Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting.
Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about.
Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.
One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.
Music is something I must do, business is something I need to do, and Africa is something I have to do. That's the way it breaks down in my life.
Often, the disparities in the ways men and women are treated are subtle; there are not these clear barriers that you have to break down.
Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe.
If you just go out there and run 100 miles, it breaks down a lot of barriers in terms of self-imposed limitations.
You can't have a limited government if the family breaks down.
Until we believe that we are as bad as God says we are, we can never believe that He will do for us what He says He will do. Right here is where popular religion breaks down.
For lack of a better word, acting is therapeutic. You really are breaking down barriers, exorcising demons and finding more out about yourself.
When the gap between ideal and real becomes too wide, the system breaks down.
Even if all the clocks in the station break down, thought Hugo, time won't stop. Not even if you really want it to. Like now.
Because he knew the best way to get what he wanted was to break down what made us strongest. And our friendships were what made us strong.
We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.
Fiction is too complicated and too elusive to break down into a set of tricks.
This body is breaking down, but I am not.
God made a woman equal to a man, but He did not make a woman equal to a woman and a man. We usually try to do the work of a man and of a woman too; then we break down ...
Women's sport helps break down a lot of barriers for women in other areas, whether in religion or politics.
Let me tell about Tennessee. If your car breaks down in Tennessee, you have just moved to Tennessee.
When everything else breaks down, I don't hesitate to roam out of the pocket and do the boogaloo.
I know that I'm breaking down barriers. And I know that in the end I'm doing a great thing.
The U.S. incarceration binge is not tied to crime. It's a strategy to control the surplus population in a capitalist system that is breaking down.
The system might be breaking down but something else is breaking through.
The truth of human freedom lies in the love that breaks down barriers.
You can break down anything for a child, and you have to know what your child is ready for and what your child is not.
If the system breaks down the consequences will still be very painful. But the bigger the system grows the more disastrous the results of its breakdown will be, so if it is to break down it had best break down sooner rather than later.
We also look at farming. Are we making sure that we're getting the latest seeds out to women so they can get a bigger yield off of their farms? A new type of seed that gets out to a man, let's say, that's drought resistant - because, of course, the rains are changing in Africa with climate change - if you don't put it in the hands of a woman, she won't necessarily get it. We look at breaking down all those barriers.
Under Adverse conditions - some people break down,some break records
At some point, Moore's law will break down.
Life is simply better when we are with others, and worse when we are isolated. God designed us to be connected, and life breaks down when we are not.
If our system continues without modification involving environmental and social concern, we will face an economic and social break down.
My entire life has been devoted to breaking down barriers, to finding common ground.
The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
I'm still getting to the good part / the breaking down / learning how to write my story.
I find that through the sad times, work is what made my continuing, not breaking down, possible. In work, I was always someone else and I subconsciously reveled in that.
The most important institution in society is the family. If the family breaks down, society breaks down.
Intelligence is not necessarily a good thing, something to value or cultivate. It's more like a fifth wheel - necessary or desirable when things break down. When things go well, it's better to be stupid ... Stupidity is as much a value as intelligence.
I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.
Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down.
and if the world breaks down, I'll be around.
I can make things happen when plays break down.
History breaks down into images, not into stories.
Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.
There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.
Jah come to break downpression, rule equality, wipe away transgression, set the captives free.
Travel breaks down a kind of inner structure we have. Stripped of our props, deprived of our masks, we are completely on the surface of ourselves.
Those who break down the dikes will themselves be drowned in the inundation.
Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair
It is so easy to break down and destroy. The heroes are those who make peace and build.
Love makes us similar, it creates equality, it breaks down walls and eliminates distances. God did this with us.
Unless bureaucracy is constantly resisted, it breaks down representative government and overwhelms democracy.