Robert Breault Quotes

The trick to playing second fiddle is to play it like second Stradivarius.

History is man's best guess as to what the past would look like if everything had happened in chronological order.

A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review.

For centuries, man believed that the sun revolves around the earth. Centuries later, he still thinks that time moves clockwise.

The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous.

Charisma is a fancy name given to the knack of giving people your full attention.

There is nothing in this world you cannot accomplish if you are willing to forfeit your deposit.

Where you find quality, you will find a craftsman, not a quality-control expert.

Try to discover, The road to success, And you'll seek, But never find, But blaze your own path, And the road to success, Will trail right behind.

There comes a morning in life when you wake up a new person; that is to say, you wake up the same person but you realize it's your own fault.

The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme.

What a unique treasure are the things we have learned to live without, for no thief can take them from us.

A parent's love is whole, no matter how many times divided.

Dancing is moving to the music without stepping on anyone's toes, pretty much the same as life.

Just as important as having a list of priorities is every once in a while starting from the bottom.

No matter what you do in life, a part of you still sits at a curbside, still hearing the drumbeat of a distant parade, still waiting for it to turn the corner.

It’s my luck that every time I feel I completely comprehend God’s plan, I don’t have a pencil with me.

We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else's happiness.

I identify more with people who ask each day for divine guidance than people equipped with a divine guidance system.

Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life; all other animals enjoy the consolation of not worrying about it.

Among life's regrets is all the time wasted being early for everything.

Lend, by your imperfections, self-esteem to others, and you will be invited everywhere.

To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word "boo."

Through faith we learn to believe the evidence of our eyes.

If it doesn't work horizontally as prose... it probably won't work any better vertically pretending to be poetry.

Beyond our most stubborn misperception lies often our fondest dream.

I have never considered it my business to disabuse someone of a belief that makes life tolerable for them.

A blogger is constantly looking over his shoulder, for fear that he is not being followed.

The hardest thing to learn in the game of love is when to fold a winning hand.

I respect more the person who struggles with his faith than the person who is confident in his skepticism.

Corporations no longer try to fit square pegs into round holes; they just fit them into square cubicles.

Each day learn something new, and just as important, relearn something old.

In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me?

It's not that I'm a Type-B personality. It's that I'm driven by a passionate, all-consuming desire to take it easy.

Few are humble, for it takes a self-esteem few possess.

Eventually, if you're lucky in life, you find someone with the same chemical imbalance you have.

You don't realize how little accuracy there is in network TV reporting until they cover a story in your hometown.

A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping.

In a dark moment I ask, "How can anyone bring a child into this world?" And the answer rings clear, "Because there is no other world, and because the child has no other way into it."

What you discover in a democracy is that it is difficult to build a house when each nail has an opinion.

I believe that there is an explanation for everything, so, yes, I believe in miracles.

There are many things I do for amusement, but for happiness I like to gather up my memories and go for a walk in the rain.

You're never too old. Unfortunately, you're always too young to know it.

I look into the faces of people struggling with their own lives, and I do not see strangers.

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.

Fate, Chance, God’s Will — we all try to account for our lives somehow. What are the chances that two raindrops, flung from the heavens, will merge on a windowpane? Gotta be Fate.

Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it.

Charisma is not so much getting people to like you as getting people to like themselves when you're around.