Brakes Quotations

Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on.

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

When it's wet, you're much more tense on the steering wheel, you have to dance with the throttle and the brakes more. Each lap is a different scenario, so you're really on the edge of your nerves. One mistake could cost you the entire race.

In order to spur economic growth we need to put the brakes on out of control spending, lower Ohioans tax burden and create a most efficient and effective government.

The one who turns his back on the world and its comforts and, sets out on the path that leads to the Beloved has to face countless difficulties. But he brakes them all for the sake of the Beloved.

We believe that more than 500,000 vehicles equipped with air brakes may be operated by drivers who, like the Glen Rock driver, have no air brake training and therefore may not be able to operate their vehicles safely.

Work plays a significant role in the lives of working families, not only in the amount of time they spend at work but also with their attitudes toward work and how these attitudes and expectations spill over to the home, Overworking is very pervasive, but parents don't have the mechanisms to put the brakes on.

With those long straights and tight corners, Martinsville is a tough track on the brakes and the motors. It really puts a lot of it on the driver too because it is so mentally exhausting to go run around for 500 laps on those tight turns. We had a good run going in the spring here before we were wrecked, and Kurt has taken the car to victory lane here before. We all know he knows how to run short tracks, so we'll see if he can keep the fenders clean and get a good finish.

We had brake issues to start with, then a gearbox, then brakes again. Then we had some engine belts fall off three or four times. Yeah, and we couldn't select some gears. I thought, eventually, it was going to knock us off the lead, but the team seemed to have an answer every time.

Most people were afraid that we'd start to see some inflation, but I don't think there's much here. The Fed still has its foot on brakes and will keep tapping them at regular intervals, but perhaps not as much as investors had been expecting.

I was still haunted by my last minute adjustment before qualifying. I am still trying to get the brakes all dialed in. I still couldn't come into the braking zones with authority until half way through the race. I caught back up and it was just a matter of 10 to 20 feet every braking zone because the Performance Friction Brakes were working well once it was dialed in.

I always worked pretty steadily. But maybe out of some kind of fear, I put the brakes on letting myself be as successful as I'd like to be. More and more, I've taken the brakes off and let whatever happens happen.

Carbon brakes offer the same stopping performance as steel brakes but with the added benefit of a significant weight savings, which ultimately increases fuel efficiency. Next-Generation 737s are already lighter than competing Airbus models. This structural efficiency is a fundamental reason why Next-Generation 737s fly farther, higher and with better fuel efficiency than the competition.

I lost my brakes. My brakes went loose to the car, and I decided to pull into the bus terminal to prevent a bigger crash.

From the moment he hit that corner, the brakes were put on. Can we really say how fast that car was going or is there some question?

He doesn't have to win the whole game by himself. The offense like a finely-built car. The steering wheel's have to work, the brakes have to work, the wheels have to work. He's sitting in the driver's seat. He just has to drive the car and let everything work for him.

He got away because he stabbed the brakes then took off. He's a great racer, but second is just first loser.

What is called for at the present time is prudence in fiscal policy and a continued application of the brakes in Federal Reserve policy. That's the policy that will get us into a future that where we see continued growth and very moderate inflation.

What we have here is a dangerous mix of fast-growing debt and fast-rising unemployment that could quickly put the brakes on consumer spending.

Here at build-out, we've got to put the brakes on.

He was driving behind a dark SUV, which suddenly swerved to the left to avoid a car with its lights off stopped in the road, ... The Stratus driver's brakes locked up, and he went into it.

Greenspan is trying to be cautious by tapping the brakes ever so lightly, which I think will mean another quarter-point increase soon. This thing has so much momentum that, even though we've raised the speed limit, we're still going a little too fast.

It is a challenging place to start the year because the circuit is probably the hardest for brakes of the whole season. The circuit is surrounded by sand and it can also get very hot, which can pose problems with the cooling of a new car. So reliability will be key, especially with this year's switch to (2,4-litre) V8 engines.

I think a tire was going down on Hamlin's car. He slammed on the brakes and I ran into him hard and smashed in my grille pretty good. That made the car real tight for the rest of the race.

I think it was a very volatile and directionless week. Investors should tap on the brakes a few times and strap on their seat belts. (Last week) was very earnings driven, and now it's shifting and people are going to focus once again on value.

