Breaking Down Quotes - Page 17

• When the finely tuned balance among the different parts of bodies breaks down, the individual creature can die. A cancerous tumor, for example, is born when one batch of cells no longer cooperates with others. By dividing endlessly, or by failing to die properly, these cells can destroy the necessary balance that makes a living individual person. Cancers break the rules that allow cells to cooperate with one another. Like bullies who break cooperative societies, cancers behave in their own best interest until they kill their larger community, the human body.

  Neil Shubin

  Cancer, Cells, Community

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• In my experience, the skill of success breaks down into three things. The skill of marketing. The skill of sales. And the skill of leadership.

  Michael Ellsberg

  Skills, Marketing, Three

  Michael Ellsberg (2011). “The Education of Millionaires: Everything You Won't Learn in College About How to Be Successful”, p.117, Penguin

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• I love comedy and I would write things to myself as an exercise in writing. I didn't do well for years, and I quit. I started to break down why I was afraid and started to look at people I admired, like Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Freddie Prinze, George Carlin and all.

  George Lopez

  Writing, Exercise, Years

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• The petroDollar system breaking down, where oil is no longer paid for in Dollars internationally, essentially would be the death knell to the US Dollar as the reserve currency. It means the US can't borrow with 'exorbitant privilege' anymore, and it means the US Treasury market is set for an out-of-control interest rate spiral.

  Addison Wiggin

  Mean, Oil, Dollars

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• There can be few situations more fearful than breaking down in darkness on the highway leading to Casablanca. I have rarely felt quite so vulnerable or alone.

  Tahir Shah

  Fear, Darkness, Vulnerable

  Tahir Shah (2009). “In Arabian Nights”, p.35, Random House

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• In real time, the universe has a beginning and an end at singularities that form a boundary to space-time and at which the laws of science break down.

  Stephen Hawking

  Real, Space, Law

  Stephen W. Hawking (2003). “The Illustrated Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe”, New Millenium

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• We may appreciate the efforts, and even the greatness of the men who have tried to find the universal, the general 'behind' appearances; yet at the same time their quest was doomed to fail, for all universals break down as soon as the Creator, He who made man in His image, is denied or left out of account.

  Hans Rookmaaker

  Art, Greatness, Men

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• I can forgive the body breaking down. It's a little tougher to forgive that mental lapse.

  Hale Irwin

  Forgiving, Lapses, Body

  "Hale Irwin, 66, has 45 years of S.F. history" by Ron Kroichick, www.sfgate.com. October 26, 2011.

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• I'm all for sharing music, but when people can download a whole record and pay nothing for it and then they share it with 100,000 other people, it's breaking down the whole business.

  Richie Sambora

  People, Records, Pay

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• What gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we all have.

  Elizabeth Benedict

  Travel, Fear, Giving

  Jenna Blum, Maggie O'Farrell, Molly Gloss, Nicole Mones, Elizabeth Benedict (2010). “The Best Contemporary Women's Fiction: Six Novels”, p.52, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I can make things happen when plays break down.

  Vince Young

  Play, Make Things Happen, Happens

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• The most important institution in society is the family. If the family breaks down, society breaks down.

  Marco Rubio

  Important, Institutions, Ifs

  Republican Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. November 11, 2015.

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• Frontline love. It is our one hope for breaking down barriers and for restoring the sense of community, of caring for one another, that our decadent, impersonalized culture has sucked out of us.

  Charles Colson

  Caring, Community, Culture

  Charles Colson (1997). “Loving God”, p.194, Zondervan

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• A culture of dialogue is breaking down and giving way to a culture of threats and impunity, you can see the strategy already ... and what you have is essentially the threat of imprisonment in order to control people better.

  Sophal Ear

  Order, People, Giving

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• For what gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we have. Travel robs us of such refuge. Far from our own people, our own language, stripped of all our props, deprived of our masks (one doesn't know the fare on the streetcars, or anything else), we are completely on the surface of ourselves.

  Albert Camus

  Kind, Mask, Structure

  "Lyrical and Critical Essays".

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• People talk about the Patriot Act that was passed immediately in the wake of September 11. What the Patriot Act did was break down the walls between the various agencies.

  Robert Mueller

  Wall, Agency, People

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• I'd been reading Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year when the [1992 Los Angeles] riots broke out and I began to see them both - L.A. and the London plague - as the same event. A time of crisis. A time when rich and poor get thrown together - and, suddenly one sees alternatives. I began to think about what happens when the containment of a presumed danger through the regimentation of space breaks down, such as when South-Central L.A. began to invade Beverly Hills.

  Naomi Wallace

  Reading, Thinking, Space

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• Love is the victor in every case. Love breaks down the iron bars of thought, and sets the captive free.

  Ernest Holmes

  Love Is, Iron, Bars

  Ernest Holmes (1984). “Living the Science of Mind: The Only Writings by the Founder of SCIENCE OF MIND to Help You Understand His Classic Textbook”, p.331, DeVorss & Company

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• God is the true realistic point where human reason mostly, if not completely, breaks down.

  Kedar Joshi

  Realistic, Reason, Humans

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• Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.

  Daniel Dennett

  Ignorance, Forever, Religion

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• Not everything is going to go exactly as you plan. It's what you do when everything breaks down.

  Andy Dalton

  Break, Plans

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• Unless bureaucracy is constantly resisted, it breaks down representative government and overwhelms democracy.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Democracy, Bureaucracy

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and cruel people to the top, and then it all slides back into misery and ruin. In fact, the machine conks. It seems to start up all right and runs a few yards, and then it breaks down.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Selfish, Keys

  C. S. Lewis (1952). “Mere Christianity: a revised and enlarged edition, with a new introduction, of the three books, The case for Christianity, Christian behaviour, and Beyond personality”, Scribner Paper Fiction

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• Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.

  Frances McDormand

  Men, Car, Silence

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

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• Grant that I have enough suffering that my heart really opens to the great compassion of this world, that I be given enough so that I don't wall myself off from the world, that it breaks down the heart and the separation and the ego and the fear, and it lets me touch the nectar, the milk of kindness itself, of something greater.

  Jack Kornfield

  Wall, Kindness, Heart

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