Robert Breault Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Robert Breault
Robert Breault Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Robert Breault on Wise Famous Quotes.
For centuries, man believed that the sun revolves around the earth. Centuries later, he still thinks that time moves clockwise.
There is a public me and a private me, who, if they were separate people, probably wouldn't exchange Christmas cards.
All is illusion, although as long as there's an illusion that the kids need to be fed, all might as well be reality.
It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions.
What you discover in a democracy is that it is difficult to build a house when each nail has an opinion.
Perception is a clash of mind and eye, the eye believing what it sees, the mind seeing what it believes.
I refuse to be burdened by vague worries. If something wants to worry me, it will have to make itself clear.
One of the great logical puzzles is how a woman is always like her mother but never like her sister.
There is a lesson we learn early and harmlessly, or late and traumatically - that there are things we can break that our parents can't fix.
Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank.
It is still possible to have friendly discourse in America, as long as you don't bring up any subject.
Sometimes I imagine a get-together where I introduce my family to my blogger friends and my blogger friends introduce my family to me.
Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them.
Either way, things are a lot better - either a lot better than they were or a lot better than they're going to be.
Most often, walking alone with my shadow is how I find my answer, the result of gathering together all agreeable parties.
There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize.
It is seeing ourselves in others that often prompts the remark, 'There's something about that person I don't trust.
Psychologists now recognize that the need in some people to have a dozen cats is really a sublimated desire to have two dozen cats.
It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.
There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already confessed.
The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous.
You start making progress in life when you realize that you don't always have to resume where you left off.
Love is at first a set of delusions, which, as time goes by, are discarded like training wheels, and you love truly.
There have been days when I sought respite from my life, only to find myself calling every hour to check on it.
Time brings an end to everything. We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time.
All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you.
It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you're not sure which half they know.
The older I get, the less time I want to spend with the part of the human race that didn't marry me.
Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless pursuit.
We all know the part of us that needs to be harnessed. It takes someone else to know the part of us that needs to be set free.
If you could eavesdrop on everything said about you, you'd spend most of your time waiting for the subject to come up.
As important as it is to keep picking yourself up and brushing yourself off, it's also important to stop tripping over your own two feet.
There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running.
To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word "boo."
There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.
You will not find a soulmate in the quiet of your room. You must go to a noisy place and look in the quiet corners.
In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can start out having a bad day, but you keep getting detoured.
The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene.
It is a rare woman who can overcome her desire to remain pretty and allow herself to become beautiful.