Top 100 Broken Down Quotes
#1. The first thing that has to be broken down is your relationship to authority. Your insecurity could possibly be the wedge that opens up your perspective on what you think is possible for you to do.
Ross Bleckner
#2. Our body is the vehicle that we are given for our journey and if we do not take care of it, we will find ourselves broken down on the side of the road facing costly and time-consuming repairs.
John Patrick Hickey
#3. The neurotic is aware of the danger of a situation in which his unrealistic self-affirmation is broken down and no realistic self-affirmation takes its place.
Paul Tillich
#4. I'm not so sure," Dad said. "Every damn thing in the universe can be broken down into smaller things, even atom, even protons, so theoretically speaking, I guess you had a winning case. A collection of things should be considered one thing. Unfortunately, theory don't always carry the day.
Jeannette Walls
#5. Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than
broken down.
Tennessee Williams
#6. Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.
Bill Gates
#7. The new painting has broken down every distinction between art and life.
Harold Rosenberg
#8. So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed him whole. Love was substance, broken down and beating through your bloodstream.
Jodi Picoult
#9. Inform all the troops that communications have completely broken down.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#10. It is the rarest thing ... that gets preserved, that does not get erased, broken down, transformed.
Anthony Doerr
#11. You're smarter than you look,' I say to Raffe.
'But not as smart as he thinks,' says Howler.
'I can see discipline has broken down during your vacation,' says Raffe.
'Yeah, it's all that lounging on the beach with nothing to do but drink and watch women.
Susan Ee
#12. We have used so much polyethylene ( plastic ) since the invention of this oil derivative that plastic broken down has over time completely changed the molecular structure of seawater .
Norbert F Hoffmann Jr
#14. Now, more then ever, we have the ability to make films for almost nothing and that's broken down all barriers of entry. I think it's a new golden age of film-making. With that, there needs to be the ability to recoup investment dollars, people need to make money.
Matthew Lillard
#15. Neighbor is no longer confined to the vocabulary of the individual. It is a national word. Modern inventions have annihilated distance. Commercial relations have broken down barriers of race and religion, and the family of nations is a recognized fact.
David Josiah Brewer
#16. The Blues are a simple music and I'm a simple man. But the Blues aren't a science, the Blues can't be broken down like mathematics. The Blues are a mystery, and mysteries are never as simple as they look!
Johnny Ferreira
#17. Cottage cheese, broken down into its simplest form, is milk that has been curdled to mimic the cellulite its consumption is meant to banish.
Elsie Love
#18. Love comes again
Just when I've broken down I found
Love can come again
You've got to believe that.
Tiesto
#19. Because I'm a big guy, I was always playing the bad guy or whatever, but after I did 'The Blind Side,' where I played a father who's a really loving, likeable sort of person, a lot of those barriers were broken down. People saw me as something softer, not so much as a heavy anymore.
Omar Dorsey
#20. Welcome to Anaheim, California, my fellow broken-down, washed-up wrestler.
Mick Foley
#21. Because I make films about eating disorders and sexual assault, people always come up to me and are like, "Are you okay?" like I'm a broken-down shell of a woman.
Jessie Kahnweiler
#22. Strong themes and styles have to be broken down before literature can come into being. It is this breaking down that is called "writing." Writing is more about destroying than creating.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#23. I'm not just taking trips down memory lane; I'm broken down on it.
Pete Wentz
#24. Obama was elected by the people, and I was glad that barrier was broken down. I did, along with my wife, campaign for him in Ohio because that was a key state. If I had to say does he rate an 'A' or does he rate a 'D,' it would be very difficult. I give him a 'C.'
Jim Brown
#25. All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
Henry Ward Beecher
#26. Among the people in that room, all those centuries ago, my body, breakable at will, endangered in the streets, fearful in the schools, was not closest to the queen's but to her adviser's, who'd been broken down into a chair so that a queen, heir to everything she'd ever seen, could sit.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#27. Left to my own vices, all I would own is a Corvette, and it would be broken down.
