You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.
I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly.
Social Security is a promise that we cannot and must not break.
When I first went on tour with PJ in '98, I was still in shock having gone through the Soundgarden break up.
I'm not going to break up my family, not for a book.
We must break up the eurozone. We must set those Mediterranean countries free.
I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect.
When I started work at Simon & Schuster in 1958, each of us got a bronze paperweight on which was written, in raised type, 'Give the reader a break,' Richard E. Simon.
I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.
One night, militia tried to break into our home, and the exterior was riddled with bullets.
Antioxidants are chemicals that break down or neutralize the damaging effects of free radicals - chemicals produced as a byproduct of normal cellular metabolism.
A bowler can make or break a chap.
What we did with 'Tai Chi Zero' and 'Tai Chi Hero' was break down the martial-arts genre and make it younger, hipper, and kind of cooler for the younger kids.
If you're not controversial, you'll never break through the din of all the commentary.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
It's a lose-lose situation to get in a confrontation on the street. If you can break contact and get away, break contact and get away. That's what you should learn self-defense for.
I want my characters to really overuse their coping mechanisms to the point where they break down within 300 pages.
When I had a fellowship at the Smithsonian, I asked for a couch in the office because I liked to lie down and take a break.
I used to do covers gigs that would be 90 minutes, with a 30 minute break, then another 90.