"It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes……" — John Gunther
"It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill."
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John Gunther
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19 Quotes by John Gunther
John Gunther has 19 quotes on this site.
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He was trying to save both his faces.
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Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts.
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There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.
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The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who…
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France is the most civilized country in the world and doesn’t care who knows it.
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Live while you live, then die and be done with.
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What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.
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I have so much to do! And there's so little time!
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What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his…
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Old and new kiss everywhere in Africa
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God is what's good in me.
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New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean…
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More Brakes Quotes
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When I sing for myself, I sing in a more free, athletic way. When I face an audience, there is…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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,…
— 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…
— 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…
— Jack Handey
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