Bill Engvall
#28. Fashion is meant to be wild and expressive. I love colour but I also love basics - grungy minimalism mixed with this kind of broken-down cheerleader, is my thing.
Charli XCX
#29. My body is just the container full of bacon that I carry my brain around in. And maybe it is. Maybe it is just the container I carry my brain around in. But so is a car. And if the car is broken down and busted, my brain isn't going anywhere. Same goes for my container.
Shonda Rhimes
#30. Christmas is a season of such infinite labour, as well as expense in the shopping and present-making line, that almost every woman I know is good for nothing in purse and person for a month afterwards, done up physically, and broken down financially.
Fanny Kemble
#31. I was dealing with craft, and that's the surprising thing, the number of people who have literally broken down on our stage, because when you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong.
James Lipton
#32. We have broken down the self-respecting spirit of man with nursery tales and priestly threats, and we dare to assert, that inproportion as we have prostrated our understanding and degraded our nature, we have exhibited virtue, wisdom, and happiness, in our words, our actions, and our lives!
Frances Wright
#33. When a peacekeeping operation is deployed, it is in support of a political process, it is part of an integrated approach. It is there to help when a state has broken down and to help that state regain some kind of balance. There is no quick fix.
Jean-Marie Guehenno
#34. For years we've been campaigning against the rule that women can't vote. That's the barrier. Once it's broken down, people will see further concessions as mere technicalities. It will be relatively easy to get the voting age lowered and other restrictions eased.
Ken Follett
#36. I like paper statements rather than relying on computers. I feel more in control if my account details and transactions are broken down on paper.
Geoff Capes
#37. I used to think the world was broken down by tribes,' I said. 'By Black and White. By Indian and White. But I know this isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: the people who are assholes and the people who are not.
Sherman Alexie
#39. Warrior actions are derived from the warrior soul. The best know it and nurture it. And once you have it, it never leaves. The warrior soul does not weaken. Long after the body has broken down, the soul stands tall.
William G. Boykin
#40. If joy could break windows and hallelujahs could break floorboards, this church would have been broken down by noon.
Hannah Brencher
#41. Most journalists are broken down alcoholics.
James Purdy
#42. Mortals live but their souls are little more than raw energy coursing through flesh. When they die that energy is broken down and returned to the cosmos. There is no heaven, and no hell. Only delusion.
Plague Jack
#43. In Texas, having a vehicle meant having a life--if you walked on the shoulder, everybody could see that you'd failed in some way. That you couldn't afford a vehicle, that your car had broken down and you couldn't pay for a cab, that you had no friends to call. Maybe you were too weird to hitchhike.
James Hannaham
#44. There really is only one fear. It's just broken down into many little fears. The one fear is that we can't handle our fears. That's why we have them, to go through them.
Art Hochberg
#45. Dean's California
wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors.
Jack Kerouac
#46. Everything in life should be approached as a project. Every project can be broken down into just three things: Action Steps, Backburner Items, and References.
Scott Belsky
#47. And that's it - he goes his way, and I go mine. Used to, we would've broken down that whole story about my dad until we found the very truth of the truth of it, but now it's just, So long, I'll see you later.
Tim Tharp
#48. I felt physically weak and broken down, but my worse ailment was an unutterable wretchedness of mind; a wretchedness which kept drawing from me silent tears.
Charlotte Bronte
#49. She only came back when she felt like it, in dreams and lies and broken-down deja vu.
Rainbow Rowell
#50. The fantasist in whom the reality barrier has broken down is unreliable, believing things when he should not, and telling things as true when they are not.
Simon Blackburn
#52. Gingrich was a far more volatile and aggressive individual than Boehner, but the institutional norms of self-restraint, and perhaps even self-interest, have broken down under the pressure of an increasingly abnormal Republican Party.
