Breaking Down Quotes

279 quotes by 258 authors

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 roll… — Chris Kilham
I'd been reading Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year when the [1992 Los Angeles] riots broke out and I began to see them both… — Naomi Wallace
People talk about the Patriot Act that was passed immediately in the wake of September 11. What the Patriot Act did was break down the… — Robert Mueller
Grant that I have enough suffering that my heart really opens to the great compassion of this world, that I be given enough so that… — Jack Kornfield
There can be few situations more fearful than breaking down in darkness on the highway leading to Casablanca. I have rarely felt quite so vulnerable… — Tahir Shah
I can forgive the body breaking down. It's a little tougher to forgive that mental lapse. — Hale Irwin
I'm all for sharing music, but when people can download a whole record and pay nothing for it and then they share it with 100,000… — Richie Sambora
Until we believe that we are as bad as God says we are, we can never believe that He will do for us what He… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The American media produce a product of very poor quality. Its information is not reliable, it has too much chrome and glitz, its doors rattle,… — Michael Crichton
It is my mission to help in the breaking down of classes, and to make all men feel as if they were brethren of the… — Lydia M. Child
When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you've always got a different ache or pain. — Tom Petty
I think what I do differently from a lot of TV chefs is that I break down barriers and make fine food more accessible to… — Ted Allen
Secondhand experience breaks down a block from the car lot. — Ursula K. Le Guin
There is a limit where the intellect fails and breaks down, and this limit is where the questions concerning God and freewill and immortality arise. — Immanuel Kant
I love comedy and I would write things to myself as an exercise in writing. I didn't do well for years, and I quit. I… — George Lopez
I think the traditional explanation is that demons just find someone, they pick on them and try to break down their spirit so they can...… — Oren Peli
Some of Jimmy Stewart's performance in 'It's A Wonderful Life' is some of the most disturbing performance he ever did, when he falls apart and… — David O. Russell
Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the… — Charles Simeon
We may appreciate the efforts, and even the greatness of the men who have tried to find the universal, the general 'behind' appearances; yet at… — Hans Rookmaaker
It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles. — Claude M. Bristol

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