Top 766 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Breault - Page 10
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Last updated on November 22, 2024.
You never have a friend all figured out. Just when you think you know what makes them tick, they tock.
If Creation were a crime, would not God be the prime suspect?
I believe that there is an explanation for everything, so, yes, I believe in miracles.
Sometimes I think my life would make a great TV movie. It even has the part where they say, "Stand by. We are experiencing temporary difficulties.
I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose.
It's still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days - you just have to be a little more cockeyed.
Without faith there is no truth, for that is all the truth is or ever was.
The search for happiness is unlike any other search, for we search last in the likeliest places.
In the end the reason for anything is inseparable from the reason for everything.
Do not be someone looking for [insert]. Be [insert] looking for someone. Suggestions for [insert]: —love —friendship —understanding —appreciation —tolerance —a helping hand —a leg up —an answer
The trick to getting ahead is to give it the same effort you give to getting even.
Sometimes, in a moral struggle, we discover the right thing to do - just as, on some cold day long ago, we discovered mittens pinned to our coat sleeve.
We all know them — the unstructured person whose every action seems aimless and the totally organized person whose every action defeats some purpose.
There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.
People are resilient. After all, every person born has recovered from nine months on life support.
Turn your love into promises, that when you doubt your love, you may simply ask, "Am I keeping my promises?"
The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.
Where you find quality, you will find a craftsman, not a quality-control expert.
While I occasionally enjoy a bout of nostalgia, I would generally rather dream forward than backward.
If you understand compound interest, you basically understand the universe.
Some day man will travel at the speed of light, of small interest to those of us still trying to catch up to the speed of time.
All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you.
The clash between child and adult is never as stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child.
Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet.
Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it.
It can be said of optimism that while sometimes mistaken, it is never sadly mistaken.
There are more martyrs to nonsense than truth, truth preferring missionaries.
Eventually, time takes care of everything. The trouble with procrastination is that people give up on it too soon.
I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous.
Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose - the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.
Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane.
The hardest thing to learn in the game of love is when to fold a winning hand.
Shall I redirect my life's journey because down some side road might be some trifle I'm entitled to?
You don't realize how little accuracy there is in network TV reporting until they cover a story in your hometown.
I don't know that there are real ghosts and goblins, But there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids.
In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can start out having a bad day, but you keep getting detoured.
In the end, success is not about who you know, it's about you know who.
Material success is always tempered by the recollection that there was some kind of happiness that was supposed to come with it.
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.
Do not mistake probability for truth, for it is a notorious liar.
Through faith we learn to believe the evidence of our eyes.
There is a strong chance that siblings who turn out well were hassled by the same parents.
When there is hell to pay, it is usually cheaper to pay it than to finance an endless purgatory.
In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too.
If you haven't time to respond to a tug at your pants leg, your schedule is too crowded.
The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene.
If God had intended us to be alone, there would be more pleasure in massaging our own shoulders.
Even at times when I don't care, I know exactly what I would care about if I did.
If you think that someone is out to steal everything you have, you're either paranoid or a member of the middle class.
There was never a wise saying that couldn't be made wiser by adding the words, "and vice-versa.
An art critic is someone who hopes to see his ideas translated to canvas without having to learn how to paint.
You spend the first two-thirds of your life asking to be left alone and the last third not having to ask.
If there be no God, then what is truth but the average of all lies.
More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history.
In the great artist you see daring bound by discipline and discipline stretched by daring.
How do you tell an optimist that he or she has lived a happy life by mistake?
There are things I have wanted so long that I would only consent to have them if I could keep wanting them.
What is reality but the dreamworld of a limited imagination.
There is a logical explanation for everything, often mistaken for the reason it happened.
As a gardener, I wonder if flowers really can't speak or just exercise unfailing good judgment in the matter.