Stopped Short Quotes
8 quotes by 8 authors
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We do not draw conclusions with our eyes, but with our reasoning powers, and if the whole of the rest of living nature proclaims with…
— August Weismann
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It seems to me that it was well said by Madama Serenissima, and insisted on by your reverence, that the Holy Scripture cannot err, and…
— Galileo Galilei
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The American states have gone far in assisting the progress of truth; but they have stopped short of perfection. They ought to have given every…
— Noah Webster
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I think Juan stopped short - he got halfway to the destination and got off the train. He is certainly an excellent writer and a…
— Clarence Thomas
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The image of the presence, whatever it was, waiting there for him to go -this image had not yet been so concrete for his nerves…
— Henry James
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The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire…
— Roland Barthes
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It was fine," I said stiffly. "We played Mouse Trap." "Is that what they're calling it these days?" she asked, throwing me a terrible grin.…
— Maureen Johnson
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In some cases, she was actively trying not to make friends, though she usually stopped short of being rude. (Uptight, tense, and mildly misanthropic? Yes.…
— Rainbow Rowell
Who Wrote These Stopped Short Quotes
8 authors contributed a total of 8 Stopped Short Quotes as follows: