Top 100 Stop To Quotes
#1. The last stop to protect rights and liberties is the Supreme Court.
Dick Durbin
#2. Things are only impossible if you stop to think about them.
Lindsay Eagar
#3. Love is like life; when you stop to think about it and analyse the parts that make it, the genie escapes from the bottle
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#4. If you have the power to put a stop to subjugation, yet look the other way while it happens, then you have done it yourselves,
Thucydides
#5. As historical texts become rich and conceptually dense, readers may slow down not because they fail to comprehend, but because the very act of comprehension demands that they stop to TALK with their texts. In plain English, they pretend to deliberate with others by talking to themselves.
Sam Wineburg
#6. I played a role. That is what actors do. But I played it too well. I went too far. And by the time I wanted to stop, to take a bow and leave the stage, it was too late.
Jennifer Donnelly
#7. We gain courage and wisdom from every instance in which we stop to look fear in the face.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#8. The Assassin moved quietly from roof to roof until he was well away from the excitement around the Watch House. His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.
Terry Pratchett
#9. The next time you have a negative thought, say the word "STOP" to yourself and imagine a stop sign.
Peter Jumrukovski
#10. Precious few of us stop to think about what we're feeling.
Deborah Sandella
#11. Our goal was Munich in Bavaria in southern Germany, the town where Hitler had gotten his start in a beer hall. But on the way, we made a stop to liberate the concentration camp at Dachau.
Charles Brandt
#12. More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.
Mark Twain
#14. Why refer to the prosperity gospel phenomenon as a "parallel, post-biblical Christianity"? When you stop to look inside these churches, you hear Christian-like things and you see Christian-like activities.
Grant Retief
#15. The death of a man brings a stop to his life, but not an end to his destiny. When destiny is well fulfilled, impacts linger behind as at the time life goes to hide!
Israelmore Ayivor
#16. People are often so busy living that they never stop to wonder why.
Terry Pratchett
#17. What I've always thought I would do is make a bunch of movies and then stop to teach for awhile. And then just teach at film schools - you know, teach children.
Eli Roth
#18. It's time for a spring cleaning of your thoughts, it's time to stop to just existing it's time to start living.
Steve Maraboli
#19. I have seen women walk right past a TV set with a football game on and - this always amazes me - not stop to watch, even if the TV is showing replays of what we call a "good hit," which is a tackle that causes at least one major internal organ to actually fly out of a player's body.
Dave Barry
#20. You ever stop to think they can't rob you of knowledge? They can strip you and you've still got it.
Don King
#21. Though I was starved for contact, I didn't stop to talk to any of these strangers. I had forgotten how to convincingly speak the polite things strangers say to each other.
Aspen Matis
#22. Life is a wonderful adventure, a beautiful dream. But when you stop to analyse its inner workings, it looses its magic
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#23. The only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens.
Boyle Roche
#24. There is no real light but just small sparks of happiness we should photograph to contain. But if we stop to photograph, we can't enjoy them, the flash overexposes them and they disappear.
Cristiane Serruya
#25. One didn't stop to talk with creatures from one's nightmares.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#26. I love dishes that feature the various shades of a single colour, making you stop to check what's in there.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#27. I found it."
"People find pennies," Gansey replied. "Or car keys. Or four-leaf clovers."
"And ravens," Ronan said. "You're just jealous 'cause" - at this point, he had to stop to regroup his beer-sluggish thoughts - "you didn't find one, too.
Maggie Stiefvater
#28. Jessie reached for 'Ten Bright Ideas to Light Up Your Sales'. It was on her bedside table, right next to 'Charlotte's Web'. Jessie's hand hovered. She looked longingly at Wilbur and Fern watching Charlotte hanging b a thread.
But this was war, and she couldn't stop to read for fun.
Jacqueline Davies
#29. The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#30. We are all hurting and missing people. Everyone is scared, so you can't talk about your worries because worries are everywhere. When everyone you know is on the verge of drowning, you don't stop to tell the person next to you that you don't like swimming.
You just don't.
Veronica Rossi
#31. The concept of minimum wage is crazy, if you really stop to think about it. If $8 an hour seems right, why not $20 an hour? If it's coming by order of the government, why stop at any level? Why not just say everyone should get what Gates gets?
Malcolm Wallop
#32. We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that's always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory.
Don Miguel Ruiz
#33. I rarely feel such clear signs of fatigue and anxiety on days that are filled with travel, meetings and assignments - only when I stop to rest. Without sabbath, I would be dangerously ignorant of the true condition of my soul.
Andy Crouch
#34. No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require.
