A Quote by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The ball of rumor and criticism, once it starts rolling, is difficult to stop.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Ball Criticism Difficult Once Rolling Rumor Starts Stop

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh
American - Writer
June 22, 1906 - February 7, 2001

It's a whole different kind of anxiety. But the great thing about doing a theatre job is that once the ball starts rolling you just have to go with it, it's inexorable.

Emily Watson

A cantor, when he starts singing, it's like rain - once it starts, it's hard to stop.

Sholom Aleichem

Stop rolling down hill like a snow ball headed for hell.

Merle Haggard

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

Charles Caleb Colton

It's all about his determination. You never, ever, give up once you start something, once you're on the trail of something you don't stop and that's what you have to go through when you're making a movie too. Once the train's rolling, you have to stick with it.

Peter Jackson

The only reason an indie gets made is because someone has a burning passion to do it and won't take no for an answer, as opposed to a big film, which is like a train that starts rolling down the tracks and nothing can stop it.

William H. Macy

Indians take great pleasure in celebrating a genius, and then go into mindless criticism once the celebrity starts doing well.

Chinmayi

Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.

Tacitus

Laughter is a highly addictive positive contagion: if somebody starts, it's very difficult to stop.

Robert Holden

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.

Ludwig von Mises

As far as criticism, I don't mind critics. I mean, I wrote for 'Rolling Stone' for a hot minute. I like criticism. I enjoy criticism. The thing I don't like is cruelty for cruelty's sake. You don't have to be a jerk to say something negative. You can say something in the negative sense and have class.

Patrick Stump

I think there are so many guys coming up that are ready to bust loose. All they need is that one little flame of confidence that starts the inferno. And when you get those guys, once it starts happening, nothing can stop you. And you can tell which guys have it. You always know which guys have it.

Chris Jericho

Rumor goes forth at once, Rumor than whom No other speedier evil thing exists; She thrives by rapid movement, and acquires Strength as she goes; small at the first from fear, She presently uplifts herself aloft, And stalks upon the ground and hides her head Among the clouds.

Virgil

The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that someone objects to.

Studs Terkel

Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens.