Stopping Quotes - Page 8

• Learning more truth is a poor and cheap substitute for stopping and putting into action the truth already learned

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Action, Truth Is, Poor

  Charles R. Swindoll (1993). “Strike the Original Match”, p.73, Zondervan

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• Owen meany who rarely wasted words and who had the conversation-stopping habit of dropping remarks like coins into a deep pool of water... remarks that sank, like truth, to the bottom of the pool where they would remain untouchable.

  John Irving

  Water, Coins, Pool

  John Irving (2012). “A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel”, p.31, Harper Collins

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• Writers are voracious readers. Once I unlocked the mystery of the alphabet that led to words, a multitude of words connecting me to the world, there was no stopping me. Everything was fair game, from Louisa May Alcott to my older cousin's True Romance Magazines, from Lewis Carroll to the backs of cereal boxes. All of this fed me, but it took certain books to make me grow. I don't want to work without a sense of drama, without passion, or without both eyes open to the world around me.

  Gloria Naylor

  Cousin, Drama, Book

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• If travel is searching and home what's been found, I'm not stopping. I'm going hunting.

  Bjork

  Home, Hunting, Found

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• I'm basically a libertarian. I don't want to restrict anyone from doing anything unless it's going to harm me. I don't want [to] pass a law stopping someone from smoking. It's just too dangerous. You lose the concept of a free society. Since we are genetically so diverse and our brains are so different, we're going to have different aspirations.

  James D. Watson

  Law, Smoking, Brain

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• I'm afraid too many of us Christians don't know what we really believe. Like a cork in the ocean, driven and tossed by the waves, we bounce from opinion to opinion... We've become activity junkies, seldom stopping long enough to decide what really matters to us, too busy to determine what's really worth living for, let alone worth dying for.

  Dennis Rainey

  Christian, Believe, Ocean

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• Communism prevents organizations from developing by stopping the flow of information. The system is based on police and listening devices and triggers the worst characteristics in humans.

  Lech Walesa

  Organization, Police, Listening

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• Our attitudes cannot stop our feelings, but they can keep our feelings from stopping us.

  John C. Maxwell

  Attitude, Feelings

  John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.76, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Talking about 'stopping globalization' is unrealistic - and probably not what anti-globalization protesters actually want.

  Ethan Zuckerman

  Talking, Want, Globalization

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• Unlike puppets we have the possibility of stopping in our movements, looking up and perceiving the machinery by which we have been moved. In this act lies the first steps towards freedom.

  Peter L. Berger

  Lying, Steps, Movement

  Peter L. Berger (1973). “Invitation to sociology: a humanistic perspective”, Overlook Pr

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• Get into "the state:" Conquer fear by stopping thinking about yourself and instead, focusing 100 percent on how you can best serve your audience.

  Tony Robbins

  Thinking About You, Conquer, States

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• At 19, if a woman said no, no meant no. If she didn't say anything and she was open, and she was down, it was like how far can I go? If I touch her breast and she's down for me to touch her breast, cool. If I touch her lower, and she's down and she's not stopping me, cool. I'm going to kiss her or whatever. It was simply if a woman said no or pushed you away that was non-consent.

  Nate Parker

  Kissing, Say Anything, Down And

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Marijuana makes the best bio-diesel fuel on the planet, so it can make you energy. It grows 15 feet a summer, so it's a renewable resource. It makes better paper than wood does. It makes clothing. Medical-wise, it's stopping seizures, it's working for post-traumatic stress, they're even finding that it's curing cancer in certain cases. I mean, this is a remarkable plant. Now, for those that smoke it recreationally, to feel good, what's wrong with that? That's mental health.

  Jesse Ventura

  Summer, Wise, Cancer

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• I would only give a prize to whoever works for the peace in Syria, first of all by stopping the terrorists from flowing towards Syria, only.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Giving, Firsts, Terrorist

  "President al-Assad's interview given to Associated Press". Interview, sana.sy. September 22, 2016.

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• In other words, you're taking away your freedom of speech. And they [ministers and priests] started telling me about the Johnson Amendment which really was the first time - and I started studying .And we had a meeting a month later and I said, "We're gonna get rid of the Johnson Amendment because they're stopping you and our great people from talking."

  Donald Trump

  Talking, People, Freedom Of Speech

  Source: time.com

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• For me, the battle isn't Hillary [Clinton] vs. [Bernie] Sanders. And I understand that for some people that's the battle. But for me, more than anything, it's stopping a Republican president.

  Junot Diaz

  People, Battle, President

  "Junot Díaz is staying put". Interview with Marcela García, www.bostonglobe.com. April 6, 2016.

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• The Divine was beyond description, beyond knowing, beyond comprehension. To say that the Divine was Creation divided by Destruction was as close as one could come to definition. But the puny of soul, the dull of wit, weren't content with that. They wanted to hang a face on the Divine. They went so far as to attribute petty human emotions - anger, jealousy, etc - to it, not stopping to realize that if God were a being, even a supreme being, our prayers would have bored him to death long ago.

  Tom Robbins

  Prayer, Knowing, Long Ago

  "Skinny Legs and All". Book by Tom Robbins, 1990.

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• I suppose I could've done a job. I haven't been doing any work. I'm not really used to doing quick jobs and then stopping, but I'm sure it would be possible.

  Syd Barrett

  Jobs, Would Be, Done

  Source: sydbarrett.net

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• The biggest problems with Iran in the region are not due to the size of their resources, but due to the fact that they've been more effective in supporting proxies and stirring up dissension and conflict in the region than America or our allies have been in stopping those activities.

  Barack Obama

  Iran, America, Allies

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Hillary Clinton has shown no indication whatsoever of stemming the tide of Islamic immigration, or stopping our mollycoddling, and pandering to Islam. These things are direct threats. Not just to culture, but to the lives of gay people in America.

  Milo Yiannopoulos

  Islamic, Gay, America

  Source: thestagblog.com

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• I think from the business point of view, Taiwan and China tied together brings mutual benefit. And we don't see any reason for stopping that progress, unless they have a political reason.

  Stan Shih

  Thinking, Mutual Benefit, Views

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• You know, a lot of people feel that sobriety is about just stopping using whatever it was that you appeared to be addicted to, but it really has to do with a way of looking at your life and taking accountability.

  Bonnie Raitt

  People, Sobriety, Accountability

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• I'm starting to realize there's no stopping us now. An idea, a feeling, a movement can't just be squashed. It's impossible now.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Ideas, Feelings, Movement

  "Ian Somerhalder, ‘The Vampire Diaries’ Actor, Talks Love, Social Media And Social Change With Origin Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 21, 2013.

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• The truth is that we're at a critical juncture in the history of our species and if we don't act soon, we could inhabit a world we don't recognize anymore. But the most important truth is that we are capable of stopping climate change before the worst of its consequences are locked in. The solutions exist - all we need is the will to do something about it.

  Al Gore

  Important, Climate, Needs

  "Al Gore | The Most Important Truth. The Power of Your Own Voice". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The great work of social transformation begins with the first small step of stopping, calming, relaxing, reflecting and acting in a beneficial way.

  Satish Kumar

  Acting, Small Steps, Social Transformation

  Interview with Frank Lipman, www.drfranklipman.com. April 14, 2009.

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