Franz Grillparzer
#35. Selfish people are always seeking ways to advance themselves. They only notice you when you have something beneficial to them. Realize when someone is using you for their own personal gains and put a stop to it.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#36. Sometimes you have to stop to think, regroup and regather yourself and realize how lucky you are to still be living and to still be breathing and still be able to even have a chance.
Ciara
#37. My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions.
Elayne Boosler
#38. I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgements, on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop to think that I become foolish.
Jerome K. Jerome
#39. We executed many people by firing squad without knowing if they were fully guilty. At times, the Revolution cannot stop to conduct much investigation; it has the obligation to triumph.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#40. She'll need to see another goddamn place, then, because the roaches have unionized and put a stop to further negotiations regarding new tenants. Also, I think I smell a dead body.
Jessica Park
#41. She's gone from Disney Channel Miley Cyrus to Full-on Twerk Mode Miley, and it's officially time for me to put a stop to it before she moves straight to Let's Make a Sex Tape Miley. Wait - has Miley ever made a sex tape? Fuck, who am I kidding? Of course she has.
Anonymous
#42. The horse on the treadmill may be very discontented, but he is not disposed to tell his troubles, for he cannot stop to talk.
Nellie L. McClung
#43. Maybe any action becomes cowardly once you stop to reason about it.
Mary McCarthy
#44. Fame is a very unnatural human condition. When you stop to realize that Abraham Lincoln was probably never seen by more than 400 people in a single evening, and that I can enter over 40 million homes in a single evening due to the power of television, you have to admit the situation is not normal.
Chevy Chase
#45. Men ... " I huffed. "No guts, no glory ... Do you guys stop to consider the insanity of all of it, or do you just charge ahead without a second thought?"
"This from the woman who would surrender her own life without a moment's consideration?"
He had me there.
M.A. George
#46. Didn't think she had, and that made her feel relieved he'd put a stop to it. Well, maybe not relieved. She
Maisey Yates
#47. The neighbourhood is a place of ... intrigue and emotional espionage, where when two people stop to talk on the street their tongues are like the two halves of a scissor coming together, cutting reputations and good names to shreds.
Nadeem Aslam
#49. It was as if you could see into the sky, through it's layers and into it's core. Layers of stars, translucent blanket upon blanket. The beauty was overwhelming. The wind blew her hair, and she willed herself to stop, to breathe, to feel.
Deborah Rodriguez
#50. We have dignity in Mexico and we have to put a stop to anybody who offends the dignity of Mexico or its institutions.
Vicente Fox
#51. We seldom stop to think how many people's lives are entwined with our own. It is a form of selfishness to imagine that every individual can operate on his own or can pull out of the general stream and not be missed.
Ivy Baker Priest
#52. All too often modern man becomes the plaything of his circumstances because he no longer has any leisure time; he doesn't know how to provide himself with the leisure he needs to stop to take a good look at himself.
Michel Quoist
#53. A writer stops writing the moment he or she puts the last full stop to their text, and at that point the book is in limbo and doesn't come to life until the reader picks it up and the reader flips the pages.
Alberto Manguel
#54. Yeah but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could they didn't stop to think if they should.
Jeff Goldblum
#55. Stop to read good writers who are witty and are fun, 'cause that's the kind of fuel on which your Train of Thought will run.
Mister Lemur
#56. After a day spent running around outside, Clara never went home without first slipping through the orchard, where she would stop to pray to the spirits of enclosure to prepare her for her return within four walls.
Muriel Barbery
#57. Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.
Ida B. Wells
#58. There was a big difference between Ron Paul and me when it came to the 'no.' His 'no' was philosophical. It was reasoned. It was right. My 'no' actually put a stop to legislation. It cut spending. Mine carried further than just no.
Gary Johnson
#59. This is how we bring about our own damnation, you know-by ignoring the voice that begs us to stop. To stop while there's still time.
Stephen King
#60. Perhaps Calder's secret lies in the idea that each mobile is, truly, a metaphor for the experience of living, for the interconnected movement of separate elements that make up a life. Each mobile tells us to stop, to wonder, to wonder some more, and to celebrate.
Blue Balliett
#61. On my way out, I stop to visit with the angel and make my last wish. For Noah and Brian.
Best to bet on all the horses, dear.
Jandy Nelson
#62. But when you're in the middle of being in love with someone, you just don't stop to ask, "Matt,
Sarah Ockler
#63. We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins.
Arthur C. Clarke
#64. There's no need to seek the truth-just put a stop to your opinions!
-SENG-TS'AN
Mark Nepo
#65. Once you have made a careful decision based on facts, go into action. Don't stop to reconsider. Don't begin to hesitate, worry, and retrace your steps. Don't lose yourself in self-doubting which begets other doubts. Don't keep looking back over your shoulder.
