They Stop Quotes

#1. Love has its own independent form and formlessness. When someone loves you be gratiful for it. If they stop loving be grateful for that. If they love another, let them love!

Frederick Lenz

#2. People who work crossword puzzles know that if they stop making progress, they should put the puzzle down for a while.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#3. A person can hurry through or sleep walk through life, but whenever they stop to catch their breath or awaken from a long nap, they will find apprehension, disquiet, and fretfulness waiting their directed attention.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#4. You know a people have given up when they stop teaching their children.

Pierce Brown

#5. The reason why people fail to pursue their dreams is because they stop doing so.

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#6. Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.

Andrea Dworkin

#7. Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. Then, like a rat, they stop in fear and freeze.

Mike Tyson

#8. You can always find reasons to work. There will always be one more thing to do. But when people don't take time out, they stop being productive. They stop being happy, and that affects the morale of everyone around them.

Carisa Bianchi

#9. When you allow people to do what they wish, then that is what they do. They stop doing the things they need to do.

Alexander McCall Smith

#10. Parades should be classed as a Nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison. They stop more work, inconvenience more people, stop more traffic, cause more accidents, entail more expense, and commit and cause I don't remember the other hundred misdemeanors.

Will Rogers

#11. 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

#12. A big mistake people make when they are trying to lose weight is that they stop eating. They'll eat salads once a day and then their body starts trying to protect itself and holds onto the fat.

Curtis Jackson

#13. Squirrels always eat nuts with two hands, always two hands, "arararar", and occasionally, they stop and go, oh, uh, ah, as if they're going, "Did I leave the gas on? No! I'm, no I'm a fucking squirrel!" And occasionally they go, "Fucking nuts! Fed up with them always. I long for a grapefruit.

Eddie Izzard

#14. Left to ourselves, we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage, the wrong school for our kids; why, unless they stop us, we might pick the wrong light bulb.

Mitch Daniels

#15. And the ones who would not make war? Can they stop it?

Ernest Hemingway,

#16. We see this a lot, people desperate to keep talking because when they stop we will leave and they will be left alone with what has happened.

Tana French

#17. If you want to be religious, enter not the gate of any organised religions. They do a hundred times more evil than good, because they stop the growth of each one's individual development.

Swami Vivekananda

#18. Public servants in this Europe often do their best when they stop caring about whether they'll be fired.

Ron Suskind

#19. If you scare somebody enough, they stop being rational.

Etgar Keret

#20. Our fears don't stop death, they stop life.

Rickson Gracie

#21. When someone loves you, there's nothing they won't do for you. When they stop loving you, there's nothing they will.

Matt Dunn

#22. Bigots see something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them. It's probably how they got to be bigots in the first place.

Jim Butcher

#23. You've got to kill people, and when you've killed enough they stop fighting.

Curtis LeMay

#24. With my own group I like to keep it loose. They have to counter rather than go with me. When they stop I like to be moving.

Kenneth Rexroth

#25. I don't know what it is about me: I am no Rock Hudson, but I absolutely wow all the little old white-haired ladies. They stop me and talk to me all over the country, on the street, in restaurants, in elevators.

Tom Heinsohn

#26. If they stop loving, be grateful for that.

Frederick Lenz

#27. I had to wonder - how many time can you hurt somebody before they stop caring?

Christine Bell

#28. When human beings stop progressing at an endeavor, they stop enjoying it and move on to something else. Not golfers. Masochists, all of them.

Jay Mohr

#29. The trouble is that once people develop an implicit theory, the confirmation bias kicks in and they stop seeing evidence that doesn't fit it.

Carol Tavris

#30. Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming.

Benjamin Franklin

#31. I was a man who played basketball and after I played basketball and before I played basketball I was going to be a psychologist, whereas most people who play their occupation is their definition - and then when they stop doing who they are, they become nothing.

John Amaechi

#32. Sometimes people don't notice the things others do for them until they stop doing them.

John Spence

#33. Bad things come in threes - but then they stop. And start all over again.

Hugh Howey

#34. A person starts dying when they stop dreaming.

Brian Williams

#35. Well? Children sometimes steal. Beat them a little, and they stop stealing. Basic education

Terry Pratchett

#36. Thanks to those pesky laws of physics, when things aren't sustainable, they stop.

Paul Gilding

#37. Stamps from Afghanistan are hilarious. You can tell when the revolutions are because suddenly they stop having pictures of the mullahs and the independence monument and they start having fish on them.

Samuel West

#38. And we know, until they stop their terrible motion, until they cease swooping and darting and banging into the walls, until they alight, come to rest, exhausted, spent, there is nothing at all we can do.

