point, where you realize that you can't go on this way anymore, that the reason you're heavy is because you're ignoring all the stuff that's going on inside. -- Cara Castronuova
Change is more often a rapid transition between two stable states than a continuous transformation at slow and steady rates. . . .Change occurs in large leaps following a slow accumulation of stress that a system resists until it reaches the breaking point. Heat water, and it eventually boils. Oppress the workers more and more and bring on the revolution. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Growing terrorism, permissive societies, democracy collapsing through lack of law and order. If things continue on their present track, the disintegration of Western societies will occur much sooner than you think under the hammer blows of fascism and communism. Freedom is not something that does not have a breaking point, and your enemies would like you to reach that point. -- Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
He and his wife loved each other and brought each other daily pain. Everything else he was doing in his life, even his longing for Lalitha, amounted to little more than flight from circumstance. He and Patty couldn't live together and couldn't imagine living apart. Each time he thought they'd reached the unbearable breaking point, it turned out that there was still further they could go without breaking. -- Jonathan Franzen
At some point, Moore's law will break down. -- Seth Lloyd
There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily. -- J. Carter Brown
I'd got to a point where I wanted a break. -- Simon Armitage
My break in Bollywood is definitely the high point of my life. -- Shreya Ghoshal
I want my characters to really overuse their coping mechanisms to the point where they break down within 300 pages. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Point Break' is a movie that I and all of my friends grew up loving, watching all the time, quoting, living and being. -- Luke Bracey
At 32, I kind of thought I was past the point where I was gonna get a break that really changed my life overnight. -- Allison Tolman
I've always been proud of the fact that I can hold it together and I rarely break. It's a point of pride for me. -- Justin Long
I've reached a point in my career when I can demand certain conditions, and one of them is a weekend break every three weeks during the shoot. -- Rhys Ifans
Nevertheless, the realization that breaking a pencil point would have far less disastrous consequences played little or no role, I believe, in this decision to explore theory! -- Rudolph A. Marcus
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then. -- Lord Byron
Speed' and 'Point Break' were a lot of running and jumping, and then 'The Matrix Trilogy' had a lot of fights and wire work and green screen elements. -- Keanu Reeves
You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school. -- David James Elliott
The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula. -- Branford Marsalis
I would love to be nominated for an award at some point or do something that at least engenders the type of cultural conversation that a role like Giancarlo Esposito on 'Breaking Bad,' or actually any of the people on 'Breaking Bad.' I would love to have a role in a feature film that was a cultural talking point. -- Stephen Amell
There's a great book about that, "The Breaking Point" by Stephen Koch . It won't improve your opinion of [Ernest] Hemingway. -- George Packer
Matter is merely mind deadened by the development of habit to the point where the breaking up of these habits is very difficult. -- Rupert Sheldrake
The point was living with grace, decency, and attention to the world, and breaking free of the artificial constructs in your own life. -- Scott Jurek
My heart should be breaking, too, but there comes a point when youâ??re so inured to loss that you no longer feel the lash. -- Ann Aguirre

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