Breakneck Quotes

#1. Why do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, ecstatic note of it, not wasting a single moment of its swift, breakneck circuit?

Pat Conroy

#2. Never in our history have we been headed at such breakneck speed toward our own financial, political and cultural destruction. One can only pray that before it's too late, enough Democrats will come to their senses and help get this freight train under control.

David Limbaugh

#3. The Roman form of serenade is to race a motorcycle motor under the girl's window, but mufflers are not common in any situation; the only things as dearly loved as a good noise are breakneck speed and eye-splitting lights, preferably neon - all expressions of well-being, like a huge belly-laugh.

Eleanor Clark

#4. All over the planet, nature is being transformed into 'un-nature' at breakneck speed ... My life is part of natural history. I long to know where that history came from and where it is going.

Hiroshi Sugimoto

#5. Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you've earned it, spend time with your families.

Colin Powell

#6. The Engineer began dismantling the helmet at a breakneck speed, stacking the components - faceplate, lining, mikes, data processor, even microfans - on the nearest flat surface, a hydroplane-like structure on a small vessel.

Karen Traviss

#7. Progress isn't always good. There's a reason why 'breakneck speed' is described as such.

Fennel Hudson

#8. But if I know anything about time, it is that it stretches to walk with you when you grieve. The rest of the world may zoom past at breakneck speed, but when you are learning to live with loss, time slows to the pace of your breathing.

Susan Meissner

#9. Breakneck is the MC name, but it's also a word for our family. He's asking if I'm laying a claim forever on her. That is the kind of claim that we would risk everything for.

Crystal Spears

#10. They started calling it The Rape, and it came to stand for everything: for coming together while falling apart; for loving each other and hating everybody else; for moving at breakneck speed while getting nowhere; for freezing in the streets and melting in the rooms of love.

Denis Johnson

#11. I love doing TV. It's such a breakneck pace, you know. It's kiss and go with your leading man. You meet them in the morning and go right into a clinch. The filming is over before you know their last names.

Paulette Goddard

#12. We just didn't get it. We were weakened and exhilarated at the same time. A paranoiac's nightmare! A narcissist's dream! We didn't know how to feel: flattered or raped. Maybe both. We were puzzling at breakneck speed.

Steve Toltz

#13. She was an Amazon. Her whole life was spent riding at breakneck speed towards the wilder shores of love.

Lesley Blanch

#14. You have the 20th century wrapping up and everything is moving at this breakneck speed? And then, painting is still walking. It's just a very human activity that takes time.

Joe Bradley

#15. A vast and fiery nuclear furnace launched photons through the reaches of space; they hurtled trillions of kilometers at breakneck speed, then filtered gently into the bedroom as shafts of dawn sunlight.

Anonymous

#16. Fortunately or unfortunately, NaNoWriMo requires you to write at a breakneck pace, so I got used to just pushing on through.

Ann Leckie

#17. For one, the Qur'an is considered by Muslims to consist entirely of words spoken by Allah himself.

Paul Weyrich

#18. This is the art of courage: to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.

Victoria Lincoln

#19. The winter requires whoever is doing the watering to have a bit of faith, in order to believe that what looks empty has every potential.

Fredrik Backman

#20. People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

James Baldwin

#21. There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today's pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent.

Charles Krauthammer

#22. If we are willing to spend hours on end to learn to play the piano, operate a computer, or fly an airplane, it is sheer nonsense for us to imagine that we can learn the high art of getting guidance through communion with the Lord without being willing to set aside time for it.

Paul Rees

#23. Proust has listed a great many reasons why it is impossible to be happy, but, in the course of being happy, one finds it difficult to remember them.

William Empson

#24. I think if you alienate people and just focus on your work then it just becomes lonely and it's not fun anymore.

Julianne Hough

#25. We can't enchant the world, which makes its own magic; but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention

Diane Ackerman

#26. I like to dress, I love to have make-up on, I like to do my hair.

Ashthon Jones