If you break little promises, you'll break big ones.


Cormac McCarthy

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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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He shook his head. You're asking that I make myself vulnerable and that I can never do. I have only ...
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We break promises bt memories break us..
OLASOT
Break hearts, not promises.
JOHN GREEN
We are not here to match and homogenize and agree on every point. One size of spirituality does not ...
SERA BREAK
The original meaning of the word resolution means to “break into parts.” Think about that as you...
TONI SORENSON
You know that the things you put it your head stay there, right?'
'Yeah. But you remember some ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Truthfully, God always keeps His promises but we often break our promises.
JAIME CONTRERAS
Things break all the time. Glass and dishes and fingernails. Cars and contracts and potato chips. Yo...
JODI PICOULT
You never say this is the make or break, but there were a lot of hollow promises last year. You can'...
DAVID RICHARDS
Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose styli...
TOMMY LEE JONES
Break the rules this fucking world set for you but never ever break the rules the ones you set for y...
SUPERNA BATHEJA
Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them
WILLIAM HAZLITT
If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business.
JOEY ADAMS
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
DENIS WAITLEY
The closest fires were near enough for us to hear the crackling flames and the yells of firemen. Lit...
ERNIE PYLE
Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway.
KIERA CASS
I decided this would be the big break.
JOHN RAITT
Beware of the person who speaks without modesty because he will always break his promises.
VIKRANT PARSAI
You should break a little bit of a sweat.
JOE RAMOS
I think this idea of a big break is a lie.
DAVEED DIGGS
Every actor dreams of getting a big break, a big opportunity.
LIAM MCINTYRE
Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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A colt is worth little if it does not break its halter.
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People don't want to hear about it if you're frustrated with your big career break.
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I know many minority groups in the past have had promises made and promises broken. I understand tha...
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I modeled for 4 years before I felt like I had my big break.
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I don't look at Hollywood as a big break. Indian film stands on its own.
PRIYANKA CHOPRA
'SNL' is our main priority because that was our first big break.
AKIVA SCHAFFER
If you work hard, you need a break.
TRIP GOODLOE
... You have to pull the feet to break the neck. They let the loved ones do it.
PIERCE BROWN
Things break. You can't really plan for an individual pipe where it's going to break, when it's goin...
GREG WYATT
That's a pretty big record to break.
ANDY HANER
Girls, give all your gentlemen friends an even break, even if you have to break them in the attempt.
MAE WEST
'Must not give up even if you break.
MARIE MUHAMMAD
You break her heart, I'll break your neck.
VIN DIESEL
If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... break the problem into parts, and ha...
ROBERT COLLIER
'Mad Men' has been my big break. I'm beyond thrilled.
JESSICA PARE
'Game of Thrones' is my big break, so I've got to make the most of it, keep acting well.
ALFIE ALLEN
I just wrapped this movie called 'The Wedding Crashers' which was a pretty big break for me.
BRADLEY COOPER
My big break was back in the third grade playing the third monkey in 'Horton Hears a Who.'
SEBASTIAN ARCELUS
Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never rea...
JODI PICOULT
Always tell people how you feel about them. If you tell them, it may break your heart, but by saying...
JEWEL
Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?
CORMAC MCCARTHY
dont let anyone break your heart i say you should break there heart before they break yours
DALLY SALAD
Know the rules if you want to break them.
OCTAV DRUTA
I think if the conditions are here, I'd say all five big boats will break the record.
MARK RICHARDS
You break her heart, I'll break your neck.
VIN DIESEL
Break up the printing presses and you break up rebellion.
DUDLEY NICHOLS
If we get in an accident that's strong enough to break bones, it's going to break bones. What makes ...
AL UNSER
Addiction brings apathy. Break the apathy, and you break the addiction.
MANGO WODZAK
Break my heart if you promise it’ll make me better.
SCOTTIE SOMERS
We finally got our big break when Ed Sullivan put us on his show.
HERB ALPERT
It softens things up and makes you able to enjoy the break a little bit.
MALIK ROSE
You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.
PHAEDRUS
It's okay if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
BILLY JOEL
You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE
You buy it now so that if they raise it up the next day, you get a little break for the price gougin...
CHARLES BAUTZ
It often looks like an actor's had a big break out of nowhere, but in reality, they've been ...
ASHLEY MADEKWE
They break down everything, ... They go over the nuances, little things: Why are we playing this def...
CHRIS HOVAN
It's very tough to break him because he has a very big lefty serve,
RADEK STEPANEK
If you don't chance your arm, you'll never break your neck.
DOROTHY MAY SNOERWANG-DOYLE 1927-2011
If your core is strong and tight, you can break tackles.
COURTNEY LEWIS
What about stocks? You got to buy them. What if they break? You have to buy the dips.
RICK SANTELLI
Thank God we got a little break in the storms.
DON STRICKLAND
If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record.
JAN MCKEITHEN
He'd offer you an egg if you promised not to break the shell.
IRISH PROVERB
If nothing else, it slows you down for 10 or 15 minutes. Everybody is always in a big hurry ... You ...
BILL MCCORMACK
If the dawn should break
and take away this sunrise,
I hope I break, too.
RYAN MECUM
I started my career as a swimsuit model. My first big break in America was 2007, 'Sports Illustr...
IRINA SHAYK
My first big break came with Lauryn Hill on a track called Everything is Everything, I played piano ...
JOHN LEGEND
It’s the hard things that break; soft things don’t break. It was an epiphany I had today and I j...
C. JOYBELL C.
