Breakdown Quotes

240 quotes by 195 authors

Once the law, properly enacted, is routinely ignored, and ignored with the blessing and the promotion of the political class, then you have a breakdown… — Rush Limbaugh
There are so many rules about play writing. I'd have a nervous breakdown if I followed them. — Terrence McNally
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… — Cherrie Moraga
How can you hide from what never goes away? — Heraclitus
The only thing workers have to bargain with is their skill or their labor. Denied the right to withhold it as a last resort, they… — Paul Clark
Even after several hospitalizations for alcohol and drug-related nervous breakdowns, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay defined sobriety as restricting her daily intake of liquor to… — Judith Thurman
In many ways Nazism was antithetical to what the great mass of Germans said they admired - and certainly to what they paid homage. It… — Eugene Davidson
The available divorce data show that marital breakdown is now considerably more common in the Bible Belt than in the secular Northeast. . . .… — Joe Conason
Yeah, there were (defensive) breakdowns but there were also variables into having those breakdowns. I think a lot of the mistakes that we made are… — Gerry Fleming
The scale of marital breakdowns in the West since 1960 has no historical precedent that I know of, and seems unique, . . . There… — Lawrence Stone
I feel Aleister Crowley is a misunderstood genius of the 20th century. Because his whole thing was liberation of the person, of the entity, and… — Jimmy Page
There is nothing like the start of a season, before all the one-run losses, pitching breakdowns and missed opportunities. Before reality sets in. — Michael Connelly
This is taking place inside Europe. This is taking place inside a once great nation. The nation that invented democracy. We are on the edge… — Nigel Farage
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. — R. D. Laing
It will come all right in the end. There is the steady impulse of your determination that sets you on your feet again after every… — Ramana Maharshi
The simplest type of breakdown exhibits itself as an oscillation in a goal-seeking process which appears only when that process is actively invoked. — Norbert Wiener
I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a man who goes around with a little oil can and when he… — Baba Amte
My total sellout to LSD, marijuana, and hashish, and to sex with virtually any attractive man, landed me in the hospital for four months. I… — Susan Atkins
The greatest asset of any nation is the spirit of its people, and the greatest danger that can menace any nation is the breakdown of… — George B. Cortelyou
Everybody faces obstacles. And I looked to people who had been through many to succeed in life. Abraham Lincoln, born to a poor family, faced… — Dave Winfield

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