Sop Quotes

#1. It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.

Larry Wall

#2. There was no answer, no solution, no sop, no deliverance. What, then, did I do? I read faster.

Leo Rosten

#3. Christ," he said to the tiny reflection of himself that floated along the surface of his coffee,
"You have become quite the maudlin sop, haven't you? Laughing softly, he rubbed a hand over his face.
Step one on the road back to sanity, stop talking to yourself.

Kristen Callihan

#4. The problem: Democrats have to drop their stupid class-warfare rhetoric. With 74 million Americans owning stock in one form or another, anything which helps them can't be derided as a sop to the rich.

Dick Morris

#5. We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savour the real beauties.

C.S. Lewis

#6. I think that's shameful, even if it's just a story, to propose an afterlife for evil ... Any afterlife notion is a manipulation and a sop. It's shameful the way the unionists and the pagans both keep talking up hell for intimidation and the airy Other Land for reward.

Gregory Maguire

#7. We are at the tail end of a decline in infant mortality that began just over a century ago. Babies no longer wander into open hearths or are mauled by marauding pigs. We have vaccines, lead-free educational toys, diapers that can sop up a typhoon. But we have never been more worried.

Nicholas Day

#8. Have you ever met a man who looked so damn delicious that you wanted to sop him up with a hot buttermilk biscuit and inhale him in one gulp?"
"Why, yes, I have," Doris said.
That was a shocker. "Really? What happened?"
"I married him.

Susan Donovan

#9. I suspect that both astronomers were, yet again, bending over backwards to be polite: theologians have nothing worthwhile to say about anything else; let's throw them a sop and let them worry away at a couple of questions that nobody can answer and maybe never will.

Richard Dawkins

#10. You know how you have a good meal and you got gravy left on the plate. The gravy was so good that you don't want to leave it on the plate but you don't want to be a pig about it? So you take your bread and use it to sop up the rest of the gravy. That guy is totally soppable!

Erin Jamison

#11. Anya: The more I think about dancing, the more I don't get it
Scarlet: Sop thinking. That's the key.

Gabrielle Zevin

#12. They realized I was alive again, even though I was playing an old, dying sop.

Christopher Plummer

#13. When will I sop belonging
to this hungry thing inside of me?

Clementine Von Radics

#14. In lifeproof houses they hover over the young, sop up a little of what they shut out. Only the young bring anything in, and they are not young very long.

William S. Burroughs

#15. sight." "Yeah?" That blue fire returned

Jude Deveraux

#16. Change for the better ... Let your change be purposeful and determined. Never repeat steps that always make you fail. Never change a step that brings you closer to excellence! You got to make a change!

Israelmore Ayivor

#17. Go, go, go if you want to, I can't stop you. Go, go, go if you want to, I can't stop you.

Sara Quin

#18. Is there anything refreshing like renewed words of God?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. If I am truly honest, I have to acknowledge that the demands I am so convinced are coming from the outer world are, in fact, coming from that perpetually unfinished part of me-the pulls and tugs originating from my own ambiguity.

Joan Anderson

#20. My spirit will rise from the grave and the world will see i was right.

Adolf Hitler

#21. On the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's 70th birthday. Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth.

Albert Einstein

#22. I think my mom always wanted to play the guitar, and somehow she projected that to me. So I started learning to play guitar when I was five years old, but actually I'd never managed to get the academic side of it. So even up to today, I don't know how to read or write music.

Gustavo Santaolalla

#23. When I was 4 my mother got divorced and we were very close to each other. I always wanted to be with her. She took me everywhere. When she went for dinner with friends or when they had meetings at the tennis club, I was always there.

Martina Hingis

#24. I like that there's no love as fierce as the love you feel for your family; that there's no one you feel more protective of than the very same people who can drive you crazy.

Kate Klise

#25. Failure is success only when your mission or objective is to fail.

Ben Tolosa