George Packer
#53. I'll be scalded and tarred if a man can't get a little welcome when he comes home. Well, Maggie, you old gunny-sack, how's the broken down old weather hen? - Sabina, old fishbait, old skunkpot. - And the children, - how've the little smellers been?
Thornton Wilder
#54. The tennis ball doesn't know how old I am. The ball doesn't know if I'm a man or a woman or if I come from a communist country or not. Sport has always broken down these barriers.
Martina Navratilova
#55. Proverbs 25:28 says, "Like a city whose walls are broken down is a man who lacks self-control." In other words, if we do not control our own lives from the inside, somebody else will control them from the outside.
Myles Munroe
#56. I know that I've been given more than beyond measure. I come alive when I see beyond my fears. I know that I've been given more than earthly treasure. I come alive when I've broken down and given you control.
Jeremy Camp
#57. New York is the dirtiest, largest, ugliest, broken-down city in the world-but it's the only one.
Isaac Stern
#58. I am one of the world's dreadful technophobes. I was on the internet, but it's broken down and I've unplugged it.
Gerald Seymour
#59. His only possessions are the sky, the earth and a broken-down violin.
Even so ... he only loved someone once in his lifetime.. and he's 624 years old.
Kaori Ozaki
#60. When tadpole tails shrink in size,
their constituents are being broken down by lysosomes, and these organic molecules are then reabsorbed to fuel the growth of new structures such as the frog's budding arms and legs.
Steven Daniel Garber
#61. First love is like a revolution; the uniformly regular routine of ordered life is broken down and shattered in one instant; youth mounts the barricade, waves high its bright flag, and whatever awaits it in the future - death or a new life - all alike it goes to meet with ecstatic welcome.
Ivan Turgenev
#62. Broken down into hours, the number would be unimaginable. -i'll be right there.
Kyung-Sook Shin
#63. We are in a crisis today because the practical consensus between the left and the right, linking economic efficiency with social protection, has broken down
Andre Glucksmann
#64. One of the essential tenets of Grisha theory was "like calls to like," but Morozova seemed to believe that if the world could be broken down to the same small parts, each Grisha should be able to manipulate them.
Leigh Bardugo
#65. Resistance put up by the old capitalist paternalism prevents this equality from being concretely achieved: it will be achieved the day this resistance is broken down.
Simone De Beauvoir
#66. And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle.
Barry McGuire
#67. New York establishment isn't really a literary establishment. It's just a collection of broken down old newspaper hacks who pass judgment on books that they have not even read, with assuredness of Jehova.
James Purdy
#68. In other words, a person develops the ability to see how the details make up the big picture and how a large, complex concept can be broken down into simple step-by-step processes. A
Logan Donovan
#69. What needed to stop was the succession of dates with these relatively impressive, relatively interesting people, when I could tell from the first minute that everyone here was going to end as a runner-up in a long race to nowhere in particular, broken-down, exhausted, no one wearing a medal.
B.J. Novak
#70. man who does not control his temper is like a city whose wall is broken down.
Anonymous
#71. Mostly I do Iyengar. I like anything that's hard enough to make me cry in class. I like to be pushed over my limit and broken down a little bit.
Lucy Alibar
#72. It sounds like these guys would be filed under Assholes Who Do Evil Shit in My Name." "Jesus. I mean, wow. That's the name of one of your files?" "One of my largest, unfortunately. But I have it broken down into subfolders.
Kevin Hearne
#73. And so we picked up our bags, he the trunk with his one good arm and I the rest, and staggered to the cable-car stop; in a moment rolled down the hill with our legs dangling to the sidewalk from the jiggling shelf, two broken-down heroes of the Western night.
Jack Kerouac
#74. An idea can only become a reality once it is broken down into organized, actionable elements.
Scott Belsky
#75. It is, however, an argument of no weight to say that natural bodies are first generated or compounded out of those things into which they are at the last broken down or dissolved.
