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Letter "B" » break away
«It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.»
Author: Claude M. Bristol
| Keywords:
breaking away, breaks, break away, constant, determined, Obstacles, resistance, sweeps, sweep away, sweep over, sweep through, sweep up
«Life: a cycle. A series of events, meetings, and departures. Friends discovered, others lost, Precious time, wastes away. Big droplet tears are shed for yesterday, but are dried in time for tomorrow, until all that remain are foggy, broken memories of a happy yesteryear.»
Author: Daniela Gallo
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
breaking away, break away, cycle, cycles, cycle on, cycling, departures, discovered, dried, droplet, droplets, foggy, in time, meetings, series, shed, wastes, wasting away, yesteryear
«Fight ever on: this earthly stuff if used God's way will be enough. Face to the firing line o friend fight out life's battle to the end. One soldier, when the fight was red, threw down his broken sword and fled. Another snatched it, won the day, with what his comrade flung away.»
Author: Edwin Markham
(Poet)
| Keywords:
battle line, breaking away, break away, comrade, earthly, earthly life, firing, firing line, fled, flung, red fire, snatched, snatches, snatching, soldier, threw
«I greet you. Not quite as the world sends greetings, but with profound esteem and with the prayer that for you now and forever, the day breaks, and the shadows flee away.»
Author: Fra Giovanni Giocondo
(Archeologist, Architect, Engineer)
| About:
Prayer
| Keywords:
breaking away, break away, break of day, flee, greet, greeted, greetings, greets, profound, sends, send away, shadows, The Shadows
«Keep close to Nature's heart...and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.»
Author: John Muir
| Keywords:
awhile, breaking away, break away, clean, clear away, climb, close to, mountain, wash, wash away, week, woods
«Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.»
Author: Indira Gandhi
(Politician, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
bias, biased, biases, breaking away, break away, first step, plan of action, right away, steps
«And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there be many servants now a days that break away every man from his master.»
«I like ideas about the breaking away or overthrowing of established order. I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road towards freedom - external freedom is a way to bring about internal freedom.»
Author: Jim Morrison
(Poet, Singer)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
activity, breaking, breaking away, break away, bring about, Chaos, disorder, disordered, disorders, especially, established, external, interested, internal, overthrowing, overthrows, revolt, revolted, revolts, Road to Freedom
«So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, / Which sucks two souls, and vapours both away,/ Turn thou ghost that way, and let me turn this, / And let our selves benight our happiest day.»
Author: John Donne
| Keywords:
benight, breaking away, breaking off, break away, break off, ghost, lamenting, selves, so-so, sucks, vapours
«Do not hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Trouble
| Keywords:
breaking away, break away, break in, feed, feed upon, fix, imperceptibly, intervals, troubles, wholly, with attention
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