Stopped Quotes
1845 quotes by 1395 authors
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I can still recall old Mister Barnslow getting out every morning and nailing a fresh load of tadpoles to the old board of his. Then…
— Jack Handey
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We Wanted to be Achievers, But Being an Achievers didn't Mean That You Stopped Being a Woman.
— Peggy Fleming
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When the worms are scarce, what does a hen do? Does she stop scratching? She does not. She scratches all the harder. A lot of…
— B. C. Forbes
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She stopped the show - but then the show wasn't traveling very fast.
— Noel Coward
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But coming home that day, walking downhill with a panorama of valley and hills before me, I turned my gaze inward, and what I saw,…
— Bernadette Roberts
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It was said of him that he did not say much, but that when he did everyone stopped to listen.
— Benjamin Franklin
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She'd stopped reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about romance and knitting and started reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about…
— Terry Pratchett
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Off the floor, I'm really laid back: like, nothing really fazes me too much. But on the floor, I do get emotional and a little…
— Dirk Nowitzki
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There isn't a damn thing wrong with prayer. During the war I served with a guy who prayed all the time, carried a Bible with…
— Delroy Lindo
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Wars aren't stopped by fighting wars, any more than you can fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. You fight violence with nonviolence.
— Colman McCarthy
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Utilities used deregulation to effect a series of mergers limiting competition. In order to accelerate profits, cost cutting ensued, involving the layoff of thousands of…
— Dennis Kucinich
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The jean! The jean is the destructor. It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity! The jean must be stopped!
— Pierre Cardin
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Because I stopped dieting already six months ago, and I think it's important to bring out a book like this and you are there a…
— Karl Lagerfeld
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I would have been a terrible mother because I'm basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and…
— Katharine Hepburn
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I never, ever pay attention to the ratings. I stopped paying attention to the ratings somewhere around season two or three of Grey's. It's something…
— Shonda Rhimes
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Many trees could be saved if the government stopped printing tax forms.
— Sam Ewing
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Even granting that we [humans] face greater harm than laboratory animals presently endure if ... research on these animals is stopped, the animal rights view…
— Tom Regan
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If that means going onto their farms, releasing their animals and burning the place to the ground, that's morally justifiable, in our opinion...There were always…
— Jerry Vlasak
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Nothing is more violent and radical than what's being done to non-human animals in our society. If a researcher won't stop abusing animals and is…
— Jerry Vlasak
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The NYPD with the unconditional support of Mayor Michael Bloomberg has stopped-and-frisked more black men than there are black men in New York City. Institutionalized…
— Chris Hayes
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