Just Stop Quotes

#1. Something we all have as kids and is beaten out of us as adults. Parents come up to me, "How do I get my kids interested in science?" They're already interested in science. Just stop beating it out of them.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#2. Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.

James Hillman

#3. How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world?

John Green

#4. If you daren't enter the forest, or cannot find it, then perhaps you might find one tree, or a place where a tree could be, and just stop for a quiet moment to see what happens.

Viggo Mortensen

#5. We wouldn't have to take your rights away if you'd just stop exercising them.

Carl-John X. Veraja

#6. But what we're really trapped by is perceptions. You think you need to lose weight for someone to love you. I think if I gain weight, no one will love me. What we really need is to just stop thinking of ourselves as bodies and start thinking of ourselves as people.

Jennifer Weiner

#7. But what so different of eating plants? Everything has it's life. If you are so pure, why not just stop eating? So you can have no shit?

Xiaolu Guo

#8. Sure you do. Love doesn't just stop, Pixie. It's always there.

Chelsea Fine

#9. It feels strange to have spen much time wishing for something, for someone and then one day, suddenly,to just stop

Jenny Han

#10. Our mistakes would not wish for anything more, if we could just stop giving birth to them.

Munia Khan

#11. We say that anytime budgets are balanced and an ample savings account has been set aside, government should just stop collecting taxes. Better to leave that money in the pockets of those who earned it, than to let it burn a hole, as it always does, in the pockets of government.

Mitch Daniels

#12. You have to realize that you don't have someone else's life and your never going to. You better start loving the one you got. Embrass the life you have and stop wishing that you could be someone else. Just stop all that and start saying "God here I am. Do what you want to do with me".

Joyce Meyer

#13. When somebody you love dies, you want the world to just stop, but it doesn't ... everything keeps going, and so it's up to you to catch the moment ... to savor that time ... years ago when you ran hand in hand down the hill with your sister.

Wes Adamson

#14. We can't just stop. We're not rocks-progress, migration, motion is ... modernity. It's ANIMATE, it's what living things do. We desire. Even if all we desire is stillness, it's still desire for ...

Tony Kushner

#15. Do you mind if I contribute my thoughts to this one? If you could just stop nitpicking and dissecting every little thing, if you could learn to keep one eye closed and one eye open, and quit worrying about everything, you might discover life is pretty fucking beautiful. Am I right?

Ge Fei

#16. So perhaps the greatest worry of all was that one day you would realize that all the worries of your life amounted to one thing: the desire to just stop worrying.

Justin Cronin

#17. If you going rape me, rape me already and leave me in whichever ditch you leave woman. Just stop bore me with your r'asscloth mouth

Marlon James

#18. I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of 'thinking' and 'enjoying' what they call 'living', I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.

Jack Kerouac

#19. Just stop at one of these construction sites and look and see who those workers are. They're all Hispanic, ... And I bet you they're illegal.

John McCain

#20. Just stop worrying about it," she said quietly. "Just let the stone be what it wants to be. You can't control everything, you know.

Danika Stone

#21. I know he's dead! Don't you think I know that? I can still like him, though, can't I? Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them, for God's sake
especially if they were about a thousand times nicer than the people you know that're alive and all.

J.D. Salinger

#22. There were times over the years when I wanted to take a break from 'Scott Pilgrim,' or even just stop doing 'Scott Pilgrim,' when I was feeling down or whatever.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

#23. If you really care about animals, then stop trying to figure out how to exploit them 'compassionately'. Just stop exploiting them.

Gary L. Francione

#24. You can resign from the Woman's Club, but the world is all, you can't just stop attending.

Barbara Kingsolver

#25. Ty tapped Nick's knee. "Do you really want him left behind knowing you did this? It can wait until we get back."
"Just stop talking, Beaumont," Nick grunted. "You're like the Bermuda Triangle of morals."
Zane snorted and covered it with a cough.

Abigail Roux

#26. Gibberish rap is - I freestyle all the time, just hangin' out with friends. And sometimes when I'm freestyling, I'll lose my flow, you know, but I'll still wanna - I don't wanna just stop rapping because I lose my flow. So I'll just put in nonsense words till I can bring in regular words again.

