Brake Quotes - Page 4

• France is ready for a European revolution and it is Germany that is pulling the brakes. For a long time, it was the other way around. You don't have to agree with the details of every single one of Emmanuel Macron's suggestions, but he's right about the idea of a new foundation of Europe. Europe's Social Democrats have long demanded this. If we really want to, we can create a different, better Europe in the coming years.

  Martin Schulz

  Long, Different, Revolution

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I am extremely energized to be in the Senate, because the Senate is the only emergency brake on the Trump train right now. And we have to use that emergency brake in a smart way to keep him from hurting our country, our reputation, our values, and our citizens.

  Tim Kaine

  Country, Hurt, Smart

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• The galleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. They make no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are the doers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes no mistakes lacks boldness and the spirit of adventure. He is the one who never tries anything. His is the brake on the wheel of progress. And yet it cannot be truly said he makes no mistakes, because his biggest mistake is the very fact that he tries nothing, does nothing, except criticize those who do things.

  David M. Shoup

  Mistake, Adventure, Fighting

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• Adding more people causes problems. But people are also the means to solve these problems. The main fuel to speed the world’s progress is our stock of knowledge; the brakes are our lack of imagination and unsound social regulations of these activities. The ultimate resource is people—especially skilled, spirited, and hopeful young people endowed with liberty—who will exert their wills and imaginations for their own benefits, and so inevitably they will benefit the rest of us as well.

  Julian Simon

  Mean, People, Imagination

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• If we're open to it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives... to change us. It might be a laughing child, car brakes that need fixing, a sale on pot roast, a cloudless sky, a trip to the woods to cut down a Christmas tree, a school teacher, a Dunhill Billiard pipe...or even a pair of shoes. Some people will never believe. They may feel that such things are too trivial, too simple, or too insignificant to forever change a life. But I believe. And I always will.

  Donna VanLiere

  Life, Teacher, Children

  Donna VanLiere (2016). “The Christmas Collection: The Christmas Shoes, The Christmas Blessing, and The Christmas Hope”, p.408, St. Martin's Press

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• It will be as if I'd never existed. The words ran through my head, lacking the perfect clarity of my hallucination last night. They were just words, soundless, like print on a page. Just words, but they ripped the hole wide open, and I stomped on the brake, knowing I should not drive while this incapacitated. I curled over, pressing my face against the steering wheel and trying to breathe without lungs.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Night, Knowing, Perfect

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• In an earlier life, were you a pair of brakes?" "Try a brick wall.

  J.R. Ward

  Wall, Trying, Pairs

  J.R. Ward (2010). “Crave: A Novel of the Fallen Angels”, p.62, Penguin

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• Stop? I'm the guy. I don't stop! That's the woman's job. We're the gas, they're the brakes.

  Lowell Ganz

  Jobs, Men, Guy

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• Very softly, but very swiftly, Last, the man with the grey face and the staring eyes, bolted for his life, down and away from the White House. Once in the road, free from the fields and brakes, he changed his run into a walk, and he never paused or stopped, till he came with a gulp of relief into the ugly streets of the big industrial town. He made hi way to the station at once, and found that he was an hour too soon for the London express. So, there was plenty of time for breakfast; which consisted of brandy.

  Arthur Machen

  Running, Eye, Men

  Arthur Machen (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of Arthur Machen (Illustrated)”, p.1290, Delphi Classics

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• As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a den; and I laid me down in that place to sleep: and as I slept I dreamed a dream. I dreamed, and behold I saw a man clothed with rags, standing in a certain place, with his face from his own house, a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back. I looked, and saw him open the book, and read therein; and as he read, he wept and trembled: and not being able longer to contain, he brake out with a lamentable cry; saying, 'What shall I do?'

