Stop Quotes

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The police can't stop an intruder, mugger, or stalker from hurting you. They can pursue him only after he has hurt or killed you. Protecting… — Harry Browne
Blind belief can be comforting, but it can easily cripple reason and productivity, and stop intellectual progress. — James Randi
We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax. No tinkering with this, that, or the other law will stop… — Frank Chodorov
There is no greater valor nor no sterner fight. He who would be what he ought to be must stop being what he is. — Meister Eckhart
'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. Those laws do not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions thus suspended, then if you… — Tom Stoppard
Physicists only talk to physicists, economists to economists-worse still, nuclear physicists only talk to nuclear physicists and econometricians to econometricians. One wonders sometimes if science… — Kenneth E. Boulding
Science does not rest upon solid bedrock. The bold structure of its theories rises, as it were, above a swamp. It is like a building… — Karl Popper
If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be,… — Nikola Tesla
If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because… — Charles Kettering
We can't run. We can't pass. We can't stop the run. We can't stop the pass. We can't kick. Other than that, we're just not… — Bruce Coslet
We have to keep in practice like musicians. Besides, there are still potentialities to be realized in color film. To us, it's just like bringing… — Edwin Land
I don't think there's any harm at all in allowing a kid to fantasize. In fact, I think to stop people from fantasizing is a… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is my own -… — Abraham Lincoln
Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no man is bound… — Thomas Carlyle
You cannot stop smoking directly because it has many related things, implications. You are tense, and if you stop smoking you will start something else… — Rajneesh
Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep inexpressible certitude of… — Thomas Merton
Once, after finishing a picture, I thought I would stop for awhile, take a trip, do things-the next time I thought of this, I found… — Willem de Kooning
Let's get up off our knees, stop cringing before bogeymen and virtual fathers, face reality, and help science to do something constructive about human suffering. — Richard Dawkins
I just want the bullying to stop. That is all I ever wanted. I used to love going to school. Now I hate it. — Tim Field

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