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So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something — that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children.
harper lee— Pt. 2, ch. 16
— Atticus Finch
It is the relentless onward march of the texters, the SMS (Short Message Service) vandals who are doing to our language what Genghis Khan did to his neighbours 800 years ago.They are destroying it: pillaging our punctuation; savaging our sentences; raping our vocabulary. And they must be stopped.
john humphrys— "I h8 txt msgs: How texting is wrecking our language," The Daily Mail (2007-09-24)
When I landed in the republic of conscience it was so noiseless when the engines stopped I could hear a curlew high above the runway.
— 1987 The Haw Lantern,'From the Republic of Conscience', pt.1, stanza1.
He never complained about his team's bad luck or bad talent, never stopped playing the game for joy, never stopped giving his all, never lost his proud demeanor, and never acted like anything but a winner. He was a symbol of the Cubs' fans undiminishing resilience. If he could be happy to come to the park each afternoon, then so could we.
ernie banks— Joe Mantegna, George Bush Presidential Library and Museum :: Born to Play Ball – Shortstops. George Bush Presidential Library and Museum. Retrieved on 2008-12-09.
That is how I would have acted before my accident, but now my personal history had become unimportant. It had stopped being history and was once more becoming a legend, a search, an adventure, a journey into and away from myself. I was once more in a time which the things around me were changing and that is how I wanted it to be for the rest of my days.
paulo coelho— p. 272 (The Zahir (2005))
"My father!" cried Tom, off his guard for the moment. "I trow he cannot speak his own so that any but the swine that kennel in the styes may tell his meaning; and as for learning of any sort soever " He looked up and encountered a solemn warning in my Lord St. John's eyes. He stopped, blushed, then continued low and sadly: "Ah, my malady persecuteth me again, and my mind wandereth. I meant the King's grace no irreverence."
mark twain— Ch. 6: Tom receives instructions.
I have never liked France or the French, and I have never stopped saying so.
Adolf Hitler— Adolf Hitler, The Political Testament of Adolf Hitler (15th February 1945).
For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
— Paul, Titus 1:10-11
And silence sounds no worse than cheers After dying has stopped the ears.
— 1896 A Shropshire Lad, no.19.
Ladies and gentlemen, unless the play is stopped, the child cannot possibly go on.
john philip kemble— Addressing the audience during a performance that was being much disrupted by a child crying. Attributed.
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 policy would be jeopardized!
Roland Barthes— "Sentence," in The Pleasure of the Text (1975)
And silence sounds no worse than cheersAfter earth has stopped the ears.
a. e. housman— No. 19 ("To an Athlete Dying Young"), st. 4.
The behavior of the Taliban as well as their extremist attitudes do not correspond in any way with a tolerant Islam. We have always been opposed to extremist tendencies of Islam and we still are. We have not stopped insisting on defending an Islam of tolerance which would be profitable to every Muslim, in Afghanistan and in the whole world, and we will always defend it.
ahmad shah massoud— Meeting with European legislators (11 June 2000)
Of all the men I slept with in my studio-bed on Gay Street (and there were a lot: I stopped counting) I liked Bill Mangold the best. Until I began to see Philip Rahv.
mary mccarthy— Intellectual Memoirs (1992)
If he isn't named Footballer of the Year, football should be stopped and the men who picked any other player should be sent to the Kremlin.
tommy smith— Bill Shankly On Tommy Smith.[1]
On the day that Daniel Cowman stopped existingThe world should have ended right then and thereAt precisely four-fifteen when he stopped existingThe world should have endedHow could it go on?
regina spektor— "Daniel Cowman"
he said, 'Madam may I presume?' and stopped, offering to take my hand. I...could scarce forbear laughing. 'Allow me, Madam,' continuing he, affectedly breaking off every half moment, 'the honour and happiness...the happiness and honor...'
frances burney— Evelina (1778)
Our war on terror begins with al-Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated.
george w. bush— Address to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People (September 20, 2001) [15]
I stopped my song and almost heart, For any eye is an evil eye That looks in onto a mood apart.
robert frost— "A Mood Apart" (1947)
How would your life be different if … You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day … You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey.
steve maraboli— p. 23 (Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010))
How would your life be different if … You stopped focusing on what you didn't want and started focusing on what you do want? Let today be the day … You establish a clear intent, make a plan, and take actions towards your intent.
steve maraboli— p. 31 (Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010))
“I wish...” she said, and stopped. There was nothing that could be gained by wishing for it. A final deep shaky breath, and she was ready to go on.
philip pullman— Ch. 23 : The Bridge to the Stars
The summer day was spoiled with fitful storm; At night the wind died and the soft rain dropped; With lulling murmur, and the air was warm, And all the tumult and the trouble stopped.
celia thaxter— The Nestling Swallows, in Drift-Weed (1878), p. 20.
At the bottom of the homepage is this [disclaimer] ... But that hasn't stopped Beck's lawyers from trying to shut down the site -- resulting in more blowback and another manifestation of the dreaded Streisand Effect!
— Emerson, Jim (September 11, 2009). "Teaching the controversy". Scanners (Chicago Sun-Times). Retrieved on 2009-10-16.
There was a lot of protest after Bravo , from countries like India, for example. India was the first country which came forward and proposed at the United Nations that all of these nuclear tests should be stopped, that there should be a complete ban on nuclear testing.
— Martha Smith, historian, in "Martha Smith on: The Impact of the Bravo Test" a PBS interview for Race for the Superbomb on American Experience.
Aristotle especially, both by speculation and observation... reached something like the modern idea of a succession of higher organizations from lower, and made the fruitful suggestion of "a perfecting principle" in Nature. With the coming in of Christian theology this tendency toward a yet truer theory of evolution was mainly stopped, but the old crude view remained...
Andrew Dickson White— Andrew Dickson White, A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom, Ch. 1 (1896)
At the bottom of the homepage is this [disclaimer] ... But that hasn't stopped Beck's lawyers from trying to shut down the site -- resulting in more blowback and another manifestation of the dreaded Streisand Effect!
— Jim Emerson (September 11, 2009). "Teaching the controversy". Scanners (Chicago Sun-Times). Retrieved on 2009-10-16.
Somehow, women’s romance novels are not titled He stopped When I Said “No”. They are, though, titled Sweet Savage Love, in which the woman rejects the hand of her gentler lover who saves her from the rapist and marries the man who repeatedly and savagely rapes her. It is this “marry the rapist” theme that not only turned Sweet Savage Love into a best-seller but also into one of women’s most enduring romance novels.
warren farrell— p. 315. (Part III: Government as substitute husband)
stopped as attribute of a person, sex inequality takes the form of gender; moving as a relation between people, it takes the form of sexuality. Gender emerges as the congealed form of the sexualization of inequaltiy between men and women.
catharine mackinnon— "Introduction - The Art of the Impossible", p. 6
