Top 84 Brake Quotes
#1. People who live with OCD drag a mental sea anchor around. Obsession is a brake, a source of drag, not a badge of creativity, a mark of genius or an inconvenient side effect of some greater function.
David Adam
#2. You have an internal brake which you are most likely unaware of
Sunday Adelaja
#3. Metaphorically, governance is like a "Steer," Risk Management is like a "Brake.
Pearl Zhu
#4. Marx says that revolutions are the locomotives of world history. But the situation may be quite different. Perhaps revolutions are not the train ride, but the human race grabbing for the emergency brake.
Walter Benjamin
#5. I actually failed my first license test. I got an automatic fail. I guess I had been doing well but she had to pull the emergency brake so obviously there was a problem. I remember them handing me my fail paper and me just bursting into tears.
Jane Levy
#6. Lethal like venomous snake bites the marijuana makes my eyes bright red like brake lights
Canibus
#7. [L]ike thee to those in sorrow, Comes to bid a sweet good-morrow To the rough year just awake In its cradle on the brake. The brightest hour of unborn Spring, Through the winter wandering, Found, it seems, the halcyon Morn To hoar February born.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#8. I found the gas," he said. "Now all's I need to do is find the brake.
Jeannette Walls
#9. God keeps a niche
In Heaven, to hold our idols; and albeit
He brake them to our faces, and denied
That our close kisses should impair their white,
I know we shall behold them raised, complete,
The dust swept from their beauty, glorified,
New Memnons singing in the great God-light.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#10. Self-censorship, whether known or unknown, is an unwelcome brake on creativity; it stifles self-expression and hence prevents a work from reaching the heights of great art.
Semir Zeki
#11. A woman ran at our car screaming, a few of the shadow people chasing her, but before I could even touch the brake she must have changed her mind, because she had already turned into a shadow person herself. It's like, ugh, run from the shadow people or become one. Make up your mind, lady!
Joseph Fink
#12. She wished it was an unfamiliar feeling, that ache, the urge that made her hit the gas when she ought to hit the brake.
Holly Black
#13. My dad and I are very different people. For example, he's been stabbed; I'm afraid of bugs. He's a mechanic; I once had to exchange a "broken" rental car because I didn't realize I was driving around with the parking brake on. I could keep going, but you get it.
Jason Mulgrew
#14. ...I have always had an excellent brake system, a gift for choosing the anticlimactic over the irrevocable every time.
Jana French
#15. The problem isn't the desire itself, it's the context. You need more sexually relevant stimuli activating the accelerator and fewer things hitting the brake.
Emily Nagoski
#16. Just as I never liked bumper stickers - even though I do brake for animals, and if I had a kid, she would definitely be an honor student - I don't like the idea of expressing my views through social-media-controlled rainbow-or-anything-else-ification.
Meghan Daum
#17. The brake and gas were rigged to suit a man of his stature, and he handled them like Horowitz sailing through a storm of Liszt.
Michael Chabon
#18. If you don't have the balls to brake late, that's your problem.
Lewis Hamilton
#19. 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
#20. Future is a car with brake failure; it is moving towards us at a very high speed.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#21. 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
#22. 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
#24. When people merge, they just brake so much. Just drive and merge.
Melissa Breen
#25. A related study by Licette Peterson confirmed that girls are more fearful than boys are. For example, they brake sooner when riding their bikes. They react more negatively to pain and try not to make the same mistake twice.
James C. Dobson
#26. What good is speed without the ability to brake?
Nilesh Rathod
#27. When every brake hath found its note, and sunshine smiles in every flower.
Edward Everett
#28. 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
#29. Driving with one foot on the accelerator and the other on the brake is likely to get you nowhere, but certainly will burn out vital parts of your car. Similarly, cutting taxes on the middle class, but increasing them on the 'rich' is likely to result in an economic burnout.
Terry Savage
#30. Giftedness is your accelerator; wisdom is your brake.
Gerald Brooks
#31. You're pulling 4-5G for a lot of the corners around the lap. We build up lactic acid because there are a lot of vibrations in the car, and you have to have strong legs to hit the brake pedal. We need to be fit to do every lap at 100%.
Jenson Button
#32. You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#33. Dear me, what would this barren vocabulary get out of the mightiest spectacle? - the burning of Rome in Nero's time, for instance? Why, it would merely say, 'Town burned down; no insurance; boy brast a window, fireman brake his neck!' Why, THAT ain't a picture!
Mark Twain
#34. The fear of The Lord is a brake that stops you when you're in the wrong direction.
Bob Sorge
#35. There is also the fact that, unlike China, India is a democracy. Thus, Mumbai's robust activism functions as a brake on the drive to impose from above the fantasy of a global city.
Gyan Prakash
#36. The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#37. The girl worked the clutch and the gas and the brake expertly with her right foot, just as her father had taught her.
Joe Hill
#39. The insanity of love, and that's why you're trying to drive away with the park brake on.
