Nothing on earth is so weak and yielding as water, but for…

“Therefore the place of what is firm and strong is below, and that of what is soft and weak is above.”

— Lao Tzu

When one gives whatever one can without restraint, the barriers of individuality break down. It no longer becomes possible to tell whether it is…

— Laozi

If - and it can be in a movie or in a department store - I hear someone arguing with their child, I break…

— Michael Jackson

People used to make their own clothes, now they buy clothes. People used to take care of their own kids, now they pay other…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

When in some communities selling drugs is so lucrative that that's a pretty big enticement that we have to break down. Part of that…

— Matt Gonzalez

I see ... a pile of skulls and bones. For the first time since my arrival, what I see before me is too painful,…

— Dith Pran

Hey, a guy can hope. I mean, it’s not impossible that a car full of scantily clad sorority girls might break down outside and…

— Richelle Mead

You need to understand plant chemistry, be inured to discomfort and awesomely flexible. When something breaks down-the plane, the boat, you just have to…

— Chris Kilham

I don't know how to fix a car. If the car breaks down, and the gas tank does not say "E", I'm screwed. But…

— Mitch Hedberg

Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind their terminal.…

— Anonymous

Now is the time to take stock of a painful part of our history. Only then can we move past it. Anything less would…

— Perry Bellegarde

I think the older you get, you start to break down the myth and you get to the dirt of it - and if…

— Jena Malone

Everything was so designed by Hannibal to break down Will in the first season, until Will's sanity became questionable. It's so much easier to…

— Bryan Fuller

Look at music for what it's worth around the world and not just America. In other countries, people are still buying CDs and going…

— Snoop Dogg

“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door,…

— Terry Pratchett