Quotes About Stopping

Once I knew nothing about McKay and now I knew everything about him. This seemed as good as any reason for not walking out the door. There are so many ways to stop the knowing, and I tried them all. I tried silence, I tried heroin, I tried calling it love. And then I stopped trying to call my dumbness any one of ten thousand names.

But then getting warriors to fight has always been easy. It's stopping the bastards that's the tougher trick.

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.

mercy was the ability to stop, if only for a moment. There was no mercy where there could be no stopping.

The hardest thing for me about making movies, and that included 'M*A*S*H' because it was made like a movie, was starting and stopping.

The lazy geese, like a snow cloudDripping their snow on the green grass,Tricking and stopping, sleepy and proud,Who cried in goose, Alas.

I don't have a drinking problem," I said. "I have a stopping problem.

It seems like we're spending billions of dollars on whiz-bang technology and not enough money on human resources, which really is proven to be the most effective way of stopping terrorism.

It's not my style of play to mark players and stop them, or be threatening. But I am learning that at Chelsea.

It is an ancient Mariner,And he stoppeth one of three."By thy long gray beard and glittering eye,Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?"

Doing diversity work has taught me that agreeing to something is one of the best ways of stopping something from happening. Agreeing to something is an efficient technique for stopping something because organizations can avoid the costs of disagreement.

Writing a song is like playing a series of downs in football: Lots of rules, timing is crucial, lots of boundaries, lots of protective gear, lots of stopping and starting.

I'm very interested in stopping time. And starting time. There is that aspect of time that I'm playing with, that it's elusive and unnoticed yet really in the end the most important thing.

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.

It's just hard. I wish the studios felt there was more value in these themes and these pieces of material - that they're worth protecting more. Because then it just wouldn't happen. If the studios cared, the stuff would be stopped in a second.

Unless it is cured sometimes greediness grows. Where it finally stops, alas, nobody knows.

Finally, it became perfectly obvious. A finish line marks a stopping point. Once we stop, we must start over, and starting over is harder than continuing.

The fact is, while some habits are almost unbreakable, some habits remain fragile, even after years. We must guard against anything that might weaken a valuable habit. Every added link in the chain strengthens the habit—and any break in the chain marks a potential stopping point.

In a Toyota, the cops don't think about stopping you so much.

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.

If travel is searching and home what's been found, I'm not stopping. I'm going hunting.

They say in extreme moments time will slow, returning to its unmoving core, and standing there, it seemed as if everything stopped.

When nature drew a creature to sweetness, there could be no stopping it.

the female mind was a strange and incomprehensible organ—one which no man should even attempt to understand. There wasn't a woman alive who could go from point A to B without stopping at C, D, X, and 12 along the way. "Penelope