Quotes About Breakdown

It comes down to this: we're pieces of equipment To be counted and signed for. On occasion some of us break down, And those parts which can't be salvaged Are replaced with other GI parts, that's all.

As with industrial methods, Rockefeller broke down cycling into its component parts then perfected each movement.

For Rockefeller, the onset of the disease coincided with his breakdown of the early 1890s.

Apparently he was on the edge of a nervous breakdown.

At the very same moment, close by, a car breaks down. Two young Canadians are trying to get to New York City to sell a treasure. They're stranded at a lonely motel in the middle of nowhere. It's a

The best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time.

Every balancing feedback loop has its breakdown point, where other loops pull the stock away from its goal more strongly than it can pull back.

What we've got here is a failure to communicate.

Public opinion surveys suggest that a failure to do anything about immigration even while talking about it is one of the key causes of the breakdown in trust between the electorate and their political representatives.

We could all work up a nervous breakdown in thirty seconds, if we really wanted to.

The breakdown of society will force the building of a new model--emulating the Jewish people in Babylon 3500 years ago.

And this tenderness was not like That which a certain poet At the beginning of the century called true And, for some reason, quiet. No, not at all— It rang out, like the first waterfall, It crunched like the crust of bluish ice And it prayed with a swanlike voice, And it broke down right before our eyes.

Cellulose has physical and chemical properties that make it difficult to access and difficult to break down.

The wider public is clueless about the social breakdown in high-crime areas and its effect on street life.

Gamers have this tendency to turn games into mathematical equations, breaking them into lists of components like 'presentation' and 'mechanics' and judging each one on its own merits.

In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down.

You have principles. You test them as accurately as you can. Eventually, they might break down.

When you are gripped by fear in the face of an experience that will take you beyond your comfort zone, you may be at a point of supreme opportunity. You can either break down or break through.

Prior to my breakdown I went through a 5 week manic phase, with increasing mental excitation, decreasing sleep, and a near certainty that I wa sthe first person to actually understand what Ludwig Wittgenstein was actually saying.

All of it-all the things they had thought through so meticulously- fell apart

One stifling summer afternoon last August, in the attic of a tiny stone house in Pennsylvania, I made a most interesting discovery: the shortest, cheapest method of inducing a nervous breakdown ever perfected. In this technique..., the subject is placed in a sharply sloping attic heated to 340 F and given a mothproof closet known as the Jiffy-Cloz to assemble.

Your whole picture of the world broke, he said, and you felt like you had gone mad. Yes. And I didn't even notice. Boys. They notice nothing.

The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, most often ends in scraps and shatterings.

When she saw a strange man whom she didn't trust, she did an immediate breakdown in her mind. It was quicker - honoring the pragmatics of fear - than pretending she shouldn't think this way.