Breakdown Quotes

240 quotes by 195 authors

I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls. — Kate Beckinsale
On the other hand, I believe there's hope, because the breakdown and the repair are happening simultaneously. — Kathryn Bigelow
A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about… — Art Buchwald
I am simply submerged in work from five in the morning to eleven at night; almost need a few days off to escape a breakdown! — Richard Neutra
The last thing we need is yet another makeup company. Even I have a nervous breakdown when I go through the department store makeup floor. — Lauren Hutton
My plea to educators and parents is that they should give some thought to the nature of the brain of a child, for the brain… — Wilder Penfield
I have been to hell and back. I had a very, very bad nervous breakdown. — Andy Gibb
Intellectual and cultural freedom is the most important single precondition for the breakdown of the kinds of tyrannical and totalitarian systems that periodically threaten us. — James H. Billington
Even when I took the drugs I realized that this just wasn't fun anymore. The drugs had become a part of my routine. Something to… — Cherie Currie
The dramatic threat of ecological breakdown is teaching us the extent to which greed and selfishness are contrary to the order of creation. ...A given… — Pope John Paul II
Is the divine presence a Republican? Or is He/She/It running an inter-galactic fossil fuel conglomerate?...whatever the explanation may be, the Paraclete appears to be as… — George Monbiot
One day, because they realize for some reason or other that they must stop credit expansion, the banks do stop creating new credit to lend.… — Ludwig von Mises
In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a… — C.S. Lewis
It's unthinkable not to love -you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin. — Lawrence Durrell
I had an emotional breakdown since I really had no idea what diabetes was all about. I wondered, 'why me?' Then I asked myself, 'why… — Nick Jonas
I don't think there's any kind of preparation for sudden celebrity. I think you almost have this slight nervous breakdown when that kind of media… — Scarlett Johansson
Every zombie story is fundamentally about a breakdown of order, with the infrastructure intact. That infrastructure might be on fire, yes. — Patton Oswalt
So many things were going great in my life and then all of the sudden my personal life just went down at crazy speeds. I… — Demi Lovato
How to achieve the moral breakdown of the enemy before the war has started - that is the problem that interests me. Whoever has experienced… — Adolf Hitler
The need for civility in society has never been more important. The foundation of kindness and civility begins in our homes. It is not surprising… — Quentin L. Cook

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