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A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. -- Earl Wilson
I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls. -- Kate Beckinsale
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. -- Bertrand Russell
I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation. -- Charles Evans Hughes
Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order. -- Christopher Lasch
Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset. -- Roald Dahl
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death. -- R. D. Laing
A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it. -- Art Buchwald
The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown. -- Adrienne Rich
We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle. -- Jerry Falwell
I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch. -- Emma Thompson
Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order. The business community was hit by a slump in sales and confidence, leading to reduced earnings and loss of jobs. -- Kamisese Mara
And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority. -- Hu Shih
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. -- R. D. Laing
To transform breakdowns into breakthroughs is the whole function of a master. -- Rajneesh
I have been to hell and back. I had a very, very bad nervous breakdown. -- Andy Gibb
Going back to Ireland involves at least six to seven emotional breakdowns for me per day. -- Anjelica Huston
On the other hand, I believe there's hope, because the breakdown and the repair are happening simultaneously. -- Kathryn Bigelow
I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay. -- Lionel Blue
The last thing we need is yet another makeup company. Even I have a nervous breakdown when I go through the department store makeup floor. -- Lauren Hutton
(F)or 50 years, the well-meaning leftist agenda has been able to do to blacks what Jim Crow and harsh discrimination could never have done: family breakdown, illegitimacy and low academic achievement. -- Walter E. Williams
I've read a couple of things that I was sort of close to having a nervous breakdown. But I don't think I was. I was very, very tired. It was a really difficult time. -- Kate Bush
I'm taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me to a nervous breakdown if I tried to organise a wedding on top of that. -- Natasha Hamilton
The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown. -- Jacques Derrida
I had a woman breakdown and cry when she met me which was difficult to deal with because immediately when someone starts to cry, you want to comfort them, you know, 'Poor thing.' I comforted her. I tried to make her feel better. -- Elijah
Instead of me having a breakdown, I'm focusing on me having a breakthrough. -- Terrell Owens
I was so devastated by my second divorce that I had a nervous breakdown. -- Jane Fonda
With a suit, even if you're having a nervous breakdown, you still look like you're in charge. -- Paul Feig
I'm a neurotic Jew who doesn't want loans. I can't even carry a balance on my credit card without having a nervous breakdown. -- Duff Goldman
When you coach Russ Smith, you have a nervous breakdown on every possession. He's not from a different country. He's from a different planet. -- Rick Pitino
Medically speaking, there is no such thing as a nervous breakdown. Which is very annoying to discover when you're right in the middle of one. -- Marian Keyes
Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue. -- Malcolm Turnbull
If you say you've had a nervous breakdown or things aren't right mentally, people run away from you. They think you're from 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest,' you know. -- Frank Bruno
I had a nervous breakdown at 17 when my first love left me, and he was a typical bad boy, albeit a charismatic one, with a string of broken hearts trailing behind him. -- Caroline Leavitt
I'm in favor of destruction, aggression, hating things. Not bearing things anymore. We think the breakdown comes because our life is in bad shape. But maybe the ideas cause the disorder. Something tries to break through and causes the disorder. -- James Hillman
Yippee! I can't believe I made it. It feels like a long haul to get here. I'm so fine with it. People want you to have some sort of breakdown, but I'm relieved to be 40 years old, and I've lived a life. -- Nicole Kidman
When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating. -- Iain Duncan Smith
During my breakdown, many things, tiny things I had not even registered before, had begun to torment me with guilt. I used to steal Splenda from Starbucks. I would go into a Starbucks whenever I needed the sweetener and would take a fistful of packets, even when I didn't buy a coffee. -- Akhil Sharma
The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river. -- Kerry Washington
Any breakdown is a breakthrough. -- Marshall McLuhan
Because there's beauty in the breakdown. -- Imogen Heap
I was born with a nervous breakdown. -- Yves Saint Laurent
There is no breakthrough without a breakdown. -- Tony Robbins
The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high. -- Iain Duncan Smith
I love Mariah Carey. Remember the breakdown? I loved the breakdown. -- Kathy Griffin
To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown. -- Jeanette Winterson
You're heading for a breakdown. Why don't you pull yourself to pieces -- Groucho Marx