Reducing the weight of the race cars makes it a lot easier for the tires to work, makes it easier on the brakes and just makes the car overall much better for racing.

My start position gave me an advantage over Marcus this morning because the roads were cleaner. The altitude sapped engine power and that made it tricky in corners because there wasn't the same power available as normal to pull the car through the bends. I was surprised how rough it was and I hit a lot of stones. The brakes worked well but they were on the limit in this heat. The thinner air meant they didn't cool in the same way as they would elsewhere.

Mark got his Christmas present because we had a plan. It's a last-lap deal where you just use the brakes real quick, let him shoot out, and then we come charging like a freight train.

We've thought for a long time this housing cycle was a little different from those of the past, in that it would stretch out a little more. The sell-off in housing stocks has been overdone, since we don't think 30-year mortgage rates ... will put the brakes on housing.

Weak employment growth but higher hourly earnings point Greenspan and the Fed in two different directions. Either the economy is slowing down and the Fed needs to sit tight, or inflation is starting to take off and another tap on the brakes may be necessary.

We are in the middle of a fairly ferocious energy price spike. The spike could be checked by a move back towards normality in Venezuela, or by a release of U.S. strategic reserves. However, the application of either of these brakes does not look particularly imminent, and in their absence the upwards pressure is likely to continue.

With exceptional efficiency and amiability, he led a court that put the brakes on some of the excesses of the Earl Warren era while keeping pace with the sentiments of a majority of the country. His administration of the court was brilliantly if quietly effective, making him one of the most impressive chief justices of the past hundred years.

When we've attempted to apply the brakes in past expansions, we generally ended up skidding into a ditch.

We seem to have an overall grip problem. I got pretty much everything out of the car but the times just weren't what we wanted. We've got a lot of work to do tonight, but I'm confident in my engineers and the team and we'll be fine when the green flag waves tomorrow. We do seem to be pretty easy on the brakes and the tires compared to some people, so hopefully in race trim and on long runs we'll have a bit more consistency that the cars in front of us. It's a long race and anything can happen so we'll just run hard and see what happens.

We wanted to put too many cars on the wrong freeway. The system put the brakes on.

The operations group will be interviewing the crew this afternoon. I understand that he saw some misalignment in the track that caused him to put his brakes on.

What Officer Davis didn't anticipate after he stopped one drunk driver was another drunk driver going that fast and totally oblivious, ... All the defendant had to do to avoid a crash was to take his feet off the accelerator, apply the brakes for a half second and adjust his speed some way.

We got all of it, I think. We're just having a question about the brakes. I think my brakes were dragging the whole time, but as far as the car, the car drove great and the engine felt good.

We spent a lot of time working with the new chassis today and testing some improved parts that Honda has brought from Japan. The bike's now really stable on the brakes and turning into the corner is much better, so we're getting there. It's still moving around a bit on the exit of corners and better traction is something we're working on. We're moving forward though and we've still got a lot of stuff to try.

Bill Clinton tapped the brakes on that for two terms by appealing to the middle of the electorate, but he seems to have been an aberration.

As soon as she hit the curb, she panicked. She misapplied hitting the brakes and hit the accelerator.

At this point, if it continues to grow, you never want to put the brakes on the program. To be honest, it really comes down to a staff and volunteer issue.

Common sense always speaks too late. Common sense is the guy who tells you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. Common sense is the little man in a gray suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always somebody else's money he's adding up.

Current conditions in the euro zone are looking quite healthy, and that is bullish for the euro. For the time being, this puts the brakes on euro weakness.

There's little doubt out there that Greenspan will move this time around and try to put the brakes on growth a bit. The question is whether this is a one-time deal or a continuation of a series of moves meant to really keep the economy in line.

Things started to quiet down yesterday ahead of the Easter break with volumes on the low side and concerns about oil prices keeping the brakes on the markets.

The roads are soft and there is no advantage in running further down the start order. They are not cleaning like we thought they would. I'm driving at a steady pace, which was the plan. The brake pedal felt soft on stage four so I bled the front brakes after the finish and that improved things. I'm not sure about my tyre choice. Maybe I needed cuts like Marcus.