Hannibal Buress

#27. If your movies don't perform, they just stop calling you.

Matt Damon

#28. I wish the real world, would just stop hassling me.

Matchbox 20

#29. You see? That's the point. It's all a big guess. They hope, they pray, they cook and garden and get a better job to pay the mortgage and read dirty books to keep bedtime interesting, but they don't know. There are no guarantees. Sometimes you just stop loving someone. You just stop.

Tania Kindersley

#30. I might just stop talking again and not do interviews.

Prince

#31. Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?
Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action that is done with deliberation, the worst as well as the best.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#32. We should just stop calling these things presentations altogether. Everyone gets hung up on that word. Wouldn't it be easier to just call them conversations? That's really what they are.

Dale Ludwig

#33. I think I would have drank myself to death, literally, if I didn't just stop, once and for all when I did. I am not ever going to preach to anyone about drugs or drinking. But, for me, when they were around, I had no self control.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#34. I wanted to call a time out, to demand that everybody just STOP until I could understand everything.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#35. Hearts don't break. They just stop working. An old watch from another time and no parts to fix it.

Nicola Yoon

#36. When you're the commander in chief, you're the commander in chief on day one. You don't get like a six-month grace period. The world doesn't just stop and say, well, let's wait until the president catches up before we start challenging America.

Marco Rubio

#37. I've been looking for a feeling like that everywhere I go. I've been waiting for someone to see all the good in me at every truck stop and intersection along the way. I've been waiting all my life for the moment to arrive when I can just stop. Stop looking

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#38. Don't stop to think of the words when you do stop, just stop to think of the picture better-and let your mind off yourself in this work.

Jack Kerouac

#39. We can connect with that openness at any time. For instance, right now, for three seconds, just stop reading and pause. If

Pema Chodron

#40. I love you Layla. I can't just stop taking care of you. If anything happened to you I'd never survive it.

Marie Coulson

#41. What we learned several years ago was that one of our weaknesses would be if we didn't develop enough people with the know-how to run our company, it would come to the point where we would just stop.

Kevin Rollins

#42. Anyone singing about trucks, in any form, in any song, anywhere, literally just stop - nobody cares!

Kacey Musgraves

#43. I couldn't act like a normal person again when she now knows me as a crazy person, because that would imply I have a choice. That I can choose to be crazy or normal. And if I have a choice, then that would imply that I'm not really crazy at all, and I should just stop it and get on with my life.

Liane Moriarty

#44. Instead of slapping her head, I do what they tell you to do: count to ten. Only I do it the gifted way: 123+456+789+10. When your sister has hurtled you swerving into the darkness, stranded you at a funeral home, and threatens to get you in trouble, just stop and count to 1,378 before you respond.

Jo Ann Beard

#45. If you just stop expecting perfection from everyone and everything, you might see the good stuff outweighs the bad. And then someday you'll look in the mirror and see the same thing. Because the person you're most disappointed in is yourself.

Erin Lange

#46. If I can just stop being so stressed out, maybe my cancer will get better! This is far less scary than treating a disease of unknown etiology.

Heidi Julavits

#47. I'd forgotten how trees full of bird sounds made you sense the world differently: that life didn't just stop at eye level.

Barbara Kingsolver

#48. It would be great to bust through and make history. But what's more important is the opportunity to continue to get roles that are complicated and wonderful, to be a part of the narrative and to get to do what our counterparts are able to do. It doesn't just stop at holding an award.

Viola Davis

#49. On the day of the party I walked down to Covent Garden at lunchtime to buy a dress, and on my way to Boules I thought I would just stop off for a moment at Books etc.

Helen DeWitt

#50. If we just stop producing stuff, if we stop being so capitalist, we stop taking resources from other third world countries, we'll be happy.

Glenn Beck

#51. Can we just stop pretending that skinny jeans are a good look on anyone? Can we just band together and go for a boot cut, please? Ladies?

Jennifer Garner

#52. I've gotten thicker skin mostly from being older. You just stop caring quite as much about everything.

Joel Stein

#53. Action will sometimes be required, but if you're really doing
it in line with what the Universe is trying to bring to you, it's
going to feel joyous. You're going to feel so alive. Time will
just stop. You could do it all day.

Bob Doyle

#54. I've worked since I was 11 years old, playing music and following the dream, and shaking and moving and doing it. And then, you have cancer and it was like 'Ooooohh.' It was like a big eraser. It was the only thing in my life that had ever made me just stop.

Melissa Etheridge

#55. I'm so into music that I just stop and listen, whenever there's music on. That's the problem with being a musician for so long. I can get lost in the bassline, fascinated with the arrangement, curious about the production. I can't shut it out.

Derek Sivers

#56. I know I can get to the stage where I'm drinking a lot. I tend to be rotten and groggy all day and hanging out for the next drink and five o'clock, ping! I have to just stop.

Trisha Goddard

#57. It's just a mild disagreement, Papa. Remi has this whole need to breathe in and out, which annoys me. If he would just stop breathing, I'd be fine. (Aimee)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#58. Is it me, or did we just stop in the median and the driver got out?" Larry asks.
"He has to go peewee," Jade informs us.
"Good to know I'm not demented," Larry remarks. "Merely imperiled.

Daniel Asa Rose

#59. Just walk through him," I said, still deep in thought. "and if you ever wanted to know how a moose works, just stop halfway and take a good look around.

Jasper Fforde

#60. Horned lizards shoot jets of blood from their eyes for distances of up to 5 feet. I don't know why they do this because whenever I reach the phrase "shoot jets of blood from their eyes" in an article I just stop there and stare at it until I need to lie down.

Randall Munroe

#61. Sorry, but retirement offends me. You don't just stop fighting in the middle of a war because your legs hurt. So why do you get to stop working in the middle of your life just because your prostate hurts? That's desertion.

Stephen Colbert

#62. When something is finished, that means it's dead, doesn't it? I believe in everlastingness. I never finish a painting - I just stop working on it for a while.

Arshile Gorky

#63. The whole thing with recording is you have to know when to turn off the tape machine and just stop recording because you want to keep fixing, fixing, fixing, you know?

Linda Ronstadt

#64. All right," said Ford, "just stop panicking!

Douglas Adams

#65. It's not like you can just stop loving someone overnight

Abby Clements

#66. And as for you and those damn ten pounds you're always complaining about? I think you should just stop obsessing and start living.

Camille Pagan

#67. I get really tired of hearing of all these old rockers whine and complain about how hard life on the road can be. Just stop if you don't like it. I don't think of it as work. I love it all.

Edgar Winter

#68. Where I grew up, in the Detroit area, there was a really good station. Sometimes you would hear songs for the first time on the radio, and if a really special song came on, somebody would turn it up, and everybody would just stop talking.

Mary Gaitskill

#69. Hopefully, there's a place in music for Tinted Windows. If we're really trying to be iconic, we should just stop right now. If one of us could die, that would also help. But I don't think anybody wants that gig.

Taylor Hanson

#70. Just stop asking," she burst out. "Just take. Please ... just take over. I can't ... give. You just have to take what you want." Tyler stared down at

Joey W. Hill

#71. You play a couple of shows, and these label guys come - and they leave halfway through a show. Then the phone calls just stop. And your heart is broken.

James Vincent McMorrow

#72. Writers seldom just stop writing. We're like serial killers in that way. You have to stop us, because we cannot stop ourselves.

Marilyn Johnson

#73. Don't just stop and look down. you might bump into something.

Sydney Wilhelmy

#74. If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion.

Prince Philip

#75. You will meet happiness on your way if you just stop looking for happiness desperately! Live your life without looking for anything!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#76. Get off your ass and do something. All you need is the right inspiration. Anger has fueled me my entire life. It makes me feel good and ... I'm okay with that. My fear is that my anger will one day make me so damned successful that I'll actually be happy. And then I'll just stop.

Christopher Titus

#77. My eyelashes are divas, so they will like a mascara brand one week or for a month, and then they'll just stop working for it. I go back and forth between Maybelline and Cover Girl, and then I carry around a primer, too.

