Brakes Quotes
82 quotes by 74 authors
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When I sing for myself, I sing in a more free, athletic way. When I face an audience, there is always some fear that makes…
— Andrea Bocelli
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When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.
— George Carlin
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Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.
— Ramana Maharshi
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I know, I know - you're a woman who's had a lot of tough breaks. Well, we can clean and tighten those brakes, but you'll…
— Groucho Marx
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You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then you're PUSHING 40. Whoa! Put on the brakes, it's all slipping away. Before you know it, you REACH…
— George Carlin
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Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.
— Budd Schulberg
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It is amazing how may drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down.
— Mario Andretti
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We must learn by experience to avoid either trains of thought or social situations which for us (not necessarily for everyone) lead to temptations. Like…
— C.S. Lewis
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Very softly, but very swiftly, Last, the man with the grey face and the staring eyes, bolted for his life, down and away from the…
— Arthur Machen
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Stop? I'm the guy. I don't stop! That's the woman's job. We're the gas, they're the brakes.
— Lowell Ganz
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I don't know. Maybe we're all chaos theorists. Lovers of pattern and predictability, we're scared shitless of explosive change. But we're fascinated by it, too.…
— Wally Lamb
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I bet a funny thing about driving a car off a cliff is, while you're in midair, you still hit those brakes! Hey, better try…
— Jack Handey
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Getting angry can sometimes be like leaping into a wonderfully responsive sports car, gunning the motor, taking off at high speed and then discovering the…
— Maggie Scarf
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When we don’t put the brakes on our self-absorption, we have nothing stopping us from total self-destruction. We become the fruits of our actions.
— Zeena Schreck
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Adding more people causes problems. But people are also the means to solve these problems. The main fuel to speed the world’s progress is our…
— Julian Simon
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The mind can be our best friend and advocate in getting what we want in life, or it can pull the brakes on and be…
— Rachael Bermingham
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Here in Miami, on weekends, amusement-seekers will come to the marina, set up folding chairs, and spend a highly entertaining day watching boat owners perform…
— Dave Barry
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...he put his foot on one pedal, scooted a few yards and swung his other leg over the saddle. He soared left into the vertiginously…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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In order to spur economic growth we need to put the brakes on out of control spending, lower Ohioans tax burden and create a most…
— Ken Blackwell
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It's all happening too fast. I've got to put the brakes on or I'll smack into something.
— Mel Gibson
Who Wrote These Brakes Quotes
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