#breaking

One thing I learned a long time ago as a prosecutor is that it's tough to get people to obey a law if there is not penalty for breaking it. ↗

— Roy Barnes

#breaking #get #i #law #learned

I'm very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories. ↗

— David Byrne

#breaking #categories #i #into #lists

What we want is a lasting peace. We will oppose soft measures which invite the breaking of the peace. ↗

— James F. Byrnes

#invite #lasting #lasting peace #measures #oppose

I mean, look, Nancy Pelosi said in the very beginning this is going to be the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history. And what we're seeing is she's breaking that promise every day. ↗

— Eric Cantor

#breaking #congress #day #ethical #every

Pues así como estoy, me voy a ir. Venid, venid, compañeros los que estáis presentes y ausentes; y con hachas en las manos corred hacia el lugar famoso. Y yo, puesto que mi opinión así ha cambiado, y yo mismo la aprisioné, quiero estar presente para salvarla; pues temo no sea la mejor resolución el vivir observando las leyes establecidas. ↗

— Sophocles

#courage #death #courage

I want to learn your trickery and feel what it’s like to have me wrapped around your finger. I want to lie to everyone because it gets me where I want faster. I want to be like you, because you are blind; and now that I finally see, I don’t want to. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#blind #breaking-up #breakups #broken-heart #broken-hearted

I gave you life. You’re wasting it. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#live-life #parenting #life

They feel life is for the taking, and that everyone deserves happiness no matter what the cost. I must remember these tricks if I ever decide to have my soul surgically removed. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage

But why do you have to keep your distance from me, why can’t you see me, talk to me like a real person…like Drew, not some kind of distant non-friend.” “Non-friend?” Drew smiled drily at my choice of words. “I like the sound of that better than ‘friends’, Summer. It probably describes us best.” - Perfect Summer ↗

— Kailin Gow

#friendship #kailin-gow #love #loving-summer #perfect-summer

When she left, it was like someone had ripped my heart out, crumbled it up like a flimsy piece of loose leaf paper and crammed it back into my chest. It somehow managed to work, but it would never, ever feel the same. ↗

— Steph Campbell

#hurt #love #love