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The car only breaks down at the least convenient time. When you car breaks down and it is a small repair, the mechanic has to remove the engine to get to that part.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about cars, time

I think about you in every moment and every image of you hurts me horribly. I want to feel every thought, every whisper you say in the deep silence of the eternity of you soul. To be able to cry in me, beside you, beside me in you, to be able to...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about love, eternity, ancestors, infinite, smile, blood, silence, eyes, soul, truth

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately?...

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.

Quote by Russell Baker about need

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Quote by Joseph Addison about mind, moment

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the...

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about absurd, mind, things

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger...

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about world

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong...

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about world

If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most...

If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart.

Quote by Angelina Jolie about wish, haven, people, heart

When a furnace breaks in mid-winter, it is always the...

When a furnace breaks in mid-winter, it is always the heat exchanger.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about real estate

If it doesn't fit, force it, if it breaks, it needed...

If it doesn't fit, force it, if it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about force, police

An instrument always breaks at the worst possible time.

An instrument always breaks at the worst possible time.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about time

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.

Quote by Chuck Palahniuk about opinion, moment, life, truth

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but...

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

Quote by Oprah Winfrey about friendship, people

If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you. It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it and it will make you a person in your own right.

Quote by James Maxwell Anderson about art, proudness, heart, magic, people, rightness

Infinite These solitary hills have always been dear to me. Seated here, this sweet hedge, which blocks the distant horizon opening inner silences and interminable distances. I plunge in thought to where my heart, frightened, pulls back....

Quote by Giacomo Leopardi about infinite, thinking, eternity, voice, present, past, heart, spirit, time, love

I pitty you, but when I think about myself my heart breaks.

I pitty you, but when I think about myself my heart breaks.

Quote by Publius Terentius Afer about mercy, heart

The existence of a nation is like the existence of rivers – it can be controlled, exploited, stopped from flowing until it breaks all dams and sweeps away everything in its path.

Quote by Mariana Fulger about nation, existence

Sciences changes not through linear accumulation of data, information, but through sudden leaps, through abrupte breaks, through scientific revolutions.

Quote by Thomas Kuhn about science

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