Point Break Quotes

• There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.

  J. Carter Brown

  Promise, Breaking Promises, No Point

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• Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true.

  Patrick Swayze

  Surfing, Causes, Surfer

  "Fictional character: Bodhi". "Point Break", www.imdb.com. 1991.

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• Each man has a breaking point, no matter how strong his spirit. Somewhere, deep inside him, there is a flaw that only the fickle cruelty of fate can find.

  David Gemmell

  Strong, Fate, Men

  "Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 7, 1984.

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• I'm interested in that thing that happens where there's a breaking point for some people and not for others. You go through such hardship, things that are almost impossibly difficult, and there's no sign that it's going to get any better, and that's the point when people quit. But some don't.

  Robert Redford

  People, Hardship, Quitting

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• In order to be the best, you have to know your breaking point-go to the edge of it, but never go beyond.

  Rebecca Twigg

  Order, Limits, Being The Best

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• Make your breaking point your turning point.

  Dennis Kimbro

  Turning Points

  Dennis Kimbro (2011). “Daily Motivations for African-American Success: Including Inspirations from Famous African-American Achievers”, p.17, Fawcett

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• It was really a pleasure to play someone who’s literally pushed past her breaking point repeatedly.

  Jeri Ryan

  Past, Play, Silence

  Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• I'm the type of person who can get a feel for what you need and what I need to do to push you to get you to a breaking point, where you realize that you can't go on this way anymore, that the reason you're heavy is because you're ignoring all the stuff that's going on inside.

  Cara Castronuova

  Way, Needs, Goes On

  "'Biggest Loser': Meet the mystery trainers!". Interview with Dan Snierson, ew.com. January 18, 2011.

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• I don't know about your true form, but the weight of your ego sure is pushing the crust of the earth toward the breaking point.

  Jim Butcher

  Ego, Weight, Earth

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Grave Peril: Book three of The Dresden Files”, p.170, Penguin

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• That morning each of us found a breaking point. Not only a physical barrier, but a point where determination, stamina and duty clashed and were overcome not so much by pain but by absurdity.

  Stefan Kieszling

  Morning, Determination, Pain

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• Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don't see it because we make it look so efficient. But internally, for a guy to be successful, you have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.

  Dave Winfield

  Sports, Stress, Spring

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think what saved me, as a writer, is that there are really two breaking points in my life. One was when I was 19 and my mother died, and one was when I was 31 and my first child was born. And that sort of gave me a kind of rebirth that I think has been invaluable to me as a novelist, in terms of seeing the world anew.

  Anna Quindlen

  Mother, Children, Thinking

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• God knows your breaking point. You simply don’t know your own strength.

  Swami Satchidananda

  God Knows, Knows

  Swami Satchidananda (1987). “The Golden Present: Daily Inspirational Readings”, Integral Yoga Dist

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• All my life I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and to console mankind.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Order, Giving, Mind

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Saviors of God”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• 'Speed' and 'Point Break' were a lot of running and jumping, and then 'The Matrix Trilogy' had a lot of fights and wire work and green screen elements.

  Keanu Reeves

  Running, Fighting, Jumping

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• Population growth is straining the Earth's resources to the breaking point, and educating girls is the single most important factor in stabilizing that. That, plus helping women gain political and economic power and safeguarding their reproductive rights.

  Al Gore

  Girl, Rights, Political

  "Al Gore, ‘Inconvenient Truth’ Author And Global-Warming Expert, Talks About Change". Interview with Leigh Haber, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 29, 2013.

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• Stats don't matter. I care about winning, not stats. If I score 0 points and we win I'm happy. If I score 50, 60 points, break the records, and we lose, I'm pissed off. 'Cause I knew I did something wrong. I'll have a hell of a season if I win the championship and average 20 points a game.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Winning, Average

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• I do not suppose that anyone not a poet can realize the agony of creating a poem. Every nerve, even every muscle, seems strained to the breaking point. The poem will not be denied; to refuse to write it would be a greater torture. It tears its way out of the brain, splintering and breaking its passage, and leaves that organ in the state of a jelly-fish when the task is done.

  Amy Lowell

  Writing, Creating, Agony

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• During the football scene in the Point Break they were playing, and I wasn't slated to be in the football scene. I was like, "I want to play!" So they said, "Go play." It was just a gas. There was a responsibility of being the leading lady - there's a responsibility to that.

  Lori Petty

  Football, Responsibility, Scene

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Everyone has a breaking point, Riley. He hit his long time ago. But you didn't. He smiled and sqeezed her hand.'Because of you.' Weaving his arm around her waist, they walked up the stairs in tandem. - Riley Blackthorne and Paul Blackthorne

  Jana Oliver

  Hands, Long, Arms

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• The Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Gunpowder, Thieves, Flash

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• You see, at the beginning we weren't fighters. We weren't yellers or throwers, even if we eventually came to be. It would take time and much deeper wounds for us to get to that point.

  Dinaw Mengestu

  Breakup, Fighter, Take Time

  Dinaw Mengestu (2010). “How to Read the Air”, p.53, Penguin

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• Life sure has a sick sense of humor, doesn’t it?

  Patrick Swayze

  Sick, Sense Of Humor

  "Fictional character: Bodhi". "Point Break", www.imdb.com. 1991.

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• What did I discover during my solo—besides learning to unwrap my energy bar ahead of time? That you ask yourself a lot of questions when you're alone on a bike for that long. One question more than others: Why the heck am I doing this? When I was done, I think I had found the answer: For the satisfaction that comes with pushing your body to the breaking point and conquering the unknown.

  Matt Long

  Thinking, Long, Energy

  Matt Long, Charlie Butler (2010). “The Long Run: A New York City Firefighter's Triumphant Comeback from Crash Victim to Elite Athlete”, p.179, Rodale

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• Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. I do not feel there will be soon if ever a 50 or 60 point break from present levels, such as (bears) have predicted. I expect to see the stock market a good deal higher within a few months.

  Irving Fisher

  Depression, Looks, Levels

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