  John Bunyan

  Dream, Book, Sleep

  John Bunyan (1813). “The Pilgrim's Progress, from this World, to that which is to Come ... with Notes, Interesting Memoirs of the Author, Character of the Pilgrim's Progress, and a Key to the Whole Work ... by Various Eminent Men”, p.1

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• Imagine driving a car that isn't working well. When you step on the gas the car sometimes lurches forward and sometimes doesn't respond. When you blow the horn it sounds blaring. The brakes sometimes slow the car, but not always. The blinkers work occasionally, the steering is erratic, and the speedometer is inaccurate.
  You are engaged in a constant struggle to keep the car on the road, and it is difficult to concentrate on anything else.

  Stanley Greenspan

  Struggle, Blow, Car

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• Her singing reminds me of a cart coming downhill with the brake on.

  Thomas Beecham

  Musical, Singing, Carts

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• We must learn by experience to avoid either trains of thought or social situations which for us (not necessarily for everyone) lead to temptations. Like motoring-don't wait till the last moment before you put on the brakes but put them on, gently and quietly, while the danger is still a good way off.

  C. S. Lewis

  Train Of Thought, Waiting, Temptation

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• Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 He was the Word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it; And what that Word did make it I do believe, and take it.

  John Donne

  Believe, Doctrine, Bread

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• It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like a train going down an inclined plane - putting on the brake is not pleasant, but it keeps the car on the track.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Disappointment, Track, Car

  "Life Thoughts, Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by One of His Congregation". Book edited by Edna Dean Proctor, 1859.

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• In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.

  Daniel Boone

  Kentucky, Aggravation, Rivers

  John Filson, Daniel Boone (1793). “The discovery, settlement and present state of Kentucky, and an introduction to the topography and natural history of that ... country. Also colonel Daniel Boon's narrative of the wars of Kentucky”, p.35

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• There's something wrong with the brakes." He didn't recognize his shaky, weak voice. He pumped them again. Nothing.  "There's something wrong with the BRAKES?" "I don't think we have any." "We don't have any BRAKES?" "Bro, it doesn't help to repeat everything I say!" Jonah yelled.

  Judy Blundell

  Thinking, Voice, Helping

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• The use of self control is like the use of brakes on train. It is useful when you find yourself in wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right

  Bertrand Russell

  Self, Use, Train

  Bertrand Russell (1987). “Bertrand Russell on ethics, sex, and marriage”

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• Without putting the brakes on out-of-control campaign contributions from individuals and corporations - it will be business as usual, with 1 percent of Americans pulling the strings.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Usual, Campaigns, Corporations

  "Occupy Congress" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2011.

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• One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or I can download a program on to it and run it. That's kind of important to me, and that's also kind of important to the whole future of the internet... obviously a closed platform is a serious brake on innovation.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Running, Writing, Innovation

  "Tim Berners-Lee: demand your data from Google and Facebook". Interview with Ian Katz, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2012.

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• No," I said. And maybe it was only because Alaska couldn't hit the brakes and I couldn't hit the accelerator.

  John Green

  Alaska, Said

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.156, Penguin

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• Why?' is always the most difficult question to answer. You know where you are when someone asks you 'What's the time?' or 'When was the battle of 1066?' or 'How do these seatbelts work that go tight when you slam the brakes on, Daddy?' The answers are easy and are, respectively, 'Seven-thirty in the evening,' 'Ten-fifteen in the morning,' and 'Don't ask stupid questions.

  Douglas Adams

  Morning, Stupid, Difficult Questions

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• The only reason I lost, the only reason I failed to get what I want, is because the monster is me, there's no difference between us. It makes all the moves, calls all the shots, while I'm just along for the ride, with no idea how to pull the brakes or get off.

  Alyson Noel

  Moving, Ideas, Differences

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• I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Thinking, Desire, Great Gatsby Love

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'”, p.49, Cambridge University Press

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• I'm terrified of the thought of time passing (or whatever is meant by that phrase) whether I 'do' anything or not. In a way I may believe, deep down, that doing nothing acts as a brake on 'time's - it doesn't of course. It merely adds the torment of having done nothing, when the time comes when it really doesn't matter if you've done anything or not.

  Philip Larkin

  Believe, Add, Phrases

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