Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:All the people throughout my life who were naysayers pissed me off. But they've all given me a fervor; an angry ambition that cannot be stopped - and I look forward to finding a therapist and working on that.[Tobey Maguire] Quote:Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.[Will Rogers] Quote:Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least, not until the producers or the public tell you to.[T.S. Eliot] Quote:When people stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing -- they believe in anything.[GK Chesterton] Quote:American business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees who are educated enough that they can tell the difference between the men's room and the women's room without having little pictures on the doors.[Dave Barry] Quote:The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.[Robert Frost] Quote:Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.[Colin Powell] Quote:Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'[Colin Powell] Quote:Anyone can dabble, but once you've made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it's very hard for people to stop you.[Bill Cosby] Quote:I was gonna rip his heart out. I'm the best ever. I'm the most brutal and vicious, the most ruthless champion there has ever been. No one can stop me. Lennox is a conqueror? No! He's no Alexander! I'm Alexander! I'm the best ever. I'm Sonny Liston. I'm Jack Dempsey. There's never been anyone like me. I'm from their cloth. There is no one who can match me. My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want his heart! I want to eat his children! Praise be to Allah![Mike Tyson] Quote:Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.[Thomas Edison] Quote:If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:We all wish to be judged by our peers, by the men 'after our own heart.' Only they really know our mind and only they judge it by standards we fully acknowledge. Theirs is the praise we really covet and the blame we really dread. The little pockets of early Chrstians survived because they cared exclusively for the love of 'the bretheren' and stopped their ears to the opinion of the Pagan society around them. But a circle of criminals, cranks, or perverts survives in just the same way; by becoming deaf to the opinion of the outer world, by discounting it as the chatter of outsiders who 'don't understand,' of the 'conventional,' the 'bourgeois,' the 'Establishment,' of prigs, prudes, and humbugs.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.[Colman McCarthy] Quote:I stopped getting the girl about ten years ago. Which is just as well because I'd forgotten what I wanted her for.[John Wayne] Quote:My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.[Orson Welles] Quote:Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.[Phyllis Diller] Quote:You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.[Michael Jordan] Quote:There were always people like the pope. They serve a certain function, of course. They subsidize us. But, they don't create anything and they must never be allowed to stop the artist from creating. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they may seem. If you stop to think about it, we're all pretty creative, cooking up all these fantasies. it's like a kind of poetry. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop. [Alfred Hitchcock] Quote:It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge. [Frank Herbert] Quote:Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it. [Ronald Reagan] Quote:You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do. [Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. [Sam Levenson] Quote:I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I must stop doing what I've been doing. [Aristotle] Quote:While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity. [Publilius Syrus] Quote:The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. [Robert Frost] Quote:Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. [Robert Frost] Quote:He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes." [H. L. Mencken] Definitions of: stopDefinition: To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.Definition: To obstruct; to render impassable; as, to stop a way, road, or passage. Definition: To arrest the progress of; to hinder; to impede; to shut in; as, to stop a traveler; to stop the course of a stream, or a flow of blood. Definition: To hinder from acting or moving; to prevent the effect or efficiency of; to cause to cease; to repress; to restrain; to suppress; to interrupt; to suspend; as, to stop the execution of a decree, the progress of vice, the approaches of old age or infirmity. Definition: To regulate the sounds of, as musical strings, by pressing them against the finger board with the finger, or by shortening in any way the vibrating part. Definition: To point, as a composition; to punctuate. Definition: To make fast; to stopper. Definition: The act of stopping, or the state of being stopped; hindrance of progress or of action; cessation; repression; interruption; check; obstruction. Definition: That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; as obstacle; an impediment; an obstruction. Definition: A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought. Definition: The closing of an aperture in the air passage, or pressure of the finger upon the string, of an instrument of music, so as to modify the tone; hence, any contrivance by which the sounds of a musical instrument are regulated. Definition: In the organ, one of the knobs or handles at each side of the organist, by which he can draw on or shut off any register or row of pipes; the register itself; as, the vox humana stop. Definition: A member, plain or molded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts. This takes the place, or answers the purpose, of a rebate. Also, a pin or block to prevent a drawer from sliding too far. Definition: A point or mark in writing or printing intended to distinguish the sentences, parts of a sentence, or clauses; a mark of punctuation. See Punctuation. Definition: The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses. Definition: The depression in the face of a dog between the skull and the nasal bones. It is conspicuous in the bulldog, pug, and some other breeds. Definition: Some part of the articulating organs, as the lips, or the tongue and palate, closed (a) so as to cut off the passage of breath or voice through the mouth and the nose (distinguished as a lip-stop, or a front-stop, etc., as in p, t, d, etc.), or (b) so as to obstruct, but not entirely cut off, the passage, as in l, n, etc.; also, any of the consonants so formed. |
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