#stop

It is not secret here in Congress we have not had the discipline in many instances to keep our hands out of the cookie jar of Social Security. Now to stop this I propose that in the future that Congress cannot get its hands on the money in the first place. ↗

— Jeff Miller

#congress #cookie #discipline #first #future

Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#energetic #holding #job #keep #long

I never stopped making pictures. There were times when more of my income was coming from other sources, and I had to devote more time to television and movies and records. ↗

— Martin Mull

#devote #had #i #income #making

When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#grow up #growing #mean #stop #tell

If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack. ↗

— Edward Norton

#ever #gonna #heart #i #stop

It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now. ↗

— Charley Pride

#could #dj #good #good record #had

You can't stop rock-n-roll! ↗

— Dee Snider

#stop #you

You think that because I am unwanted, because I am neglected and-and discarded-" My voice inches higher with every word, the unrestrained emotions suddenly screaming through my lungs. "You think I don't have a heart? You think I don't feel? You think that because i can inflict pain, that i should? You're just like everyone else. You think I'm a monster just like everyone else. You don't understand me at all. ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#sci-fi #teen-fiction #teen

Eric, you need to look at the whole picture," the PM said. "You look at the jobless as a huge pile of scrap and you're looking for what can be recycled. That's good. That's your job. But what you don't realise is that this pile of scrap itself serves a purpose. I need my zeros, Eric. They put fear in people; fear of crime and terrorism. They are a stark reminder to the stakeholders that what they despise today, they may end up joining tomorrow. It keeps them obedient. Remember that! ↗

— Mark Cantrell

#government #satire #science-fiction #society #unemployment

I had evolved a year too soon, and it nearly broke me ↗

— Carlyle Labuschagne

#fantasy #fiction #hot-release #new-release #science-fiction