Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation.
Green grass breaks through snow, Artemis pleads for my help, I am so cool.
The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime.
Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.
Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast, yet love breaks through and picks them all at last.
Remakes, in general, are a result of necessity being the mother of invention. They can't open movies consistently and break through the advertising clutter that's out there.
I’m like a twenty two year old kid in a new band trying to get noticed and break through, because the vast majority of people have never seen me play live.
People were concerned about national security, and that precluded us from having the opportunity to break through on the issues that we cared most about - the economy, education and health care.
But what if. . . what if you sincerely believed something was true, but you were dead wrong? What if you were so stubbornly sure that you were right, that you wouldn’t even consider the truth? Would the truth be silenced, or would it try to break through?
It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.
We must break through the provincial crust if we are to reach the core of all-India nationalism.
As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center.
The power of growth, of improvement, the power to overcome all stagnation and break through every obstacle and transform a barren wasteland into a verdant field - that unstoppable power of hope resides right within your own heart. It wells up from the rich earth of your innermost being when you face the future without doubt or fear: "I can do more. I can grow. I can become a bigger and better human being. "
Gold loves to make its way through guards, and breaks through barriers of stone more easily than the lightning's bolt.
History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
A crafty enemy will set a weak ambush you are meant to break through. Confident because you have dealt with the threat, your guard relaxed, you walk into the second, stronger ambush.
Individuals who break through by inventing a new paradigm are almost always either very young men or very new to the field whose paradigm they change. These are the men who, being little committed by prior practice to the traditional rules of normal science, are particularly likely to see that those rules no longer define a playable game and conceive another set that can replace them.
Now and then, when I look round on my books, they seem to waver as if a wind rippled their solid mass, and another world were about to break through.
In my own work I am invested in art as a way to break through impasses, whether those impasses are personal, social, or political.
Poetry, like dreams, will eventually break through every person's consciousness, even the tightest iconoclast's.