Francia Raisa

#78. Do you ever wish that sometimes the world would just stop spinning for a few hours to give you a chance to catch up?

Chloe Neill

#79. But don't worry," she continued. "Most snakes don't want to hurt you. If you're out in the bush and a snake comes along, just stop dead and let it slide over your shoes."
This, I decided, was the least-likely-to-be-followed advice I have ever been given.

Bill Bryson

#80. But then he whispers, "It will be okay, Mary." He pulls my head down to his chest and he wraps both his arms around me and all I can think is why can't life just stop here and now and leave us be in this moment.

Carrie Ryan

#81. What happened after death? Where did you go? What did you do? The scariest possibility was that we might. just. stop.

Jodi Meadows

#82. I think maybe the key to having a long relationship is really appreciating that person's life and not trying to own it. It's like just stop trying. We all do it.

Kristen Stewart

#83. People can be hurt so badly that they choose to just stop in their tracks.

Polly Horvath

#84. The coverage [of crimes] is different. It's less angry when white [athletes] are involved, less accusatory, less judgemental. I see that in the pieces that are written and reported. At times it bothers me to the point that I just stop reading ... just stop.

Michael Wilbon

#85. I'd go to the end of the world for my husband. Of course, if he'd just stop and ask directions, I wouldn't have to.

Martha Bolton

#86. Sometimes you can make a substantial amount of money and automatically think that you've made it, that you did everything you wanted to do. Some people just stop.

Raekwon

#87. I was trying my best to just stop that ball from going over the fence, I'd sacrifice my body if I have to. I've done that my whole career.

Torii Hunter

#88. Could you people stop trying to come up with novel ways to kill me for just ONE HOUR? Or maybe the rest of the night? I would SO like that. Just the rest of the night. Just sit down. Just stop doing anything. Sit down and wait sensibly. Earth, water, air, fire - you're running out of elements here!

Lois McMaster Bujold

#89. Each of these strategies-get a little better at it, design a support system, use one of your strongest themes to overwhelm your weakness, find a partner, and just stop doing it-can help you as you strive to build your life around your strengths.

Donald O. Clifton

#90. The cancer bubble. It's almost like he's not here. Like he's on pause, and my life with him is on pause, and we're just waiting to see if somebody is going to hit play again or just stop the thing entirely.

Abigail Barnette

#91. I think of the saddest thing I can and then add a sick dog to that. If I think of a sick dog from the beginning, I just stop there.

Sufjan Stevens

#92. It's saying, just stop, and be together. Don't talk now, just breathe and feel each other's presence ...

Eddie Vedder

#93. If anyone's reading this waiting for some type of full-on, flat apology for anything, they should just stop reading right now.

Kanye West

#94. I love to kill people. I love to watch them die. I would shoot them in the head and they would wiggle and squirm all over the place, and then just stop. Or I would cut them with a knife and watch their faces turn real white. I love all that blood.

Richard Ramirez

#95. And, in fact, this is the tale that I would love to write: history is such a romantic place, with its jarveys and urchins and side-buttoned boots. If it would just stay still, I think, and settle down. If it would just stop sliding around in my head.

Anne Enright

#96. Just stop it. Seriously. Whatever it is. Just stop it. If only for an hour, a day, a week. Stop doing it long enough to get a glimpse of what the change would actually look like.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#97. I can't take loving people only for them to be taken away. Everyone I love leaves me. I hate it, I fuckin'hate it, it's not right, Can't you stop it, just stop it, fuck, get it to stop!

Marita A. Hansen

#98. I'm not going to just stop doing it because I got hurt once. People get hurt in car wrecks every day, and they don't stop driving the car the rest of their life to work. It's my passion. It's what I want to do with my life. It's a part of what I do.

Tony Stewart

#99. One thing I love is to stop doing. When I just STOP and start looking, I enter a state that is much more dreamy, and find I look at things quite differently. It seems like a change in scale - both very close up, and simultaneously very distant.

Amy Hardie

#100. If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop.

Siobhan Fahey