Quotes About Stopping

#1. Digital [photography] has sped up the process to a point that it's a bit self-destructive. It is like driving by a new neighborhood without stopping for a walk. Special discoveries need time.

Mona Kuhn

#2. Living on purpose means stopping to make sure your actions still match your big goals.

Stever Robbins

#3. There are many ways to grow football-wise. You go slow or are pushed to go faster, otherwise you get left behind. For me, there would be trouble in stopping learning.

Wayne Rooney

#4. What are you doing?" I asked him. He'd shown no sign of letting up, like he was just going to go down on me indefinitely, with no signs of stopping for the foreseeable future. He smiled. Yes, it was a cold smile, but I was starting to like that just fine. "Showing manners.

R.K. Lilley

#5. She'd been an easy mark, so greedy for love that she had given the best of her own heart without stopping to consider what she received in exchange.

Emily Croy Barker

#6. I grabbed his shirt, stopping him. He looked down at me mildly confused. I hesitated, and then smiled nervously. "Stay with me. Just for a little while. I don't want to be alone." I hated to admit that I was scared, but I was. I felt safe with him, and I didn't want to lose that feeling. He

Ella Price

#7. I couldn't help myself. The more confidence she gained, the more beautiful she became. The more she smiled, the more I allowed myself to hope. The more she let me touch her, the less capable I felt of stopping.

Catherine Gayle

#8. Still, a person who cannot express love is stopping the flow of life, is censoring where censorship is a form of self-indulgence, the fear of giving oneself away.

May Sarton

#9. I've missed you, Jas. You have no idea," he continued, reaching toward me again but stopping short of touching me. "I thought about you every damn day. All I wanted was to get back to you and the clan. But mostly you. Always you.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#10. Thank God Roxane Coss had not fallen in love with one of the Russians. She doubted they could make it up the stairs without stopping for a cigarette and telling at least one loud story that no one could understand.

Ann Patchett

#11. Stopping smoking was most dramatic for me. After 23 years, I picked up a cigarette one day and didn't know why I was doing it. Smoking was no longer in alignment with what I had intended to experience of myself.

Neale Donald Walsch

#12. Marcus was difficult simply because he frequently gave the impression that he was merely stopping off on this planet on his way to somewhere else, somewhere he might fit in better.

Nick Hornby

#13. Emma had honest-to-God fantasies about stopping by a pet store and getting a cat. Emma was allergic to cats. That's how bad things were.

Anonymous

#14. I completely bombed the audition ... I was insecure, stopping and starting. I went to the bathroom and cried.

Lake Bell

#15. Anger, if used properly, might be for a cause, like helping feed children or stopping abuse somewhere. When we understand that every quality has importance and value, then we open up to this. Shining a light on these shadow qualities gives it balance.

Debbie Ford

#16. It does get crazy sometimes, but I've never complained about stopping to give autographs or anything like that.

Jordan Knight

#17. It starts in the home environment. If the parents eat bad? Those kids are going to eat bad. If they see their parents stopping at McDonald's or Pizza Hut, then that's what they're going to eat as well.

Donald Driver

#18. I am all for art's finding a large audience. But the way that's happening now, with big works filling big galleries and bigger shows, is mostly stopping statements from being made. Or heard. Or talked about. Or really examined. It's watering things down.

Jerry Saltz

#19. Even the ancient mariner, with his wonderful tale, succeeded in stopping only one of three! No book is for everybody.

Leon Garfield

#20. When have I ever given him the impression that I was okay with him just stopping by whenever he wanted to use my body as an organic garbage disposal?

Nash Summers

#21. What is a life? A series of yeses and noes, photographs you shove in a drawer somewhere, loves you think will save you but that cannot. Continuing to move, enduring, not stopping even when there is pain. That's all life is, he wants to tell her. It's continuing.

Hala Alyan

#22. Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.

Walter Kirn

#23. Green knew playtime was over. He swallowed his lover down, not stopping until he smelled the masculinity embedded in his groin. "Ohhh," Ruxs groaned. "That's it, babe. Fuck. Right there. Oh my god, you are too fuckin' good at that." Green

A.E. Via

#24. Television. An advanced technical method of stopping people from making their own entertainment.

Leonard Rossiter

#25. I love going after what I want and not stopping till I get it.

Erica Ash

#26. Only when creation stops can we find the Absolute. The Absolute is in the soul, not in creation. So by stopping creation, we come to know the Absolute.

Swami Vivekananda

#27. What I really do when I write you is follow myself, and I'm doing it right now: I'm following myself without knowing what it will lead me to. Sometimes following myself is so hard. Because of following something that's still so nebulous. Sometimes I end up stopping.

Clarice Lispector

#28. Unlike puppets we have the possibility of stopping in our movements, looking up and perceiving the machinery by which we have been moved. In this act lies the first steps towards freedom.

Peter L. Berger

#29. I cannot imagine stopping singing. It is so nice that I even do it as a hobby.

Jose Carreras

#30. You can accomplish His will, without stopping midway, and even though you may face obstacles, you will overcome

Sunday Adelaja

#31. Man ... heats up like a lightbulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The female, on the other hand ... heats up like an iron. Slowly, over a low heat, like tasty stew. But then, once she has heated up, there's no stopping her.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#32. There is no stopping place in this life
nor is there ever one for any person, no matter how far along the way one's gone.

Meister Eckhart

#33. Stopping before you reach the goal does not make the discouragement go away. All it does is make the discouragement permanent. Instead, keep going, keep making the attempt, until you make that last, fulfilling attempt that brings the success you desire.

Ralph Marston

#34. Chance acquaintances are sometimes the most memorable, for brief friendships have such definite starting and stopping points that they take on a quality of art, of a whole thing, which cannot be broken or spoiled.

William, Saroyan

#35. I reached my hand up when he catches me by the wrist stopping me. "No touching," he speaks so low it is barley a whisper. I gasped, damn what a turn on, I try reaching for his hair with my other hand when he stops me again. Roughly he tells me again, "No touching.

Glenna Maynard

#36. Sobriety isn't for cowards, Chief Inspector. Whatever you might think of an alcoholic, to get sober, really sober demands great honesty, and that demands great courage. Stopping drinking's the easy part. Then we have to face ourselves. Our demons. How many people are willing to do that?

Louise Penny

#37. If we practice stopping while attending to e-mails, surfing the Web, attending meetings or appointments, folding the laundry, washing the dishes, or taking a shower, we are living deeply.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#38. I want to be the one cheering you on, not stopping you from making it onto the field.

Scarlett Cole

#39. It was the way most people lived their lives, on upper levels, not stopping to peer underneath. And

Yaa Gyasi

#40. It will suffice thee to remember as concerning pain ... that the mind may, by stopping all manner of commerce and sympathy with the body, still retain its own tranquility.

Marcus Aurelius

#41. I love TV now, and 'Modern Family,' but what draws me back to theater is that initial instinct of wanting to be a theater actor. I love the challenge of starting a play and not stopping until you finish. I love the immediacy of trusting your instincts.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

#42. It's hard, sometimes, when nothing's stopping you, to know what's stopping you.

Robert Breault

#43. There's no stopping a man who knows he's in the right and keeps a-coming.

Louis L'Amour

#44. Quite simply, federal laws already on the books aimed at stopping the flow of illegal immigration must be enforced. Furthermore, states must be given the resources necessary to confront the problem, which includes strengthening the border patrol.

Allen West

#45. When I'm nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.

Amy Winehouse

#46. Some people dream of becoming doctors or artists or veterinarians or teachers. I dream of the day Shaye laughs without stopping, and when she does, it will be only to take a breath before starting over again.

Amy Matayo

#47. Half-Heartedness Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. Half-heartedness does not reach into majesty. You set out to find God, but then you keep stopping for long periods at mean-spirited roadhouses.

