Stopgaps Quotes

#1. Moral prejudices are the stopgaps of virtue; and, as is the case with other stopgaps, it is often more difficult to get either out or in through them than through any other part of the fence.

Augustus William Hare

#2. Guilt is a manifestation of condemnation or aversion towards oneself, which does not understand the changing transformative quality of mind.
'Seeking the Heart of Wisdom

Joseph Goldstein

#3. It was like the time her sister suggested she read Emily Dickinson to the tune of Gilligan's Island. Once certain thoughts got into your head, you couldn't get rid of them.

Sarah Dunn

#4. Stories are not explanations of the world we live in. Science does that, and math does that. Our obligation as fiction writers is to enhance the mysteries.

Tim O'Brien

#5. We can not be swallowed up like those little pebbles. We aren't pebbles. We won't just quietly sink to the bottom. We can run, we can fight, and we can work. We are not helpless unless we let ourselves be.

Sook Nyul Choi

#6. If we exchange one dollar, we both have one dollar each. But if we exchange one good thought, we both have two good thoughts

Abraham Lincoln

#7. I'm back with my own kind of people here now, the bums and drinkers and no goods and it is a fine thing.

John Steinbeck

#8. Wishes have voices sometimes.

Alyssa Day

#9. The NAACP is a wonderful organization ... But do you realize if tomorrow morning we had complete integration, all them cats would be outta work?

Dick Gregory

#10. The butler went away among the abominable plants. The General spoke again, slowly, using his strength as carefully as an out-of-work show-girl uses her last good pair of stockings.

Raymond Chandler

#11. Incomparably greater than the power of Sauron, concentrated in the One Ring, Morgoth's power was dispersed into the very matter of Arda: The whole of Middle-earth was Morgoth's Ring.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#12. I have a way of finding what is true for me, and it's not finished yet.

Richard Bach