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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))
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
— Shirley Temple, as quoted in The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations by Robert Andrews
"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 I am sweating a lot by now and thinking of leaning on the john door in the 5 SPOT while she whispered a song along the keyboard to Mal Waldron and everyone and I stopped breathing
Frank O'Hara— 1964 Of Billie Holiday. Lunch Poems,'The Day Lady Died'.
It seems that, notwithstanding the dramatic increases in manmade CO2 emissions over the last decade, the world's warming has stopped.
tony abbott— Quoted in "2009 Australia's second warmest year ever, according to Bureau of Meteorology figures" in the Herald Sun, (5 January 2010)
Sexism in politics is nothing new when you're standing for election. But don't stand for election and it's almost as bad. Shockingly, David Cameron thought it acceptable to claim this week that my decision not to run for the Labour leadership was because my husband, Ed Balls, "stopped [me] from standing."
yvette cooper— In an article written for The Guardian, Why I'm not standing for Labour leader – this time, 28 May, 2010.
In two cases I did not fulfill my role as defense minister, in that I did not stop things that I was sure should have been stopped.
Moshe Dayan— On Israeli settlements on the Golan Heights and in Hebron, in a 1976 interview with Rami Tal, as quoted in Associated Press reports (11 May 1997)
Prisons are a growth industry in a country that has stopped building schools because we would rather not pay our property taxes. And we seem remarkably comfortable with a criminal-justice system that locks up and "disappears" people we fear or hold in contempt — with prisons as closets to hide our unmentionables and as factories for processing spare human parts until there is nothing left but waste.
john leonard— "An Extreme Danger to Society", New York Magazine (7 May 2007)
Whenever the current of money is forcibly stopped, and when money is prevented from settling at its just level, there are no limits to the possible variations of the exchange.
David Ricardo— Chapter VII, On Foreign Trade, p. 91
...the contempt that he has for Quebecers, and for the facts, that trickles from every page, hurt me, as a Quebecer, [...] as a journalist also, as an author, the intellectual dishonesty with which he plays with the facts, he makes comparisons that are absolutely unacceptable, it gave me an enormous headache to read this book, it stopped me from sleeping. [...] Evidently, here in Quebec, we know that he exaggerates, but someone has to say it to English Canadians.
Mordecai Richler— "Controverse autour du livre Oh Canada Oh Québec!" video, Archives, Société Radio-Canada, March 31, 1992, retrieved September 22, 2006
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.
All religion may be centered around a generally good idea, however, this has not stopped its adherents from acting like bastards
paul karl feyerabend— 123
The stars went out and so did the moon. The singer stopped playing and went to bed While the Weary Blues echoed through his head. He slept like a rock or a man that's dead.
langston hughes— "The Weary Blues," from The Weary Blues (1926)
With the stroke of the loss I was so proud of he uttered the cry of a creature hurled over an abyss, and the grasp with which I recovered him might have been that of catching him in his fall. I caught him, yes, I held him it may be imagined with what a passion; but at the end of a minute I began to feel what it truly was that I held. We were alone with the quiet day, and his little heart, dispossessed, had stopped.
Henry James— Ch. XXIV (The Turn of the Screw (1898))
'T is so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so. The strange lustre that surrounds him conceals and shrouds him from us; our sight is there broken and dissipated, being stopped and filled by the prevailing light.
Michel de Montaigne— Book III, ch. 7. Of the Inconveniences of Greatness
My second fixed idea is the uselessness of men above sixty years of age, and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.
william osler— Vol. I, Ch. 24 : "The Fixed Period"
My favorite programming languages are Lisp and C. However, since around 1992 I have worked mainly on free software activism, which means I am too busy to do much programming. Around 2008 I stopped doing programming projects.
richard m. stallman— Richard Stallman, How I do my computing
" when a famous investor publishes a newsletter, it's a sure tip-off that his techniques have stopped working."
— Chapter 3, The Market Is Smarter Than You Are, p. 88
Have women ever stopped mourning for anyone like Khalid?
— Caliph Umar, at the news of Khalid's death.(642 A.D)
More attention to the History of Science is needed, as much by scientists as by historians, and especially by biologists, and this should mean a deliberate attempt to understand the thoughts of the great masters of the past, to see in what circumstances or intellectual milieu their ideas were formed, where they took the wrong turning or stopped short on the right track.
— Ronald Fisher 1959 "Natural selection from the genetical standpoint". Australian Journal of Science 22, 16-17, .
You couldn't have stopped them, the Army couldn't have stopped them, so I had to. That's why I didn't call. Oh God, Ben.
— Who: Raymond Shaw
— Source: The Manchurian Candidate
— Note: Shaw has just killed his mother and stepfather, a vice-presidential nominee, at a political convention. They had planned to use a brainwashed Shaw to assassinate the presidential nominee, essentially granting them the presidency by default. Shaw shoots his parents instead, and commits suicide after being confronted by Ben Marco.
It's stopped.
— Who: Joseph Henry Green, upon checking his own pulse.
...the dark emotions hiding in very human life, whereas in association with others one easily forgets, so easily evades this, is easily stopped in so many ways get the opportunity to begin afresh - thought alone, conceived with due deference, could, I believe, chastise many a man in our day who believes he has already attained the highest.
— Søren Kierkegaard., in Kierkegaard's Writings, VI: Fear and Trembling/Repetition, p.100