Your best is whatever you can do comfortably without having a breakdown. -- J. R. Moehringer
Democracy or breakdown in Syria would change the whole Middle East overnight. -- Paul Krugman
War is not the continuation of policy. It is the breakdown of policy. -- Hans von Seeckt
Every god is a jealous god after the breakdown of the bicameral mind. -- Julian Jaynes
If she fully embraced life with all its conflicts, she would suffer a breakdown. -- Dean Koontz
Gym is a center of capitalist breakdown, and everything is focused on the individual. -- Jenny Hval
Sometimes travelling really intensely for a long time is like having a continuous nervous breakdown. -- Glen Hansard
Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck. -- Pat Williams
No one is to blame for the breakdown in trust between politics, media and the public. -- Tony Blair
What appears to be a breakdown can often be a breakthrough.... IF you understand God's grace -- Carl Lentz
This is every writer's nightmare--the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us... -- Dan Simmons
Just for the record, the weather today is increasing turmoil with a possible physical and emotional breakdown. -- Chuck Palahniuk
with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy. -- John Kennedy Toole
My mom had the breakdown for the family, and I went into therapy for all of us. -- Carrie Fisher
Not many people sleep with other men and when the other man leaves have a nervous breakdown. -- Andrew Sullivan
I'd have a nervous breakdown except that I've been through this too many times to be nervous. -- Peter McWilliams
There are so many rules about play writing. I'd have a nervous breakdown if I followed them. -- Terrence McNally
I'm on the verge of a total breakdown. Sciatica. Taxes. Cars. Fleas, possibly. It's an absurd existence. -- Jonathan Ames
It's unthinkable not to love -you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin. -- Lawrence Durrell
I learned that most people buy based on emotion, not on a rational breakdown of the product or service. -- Nick Woodman
I had low blood sugar, a chemical imbalance, plus the normal nervous breakdown everyone goes through from adolescence to adulthood. -- Mel Brooks
The biggest trouble with success is that its formula is just about the same as that for a nervous breakdown. -- John Holmes
Disordered love always leads to misery and breakdown. The only way to 'reorder' our loves is to love God supremely. -- Timothy Keller
A small communication breakdown is enough for everyone to be working on slightly different things. And then you loose focus... -- Sam Altman
Every zombie story is fundamentally about a breakdown of order, with the infrastructure intact. That infrastructure might be on fire, yes. -- Patton Oswalt
If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat. -- John Green
The Glycemic Index is one the best tools for fat loss. It measures how quickly foods breakdown into sugar in your bloodstream. -- Al Sears
There hasn't been a true breakdown or effort to break Thai music into genres. They're not into dicing and slicing everything up. -- Alan Bishop
When Mom had her first nervous breakdown, she said she had a vision of Christ coming to her in the living room. -- Spalding Gray
I'm f**king pathetic when it comes to being an entertainer. People come because they want to see me have a nervous breakdown. -- Mark Linkous
Some girls love to go to the airport and have 50 paparazzi on them. I go to the airport and have a mental breakdown. -- Megan Fox
The simplest type of breakdown exhibits itself as an oscillation in a goal-seeking process which appears only when that process is actively invoked. -- Norbert Wiener
If you want to give the devil a nervous breakdown, just get up every day and see how much good you can do. -- Joyce Meyer
Yes, Jenna, I love you with all my heart. And with my atoms and molecules and electrons and whatever further breakdown you require. -- Sharon Shinn
In an abstract but real sense, Marxism arose through the breakdown first of religion and then of 'reason' as single sources of authority. -- Bernard Crick
A nervous breakdown waits around the corner for anyone who lets himself wallow in bitterness. Little by little, it takes over your whole being. -- Mariama Bâ
A nervous breakdown waits around the corner for anyone who lets himself wallow in bitterness. Little by little, it takes over your whole being. -- Mariama Bâ
The first thing you do when you get off tour is let off some steam and, you know, have some type of big breakdown. -- Lykke Li
Every major difficulty you face in life is a fork in the road. You choose which track you will head down, toward breakdown or breakthrough. -- John C. Maxwell
Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for. -- Janis Joplin
I am simply submerged in work from five in the morning to eleven at night; almost need a few days off to escape a breakdown! -- Richard Neutra
Wherever you find marital failure, you will find a breakdown in real communication. Wherever you find marital success, you will find a good communication system. -- Wayne Mack
Intellectual and cultural freedom is the most important single precondition for the breakdown of the kinds of tyrannical and totalitarian systems that periodically threaten us. -- James H. Billington
There's nothing I'd never wear, really. I've worn pink spotty pajamas from a Goodwill store onstage before. This only happens when I'm having a small breakdown! -- Marina and the Diamonds
There are rituals not structures for being a poet, drinking too much, taking too many drugs, being a lady chaser, having your nervous breakdown, being irresponsible about money. -- Diane Wakoski
Death may be due to a wide variety of diseases and disorders, but in every case the underlying physiological cause is a breakdown in the body's oxygen cycle. -- Dr. Milton Helpern
I don't want to be a leader. I want to be one who goes around with a little oil can and offer help when I see a breakdown. -- Baba Amte
I found out that I couldn't have a nervous breakdown. I tried a couple of times, but it just didn't work out. My mind, my body wouldn't let me. -- Tom Smothers
Since the end of the 1970s, something has gone profoundly wrong in America. Inequality has soared. Educational progress slowed. Incarceration rates quintupled. Family breakdown accelerated. Median household income stagnated. -- Nicholas Kristof
How do you know? How best to ensure his nervous breakdown?" I ask."Keep going," Christian says. "Just go on as if nothing has happened. We all hate that. -- Suzanne Finnamore
I've always tried to be what I call militantly nonviolent. I don't believe that anyone could seriously accuse me of not being totally committed to the breakdown of segregation. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
How do you know? How best to ensure his nervous breakdown? I ask.Keep going, Christian says. Just go on as if nothing has happened. We all hate that. -- Suzanne Finnamore
Militarism has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilizations. The single art of war makes progress at the expense of all the arts of peace. -- Arnold Joseph Toynbee
As a nation the people of this lovely island called Britain, are at the point where even one honest politician could give us a collective and conceptual nervous breakdown. -- Steve Merrick
More and more, we have been able to present the argument that recruitment of child soldiers is a social breakdown that leads to atrocities, because that's why they get them. -- Romeo Dallaire
I think I realize why celebrities go crazy, do something stupid or have a nervous breakdown. Fortunately I have great people around me, but I see how that can happen. -- Carrie Underwood
Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation. -- Cherrie Moraga
When people get at each other's throat, the rich and the poor and the Left and the Right and so on, and you have a basic breakdown, that becomes very threatening. -- Ray Dalio
Most of you guys can't see the potential in a nervous breakdown. A real collapse. There's more chance of finding yourself in a major depression than there is in a bottle Prozac. -- Keith Ablow
The importance of writing in the breakdown of the bicameral voices is tremendously important. What had to be spoken is now silent and carved upon a stone to be taken in visually. -- Julian Jaynes
Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous breakdown, because that's what you do when you build a house. -- Cynthia Weil
A quick glance at the American left reveals a movement in the midst of a nervous breakdown, displaying behavior that goes beyond inconsistency into the realm of bipolar moods and multiple personality disorders. -- Michael Medved
Whether or not we can save Lake Michigan, whether or not we can avoid a breakdown in our criminal justice system are more important than whether or not I'm going to be governor. -- Bill Scott
For new media reactionaries...the problem is technology, the endless distractions of the Internet, the breakdown of authority in an age of blogs and Twitter, the collapse of narrative in a hyper-linked, multi-networked world. -- David L. Ulin
I was just absolutely exhausted. The media said I've been treated for a nervous breakdown. All that stuff I just took as people taking the opportunity when you're down to give you a kick. -- John Hewson
Within the existing neoliberal historical conjuncture, there is a merging of violence and governance and the systemic disinvestment in and breakdown of institutions and public spheres that have provided the minimal conditions for democracy. -- Henry Giroux
My total sellout to LSD, marijuana, and hashish, and to sex with virtually any attractive man, landed me in the hospital for four months. I was half dead from gonorrhea and a complete physical breakdown. -- Susan Atkins
Dead isn't angels or ghosts. It's a physical state of breakdown, a change in all those carbon atoms that create the temporary house of a bodyso that they can return to their most elemental stage." -- Jodi Picoult
Before the whole world, I accuse you, German intellectuals, you non-Nazis, as those truly guilty of all these Nazi crimes, all this lamentable breakdown of a great people--a destruction which shames the whole white race... -- Bronislaw Huberman
Dead isn't angels or ghosts. It's a physical state of breakdown, a change in all those carbon atoms that create the temporary house of a bodyso that they can return to their most elemental stage. -- Jodi Picoult
Conservatives highlight the primacy of family and argue that family breakdown exacerbates poverty, and they're right. Children raised by single parents are three times as likely to live in poverty as kids in two-parent homes. -- Nicholas Kristof
The greatest asset of any nation is the spirit of its people, and the greatest danger that can menace any nation is the breakdown of that spirit-the will to win and the courage to work. -- George B. Cortelyou

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