Nathan Englander

#39. Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop.

Meg Rosoff

#40. The reason most people get eating disorders is because they want to be skinny, but they do it stupidly, and they stop eating completely - nobody knows anything about nutrition or exercise. I think it should be a separate subject in school.

Kathryn Prescott

#41. To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they grow old, without knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#42. The main advantage of being branded as
honest is that people do not fear you. They stop being jealous of you. And, most importantly, people will trust you with key information, important tasks and worthy projects.

Abhishek Ratna

#43. If you continue to blame other people for "making" you feel guilty, they still have power over you, and you are saying that you will only feel good when they stop doing that. You are giving them control over your life. Stop blaming other people.

Henry Cloud

#44. I'm certainly hoping that 3D gets to the point where people do not notice it because once they stop noticing it, it just becomes another tool and an aid to help tell a story.

Steven Spielberg

#45. When people start talking about Right and Left, they stop talking about right and wrong.

J.S.B. Morse

#46. While I know that Twitter is doing just fine with or without my 140-character contributions, I also know that people are fickle, and when using something becomes too annoying, they stop.

Rachel Sklar

#47. Novels are nice,' my friend said. 'They stop.' He waggled his fingers to make quotation marks in the air. 'They say, 'The End.' Very nice. A marvelous invention. Here we have stories, but never 'The End.

Philip Gourevitch

#48. At some point, don't voters start to see all of public life as one big polluted river? And if they do, don't they stop saying things like "That's a busted tire floating by" and "That's an old shoe"?

Peggy Noonan

#49. Fans are all I care about - to be honest. If they stop coming to the shows, then I will get worried.

Yelawolf

#50. His doctor said it was depression. He said people with depression don't always know they have it. They just feel it. Or, rather, they stop feeling things. They could smile at you or hug you or cry at your pain, but they're not there. It's just a show of emotions that aren't there.

Brigitte Bautista

#51. These people - the employed, the somewhat privileged - are drawn into alliance with the elite. They become the guards of the system, buffers between the upper and lower classes. If they stop obeying, the system falls.

Howard Zinn

#52. I basically believe that until China stop stealing our intellectual property, and until they stop keeping our companies out that do good things, the amount we will gain from export jobs is minimized, and the amount we lose in middle class incomes is maximized.

Charles Schumer

#53. We can help educate the individuals who are doing the things they shouldn't be doing in my opinion by understanding that there is a way to achieve their goals and desires whether it's communication skills so they stop hitting and using their anger as oppose to their intelligence.

John Assaraf

#54. Our criteria is that it's okay to invest in companies so long as they stop lobbying in Washington, stop exploring for new hydrocarbons, and sit down with every one else to plan to keep 80 percent of the reserves in the ground.

Bill McKibben

#55. When you get on a good horse, you just know. They are powerful, they stop quickly, they can turn in both directions, and they are fast.

Facundo Pieres

#56. While some of the big publishers might give out 200,000 advances, if your book does not hit some of the lists in the second week, they stop paying attention to you.

Caroline Leavitt

#57. I use the cigar for timing purposes. If I tell a joke, I smoke as long as they laugh and when they stop laughing I take the cigar out of my mouth and start my next joke.

George Burns

#58. If people stop having secrets they stop having power.

Jonathan Lynn

#59. Isn't that what our job to do is right there in media to discuss what politicians are doing so they stop doing it.

Eric Bolling

#60. In Britain, when someone says they do not believe in God, they stop going to church. In the U.S., many who may have doubts about Christian orthodoxy may continue to go to church. They do so because they assume that a vague god vaguely prayed to is the god that is needed to support family and nation.

Stanley Hauerwas

#61. There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.

Gillian Flynn

#62. Building codes are a good thing. People who throw rocks at inspectors are being naive. It's a lot like police officers; we want them around unless they stop us for a ticket. It's the same with inspectors.

Dan Phillips

#63. The reason why people fail to achieve their dreams is because they stop pursuing them.

Paulo Coelho

#64. One seems to believe almost all that they believe; and when they stop short and call it a Religion, and you pass on, and call it only a reminiscence of one, should you not part with the kiss of peace?

Thomas Carlyle

#65. Sure, Mom.
They stop and say hello, and then once you pass they talk the back off you like you were nothing. They assess your outfit, your hairstyle, and they garble what you say so it comes out ugly.

A.S. King

#66. We see a lot of people who decide to go out and teach meditation. They become so wrapped up in it that they stop progressing themselves and they really don't have that much more to teach.