Helene Young
#40. Daemon followed me home after school. Literally. He tailed me in his new Infiniti SUV. My old Camry, with its leaky exhaust and loud muffler, was no match for the speed he wanted to go. I'd brake-checked him several times. He'd blown his horn. It made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#41. Never to be outdone, my wife, who also happens to be a psychoanalyst and therefore a specialist in ambivalence, wrote the following to me: 'Dear Simon, Break a leg, or all your legs. I better brake fast. With all my love-hate, Jamieson (who is about to drive us off a cliff)
Simon Critchley
#42. Geologists claim that although the world is running out of oil, there is still a 200-hundred-year supply of brake fluid.
George Carlin
#43. Stop-Go seemed more sensiblr than using the brake and accelerator at the same time - a practice that later became fashionable.
Harold Macmillan
#44. 10:31pm
Janie drives home slowly, windows rolled down, hand ready on the parking brake. She takes Waverly. Past Cabel's house.
Nothing.
She falls into bed when she gets home.
There are no notes, no phone calls, no visits. Not that she was hoping for anything of course. That bastard.
Lisa McMann
#45. We can't afford to waste time going slow on changing our party so now is not the time to put our foot on the brake. Now is the time to press on the accelerator.
David Cameron
#46. Sweet were the days when I was all unknown, But when my name was lifted up, the storm Brake on the mountain and I cared not for it. Right well know I that fame is half disfame.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#47. See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs,
And mounts exulting on triumphant wings;
Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound,
Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.
Alexander Pope
#48. 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
#49. Why do you need to brake? Find your place, just be confident, and drive into it.
Melissa Breen
#50. The trick at Le Mans is to get the car 'in the window.' Everything is critical: the tyre pressure, the brake temperature, and that means you have to push the car a lot to get it into the window - it's about getting everything to work right and getting the car to flow through the corners.
Tom Kristensen
#51. AQAL is a map of samsara, a map of the prison, but if you gonna make a prison brake,you need a good map. (laughter)
Ken Wilber
#52. Her singing reminds me of a cart coming downhill with the brake on.
Thomas Beecham
#53. Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-brake on.
Maxwell Maltz
#55. The drivers have one foot on the brake, one on the clutch and one on the throttle.
Bob Varsha
#56. My timing is perfect, and I wind up in a traffic jam. The cars around me are driven by fat cows and bellowing bulls. We roll along, six mph. I can run faster than this. We brake. They chew their cud and moo into their phones until the herd shifts gears and rolls forward again.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#57. You have to maintain the balance between fast growth and smooth growth. It's like driving a car and knowing when to balance the gas pedal and the brake.
Guo Guangchang
#58. Strange isn't it, people spend their time making nice things and other people come along and brake them.
David Whitaker
#59. 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 and from ruin.
Henry Ward Beecher
#60. This is where each individual must decide for himself. The essential thing is the decision to challenge the modern state, which without this small group of protesters will be checked by neither brake, value, nor reason.
Jacques Ellul
#61. Oh yes. It's not when you brake but when you take them off that counts. Most people don't understand that.
Jackie Stewart
#62. 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
#63. Propaganda tries to force a doctrine on the whole people; the [party] organization embraces within its scope only those who do not threaten on psychological grounds to become a brake on the further dissemination of ideas.
Adolf Hitler
#64. This double burden of disease is rapidly putting a serious brake on the development efforts of many countries.
Gro Harlem Brundtland
#65. When your car is about to go off a cliff, it's a weird time to be thinking about gas mileage and drag coefficients; better to take the right control action - look out the window and steer or use the brake until you're back on course.
Michael Bolton
#67. In recent years, perhaps encouraged by competition from McDonald's, the British hamburger has become a credit to the nation. At the time of which I speak, it looked like a scorched beer-coaster or a tenderized disc brake.
Clive James
#68. But Rose? While I'm fine with you two dating and being happy, please try not to brake his heart too much when the time comes.
Richelle Mead
#69. Answer on being asked her opinion of Christ's presence in the Sacrament. 'Twas God the word that spake it, He took the Bread and brake it; And what the word did make it That I believe, and take it.
Elizabeth I
#70. Courage is a gas pedal and fear is a brake; when we go to our destination, we need both!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#71. A paradigm is no more than a paradigm. Brake it if you want, and make sure when you find another one; it just remains another paradigm.
Sameh Elsayed
#72. Life is a egg you have to be patient and carefull with it or it will brake
Langston Hughes
#73. The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people.
Dan Buettner
#74. My friend, when you always say "God is in control", while you have your feet on the brake pad, you are not going anywhere! Wise up!
Israelmore Ayivor
#75. It's like driving a car with your foot on the brake.
Allen Elkin
#76. The buck stops here," Ronan said, pulling up the hand brake. "Home shit home.
Maggie Stiefvater
#77. The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination.
Julian Simon
#78. Together, we can put the brakes on breast cancer ...
Danica Patrick
#79. No, I said. And maybe it was only because Alaska couldn't hit the brakes and I couldn't hit the accelerator.
John Green
#81. It all happened so fast. Someone slammed the brakes and there was no way to go, just straight into it.
Fabian Cancellara
#82. I will stop at nothing to reach my objective, but only because my brakes are defective.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#84. Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims - the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates.
Paul Hoffman
