Stopping Quotes - Page 16

• The unrest which keeps the never stopping clock of metaphysics going is the thought that the nonexistence of this world is just as possible as its existence.

  William James

  Unrest, World, Clock

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.1002, Library of America

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• I'm very interested in stopping time. And starting time. There is that aspect of time that I'm playing with, that it's elusive and unnoticed yet really in the end the most important thing.

  Laurie Simmons

  Important, Starting, Ends

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• There is no stopping place in this life--nor is there ever one for any person, no matter how far along the way one's gone.

  Meister Eckhart

  Life, Gone, Matter

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• There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.

  Van Wyck Brooks

  Religious, Ignorance, Political

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• Many Canadian nationalists harbour the bizarre fear that should we ever reject royalty, we would instantly mutate into Americans, as though the Canadian sense of self is so frail and delicate a bud, that the only thing stopping it from being swallowed whole by the US is an English lady in a funny hat.

  Will Ferguson

  Humorous, Self, Bud

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• That was never on my radar, traffic stopping. It was never important to me.

  Kathy Ireland

  Important, Traffic, Radar

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• When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.

  Asvaghosa

  Character, Mean, Practice

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• I can't envisage stopping writing.

  Antony Beevor

  Writing, I Can

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• At a time when going to college has never been more important, it's never been more expensive, and our nation's families haven't been in this kind of financial duress since the great depression. And so what we have is just sort of a miraculous opportunity simply by stopping the subsidy to banks when we already have the risk of loans. We can plow those savings into our students. And we can make college dramatically more affordable, tens of billions of dollars over the next decade.

  Arne Duncan

  Opportunity, College, Risk

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• I've got a lot to look forward to. I'm trying to be the best father I can, and that's a pretty important role. Some would say it's more important than stopping pucks.

  Curtis Joseph

  Father, Important, Trying

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• I'm an athlete; I've got an ego when stunt doubles have to come in. Not an ego like that, but when it comes to physical stuff, if I didn't have to have a stunt double, I would always probably do it myself unless the producers were jumping in and stopping me.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Athlete, Jumping, Ego

  "Next Factor Q&A: 'Chronicle' Star Michael B. Jordan" by Breanne L. Heldman, www.mtv.com. February 01, 2012.

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• Stopping at her house is a neighbor boy with evil on his mind, cause he's been peeking in Angie's room at night through her window blind.

  Helen Reddy

  Boys, Night, Social Taboos

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• Stopping crime before it occurs is the most effective crime fighting tool of all.

  Blanche Lincoln

  Fighting, Tools, Crime

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• The dream is so thick; the Maya is so thick. There's no magic as long as there's all this thought. So the first condition for the practice of higher magic is the stopping of thought.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Buddhism, Practice

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• I'm sure you agree that animals should not be abused - whether they're cats or dogs or chickens - and that stopping this abuse should be your number one priority.

  Pamela Anderson

  Dog, Cat, Animal

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• I am all for art's finding a large audience. But the way that's happening now, with big works filling big galleries and bigger shows, is mostly stopping statements from being made. Or heard. Or talked about. Or really examined. It's watering things down.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Way, Gallery

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• That was quite an adventure, stopping at a different house each night, seeing new country,.

  Jack Williamson

  Country, Adventure, Night

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• You want a better, more fraternal, more just world? Well then, start building it: Who is stopping you? Build it inside yourself and around you, build it with those who want it. Build it small, and it will grow.

  Lanza del Vasto

  World, Want, Action

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• When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. One fancies a heart like our own must be beating in every crystal and cell, and we feel like stopping to speak to the plants and animals as friendly fellow-mountaineers. Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go.

  John Muir

  Heart, Animal, Cells

  John Muir (2011). “My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The same thought... crosses my mind whenever someone tells me there's something I can't do: Try Stopping Me.

  Anthony Robles

  Mma, Mind, Trying

  Anthony Robles (2012). “Unstoppable: From Underdog to Undefeated: How I Became a Champion”, p.102, Penguin

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• I always thought when I was doing more melodramatic stuff like Everwood that the directors were constantly reeling me in and stopping me from being funny. I've always tried to find a funny angle on things, and 99 percent of the time, it just doesn't work.

  Chris Pratt

  Directors, Stuff, Angle

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, tv.avclub.com. November 3, 2009.

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• The wrong answers are stopping the right ones from emerging.

  David Rock

  Wrong Answers, Answers, Emerging

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• As long as I have people's attention, I can't stop. You can't put the public on hold, because they might not be there when you get back. I have a pathological fear of stopping.

  Tina Turner

  Long, People, Attention

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• The meeting [in San Antonio of the National Women's Political Caucus] featured a cattle show at which a herd of Democratic candidates- Glenn, Cranston, Mondale, Hart, and Hollings- pantingly pantomined their fidelity to feminism, stopping just short of a pledge to use nuclear weapons against any states that omit to ratify the Equal Right Amendment.

  Daniel Seligman

  Political, Feminism, Use

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• Housewives of the 1950s were supposed to create show-stopping meals every night for their hard-working husbands.

  Caroline Leavitt

  Husband, Hard Work, Night

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