Frederick Lenz

#67. 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

#68. All the Christmases roll down toward the two-tongued sea, like a cold and headlong moon bundling down the sky that was our street; and they stop at the rim of the ice-edged, fish-freezing waves, and I plunge my hands in the snow and bring out whatever I can find.

Dylan Thomas

#69. I taught my sons to be men. I don't care who they love. I care about how they act. The moment they stop having manners or treat someone poorly, then we'll have words. Other than that, I only want them to be happy, and if you make Kane happy, then all I have to say to ye is welcome to the family.

Rhys Ford

#70. Some wounds cut us so deep that they stop us. Stop us from letting go, from growing up, from seeing the truth.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#71. Something therefore always remains and sticks from the most imprudent of lies, a fact which all bodies and individuals concerned in the art of lying in this world know only too well, and therefore they stop at nothing to achieve this end.

Adolf Hitler

#72. Gross well says that children are young because they play, and not vice versa; and he might have added, men grow old because they stop playing, and not conversely, for play is, at bottom, growth, and at the top of the intellectual scale it is the eternal type of research from sheer love of truth.

G. Stanley Hall

#73. It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#74. Sometimes goldfinches one by one will drop From low hung branches; little space they stop; But sip, and twitter, and their feathers sleek; Then off at once, as in a wanton freak: Or perhaps, to show their black, and golden wings Pausing upon their yellow flutterings.

John Keats

#75. Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.

Mark Haddon

#76. If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.

Paul Graham

#77. Trends carry on forever, until they stop. I want to be around after things come to a standstill. As a result, I tend to be pretty conservative.

Johann Rupert

#78. If you wear them outside, they stop being pyjamas. I wear mine to the mail box, which is right in front of my house - that's my limit. Anything else is wrong.

Karin Slaughter

#79. You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

P. J. O'Rourke

#80. Keep braiding one's wavelengths back into oneself. That way they gain all the more external power and surround us with a huge affective and protective zone. Don't talk about this. Never talk about our secret methods. If we talk about them, they stop working.

Jean Cocteau

#81. I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves.

Antony Gormley

#82. When people don't take time out, they stop being productive.

Carisa Bianchi

#83. more wounded. Oh no. If they stop coming, it may well be

Clive Clapson

#84. A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They stop being married to each other on that day.

Sarah Ruhl

#85. Disasters have no mercy hours where they stop visiting the people; for them, all hours are favourite and legitimate to visit!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#86. The problem with people is they stop trying in trying times.

Evangela Thendi Comfort

#87. Things that only a writer would understand - you're writing a character - you tell that character who she or he is and they stop you and make it clear, they are the ones telling their story. You just have to let them tell it.

Lisa Marbly-Warir

#88. Many sisters complain that people don't want to marry them unless they stop wearing hijab. No man is worth your hijab, and a real man wouldn't request you to take it off in the first place.

Omar Suleiman

#89. TIVO executives stand up and say, 'Well, we're not getting rid of commercials, but we are letting them fast forward, because people like commercials, and if they see one that they like they stop and watch it.' I mean, please.

Dick Wolf

#90. A lot of people who claim they're political comedians are just comedians who have opinions. But they stop being funny the minute they give their opinions.

Gilbert Gottfried

#91. Successful business people became successful because they took risks. The biggest risk is that once successful, they stop taking risks.

G.R. Gopinath

#92. Everybody's looking at me But it's alright I like attention The clubs not hot until I walk through They stop and stare and watch me move Like damn I like that I'm sexy and you know it.

Paris Hilton

#93. And in the end blood and tears are alike because they stop too.

Elizabeth Scott

#94. People still recognize me all the time on the street. The first thing they say when they stop me is, 'Where have you been?' The second comment they make is always, 'Oh, you've grown up.'

Macaulay Culkin

#95. If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.

Curtis LeMay

#96. War must always be done out of sight, it shocks people and they stop immediately.

Catherynne M Valente

#97. There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working.

Robert Half

#98. When people retire, their income drops much more sharply than their consumption. As a result, they stop saving and start drawing down the assets they've acquired during their high-saving years. That could start to put upward pressure on interest rates and downward pressure on stock prices.

Greg Ip

#99. I know every time I fly, I get checked twice: they stop me at security, and then, they get me again at the gate. And last time, it was so bad, they actually made me go through the machine with the luggage.

Wanda Sykes

#100. The great trouble with most men is that those who have been educated become uneducated just as soon as they stop inquiring and investigating life and its problems for themselves.

Newton D. Baker