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.
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.
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.
What appears to be a breakdown can often be a breakthrough. . . . IF you understand God's grace
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.
I was born with a nervous breakdown.
I love Mariah Carey. Remember the breakdown? I loved the breakdown.
It's unthinkable not to love -you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.
No one is to blame for the breakdown in trust between politics, media and the public.
The biggest trouble with success is that its formula is just about the same as that for a nervous breakdown.
Everything was fabulous, even our breakdowns.
Every god is a jealous god after the breakdown of the bicameral mind.
Embedded in this outlook is an idea of the body as a machine, so that illness is seen as a breakdown of the machine, healing involves repairing the broken parts, and a doctor is a kind of mechanic with medications as his or her tools.
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.
The costs of marriage breakdown are borne by the entire society, and therefore it is reasonable for the entire society to demand support for marriage - to insist that it is privileged both culturally and legally.
I had an emotional breakdown since I really had no idea what diabetes was all about. I wondered, 'why me?' Then I asked myself, 'why not me?' and realized that I might be able to help other kids with diabetes.
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.
My mom had the breakdown for the family, and I went into therapy for all of us.
Peter Dinklage doesn't care. He's so cool so you can laugh at it. Most actors, if you laugh they'd just have a nervous breakdown. But he's just, "Yeah, I know. I know. "
If you're born in a cubicle and grow up in a corridor, and work in a cell, and vacation in a crowded sun-room, then coming up into the open with nothing but sky over you might just give you a nervous breakdown.
