Sentence examples for stop an idea from inspiring English sources

VICTOR HUGO once said that "nothing can stop an idea whose time has come".

"And it's hard to stop an idea whose time has come".

Equally, never stop an idea in its tracks because someone utters the dreaded phrase: "we've tried that before and it didn't work".

Twenty years ago, India's mild-mannered finance minister delivered a startlingly bold budget to the nation with the memorable words: "No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come".

"You can't stop an idea whose time has come," the site reads.

As Victor Hugo once noted, all the armies in the world cannot stop an idea whose time has come.

Prosperity also requires tearing down walls that stand in the way of progress -– the corruption of elites who steal from their people; the red tape that stops an idea from becoming a business; the patronage that distributes wealth based on tribe or sect.

You can't stop a good idea whose time has come.

The plebiscite is a bad idea, and us stopping a bad idea is a good thing.

The only thing that can stop a good viral idea is when it runs out of population, he says.

It's never easy to stop working on an idea after having invested so much into it, but I'm thankful that we'll have the opportunity to keep working on a product that closely aligns with the mission we set out with at Banters: to harness the timeless power of quotes and words, and share them in ways that have only recently been made possible by technology.