Total Stopping Time

Famous quotes containing the words total, stopping and/or time:

    “Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.”
    —Salman Rushdie (b. 1948)

    “Would not some lightning flash of vision sear people’s consciousness into life again? What was the good of stopping the war if armies continued?”
    —John Dos Passos (1896–1970)

    “To measure life learn thou betimes, and know
    Toward solid good what leads the nearest way;
    For other things mild Heaven a time ordains,

    And disapproves that care, though wise in show,
    That with superfluous burden loads the day,
    And, when God sends a cheerful hour, refrains.”
    —John Milton (1608–1674)