Robert Breault Quotes

O, how much simpler things would be If eyes could paint or brush could see.

If I were Opportunity, I wouldn't just knock, you'd have to sign.

The verdict is still out on my life, the judge having not yet instructed the jury, both of whom are me.

It comes down to whether you believe in seven miraculous escapes a week or one guardian angel.

In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can start out having a bad day, but you keep getting detoured.

I am never five minutes into stripping the clutter from my life before I start running into the clutter that is my life.

It’s hard to make up your bed while you’re still sleeping in it. Hard to make up your mind for the same reason.

A good speech has a beginning, a middle and an end, the best example being, 'I love you.'

Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose - the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.

Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.

Everything we possess that is not necessary for life or happiness becomes a burden, and scarcely a day passes that we do not add to it.

There's a lot of not caring that goes under the name of minding your own business.

There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running.

I guess I have never really doubted that we are all born to our guardian angel.

Since the majority is always wrong, might we try one election day where all the losers take office?

Life becomes easier when learn to accept the apology you never got.

I've been looking over the list of spring chores I made up last fall, and darned if they aren't fall chores, after all.

Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith.

Overheard in a Washington D.C. church confessional: "Bless me Father, for sins have been committed."

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

Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank.

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.

Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea.

The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher.

When something is missing in your life, it usually turns out to be someone.

I regret less the road not taken than my all-fired hurry along the road I took.

Now and then it's good to list all the things you regularly do for which there was once a good reason.

Most marriages can survive 'better or worse'. The tester is all the years of 'exactly the same'.

We find things where we look for them, which is why I never look for a golf ball out of bounds.

Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith.

So often our greatest triumph is a willing surrender.

Words from the past: "It's a clever idea, Mr. Bell, but don't wire us, we'll wire you.

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

The artist uses the talent he has, wishing he had more talent. The talent uses the artist it has, wishing it had more artist.

A vacation trip is one-third pleasure, fondly remembered, and two-thirds aggravation, entirely forgotten.

Sometimes I think my life would make a great TV movie. It even has the part where they say, "Stand by. We are experiencing temporary difficulties.

There have been days when I sought respite from my life, only to find myself calling every hour to check on it.

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.

In the great artist you see daring bound by discipline and discipline stretched by daring.

There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose.

Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David and Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

It is sad when two people turn from the paths they’re traveling, and their paths go on to cross without them.

Our destiny hides among our free choices, disguised as the free-est of all.

In the end you regret less the things you believed that weren't true than the things that never came true because you didn't believe.

Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all, the law is just so much grammar.

Time is a figure eight, at its center the city of Deja Vu.

I don't think most people want to be unhappy. It's just something they've gotten good at.

Either way, things are a lot better - either a lot better than they were or a lot better than they're going to be.

Sometimes, perhaps, we are allowed to get lost that we may find the right person to ask directions of.

There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies.