“ About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends. ”
- Paul Dickson- Copy
- 1.8K
“ She waits for me, my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs; I'll say her nay, and hide away, Then take her by surprise. ”
- Mary Mapes Dodge- Copy
- 3.2K
“ The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it. ”
- Cleveland Amory- Copy
- 918
“ Economics is a theoretical science and as such abstains from any judgement of value. It is not its task to tell people what ends they should aim at. It is a science of the means to be applied for attainment of ends chosen, not, to be sure, a science of the choosing of ends… ”
- Ludwig von Mises- Copy
- 2K
“ The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.- Copy
- 868
“ Bloody men are like bloody buses — you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear. ”
- Wendy Cope- Copy
- 2.3K
“ At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening. ”
- Annie Dillard- Copy
- 196
“ Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing you can do is keep your mind young. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 36
“ Give heed, give heed and give your sympathyTo one who suffers; sorrow roaming wideImpartial stops and stays awhile with me,To tarry later seated close by thee. ”
- Aeschylus- Copy
- 2.2K
“ All's well that ends well; still the fine's the crown. Whate'er the course, the end is the renown. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3.4K
“ The way to stop financial "joy-riding" is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile. ”
- Woodrow Wilson- Copy
- 542
“ The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late. ”
- Ben Folds- Copy
- 165
“ Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction. ”
- John Cheever- Copy
- 223
“ Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal. ”
- Lawrence Lessig- Copy
- 82
“ We have to do a film parody for Comic Relief. We can't decide which film to parody at the moment. Any ideas welcome, but not Spiderman owing to costume being too tight. ”
- Dawn French- Copy
- 2.4K
“ You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility. ”
- Robert Anton Wilson- Copy
- 2.7K
“ You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me. ”
- Calvin Coolidge- Copy
- 3.2K
“ The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up. ”
- Bob Uecker- Copy
- 3.9K
“ The timber wolves will be our friends.We'll stay up late and howl,At the moon, till nighttime ends,Before going on the prowl. ”
- Bill Watterson- Copy
- 2.9K
“ To stay at my best, I have to stop talking during the preceding day. ”
- Placido Domingo- Copy
- 3.5K
“ It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 2.2K
“ There goes the swallow, — Could we but follow! Hasty swallow, stay, Point us out the way; Look back swallow, turn back swallow, stop swallow. ”
- Christina G. Rossetti- Copy
- 794
“ It is hard to wait and press and pray, and hear no voice, but stay till God answers. ”
- E.M. Bounds- Copy
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