Rumi

#48. The wrong answers are stopping the right ones from emerging.

David Rock

#49. I'm not tempted by things I've decided are off-limits, but once I've started something, I have trouble stopping. If I never do something, it requires no self-control for me; if I do something sometimes, it requires enormous self-control.

Gretchen Rubin

#50. My generation had to be taken seriously because we were stopping things and burning things. We were able to initiate change, because we had such vast numbers. We were part of the baby boom, and when we moved, everything moved with us.

John Hughes

#51. Conservation is sometimes perceived as stopping everything cold, as holding whooping cranes in higher esteem than people. It is up to science to spread the understanding that the choice is not between wild places or people, it is between a rich or an impoverished existence for Man.

Thomas Lovejoy

#52. It occurred to her that mercy was the ability to stop, if only for a moment. There was no mercy where there could be no stopping.

Frank Herbert

#53. The two hardest things about writing are starting and not stopping.

Stewart O'Nan

#54. I never know what kind of people I'll meet just by stopping to take a photo.

Brandon Stanton

#55. Binoculars, adjusts the oxygen hose around his head again. It was just too damn strange, too damn out of the ordinary. No moving vans, no friends stopping by; neither the husband nor the wife - if they

James Patterson

#56. Facts have proved that prosperity at the expense of the environment is only delaying disaster. We cannot passively protect our environment by simply stopping economic development.

Zhou Shengxian

#57. I'm just the opposite of a lot of photographers who want everything to be really, really sharp. And they're always, you know, stopping it down to F64.

Sally Mann

#58. I still say if the ball is there to be won I will go for it, whether with my head or whatever, and if it means us scoring or stopping a goal, I won't think twice.

John Terry

#59. There were so many specific things from high school jazz band that I remembered: the conductor searching out people who were out of tune, or stopping and starting me for hours in front of the band as they watched.

Damien Chazelle

#60. How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see.

Umberto Eco

#61. It's interesting - I always thought when I was doing more melodramatic stuff like 'Everwood' that the directors were constantly reeling me in and stopping me from being funny.

Chris Pratt

#62. Life is a one-way journey without stopping or any U-turns.

Debasish Mridha

#63. It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the end of our journey, He is also at every stopping place.

Elisabeth Elliot

#64. Stopping an army, isn't that something you try 300 times before you do it?

Gabrielle

#65. That was quite an adventure, stopping at a different house each night, seeing new country,.

Jack Williamson

#66. When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Marianne Williamson

#67. Men are not more zealous for truth than they often are for error, and a sufficient application of legal or even of social penalties will generally succeed in stopping the propagation of either.

John Stuart Mill

#68. The deluded mind is the mind affectively burdened by intellect. Thus, it cannot move without stopping and reflecting on itself. This obstructs its native fluidity.

Bruce Lee

#69. If he is going into management, he writes. If he is an engineer or architect why he paints or sculpts. He will straddle the line, aware up to the point of knowing he is getting the worst of both worlds, but never stopping to wonder why there should ever be a line, or even if there is a line at all.

Thomas Pynchon

#70. Change isn't about what you are stopping ... it's about what you are starting.

Bill Crawford

#71. Nothing is made, nothing disappears. The same changes, at the same places, never stopping.

Dejan Stojanovic

#72. What if I'm no better than you? What if instead of stopping you, I'm just another avalanche?

Leigh Bardugo

#73. I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.

Harold Prince

#74. Stopping the junk food and Eating well is partially about cooking well and having the skills to do that.

Gordon Ramsay

#75. Be prepared to see it all. If you want to create - God help you if you do, God help you if you can - don't you dare commit the immorality of stopping on the surface. Go deep and take your fair salvage. Do it no matter how much it hurts.

Stephen King

#76. Once her tears started, she always had hard time stopping, to the extent that i wondered how she was able to hold them in the first place.

Kyung-Sook Shin

#77. The blood jet is poetry
There is no stopping it.

Sylvia Plath

#78. Stopping crime before it occurs is the most effective crime fighting tool of all.

