Good Brakes Quotes

#1. [Charles de Gaulle] has been abysmally careless, like a man running a bus over mountains, who forgot to equip it with good brakes.

Janet Flanner

#2. Good God, woman. Hit the brakes on the freight train that is your mouth.

Shelly Laurenston

#3. Writer? Author? Storyteller, that's what I decided to be.

Robert McCammon

#4. The Chief believed if you sift through evil, at the very bottom you'll find good. He believed that evil has its limits. Beauvoir didn't. He believed that if you sift through good, you'll find evil. Without borders, without brakes, without limit.

Louise Penny

#5. The promises, the terrors, the hopes of eternity, are the concern of the corrupt dead; but the obvious sweetness of life belongs to living, healthy men.

Joseph Conrad

#6. Jumping out of a perfectly good air plane is like driving through life without a good set of brakes.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#7. Death cannot put the brakes on a good dream.

Marva Collins

#8. Many nights, I longed for home. But it occurred to me as I struggled for a feeling of comfort and safety: I have no idea where home is.

Liz Murray

#9. People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

Samuel Butler

#10. What an entrepreneur does is to build for the long run. If the market is great, you get all of the resources you can. You build to it. But a good entrepreneur is always prepared to throttle back, put on the brakes, and if the world changes, adapt to the world.

Vinod Khosla

#11. I sat upon the shore
Fishing, with the arid plain behind me
Shall I at least set my lands in order?
London Bridge is falling down falling down falling down
Poi s'ascose nel foco che gli affina
Quando fiam ceu chelidon - O swallow swallow

T. S. Eliot

#12. I wasn't very good at the bike thing. Really, it was just dangerous to trust two skinny little wheels and spindly brakes with the considerably uncoordinated woman that is me.

Kathryn Smith

#13. Did Wagner really accomplish the first step towards the kitschy 'fetishization' of music that reaches its apogee in classical Hollywood?

Slavoj Zizek

#14. Eyeglasses and teeth: both breakable, valuable things that you have to carry with you all the time. Hanging there precariously like earrings without backings, threatening to fall out, chip off, crack to the quick because of some innocent nut or seed or beer bottle.

Ainslie Hogarth