Stopped Quotes
1845 quotes by 1395 authors
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The panic disappeared under those soothing old fingers and the breathing slowed down and stopped hurting the chest as if a fox was caught in…
— Tennessee Williams
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A policeman stopped me and said: Would you please blow into this bag, sir? I said: What for, officer? He said: My chips are too…
— Tommy Cooper
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Those government officials who want more power are not going to stop unless they get stopped.
— Thomas Sowell
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The songs of Bizet are by a French peer of Rossini. When Rossini stopped composing, he was living in Paris. He also wrote some beautiful…
— Cecilia Bartoli
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An hour and thirty-one minutes after launch, my pressure altimeter halts at 103,300 feet. At ground control the radar altimeters also have stopped-on readings of…
— Joseph Kittinger
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I wanted to end my life so bad and was in my car ready to go down that ramp into the water, and I did…
— Susan Smith
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Comparing Apple to Netflix is like comparing apples to oranges, especially if the oranges made so many mistakes that people stopped eating oranges and just…
— Reed Hastings
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Very softly, but very swiftly, Last, the man with the grey face and the staring eyes, bolted for his life, down and away from the…
— Arthur Machen
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I ground matter to find the continuous line. And when I realized I could not find it, I stopped, as if an unseen someone had…
— Constantin Brancusi
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Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first…
— James Hillman
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"More fun than a barrel of monkeys." Has anyone ever stopped to think how cranky, if not downright vicious, a barrelful of monkeys would be,…
— Tom Shales
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There are times in history when the dark drums of God can barely be heard amid the noises of this world. Then it is only…
— Peter L. Berger
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Just as many who were brought up to think of God as a bearded old gentleman sitting on a cloud decided that when they stopped…
— N. T. Wright
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Stopped as attribute of a person, sex inequality takes the form of gender; moving as a relation between people, it takes the form of sexuality.…
— Catharine MacKinnon
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I have stopped being a misanthrope.
— Irving Layton
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Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.
— Irving Layton
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The moment I stopped spending so much time chasing the big pleasure of life. I began to enjoy the little ones, like watching the stars…
— Robin Sharma
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If you stopped playing notes, Music would still exist.
— Victor Wooten
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Well, on that day I ceased cleansing my body. No more brushing my teeth, no more washing my hair, no baths, no soap, no water.…
— Ted Nugent
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I ceased cleansing my body. Two weeks before the test I stopped eating food with nutritional value. A week before, I stopped going to the…
— Ted Nugent
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