Dale Carnegie
#66. I was a professional tennis player in my teens. I played mostly in Europe. I was top 10 in the world in juniors, and then I messed up my back. I had three herniated discs and that put a stop to it.
Boris Kodjoe
#67. Goosefeather appeared from the gorse tunnel and padded straight to his den. He didn't even stop to ask how Leopardfoot was. Bluefur pressed back the urge to rake his muzzle with her claws. He's supposed to be the Clan medicine cat, for StarClan's sake!
Erin Hunter
#68. Don't stop to understand. You may never understand. Just keep going.
Andrew Pyper
#69. O, money, money, money, I'm not necessarily one of those who think thee holy,
But I often stop to wonder how thou canst go out so fast when thou comest in so slowly.
Ogden Nash
#70. I started salsa dancing with a few different companies and started touring the country. It was fantastic, but I realized that I really wanted to talk every time we were performing. That's a problem because when you're dancing, if you stop to talk, that's not really cool to the other dancers.
Gina Rodriguez
#71. Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.
Karl Kraus
#72. You get strength and courage, when you stop to look fear in the face.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#73. We should not stop to reflect, compare, analyze, possess, but flow on and through, endlessly, like music.
Henry Miller
#74. When life is going according to plan, we don't stop to question our daily habits ... Maybe it's time to sift through our lives.
Shirley Corder
#75. If they do something like that, maybe a Freddy Krueger fan, a girl, a really sick goth girl starts killing kids herself and Freddy has to put a stop to it, or they have to fight it out.
Robert Englund
#76. When you get too excited about the possibilities, you don't stop to consider the consequences. Just when you get too cocky, life has a way of putting you in your place.
Katie Kacvinsky
#77. When a man's neck's in danger, he doesn't stop to think too much about
sentiment.
Agatha Christie
#78. The universe is always speaking to us ... sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities, reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more.
Nancy Thayer
#79. If we stop to apologize and forgive each other every time we step on each other's toes, we'll never have time to be friends.
Rainbow Rowell
#80. The representational-image urge is actually a kind of heightened perception, and I don't stop to think. I don't freeze up - it's actually a kind of letting-go. It's like dancing. At a certain point it's conscious, unconscious, everything is kind of coming together.
Michael Light
#81. In a fight almost anything goes. It almost reaches the point where you stop to apologize if a chance blow lands above the belt.
Saul Alinsky
#82. I tried to convince the kids at the bus stop to climb up with me, even a little ways, but all of them said they didn't want to get dirty. Turn down a chance to feel magic for fear of a little dirt? I couldn't believe it.
Wendelin Van Draanen
#83. We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face ... we must do that which we think we cannot. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Aleatha Romig
#84. Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the Buts that could be said.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#85. For days after her horrendous meeting with Mr. Johnson Loudy McSexypus Fitzwell, Dove would stop to just blush from head to toe.
Debra Anastasia
#86. In a Ramada Inn near the grapevine, they stop to rest for the night. Traveling down south, looking for good times. Visiting old friends feels right.
Neil Young
#87. We want to put a stop to tax havens. We want results on this, with a list of tax havens and a series of consequences.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#88. Always stop to think whether your fun may not be the cause of another's unhappiness.
Aesop
#89. We're often told that we live in a globalized world, and we talk about it all the time, but people don't stop to think about what it means.
Chris Cleave
#90. Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
William Feather
#91. Long walks force a certain meditative awareness. You're not moving so fast that you miss the world's details passing by - in fact, you can stop to inspect something that might catch your eye.
John Battelle
#92. Kingston is so chill. He goes with me everywhere. He's been to every studio in L.A., New York, London. He lives up to his name-total Rasta boy. He gives me a real balance. You can go 100 miles an hour, but you still have to stop to hang out with him.
Gwen Stefani
#93. I stop to brace myself against the walls, which are painted with the fingerprints of family.
Nancy B. Brewer
#94. You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#95. If you have an impossible dream, a dream that cannot be fulfilled, the friendly thing for me to do is to put a stop to you wasting your life at it.
Danny Bonaduce
#96. They never stop to think: I'm here. I am the result of everything that happened and will happen, but I'm here.
Paulo Coelho
#98. There is a pair of snakes who have learned to drive a car so recklessly that they would run you over in the street and never stop to apologize.
Lemony Snicket
#99. I'm only asking you to stop every so often and turn off your mobile device, put down the Angry Birds and the Words with Friends and take a moment. Stop to look up and look around. Pause and check in with yourself - and spend a moment there.
Maria Shriver
#100. But I never let a fantasy get away, because I always stop to analyze it.
Shelley Duvall