William Harvey
#76. I was lost
And sang my broken-down songs in the hell of the hour.
Then in my heart moved an oar,
And I was found by a breeze from a door in the sea of forms
And was rowed to the cherry trees on the shore.
Stan Rice
#77. I think you overestimate the maturity of adults, he wrote me in his final letter, a letter he sent only after I'd broken down and written him first, after a year of silence.
Maggie Nelson
#78. A good Dianetic auditor can take a broken-down, sorrow-drenched lady of thirty-eight and knock out her past periods of physical and mental pain and have on his hands somebody who appears to be twenty-five-and a bright, cheerful twenty-five at that.
L. Ron Hubbard
#79. what we call existence is a womb of infinitude, and is itself only incubatory - that eventually all attempts are broken down by the falsely excluded.
Charles Fort
#80. During normal cell metabolism, RNA is constantly being made and broken down. The purine and pyrimidine residues are reused by several salvage pathways to make more genetic material. Purine is salvaged in the form of the corresponding nucleotide, whereas pyrimidine is salvaged as the nucleoside.
Richard J. Roberts
#81. Do they think that, if left to our own devices, we'd all park on zebra crossings for a year? If they do, it means they don't trust us. And if they don't trust us, then the relationship has broken down and it's time for some civil unrest.
Jeremy Clarkson
#82. Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
Sallust
#83. When I got the job on 'Lost,' I was a broke university student living in the crappiest part of town, with a duct-taped back window on a broken-down car. I existed on peanut butter and tea.
Evangeline Lilly
#84. The real challenge of acting for me, I suppose, is just getting to know a character very, very well and just applying what I know about them to every single scene. That's what it can be broken down to.
Daniel Radcliffe
#85. I'm the one who gets called up about a problem. I'm the one who gets called up about the street lighting and the abandoned car. I'm the one who gets blamed if the police don't arrive. I'm the one they blame if a city truck is broken down.
Richard M. Daley
#86. There is something about big cities that turns me on, and for whatever mysterious reason, places like New York and Paris inspire me. I think it's because cities represent civilization, and as crime-ridden and broken down as some of them are, it's still better than skipping through a meadow.
Woody Allen
#87. Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.
Charles Williams
#88. Violence is essentially wordless. and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.
Thomas Merton
#89. Show me a filthy public restroom and I'll show you a society where discipline and order have broken down.
Lourd Ernest H. De Veyra
#90. Britney [Spears]'s actually kind of like a broken-down shell of a human being, that's what makes her so endearing and compelling.
Moby
#91. I used to have horrible cars that would always end up broken down on the highway. When I tried to flag someone down, nobody stopped. But if I pushed my own car, other drivers would get out and push with me. If you want help, help yourself - people like to see that.
Chris Rock
#92. Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns. We have the best politicians that money can buy.
Edward Abbey
#93. Beautiful, clever, hardheaded Rapunzel, who had broken down and cried, whose hair was as beautiful as a sunset.
Melanie Dickerson
#94. I know pretty well what evidence is, and I tell you, such evidence as that for the resurrection has never broken down yet.
John Singleton Copley
#95. I am so gone. Lost. Her smile, the little sigh she lets out, the way her eyes light up. All of it. I'm broken down and rebuilt. And nothing will ever be the same again.
Caisey Quinn
#96. We don't need to be beautiful for Christ to take us in. He is equally at home when we're broken-down and dirty.
Philip Gulley
#97. I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
Stephen Hawking
#98. The only thing that preoccupies me is that France has broken down, and we need to start up the engine again - all the way. But not so as to run into a wall.
Jean-Marc Ayrault
#99. I think, in my life, there've been three times I've broken down into tears on a set because I was happy.
Stephen Tobolowsky
#100. In my best moments, when I calm down and listen closely, God says, I didn't ask you to become new and improved today. That wasn't the goal. You were broken down and strange yesterday, and you still are today, and the only one freaked out about it is you.
Shauna Niequist
