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Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.

Quote by John Dos Passos about friendship, old, olderness

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

Quote by Hank Aaron about career, past, time

When one relationship was breaking up very unhappily, and...

When one relationship was breaking up very unhappily, and there didn't seem to be another one around the corner, I went back to England.

Quote by Julie Christie

I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic.

Quote by Salma Hayek about sex, character, film

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure,...

Quote by Samuel Johnson about flight, pleasure, hope, mind, objects, present, future, human imperfections, moment

All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off...

All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

Quote by Franz Kafka about error, human imperfections

If a dish is dropped while removing it from the cupboard, ...

If a dish is dropped while removing it from the cupboard, it will hit the sink, breaking the dish and chipping or denting the sink in the process.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy

But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.

Quote by Rudolf Otto about religion, lie, justice

If we must part forever, Give me but one kind word to...

If we must part forever, Give me but one kind word to think upon, And please myself with, while my heart's breaking.

Quote by Thomas Otway about word, heart

If I can stop one heart from breaking, If I can ease one...

If I can stop one heart from breaking, If I can ease one pain, Then my life will not have been in vain.

Quote by Emily Dickinson about purpose, pain, heart, life

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

Quote by Vladimir Nabokov about opinion

A weak world a weak world. the rebellion is in me I withwraw into hell. in the hell of my own words. here, the last of the possible adventures which I can support without tearing myself apart, without breaking, without screaming. but I...

Quote by Angela Marinescu about world, hell

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