The roof is blowing off this budget. We're spending money like it's going out of style. Let's put on the brakes and get this budget back under fiscal control.

The slowdown amounts to a tapping of the brakes on a hot market.

Sometimes kids want parents to put the brakes on for them.

Our economic distress is self-inflicted. Albany can affect your bottom line often more than your competitors ... It's like Albany designed a car with an accelerator but no brakes ... you're going to crash.

People ask me, 'Is it better to marry your money type or the opposite? It's probably better to do the opposite. There's some conflict, but there's also some brakes and an accelerator, as opposed to having all brakes or all accelerator if you're the same.

People coming up from Texas heading to the ski slopes put on their brakes when they see the sign.

Against the Czechs, it was Tomas Vokoun in net, I came in at pretty good speed and almost put the brakes on at the hash marks, ... I'm a right-hand shot and came in with the puck on my forehand, and made a hard move to my left, and he slid across, and once I went across hard I came back to my forehand and had pretty much an open net to slide it in.

Then all of a sudden brakes get slammed on. Then we hit something and go off the side of the road and tip over,

After about 35 laps, the tires and brakes started to go. We're lucky we lasted as long as we did.

As of last week, foreign investors had sold over NT$40 billion net of Taiwan equities this month. I see little reason for putting the brakes on the selling spree over the remainder of the month given the lack of catalysts for the bulls.

You need to lean forward, from the ankles more. It's like you're running with your brakes on.

They're the best transition team in the country. We like to run, but we had to put the brakes on tonight to keep them from getting out.

This is the hardest place, I think, to qualify because you can have a good car and it's so easy to lock the front brakes up or overdrive the corner. It's one of those places where you can be in the top five in practice and qualify 20th. It's so close.

It?s a great car, easy on brakes and tires. It?s extremely surprising.

It's obviously very tricky conditions, and a restart. I locked up the front wheels on the brakes and couldn't stop in the distance.

It looks like the brakes locked up, and he slid under the pickup truck.

Dale Jr. and somebody got together and shot up in front of me and I got into the back of them. My brakes locked up and the impact crunched the nose in. The Army car never drove the same after that. It was a pretty frustrating deal to have a car drive that good and then all of a sudden get wounded. For a while we had an easy top-10 car.

It's clear that there will always be roads in national forests. But it is a welcome change that the forest service has put the brakes on what has been a massive road-building system. Any new road building will have to meet rigorous testing and that's a positive change.

It was like trying to drive in the Indy 500 with your brakes on. You burn up.

They've released the brakes on the Kyoto process.

The Fed now has limited leverage over the housing market. It has been unable to tap the brakes on the housing market.

Increasing our investigative force and pursuing tougher laws will strengthen our ability to put scam artists behind bars and enforce our message that we intend to put the brakes on this costly crime.

I'm quite happy actually. The car feels good and we have improved many things. We lost maybe seven seconds towards the end of the first stage as it was hard on the brakes and they seemed to go off. However they seemed fine by the next stage.

I had my Class B license but had to go back and be certified in power brakes and driving with passengers.

I locked the brakes up and got into the wall, but there was no way to miss the crash. It's typical Phoenix off Turn 4. When one car gets spun, everybody does.

I just looked over to switch the oil cooler fan off and when I looked up everybody was stopped. I hit the brakes and started sliding but I couldn't get it stopped. I guess I'll take the blame for it.

I just got on the brakes way too hard and locked it up. I could have just sat there and rode third and thought that was cool, but I want to give my guys a win.

In a flash, people ran from his left to his right. He hit the brakes as fast as he could ... and tragically these people were killed.

Canadian consumer spending is finally poised to hit the brakes after a spectacular run earlier this year,

He's a pilot with 20 years of experience. He felt that he just came in a little hot, a little fast and tried to put the brakes on and the plane flipped. Luckily the damage was to the plane and not to him. He just had minor injuries, was very, very lucky.

If he put on the brakes on a knee like that, chances are he'd be out for a while, and awhile is all we've got left,

For the Fed to put its foot on the brakes to slow the economy down will hurt everyone in this country,

The lead up to the Fed meeting was that we are going to be done soon, they are going to put the brakes on, and that fueled the momentum. But now people are realizing that they aren't done yet, and that's shifted the psychology.