Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms. — Ikkyu Sojun
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger. — Thucydides
Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. — Dave Winfield
In one universe, they are gorgeous, straight-teethed, long-legged, wrapped in designer fashions, — Laurie Halse Anderson