Blanche Lincoln

#79. When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator.

Margaret Thatcher

#80. The entire time, he'd only ever looked at my body, never at my face, his empty eyes hungry, never seeing me at all. I wasn't the presence of a person, but a body. I could have said anything, he wouldn't have heard me. He'd never responded, not by stopping, not with his words.

Aspen Matis

#81. His gaze moved from me to my hand as his brows rose and his grin transformed into a heart-stopping smile that reached his eyes, lightening them and warming them up. Seth not smiling or smirking was beautiful, but him smiling?

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#82. The things we remember the clearest aren't necessarily the big, heart-stopping moments everyone expects. They're the little things that add up. The little things most people look over but that mean the most.

Emma Hart

#83. The only gift my dad ever bought me is still in my jewelry box. It died at 10 minutes to 11 decades ago, but the gold Caravelle watch keeps my dad alive. A watch isn't about keeping time. It's about stopping it.

Regina Brett

#84. twenty, thirty paces without stopping or turning - that was

Tim Vicary

#85. Secrets are an exalted state, almost a dream state. They're a way of arresting motion, stopping the world so we can see ourselves in it.

Don DeLillo

#86. So yes, we could kiss. I could kiss you and you could kiss me. There's no science, plane ticket or clock stopping us. But if we kiss, it will end the world. And I've ended the world before. No one survived. Least of all me.

Pleasefindthis

#87. Putting together a counter- terrorism policy, it's very easy to look at law enforcement or defense, military action or stopping the money flows or whatever, but the really difficult part is integrating all aspects of the policy, and I think she put a lot of emphasis on that.

Lee H. Hamilton

#88. I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.

Paul Cezanne

#89. So, don't feel deprived. You are not giving up anything. You are simply stopping a dangerous and harmful addiction. It really is that simple to break an addiction. If you have the right attitude, staying sugar-free becomes a lot easier than you could possibly imagine.

David Gillespie

#90. A question is a pursuit, an invitation to envision and explore a series of possibilities, to struggle and empathize and doubt and believe. The question moves, whereas our sense of what an answer is can often be static, a stopping point.

Tracy K. Smith

#91. I get people stopping me on the street like twenty times a day, telling me how great it makes them feel and how it just helps them to go about their day and rebuild their lives. It means a tremendous amount.

Drew Brees

#92. Well, as everyone knows, once witchcraft gets started, there's no stopping it.

Mikhail Bulgakov

#93. Mindfulness is the awareness of what is going on in us and around us in the present moment. It requires stopping, looking deeply, and recognizing both the uniqueness of the moment and its connection to everything that has gone on before and will go on in the future.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#94. Stopping a battle is much harder than starting it. Starting it only requires you to shout 'Attack!' but when you want to stop it, everyone is busy.

Terry Pratchett

#95. He took the spatula and smiled, and she headed for the bedroom, only stopping once to see if he was watching her ass wiggle under his shirt.
He chuckled. "I'd have to be dead not to look."
"I'm glad to see you're in good health." She grinned.

Lisa Kessler

#96. Nothing could be more humiliating to a rational creature than being required to encourage the development of a Base conditional reflex by stopping at a red light when there was not an earthly soul around, heeled or wheeled.

Vladimir Nabokov

#97. Career miracles happen when you're so in love with your life that pushing yourself is actually easier than stopping, when you "do without doing." Joyful activity adds real value to the world, and adding value is the heart and soul of a successful career.

Martha N. Beck

#98. If two people like each other and nothing's stopping them from being together, then they should go for it.

Jennifer Comeaux

#99. Jesus to Pilate:
"The trouble is," the bound man went on, not stopping by anyone, "that you are too closed off and have definitely lost faith in people. You must agree, one can't place all one's affection in a dog. Your life is impoverished, Hegemon.

Mikhail Bulgakov

#100. I know how to go, go, go. Stopping, I've learned is the stuff of mastery.

Danielle LaPorte