Stalling Quotes

• Congress, after years of stalling, finally got around to clearing the way for informal discussions that might lead to possible formal talks that could potentially produce some kind of tenative agreements.

  Dave Barry

  Agreement, Years, Might

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• The pain that's created by avoiding hard work is actually much worse than any pain created from the actual work itself. Because if you don't begin to work on those ideas that God has blessed you with, they will become stagnant inside of you and eventually begin to eat away at you. You might seem OK on the outside, but inside you will be ill from not getting those ideas out of your heart and into the world. Stalling leads to sickness. But taking steps, even baby steps, always leads to success.

  Russell Simmons

  Inspirational, Baby, Pain

  Russell Simmons, Chris Morrow (2007). “Do You!: 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success”, p.96, Penguin

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• Compromise is a stalling between two fools.

  Stephen Fry

  Two, Fool, Compromise

  Stephen Fry (2012). “Columbus war ein Engländer: Geschichte einer Jugend”, p.229, Aufbau Digital

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• One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Writing, Order, Stories

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• The world is sagging, snagging, scaling, spalling, pilling, pinging, pitting, warping, checking, fading, chipping, cracking, yellowing, leaking, stalling, shrinking, and in dynamic unbalance.

  Donald Barthelme

  Sagging, Shrinking, Fading

  1974 Guilty Pleasures,'Down the Line with the Annual'.

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• In the midnight of a soul's unsleeping, hear the waterfall of women weeping. Hear the distant noise of traffic stalling, hear the prostituted children calling.

  Pete Townshend

  Children, Reality, Soul

  Song: Hiding Out, Album: White City: A Novel

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• I'm always moving forward creatively and don't like stalling, trying to find the perfect snare drum sound.

  Mark Kozelek

  Moving, Perfect, Trying

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2012.

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• What drives me is a sense of urgency. We live in frightening times. Progress towards gender equality and vital battles to end discrimination on grounds such as race, age, sexuality and disability are stalling and in some places, reversing. This is happening because of the collapse of trust in nearly all public institutions, and in particular in politics and media, and the inescapable feeling that the current system isn't working for most people.

  Catherine Mayer

  Media, Race, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• The Chinese, on the other hand, were in the position of having an American military spy plane on a Chinese military base and they had their own internal problems to deal with. At first, the Chinese weren't all that belligerent. They were just stalling to get their own bureaucracy in line.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Military, Hands, Chinese

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• That window is closing. . . . Now, the clock is ticking. . . . We're not going to have these talks just drag out in a stalling process. . . . We haven't given away anything - other than the opportunity for us to negotiate

  Barack Obama

  Opportunity, Clock Is Ticking, Window

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• You don't wanna know the sinner. You don't wanna know the killer. Because it's you. Television is stalling evolution. Medication is stalling evolution. Evolution is stalling revolution. Evolution, revolution. Collaboration, the start of revolution. My decision, the start of revolution. Revolution, the start of evolution. Revolution, evolution.

  Tablo

  Decision, Collaboration, Television

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• As a survival-happy species, our successes are calculated in the number of years we have extended our lives, with the reduction of suffering being only incidental to this aim. To stay alive under almost any circumstances is a sickness with us. Nothing could be more unhealthy than to “watch one’s health” as a means of stalling death. The lengths we will go as procrastinators of that last gasp only demonstrate a morbid dread of that event. By contrast, our fear of suffering is deficient.

  Thomas Ligotti

  Mean, Years, Numbers

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• We just lost our electricity. You want to tell me what’s so funny about that?” “It’s not exactly funny. It’s more of a good news/bad news situation.” “In that case, hit me with the good news first.” “They’re both sort of rolled up into one.” “Stop stalling.” “All right. Now don’t get mad, but . . .” Smothered laughter drifted toward him. “Cal . . . I’m naked.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Laughter, Mad, Want

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• I feel I'm trying to get this really crap car going, and it just keeps stalling on me. And then other times I feel like my life's a train thundering toward me, and I'm in a car stuck on the crossroads and can't get out. Isn't it great being young!

  Julie Burchill

  Car, Trying, Crossroads

  Julie Burchill (2016). “Sugar Rush”, p.5, Pan Macmillan

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