Quotes About Breakdown

Now he'd started crying he couldn't seem to stop. No more than you can rebuild a burst dam when the flood's still surging through. That's the problem with making yourself hard. Once you crack, there's no putting yourself back together.

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

You never give me your moneyYou only give me your funny paperAnd in the middle of negotiationsYou break down.

The impossible can always be broken down into possibilities.

You look closely enough, you'll find that everything has a weak spot where it can break, sooner or later.

You never realise how fragile everything is until it breaks.

It's amazing how quickly it can all fall apart.

Schools alone are not to blame for underachievement. The breakdown of the family, poverty, and decaying cities with eroding tax bases have made a good public school education nearly impossible in many parts of the country.

I love playing really strung out characters, and characters that are really pushed to their limits and losing their mind.

Our economy is failing far too many - forcing parents to use foodbanks to feed their children, demonising migrants and condemning all of us to climate breakdown.

I'm afraid of open bodies of water. I was in a glass-bottomed boat that broke a long time ago, so I've always been kind of freaked out.

Warfare leaves a residue of 'eat drink and be merry' that often leads inexorably to moral breakdown.

As Mabel inserts herself between husband and wife, and then between poet and 'Sister', and as a fissure in the family cracks and then breaks open early in 1885

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind,

It seemed that everyone was shouting too loudly and moving too quickly. This sensation was accompanied by nausea, and she had had the impression that something absolutely material, which had been present around her and around everyone and everything forever, but imperceptible, was breaking down the outlines of persons and things and revealing itself.

Civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if and when a challenge confronts them which they fail to meet.

I would like to see the breakdown of the binary way of looking at gender and sexuality.

I think one of the major themes in 'Escape Fire,' really, if you break it down, is that huge institutions, the military, the Safeway Corporation and others, are being forced to change.

The costs of marriage breakdown are borne by the entire society, and therefore it is reasonable for the entire society to demand support for marriage - to insist that it is privileged both culturally and legally.

Strategy #5: Breaking the unsolved problem down into its component parts.

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

A momentary psychotic break," I'd said. "The strain of being in a strange and debilitating environment, such as Canada, can have that effect.

President Obama said that we rely too much on gadgets. He gave a passionate speech about technology, but he had to stop when the teleprompter broke.

Electric clocks reveal to you Precisely when your fuses blew.