Breaking Down Quotes - Page 10

• Those who break down the dikes will themselves be drowned in the inundation.

  Confucius

  Life, Break

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• God made a woman equal to a man, but He did not make a woman equal to a woman and a man. We usually try to do the work of a man and of a woman too; then we break down.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Men, Trying, Made

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• ... no one knows anything about a strike until he has seen it break down into its component parts of human beings.

  Mary Heaton Vorse

  Broken, Strikes, Labor

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• My historical reading of the situation is that these great monolithic empires developed, Rome, Turkey, and so forth, and they always break down when enough people, and it's always the young, the creative, and minority groups drop out and go back to a tribal form.

  Timothy Leary

  Reading, Rome, Turkeys

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• How men envy and often hate these warm clocks, these wives, who know they will live forever. So what do we do? We men turn terribly mean, because we can't hold to the world or ourselves or anything. We are blind to continuity, all breaks down, falls, melts, stops, rots, or runs away. So, since we cannot shape Time, where does that leave men? Sleepless. Staring.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Hate, Fall

  Ray Bradbury (1962). “Something wicked this way comes”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• If I were a supervillain, I would end capitalism, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia... but I guess that's a little too obvious and not villain-y enough. Because that's actually being a superhero. I would break down poverty with my machete; I would end world hunger.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Racism, Superhero, World

  "Kathleen Hanna on buffalo chicken, Destiny's Child, and the sketchy things she did to McDonald's apple pies". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. February 10, 2015.

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• Intelligence is not necessarily a good thing, something to value or cultivate. It's more like a fifth wheel - necessary or desirable when things break down. When things go well, it's better to be stupid ... Stupidity is as much a value as intelligence.

  Susan Sontag

  Stupid, Wheels, Good Things

  Susan Sontag (2012). “As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980”, p.176, Macmillan

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• Writing is not magic. It’s a craft, a process, a set of steps. As with any process, things sometimes break down. Even in a good story, the writer runs into problems. So the act of writing always includes problem solving.

  Roy Peter Clark

  Running, Writing, Magic

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• This is Malaya. Everything takes a long, a very long time, in Malaya. Things get done, occasionally, but more often they don't, and the more in a hurry you are, the quicker you break down.

  Han Suyin

  Long, Done, Asia

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• Writing is the hammer & chisel that breaks down the established way of thinking. A concrete event, then an abstraction. An image, then a thought. Finally, writing builds another establishment with the fragments.

  Diane Glancy

  Writing, Thinking, Events

  Diane Glancy (1996). “Claiming Breath”, p.23, U of Nebraska Press

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• When you feel that you are at the end of your path and there is a ten foot high brick wall right there in front of you, and you have nowhere to go but backwards, break down that wall and move forward. There are great and wonderful things on the other side of that wall... and, they have always been there. Let nothing divide you from what you need to do in life, and see the solutions that are right in front of you. The key is, you must break down what separates you from them and choose to find them.

  Rich Barnes

  Motivational, Wall, Moving

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• When I was first running marathons, we were sailing on a flat earth. We were afraid we'd get big legs, grow mustaches, not get boyfriends, not be able to have babies. Women thought that something would happen to them, that they'd break down or turn into men, something shadowy, when they were only limited by their own society's sense of limitations.

  Kathrine Switzer

  Sports, Running, Baby

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• Being in Nirvana was amazing an experience that will never happen again for me. And I look on them as some of the best and worst times of my life. But we're in this band, the Foo Fighters, making music for the love of music. We all came from bands that had disbanded, and we were drawn to each other because we missed playing - we missed getting in the van, loading our equipment, and watching it break down in the middle of a show. And that feeling hasn't gone away. There's nothing I'd rather do than make music. It's the love of my life.

  Dave Grohl

  Gone Away, Love Of My Life, Feelings

  "A Few Good Foos from a FOO FIGHTER". Interview with Ray Rogers, www.interviewmagazine.com. May, 1997.

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• A great trick that I learned having worked as a screenwriter for many years, the way screenwriters work, is they break the project down into three-act structure: Act 1, Act 2, Act 3. I think that is a great way to break down any project, whether it's a new business or anything at all.

  Steven Pressfield

  Thinking, Years, Way

  "Special Interview with Steven Pressfield and Ishita Gupta". "Marketing Over Coffee" podcast with John Wall, www.marketingovercoffee.com. May 16, 2011.

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• The dissemination of pseudoscience, including such things as the fascination with near-death experiences and the growing belief by Americans -- 34 percent of them -- in reincarnation are dangerous. They help to break down the standards of reason.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Fascination, Pseudoscience, Growing

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• Is it me or is President Bush's life starting to sound like a country song. He's from Texas, his dog just died, and it looks like he might lose his job. Next thing, his truck is going to break down.

  Jay Leno

  Country, Dog, Song

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• We do not take much warning of our own mortality in seeing others die, nor of our own weakness in seeing others break down: we think we feel the springs of life stronger in us.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Spring, Thinking, Stronger

  Julia McNair Wright (1879). “The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated”

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• I was able to afford a car that didn't break down every five minutes.

  Megan Martha White

  Car, Able, Minutes

  "White Stripes For Coffee And Cigarettes". Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, suicidegirls.com. May 9, 2004.

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• My entire life has been devoted to breaking down barriers, to finding common ground.

  Edward Brooke

  Common, Barriers, Findings

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• First you write down your goal; your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with steps which are absurdly easy.

  Fitzhugh Dodson

  Jobs, Writing, Goal

  Fitzhugh Dodson (1977). “The You That Could Be”, New York : Pocket Books ; Markham, Ont. : Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks

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• Without new money, salaries won't be paid, the health system will stop functioning, the power network and public transport will break down, and they won't be able to import vital goods because nobody can pay.

  Martin Schulz

  Health, Salary, Down And

  "EU warns of Armageddon if Greek voters reject terms" by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 4, 2015.

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• If our system continues without modification involving environmental and social concern, we will face an economic and social break down.

  Jacque Fresco

  Environmental, Faces, Economic

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• Trying your best not to get stressed out, the hardest part is not to get down, not to let the business get to you. I think the business is more mental than it is talent. I think you can have the talent, but if you don't have it up here, I think you can easily just break down.

  Bow Wow

  Thinking, Stressed, Trying

  "Bow Wow No Longer 'Lil'". Interview with Mesfin Fekadu, www.cbsnews.com. April 13, 2009.

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• The only certainties that don't break down are those acquired in prayer.

  Reinhold Schneider

  Prayer, Break, Certainty

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• If a guy's ever telling you a four-hour sex story with a straight face, just feel sorry for him. Not for lying to you, but for lying to himself. As a matter of fact, stop him right in the middle of the story and just hug him. Nine times out of ten he'll just break down and cry. He knows you know.

  Ray Romano

  Funny, Sex, Sorry

  Ray Romano (1999). “Everything and a Kite”

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