Quotes for All
Do not entertain the notion that you ought to advance in your prayer. If you do, you will only find you have put on the brake instead of the acceleration. All real progress in spiritual things comes gently, imperceptibly, and is the work of God. Our crude efforts spoil it. Know yourself for the childish, … Read more
You know, in some ways conducting is counter-intuitive. It’s like winter driving in Finland – if you skid, the natural reaction is to fight with the wheel and jam on the brakes, which is the quickest way to get killed. What you have to do is let go, and the car will right itself. It’s … Read more
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. Emmanuel Macron
A wounded deer leaps highest, I’ve heard the hunter tell; ‘Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still. The smitten rock that gushes, The trampled steel that springs,, A cheek is always redder Just where the hectic stings Mirth is mail of anguish, In which its cautious arm Lest anybody spy … Read more
Answer on being asked her opinion of Christ’s presence in the Sacrament. ‘Twas God the word that spake it, He took the Bread and brake it; And what the word did make it That I believe, and take it. Elizabeth I
God keeps a niche In Heaven, to hold our idols; and albeit He brake them to our faces, and denied That our close kisses should impair their white,– I know we shall behold them raised, complete, The dust swept from their beauty, glorified, New Memnons singing in the great God-light. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Progress needs the brakeman, but the brakeman should not spend all his time putting on the brakes. Elbert Hubbard
When every brake hath found its note, and sunshine smiles in every flower. Edward Everett
She started drinkin’ we weren’t thinkin’ too straight, she was doing eighty slammed on the brakes. Got so hot we had to pull to the side, did some shakin’ ’til the middle of the night. Eddie Money
The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another. Friedrich Nietzsche