Top 500 Robert Breault Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “You must question a code of ethics that never impedes your progress.”

— Robert Breault

152. “My eyesight’s gone, my reflexes are shot, and I can’t stay awake, but thank God I can still drive.”

— Robert Breault

153. “Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a winding path walked arm in arm.”

— Robert Breault

154. “I sit in my garden, gazing upon a beauty that cannot gaze upon itself. And I find sufficient purpose for my day.”

— Robert Breault

155. “What if, instead of a parallel universe, there’s a perpendicular universe? Discuss.”

— Robert Breault

156. “I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous.”

— Robert Breault

157. “To stretch the truth is to tell a lie.”

— Robert Breault

158. “When I am gone, my love, do not look for me in the places we used to go to together. Look for me in the places we always planned to go to together.”

— Robert Breault

159. “In a soulmate we find not company but a completed solitude.”

— Robert Breault

160. “All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you.”

— Robert Breault

161. “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.”

— Robert Breault

162. “Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do – send for reinforcements?”

— Robert Breault

163. “Dare to turn life on its end, and you may find that topsy-turvy is a truer perspective than turvy-topsy.”

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

165. “You can bear your troubles or shrug them off. They’re your shoulders.”

— Robert Breault

166. “Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence.”

— Robert Breault

167. “Sometimes it is the person closest to us who must travel the furthest distance to be our friend.”

— Robert Breault

168. “All any child needs is the protection of loving parents and an alternative source of information.”

— Robert Breault

169. “Today’s Parenting Tip: Treat a difficult child the way you would your boss at work. Praise his achievements, ignore his tantrums and resist the urge to sit him down and explain to him how his brain is not yet fully developed.”

— Robert Breault

170. “What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors.”

— Robert Breault

171. “A true sportsman is a hunter lost in the woods and out of ammo.”

— Robert Breault

172. “A good marriage is each for the other and two against the world.”

— Robert Breault

173. “Get involved. You don’t want to look back on your life and realize that you successfully managed to stay out of it.”

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

176. “If you haven’t time to respond to a tug at your pants leg, your schedule is too crowded.”

— Robert Breault

177. “Eventually, if you’re lucky in life, you find someone with the same chemical imbalance you have.”

— Robert Breault

178. “It is when there is nothing you can say or do to help that a friend needs you the most.”

— Robert Breault

179. “There is a tendency to see divine intervention in things that happen in the normal course of miracles.”

— Robert Breault

180. “Do not mistake probability for truth, for it is a notorious liar.”

— Robert Breault

181. “My health plan doesn’t cover dental, so I enrolled my teeth as 32 dependents, each needing a complete physical once a year.”

— Robert Breault

182. “A dog is much like a married man, obeying his master’s voice for the sake of his master’s touch.”

— Robert Breault

183. “Love is not about grand intentions. It is about small attentions.”

— Robert Breault

184. “Love thy neighbor, and if it requires that you bend your understanding of the truth, the Truth will understand.”

— Robert Breault

185. “Some forgive and forget, more forgive and remember, most forgive and remind.”

— Robert Breault

186. “Why try to be someone you’re not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required.”

— Robert Breault

187. “I am a private person, but I will reveal this about myself: if you start massaging my shoulders, don’t expect me to tell you to stop.”

— Robert Breault

188. “I enjoy many silent moments with my cat, a conversation always resumed exactly where left off.”

— Robert Breault

189. “I believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right to the gentle stroke of a human hand.”

— Robert Breault

190. “In comparing religious belief to science, I try to remember that science is belief also.”

— Robert Breault

191. “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.”

— Robert Breault

192. “Success is a tale of obstacles overcome, and for every obstacle overcome, an excuse not used.”

— Robert Breault

193. “In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn’t have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order.”

— Robert Breault

194. “We lack resolve and blame fate, mistaking the drift for the tides.”

— Robert Breault

195. “Question reality, especially if it contradicts the evidence of your hopes and dreams.”

— Robert Breault

196. “It is not only possible to be the person you pretend to be, but there is less effort involved.”

— Robert Breault

197. “At my age, you not only have bittersweet memories, you make bittersweet plans.”

— Robert Breault

198. “Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes.”

— Robert Breault

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

— Robert Breault

200. “I’m right-handed, whereas the fellow in my mirror is left-handed.”

— Robert Breault