Stopping Quotes - Page 18

• It's not a lack of competence that is preventing the [Barack] Obama administration from stopping these attacks. It is political correctness. We didn't monitor the Facebook posting of the female San Bernardino terrorist. She made a public call to jihad, and they didn't target it.

  Ted Cruz

  Political, Female, Target

  CNN-Facebook Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• Sometimes in some places they would actually stop the train - keep the train from stopping at a particular station because they saw that there were so many black people there waiting to board and so therefore those people wouldn't get to leave.

  Isabel Wilkerson

  People, Waiting, Black

  "Great Migration: The African-American Exodus North". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 13, 2010.

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• Making changes isn't about stopping the problem, it's about starting the solution.

  Bill Crawford

  Problem, Making Changes, Starting

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• Unfortunately, conflicts have always been there and they don't seem to be stopping. I'm a journalist and a photojournalist at heart, and I think that we have to be there always to cover it.

  Shaul Schwarz

  Heart, Thinking, Conflict

  Source: collider.com

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• Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory, Pausing, gazing, bending, and stopping

  Nicholas Sparks

  Confused, Bending, Gazing

  Nicholas Sparks (2014). “The Notebook: Student edition”, p.140, Hachette UK

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• We'd already lost the possibility of stopping global warming entirely. That hasn't been in the cards for a long time. The triumph of Trump probably means that we're not going to be able to stop it at the two-degree mark that the world had been aiming for. That's very bad news, mostly because the planet seems to be more sensitive than we thought to even small increases in temperature.

  Bill McKibben

  Mean, Two, Long

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Freedom is about stopping the past.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Past, Refrain

  Lawrence Lessig's keynote address at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland, Oregon, July 24, 2002.

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• Stopping emissions growth represents the most minimal of do-something responses.

  William H. Calvin

  Growth, Climate, Response

  William H. Calvin (2010). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.137, William H. Calvin

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• Communicate everything you can to your associates. The more they know, the more they care. Once they care, there is no stopping them.

  Sam Walton

  Inspirational, Care, Communicate

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• I wish I could attribute the absence of any conventional Arab offensive in the last 20 years to a change of political climate or a willingness to abide by past accords. But unfortunately it is more likely that the Egyptians or Syrians concluded that the next time their tanks headed to Tel Aviv, there was nothing stopping the counterassaults from ending up in downtown Cairo or Damascus.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Past, Years, Political

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• How do we appreciate the good without letting it be the enemy of the perfect? How do we keep a step in the right direction from becoming a stopping point? How do we get beyond shades of insipid light green?

  Donella Meadows

  Light, Appreciate, Perfect

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• Even if people do wrong, we're social animals, so what can we do about stopping them doing the same things in future? Saying people are 'bad' or 'evil' is just an unwillingness to engage; an unwillingness to try to empathise. That sanctimonious attitude doesn't help anyone

  Denise Mina

  Attitude, Animal, People

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• Americans threw away their communities in order to save a few dollars on hair dryers and plastic food storage tubs, never stopping to reflect on what they were destroying.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Hair, Order, Community

  James Howard Kunstler (2007). “The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Cent”, p.16, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The only difference between street fighting and boxing is there a ref there from stopping me from killing you

  Marvin Hagler

  Fighting, Differences, Boxing

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• We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

  Mary Wesley

  Children, Growing Up, Thinking

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• The place that you gain the most power is within your own mind. Stopping thought generates power. That is why people meditate. The longer you can stop thought, the more power you gain.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Meditation

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• Your life is either getting brighter from moment to moment or it's not. If it's not getting brighter, it's because there's no risk. There's no risk in thinking instead of stopping your thought. There's a lot of risk in stopping your thought.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Risk, Life Is

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• Seeing occurs, of course, through stopping thought. Thought is the fog. When thought stops in meditation, at any point, when there's no thought, we see the other shore.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fog, Meditation, Shore

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• I really didn't have a plan, I just went in and started playing. one of my specialties was to be able to play for a really long time without stopping and I would play these repeated patterns for hours and hours and I wouldn't seem to get tired.

  Terry Riley

  Tired, Play, Long

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• That wasn't an ending. It was just a stopping point.

  Robert Altman

  Hollywood, Film

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• They will do more whether we do what we're doing or whether we don't do what we're doing. And the idea that you could appease them [terrorists] by stopping doing what we're doing or some implication that by doing what we're doing we're inciting them to attack us is just utter nonsense. It's just - it's kind of like feeding an alligator, hoping it eats you last.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Ideas, Lasts, Kind

  "September 11, 2001: Attack on America". Donald Rumsfeld's remarks during the the U.S. Department of Defense News Briefing, avalon.law.yale.edu. November 13, 2001.

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• When you sit, you've put a place on the island of the tonal for the possibility of your thoughts stopping for a short period of time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Islands, Possibility

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• Remarriage is or is not approved in shastra; I have no authority to speak on this subject. But I surely cannot go on without saying this much, that remarriage has helped a great deal in stopping crime in Fiji.

  Totaram Sanadhya

  Fiji, Goes On, Speak

  Totaram Sanadhya, John Dunham Kelly, Uttra Kumari Singh (1991). “My twenty-one years in the Fiji Islands ; and, The story of the haunted line”

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• There is no way of steering successfully between a failed situation and a failed self except by stopping and taking our bearings.

  Jo Coudert

  Failure, Self, Way

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.70, iUniverse

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• There is a major disaster when a person allows some success to become a stopping place rather than a way station on to a larger goal. It often happens that an early success is a greater moral hazard than an early failure.

  Bill Vaughan

  Success, Goal, Hazards

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