Best 24 quotes in «brake quotes» category

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims—the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates.

Falling asleep while driving was the most concerning health condition that I developed. I was fortunate that it would happen at stop lights and stop junctions, and I would fall asleep with my foot resting on the brake.

But you have to learn to bend a little," "Or you'll brake." -Clarissa Fray

Death cannot put the brakes on a good dream.

I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.

Giftedness is your accelerator; wisdom is your brake.

Her singing reminds me of a cart coming downhill with the brake on.

If you ahve ever unloaded your pickup by backing up really fast and slamming on the brakes, you might be a redneck.

It's all happening too fast. I've got to put the brakes on or I'll smack into something.

Courage is a gas pedal and fear is a brake; when we go to our destination, we need both!

I have no brakes on...analysis is for those who are paralyzed by life.

I will stop at nothing to reach my objective, but only because my brakes are defective.

Oh yes. It's not when you brake but when you take them off that counts. Most people don't understand that.

Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.

Stop-Go seemed more sensiblr than using the brake and accelerator at the same time - a practice that later became fashionable.

Stop? I'm the guy. I don't stop! That's the woman's job. We're the gas, they're the brakes.

Together, we can put the brakes on breast cancer.

The use of self control is like the use of brakes on train. It is useful when you find yourself in wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right

The fear of The Lord is a brake that stops you when you're in the wrong direction.

We disparage reason. But all the time it's what we're most concerned with. There's will as motor and there's will as brakes. Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear.

What I really value in Angela Merkel is that she has never tried to tap the brakes on my élan, my enthusiasm. She tells me: I'm not going to play the role of the person who has already experienced and seen everything.

Why had I wasted all my time pretending to be someone I wasn't? I was tired, so very, very tired of standing on my own brakes. I felt...right. I felt free.

Use fear as an engine, not as a brake.

You have a brake in your brain that stops you doing stupid things. The older you are, the earlier that brake comes on. When you're 20 you stop at nothing; when you're older you're cleverer than when you're 20, so your brain brake operates more often!