#tops

Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold. ↗

— William Moulton Marston

#chasing #digging #gold #puts #realize

When you are pulling people out of the water and off of rooftops, there are no Republicans and no Democrats. ↗

— Charlie Melancon

#off #out #people #pulling #republicans

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#aspiring #beyond #content #contraction #going

Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the houses, which yet seemed to us to form an innumerable number of smaller spires, or steeples. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#another #chimneys #church #could #distinguish

Boxing has kept me off the streets, stops me smoking and drinking and gives me something to do. ↗

— Billy Joe Saunders

#drinking #gives #kept #me #off

Nothing ever gets settled in this town. a seething debating society in which the debate never stops, in which people never give up, including me. And so that's the atmosphere in which you administer. ↗

— George P. Shultz

#atmosphere #debate #debating #ever #gets

The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#car #combining #cultural #desert #ideas

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal that you can gather votes like box tops is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

#breakfast #breakfast cereal #candidates #cereal #democratic

There are a hell of a lot of jobs that are scarier than live comedy. Like standing in the operating room when a guy's heart stops, and you're the one who has to fix it! ↗

— Jon Stewart

#fix #guy #heart #hell #jobs

Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience. ↗

— Bishop Robert South

#stops #surprise #wonder