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Quotes About Stopping

When assholes will be put into orbit, you're not even close to stopping revolving! (Michel Audiart)
~ Fabrice
The problem with speeches isn't so much not knowing when to stop, as knowing when not to begin.
~ Frances Rodman
Impulsively, I lumbered aboard, bought a ticket, and took a seat toward the back. The trick of successful walking, I always say, is knowing when to stop.
~ Bill Bryson
Well, once ye ask me to grant ye a wish, lass, there's nae stopping me." "You haven't let me go," she reminded him. "That's because ye being here is the one thing I wish," he muttered, resuming his walk through the foyer.
~ Suzanne Enoch
The blood jet is poetry, There is no stopping it. --from Kindness, written 1 February 1963
~ Sylvia Plath
You can outrun your memories, but sometime, you will have to stop. And when you do, there will always be Stepmother, waiting to be remembered.
~ Franny Billingsley
Love wasn't a thing you fell in, but rose to. It was what stopped you from falling.
~ Darin Strauss
they come to be? Why don't they feel any remorse for the suffering they cause? And are there better ways of spotting and stopping them? After having been
~ Brenda Novak
In daily life, you are in the habit of running because you think happiness is impossible in the present. This is a habit that was handed down to you by your ancestors, by your parents. Happiness does not seem possible to you in the here and now, so you look for it in the distant future. The practice consists of stopping that habit of running.
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
I never sensed the feeling of killing as such, only a feeling of stopping something terrible from happening, a compulsion to squeeze the person by the throat to relieve and absolve him and me from something terrible.
~ Brian Masters
I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.
~ Jack Vance
When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator.
~ Margaret Thatcher
Good things come to an end, bad things have to be stopped.
~ Kim Newman
The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.
~ Sylvia Plath
In general, the practice of the Way involves blocking off errors, stopping them before they happen. It does not value self-approval, it values inability to do wrong.
~ Thomas Cleary
The first step I say awed me and pleas'd me so much, I have hardly gone and hardly wish'd to go any farther, But stop and loiter all the time to sing it in ecstatic songs.
~ Walt Whitman
The first step I say awed me and pleas'd me so much, I have hardly gone and hardly wish'd to go any farther, But stop and loiter all the time to sing it in ecstatic songs.
~ Walt Whitman
I think about the problem with running from your trouble . The problem is in the stopping. The whole time you think you're getting away from everything, the trouble is running like mad, too, trying to catch up with you. And it doesn't slow down when you do--it keeps on sprinting. So when trouble finally reaches you, it hits you hard (p107)
~ Heather Hepler
Until I was justice minister, Netanyahu was proud of stopping laws to change the judiciary.
~ Ayelet Shaked
Stopping bad things is a significant public service.
~ Ted Cruz
But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.
~ Frances Perkins
No, because retiring is stopping. If I wanted to stop, I would have stopped.
~ Thierry Henry
Jon Kyl did a really good job of presenting a case and moving issues. John McCain probably is one of the more effective legislators, getting things on through the process. I always thought, too - and this may seem kind of odd - Richard Shelby was just an effective guy a lot of times at stopping things.
~ Sam Brownback
I've been entertaining men with my comedy for many, many years, and I don't plan on stopping.
~ Iliza Shlesinger