Stop Quotes - page 10

Buddhism teaches that a craving for things outside ourselves causes an unhappy and pointless search for security. It teaches me to stop following every impulse and to learn restraint. Obviously, I lost track of what I was taught. (Tiger Woods)
I also know that Christianity has held back any further advances in human consciousness for the past thousand years. And for the past century it's been in direct conflict with its illegitimate offspring, Communism (again with a capital C). Both ask the individual to sacrifice his self-interest to the higher goals of the organization. (Which is okay by me as long as it's voluntary; but as soon as either becomes too big-and takes on that damned capital C-they stop asking for cooperation and start demanding it.) Any higher states of human enlightenment have been sacrificed between these two monoliths. View quote
David Gerrold
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
I stopped going to school in the middle of fourth grade. Everyone grows up with the peer pressure, and kids being mean to each other in school. I think that's such a horrible thing, but I never really dealt with it in a high school way. View quote
Hilary Duff
Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn't the whole population. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something about them. View quote
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things. View quote
Norman Douglas
Tradition and heritage are all dead people's baggage, stop carrying it. Move forward. View quote
Doug Stanhope
Stop quoting laws, we carry weapons! View quote
Pompey
Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: you have to learn the rhythm of respiration, acquire the pace; otherwise you stop right away. (Umberto Eco)
Stop being who you were and become who you are. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. View quote
Paulo Coelho
When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself. View quote
Paulo Coelho
We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking. View quote
Clement Attlee
Without the elected president and if there is a freak result, within two or three years, the army would have to come in and stop it. View quote
Lee Kuan Yew
My dear fellow, who will let you?" "That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me? View quote
Ayn Rand
But when you come right down to it the reason that we did this job is because it was an organic necessity. If you are a scientist you cannot stop such a thing. If you are a scientist you believe that it is good to find out how the world works; that it is good to find out what the realities are; that it is good to turn over to mankind at large the greatest possible power to control the world and to deal with it according to its lights and its values. View quote
Robert Oppenheimer
We don't stop loving people just because we hate them, but we don't stop hating them either. View quote
Jonathan Tropper
You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've lost. I know this to be wise and true, just as I know that pretty much no one can do it. (Jonathan Tropper)
To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream. View quote
Sylvia Plath
When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things. I did it (the O-Z-Z-Y tattoo across his knuckles) when I was 14. I was in jail for something. I could have had it removed, but why? It's my trademark. People stop me and say, 'Let me have a look at your hand. View quote
Ozzy Osbourne
I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time. View quote
Banksy
My brother need not be idealized or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life, to be remembered as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it. View quote
Ted Kennedy