If someone breaks your best friend's heart, you should break their face
ABBY SHANLEY
2.5.03.02.005: Generally speaking, if you fiddle with something, it will break. Don't.
JASPER FFORDE
If you don't like a contract you made, you change it, you don't break it.
JACQUE WHITSITT
If we get in an accident that's strong enough to break bones, it's going to break bones. Wha...
AL UNSER
We just couldn't get a break,
JOHN CALLAHAN
When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small ...
G. K. CHESTERTON
The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or...
KAREN THOMPSON WALKER
We created very little in the first half but were in the ascendancy after the break - although they ...
SIMON DELAHUNTY
We appreciate the break, it gives us a little more leeway.
LINDA NEWMAN
People blame me because these water mains break, but I ask you, if the water mains didn't break, wou...
MARION BERRY
Break, heart, I prithee, break!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
We definitely didn't play great defense, good would be a matter of who you ask, I suppose. It was on...
ADAM SHADA
If they don't keep them maintained, they break down. Just like a car. If you don't keep it up, all o...
DONALD BACHMAN
You always worry about coming off a long break. We knew the first goal was going to be big.
BRIAN RILEY
If you notice that you break out after eating them, though, you know you shouldn't overindulge.
KRISTINE ROMINE
I think all four can place if they wrestle to their capabilities. Obviously, at this level if you ge...
GEORGE BERGMAN
Take a 'smoke' break, a Short Mental or Kinetic Excursion. Cigarettes need not be involved.
DANIEL BRYANT GATES
It changes you a little bit every time you either break someone's heart or get your heart broken...
AMANDA SEYFRIED
Any difficult task seems easier if you break it down into manageable steps.
CLAIRE B. MAY GORDON S. MAY
Adversity - If need be, let it bend, but never let it break you.
JACEY R. FOLEY
Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS
You are only susceptible to break easily due to occasionally bends if you are inflexible
JACINTA MPALYENKANA
If you don't like the reflection you see, break the mirror and start from scratch
REZA FARIVAR
Be careful if you are about to break someone's heart. You may be in there
WOHI PURANA
If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass
FRANCOIS RABELAIS
If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms.
CHARLES J. SHIELDS
We don't normally attract a big spring break crowd because of the rates.
ENID LIBERTI
He's a big-play back. He can break any play for a touchdown.
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CORMAC MCCARTHY
It was an old hunter in camp and the hunter shared tobacco with him and told him of the buffalo and ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Deployed upon that plain they moved in a constant elision, ordained agents of the actual dividing ou...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse
CORMAC MCCARTHY
In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
He rose and stood tottering in that cold dark with his arms held out for balance while the vestibula...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
They rode out along the fenceline and across the open pastureland. The leather creaked in the mornin...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
You know that the things you put it your head stay there, right?'
'Yeah. But you remember some ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
When you've nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
The cap was gone and the man dropped to his elbows to smell the pipe but the odor of gas was only a ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover hi...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen an...
CORMAC MCCARTHY
The arrangement seems to be that UBS will buy Time Warner shares it seems for the voting rights but ...
CORMAC BUTLER
Icahn wants sufficient control to achieve his strategy of breaking up Time Warner.
CORMAC BUTLER
In a typical situation the investor accepts a low or zero interest rate in return for exposure to a ...
CORMAC BUTLER
Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
JOHN MCCARTHY
Compassion is contempt with a human face.
JOHN MCCARTHY
Black holes destroy any objects that happen to fall victim to their gravitational pull.
KEVIN MCCARTHY
Comedy to me is all about the bumps and bruises and weird tics.
MELISSA MCCARTHY
To me, having 500 rolls of fabric around is the most calming thing in the world. I think it's wh...
MELISSA MCCARTHY
As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work.
KEVIN MCCARTHY
I started my first business when I was 19. I learned a valuable lesson as a small business owner. Yo...
KEVIN MCCARTHY
Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.
JOHN MCCARTHY
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTHY
The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and t...
EUGENE MCCARTHY
One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that ...
EUGENE MCCARTHY
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if e...
MARY MCCARTHY
To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, pol...
MARY MCCARTHY
...friendship...is essential to intellectuals. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the ag...
MARY MCCARTHY
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
CHARLIE MCCARTHY
We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.
MARY MCCARTHY
I'm just absolutely overjoyed. These people have all stayed with their faith their denomination and ...
ALICE MCCARTHY
The idea of it is to examine religious issues. They (panelist) are radical in the sense that they go...
ALICE MCCARTHY
They call us to action to love each other. Just in the correspondence I've been having with them, I ...
ALICE MCCARTHY
I think that if there is a large number of people here that it will get the churches talking. I thin...
ALICE MCCARTHY
I'm just absolutely overjoyed. These people have all stayed with their faith â€Ã...
ALICE MCCARTHY
Honey, nobody ever knows someone completely. You have to just enjoy what you do know and have faith ...
ERIN MCCARTHY
Why?” she whispered. “Why should I dance with you?”

“Because I love you. Because ...
ERIN MCCARTHY
The happy ending is our national belief.
MARY MCCARTHY
Any manager who can't get along with a .400 hitter is crazy.
JOE MCCARTHY
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTHY
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
CHARLIE MCCARTHY
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
MARY MCCARTHY
A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traito...
MARY MCCARTHY