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Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on. -- Budd Schulberg
It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill. -- John Gunther
When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands. -- George Carlin
Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down. -- Paul Newman
It's all happening too fast. I've got to put the brakes on or I'll smack into something. -- Mel Gibson
People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress. -- Dale Turner
Without putting the brakes on out-of-control campaign contributions from individuals and corporations - it will be business as usual, with 1 percent of Americans pulling the strings. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
In order to spur economic growth we need to put the brakes on out of control spending, lower Ohioans tax burden and create a most efficient and effective government. -- Kenneth Blackwell
When I sing for myself, I sing in a more free, athletic way. When I face an audience, there is always some fear that makes me put the brakes on a bit. -- Andrea Bocelli
The one who turns his back on the world and its comforts and, sets out on the path that leads to the Beloved has to face countless difficulties. But he brakes them all for the sake of the Beloved. -- Dada Vaswani
I always worked pretty steadily. But maybe out of some kind of fear, I put the brakes on letting myself be as successful as I'd like to be. More and more, I've taken the brakes off and let whatever happens happen. -- Josh Pais
It was an unbelievable experience! The brakes, the g-forces and the power of the engine are beyond description. Thanks to BMW and WilliamsF1 for giving me this chance to test. The test team looked after me brilliantly and I learnt plenty. -- Sebastian Vettel
When it's wet, you're much more tense on the steering wheel, you have to dance with the throttle and the brakes more. Each lap is a different scenario, so you're really on the edge of your nerves. One mistake could cost you the entire race. -- Allan McNish
For a while I was collecting Satan and devil stuff - you know, anything that had to do with old Beelzebub or Lucifer. But I had to put the brakes on it, because there's a lot of stuff out there, and the collection was just growing too quickly. -- Kirk Hammett
People ask how hard it can be sitting down for work during a 500-mile race? Well, without power steering or power brakes, holding onto 650 horses in a car that has nearly 3,000 pounds of downforce and can produce up to 4Gs vertically and laterally can be extremely tough - even sitting down. -- Charlie Kimball
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
There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens. -- Leon Trotsky
My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed. -- Carl Honore
To understand the intensity of driving an F1 car, you have to be in it. When you're driving a 750hp machine at 200mph, the noise and the vibrations are incredible. The G-force when you take big corners is like someone trying to rip your head off. You hit the brakes, and it feels as if the skin is being pulled off your body. -- Jenson Button
Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today? -- Mary Manin Morrissey
Meditation applies the brakes to the mind. -- Ramana Maharshi
Spreading your thighs I pump, pump your brakes. -- Schoolboy Q
Death cannot put the brakes on a good dream. -- Marva Collins
Together, we can put the brakes on breast cancer... -- Danica Patrick
I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder. -- Steven Wright
emotion without discipline is as dangerous as a high-powered car without brakes. -- Helen Kieran Reilly
A lack of clarity could put the brakes on any journey to success. -- Steve Maraboli
Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on. -- Budd Schulberg
In an earlier life, were you a pair of brakes?""Try a brick wall. -- J.R. Ward
I have no brakes on...analysis is for those who are paralyzed by life. -- Anais Nin
...I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.... -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
I will stop at nothing to reach my objective, but only because my brakes are defective. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
Stop? I'm the guy. I don't stop! That's the woman's job. We're the gas, they're the brakes. -- Lowell Ganz
Progress needs the brakeman, but the brakeman should not spend all his time putting on the brakes. -- Elbert Hubbard
They said, congratulations you got what it takes. They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes. -- Bob Dylan
It all happened so fast. Someone slammed the brakes and there was no way to go, just straight into it. -- Fabian Cancellara
It sounds to me like selling a car with faulty brakes, and then buying an insurance policy on those cars. -- Phil Angelides
No," I said. And maybe it was only because Alaska couldn't hit the brakes and I couldn't hit the accelerator. -- John Green
People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress. -- Dale Turner
Call me an alarmist, but there are certain words I don't like to hear together: cheap fireplace, discount brakes, cut-rate surgery ... -- Margo Kaufman
It is amazing how may drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down. -- Mario Andretti
If you ahve ever unloaded your pickup by backing up really fast and slamming on the brakes, you might be a redneck. -- Jeff Foxworthy
[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
You try to do a technical feature: in front of me I had a strong rider who brakes hard and it's difficult to pass. -- Valentino Rossi
When we don't put the brakes on our self-absorption, we have nothing stopping us from total self-destruction. We become the fruits of our actions. -- Zeena Schreck
You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then you're PUSHING 40. Whoa! Put on the brakes, it's all slipping away. Before you know it, you REACH 50 and your dreams are gone. -- George Carlin
Never ride a bike with the brakes on. If something is proving too difficult, give up and do something else. Try to live without resort to perseverance. -- Geoff Dyer
When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding... you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your brakes on. -- Anthony de Mello
I had this feeling that he and I , in this moment, were a car crash, and instead of putting on the brakes, I was hitting the accelerator. -- Maggie Stiefvater
I'm a whore!"Miki hit the brakes...her hands.. gripping the steering wheel, glanced at SaraYou're not wearing any underwear, are you?"Sara let out a strangled squeal..." -- Shelly Laurenston
In order to spur economic growth we need to put the brakes on out of control spending, lower Ohioans tax burden and create a most efficient and effective government. -- Kenneth Blackwell
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. -- Robert Frost
I'm a whore!"Miki hit the brakes...her hands.. gripping the steering wheel, glanced at Sara. "You're not wearing any underwear, are you?"Sara let out a strangled squeal... -- Shelly Laurenston
Getting angry can sometimes be like leaping into a wonderfully responsive sports car, gunning the motor, taking off at high speed and then discovering the brakes are out of order. -- Maggie Scarf
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 -- Bertrand Russell
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. -- Ilona Andrews
There are two Newman's laws. The first one is "It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down." The second is "Just when things look darkest, they go black. -- Paul Newman
I know, I know - you're a woman who's had a lot of tough breaks. Well, we can clean and tighten those brakes, but you'll have to stay in the garage all night. -- Groucho Marx
Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone. -- William Shakespeare
She's just playing a trick on us. This is just an Alaska Young Prank Extraordinaire. It's Alaska being Alaska, funny and playful and not knowing when or how to put on the brakes. -- John Green
I would say the soul would be more than the engine. The soul would be like the computer system that coordinates everything, from the smog device to the fuel injection system to the brakes. -- Dallas Willard
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

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