Stopgap Quotes

#1. Biomedical research is only as good as its delivery. Distribution of medicines by charities is no more than a stopgap.

John Sulston

#2. God's name is not to be ia stopgap to make up for our lack of words.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#3. The dome of the U.S. Capitol has fallen into severe disrepair ... As the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which oversees matters of the Capitol's physical plant, I have serious concerns about the consequences of omitting this funding from the stopgap spending measure.

Chuck Schumer

#4. Belief may serve as a useful stopgap measure in the absence of actual experience, but once you see ... [it] becomes unnecessary.

Steve Hagen

#5. I guess you just lacked the courage, the guts to strike out on your own. And so when it all came to an end, you were still living that way, a life you never meant to be anything more than a stopgap, filling in for the real thing.

Banana Yoshimoto

#6. Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Faerie Queen for a stopgap, or a volume of Bishop Andrews's Sermons?

Charles Lamb

#7. Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed.

Umberto Eco

#8. The odor of literature as a stopgap, of words piled one upon the other to avoid taking action or to console oneself for being incapable of it.

Rene Daumal

#9. I raised an eyebrow at him. "Don't be that guy. Didn't you know that talking to someone while they're reading a book ups the likelihood of you getting stabbed by like four hundred percent?

Staci Hart

#10. Everyone has honour and a good name. It is the only sacred thing that every person has.

Viktor Shel

#11. Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age.

George Bancroft

#12. In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself.

Maria Montessori

#13. What a joy it is to dance and sing!

Angela Carter

#14. Dream big, dare greatly and shine brightly.

Robin Sieger

#15. When all else failed, you had to rely on eyeball intrumentation.

Arthur C. Clarke

#16. Come in! come in !' he sobbed.
'Cathy, do come. Oh do -once more! Oh! my heart's darling! hear me this time - Catherine, at last!

Emily Bronte

#17. As soon as the man had gone, Caitrina moved to stand before him, her soft feminine scent clouding his senses. Would it always be like this - this clawing need for her? The inability to think when she was near? The feeling that if he didn't take her in his arms and kiss her, he would surely die?

Monica McCarty

#18. Generally, there are three rules when it comes to borrowing money: You need to have good credit, proof of income and cash for a down payment. Most people have the first two, but it's the third that trips them up. And nowhere does that come into play more than the mortgage market.

Jean Chatzky

#19. All the qualities of a man acquire dignity when he knows that the service of the collectivity that owns him needs them. If proud of the collectivity, his own pride rises in proportion. No collectivity is like an army for nourishing such pride ...

William James

#20. But if I start believing that, then I have to believe in your God. I'd have to love your God. I'd rather love the men you slept with.

Graham Greene

#21. The trade unions in the UK are campaigning around zero-hours contracts, which isn't about feminism, but it's a feminist issue. Women are affected by zero-hours contracts, and the recession has and is affecting women more than men.

Rachel Holmes

#22. We need to develop new strategies to overcome every challenge. And by faith we can graciously triumph.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#23. Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.

Jack Kerouac