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Breaking Down Quotes (page 2)

Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work-the big sudden blows that come, or seem to come, from outside-the ones you remember and blame things on and, in moments of weakness, tell your friends about, don't show their effect all at once. There is another sort of blow that comes from within-that you don't feel until it's too late to do anything about it, until you realize with finality that in some regard you will never be as good a... F. Scott Fitzgerald
The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door, the scream of fire engines, or the realization that today is the Monday which on Friday night was a comfortably long way off. A dog's wet nose is not strictly speaking the worst of the bunch, but it has it's own peculiar dreadfulness which connoisseurs of the ghastly and dog owners everywhere have come to know and dread. It's like having a small piece of defrosting... Terry Prachett
Tradionally, parents made decisions for a child, because presumably they are looking out for his or her best interests. But if they are blinded, instead, by the best interests of another one of their children, the system breaks down. Jodi Picoult
I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes in some innocent person's face. May Sarton
John Steinbeck quote: "Anybody can break down. It takes a [real] man not to."
Anybody can break down. It takes a [real] man not to. John Steinbeck
What was it? Why won't you tell me?"I don't want to break down your illusions."My dear man, I have no illusions about you."I mean illusions about yourself. F. Scott Fitzgerald
The soybean itself is a notably inauspicious staple food; it contains a whole assortment of "antinutrients" - compounds that actually block the body's absorption of vitamins and minerals, interfere with the hormonal system, and prevent the body from breaking down the proteins of the soy itself. Michael Pollan
Nora Roberts quote: "It's life, and it's messy, and it breaks down."
It's life, and it's messy, and it breaks down. Nora Roberts
One of the easiest forms of pretense to break down is the pretense of enthusiasm for exotic foods. Just bring on the exotic foods. Robert Benchley
The process of breaking down fear was always my greatest challenge and it was made easier by the careful work and gentle voices of my female workers. Muhammad Yunus
You know, when children are silent and proud, and they try to keep back their tears when they are in great trouble and suddenly break down, their tears fall in streams. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Rod McKuen quote: "and if the world breaks down, I'll be around."
and if the world breaks down, I'll be around. Rod McKuen
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
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "Students are intense people, they laugh and cry, they break..."
Students are intense people, they laugh and cry, they break down and rebuild. Ursula K. Le Guin
Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind their terminal. It was a conventional opening, the equivalent of straying off the path in the wild woods in one age, or a car breaking down at night on a lonely road in another. Iain Banks

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