Quotes of Rift - somelinesforyou

“ When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before. ”

- Jacob Riis

“ When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before. ”

- Jacob Riis

“ It's a break,... And three of the four doctors I've seen said breaks generally take six to eight weeks to heal. ”

- Mike Piazza

“ I bend and do not break. ”

- Jean de La Fontaine

“ Should the whole frame of nature round him break In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world. ”

- Joseph Addison

“ If I'm going to break them, I'm going to break them both. ”

- Lawrence Taylor

“ I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath; Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I bend, but I do not break. ”

- Jean de La Fontaine

“ Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link, into the great chain of order. ”

- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“ When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach. ”

- Mary Elizabeth Braddon

“ It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any. ”

- Mae West

“ It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any. ”

- Mae West

“ The world only goes round by misunderstanding. ”

- Charles Baudelaire

“ The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys. ”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

“ Now, you mummy's darlings, get a rift on them boots. Definitely shine em, my little curly-headed lambs, for in our mob, war or no war, you die with clean boots on. ”

- Gerald Kersh
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