Brake Quotes

• I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Light

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• Giftedness is your accelerator; wisdom is your brake.

  Gerald Brooks

  Giftedness

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• When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.

  George Carlin

  Hands, Feet, Steps

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.

  Leon Trotsky

  Car, Limits, Impossible

  "The Russian Revolution". Book by Leon Trotsky, 1930.

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• Courage is a gas pedal and fear is a brake; when we go to our destination, we need both!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Needs, Destination, Pedals

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• It is amazing how many drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down.

  Mario Andretti

  Motivational, Thinking, Nascar Racing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Hilarious, Humorous

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• emotion without discipline is as dangerous as a high-powered car without brakes.

  Helen Kieran Reilly

  Discipline, Car, Emotion

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• Use fear as an engine, not as a brake.

  Paulo Coelho

  Use, Engines

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 19, 2014

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• The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hurt, Pain, Different

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.392, Cambridge University Press

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• The fear of The Lord is a brake that stops you when you're in the wrong direction.

  Bob Sorge

  Lord, Wrong Direction

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• Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

  Paul Valery

  Block, Men, Want

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• Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.

  Budd Schulberg

  Inspirational, Car, Cynical

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• I brake for brunettes.

  Rhett Akins

  Peace, Special, Brunette

  Song: I Brake For Brunettes

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• I will stop at nothing to reach my objective, but only because my brakes are defective.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Defective, Objectives

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• One of the reasons we do history, in fact, is because it acts as a brake, a control, on our otherwise unbridled enthusiasm for our own ideas.

  N. T. Wright

  Ideas, Enthusiasm, Facts

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• Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. Common sense is the little man in a grey suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always someone else's money he's adding up.

  Raymond Chandler

  Monday, Morning, Mistake

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• She's just playing a trick on us. This is just an Alaska Young Prank Extraordinaire. It's Alaska being Alaska, funny and playful and not knowing when or how to put on the brakes.

  John Green

  Alaska, Knowing, Pranks

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.106, Penguin

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• If you don't have the balls to brake late, that's your problem.

  Lewis Hamilton

  Balls, Problem, Late

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• Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Inspiration, Meditation Practice, Mind

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• I would say the soul would be more than the engine. The soul would be like the computer system that coordinates everything, from the smog device to the fuel injection system to the brakes.

  Dallas Willard

  Soul, Would Be, Fuel

  Source: renovare.org

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• You brake and then turn the wheel, step on the clutch, and pull the e-brake. Release the e-brake, go into countersteer mode, then wait. Wait until you know the car is facing the corner exit direction. then you smile and slam on the gas as you exit the corner.

  Keiichi Tsuchiya

  Car, Waiting, Wheels

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• To understand the intensity of driving an F1 car, you have to be in it. When you're driving a 750hp machine at 320km/h, the noise and the vibrations are incredible. The G-force when you take big corners is like someone trying to rip your head off. You hit the brakes, and it feels as if the skin is being pulled off your body.

  Jenson Button

  Rip, Car, Skins

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• He put his foot on one pedal, scooted a few yards and swung his other leg over the saddle. He soared left into the vertiginously sloping hillside road and sped, without touching his brakes ... The hedgerows and sky blurred; he imagined himself in a velodrome as the wind whipped his hair clean...

  J. K. Rowling

  Healing, Hair, Wind

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• I find myself, after all these years, with a built-in safety-brake that stops me from doing certain things. And one of the reasons why I want to try so called hard pornography - I don't even know whether it's hard enough - is to see whether I will be able to overcome this. Because if there is one thing I hate, it's good taste, to me it's a dirty word.

  Helmut Newton

  Hate, Dirty, Years

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