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Quotes About Stop

The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
~ Lewis Carroll
Alice! Come here directly, and get ready for your walk! Coming in a minute, nurse! But I've got to see that the mouse doesn't get out. Only I don't think,' Alice went on, 'that they'd let Dinah stop in the house if it began ordering people about like that!' By this time
~ Lewis Carroll
That brought D.D. up short.
~ Lisa Gardner
As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day.
~ Michael Jordan
His principle in politics was a -very simple one : If you see anything, stop it ; everything that is, is wrong ; the world is a very wicked place.
~ Aleister Crowley
Look where the water arrives... it goes up the beach, then it stops... it is precisely that point where it stops [...] something extraordinary happens there, [...], the sea ends there.
~ Alessandro Baricco
Great art, she felt, had a calming effect on the viewer; it made one stop in awe, which is exactly what Damien Hirst and Andy Warhol did not do. You did not stop in awe. They stopped you in your tracks, perhaps, but that was not the same thing; awe was something quite different
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Dr. Svensson nodded. "As are judges and public health officials and politicians too, I suppose. Anybody who tells us how to behave is a policeman in a sense." "But not therapists?" Dr. Svensson laughed. "A therapist shouldn't tell you how to behave. A therapist should help you to see why you do what you do, and should help you to stop doing it—if that's what you want. So, no, a therapist is certainly not a policeman.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Manfred's interventions, he thought, had all the characteristics of radio jamming, designed to stop anybody else talking.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
You have that alarmed look, one caused by a very unpleasant thought about something that might not even happen. Those unpleasantries don't usually happen, you know. What were you thinking about, dear Cora?" "Catastrophe," she whispered. "Well, stop it." Bonnie began unbuttoning the dress. "Just stop it.
~ Donita K. Paul
I hate downtime. I hate it so much. I like to relax like anybody else, but I hate not doing anything. In my life I'm either going full speed or I'm at a stop.
~ Chael Sonnen
stop. In addition, there was the question of what had happened to such a bullet.
~ Jim Bishop
Habit has two parts, Toni [Packer] says. There is the habit itself (finger biting, smoking, drinking, whatever), and there is the observer who wants to stop, who is also a habit. And there is the conflict, the battle between the desire to indulge, which is an escape from what is, and the desire to stop, which is also a movement away from what is.
~ Joan Tollifson
It felt like a piece of punctuation in a run-on sentence.
~ Ann Napolitano
This year he'd been caught up in a whirlwind called Jaenelle Angelline-as impossible to deflect as she was to stop-and he had become an accomplice in all sorts of schemes that, even in their innocence, had been thrilling
~ Anne Bishop
To use an electronics analogy, closing a book on a bookmark is like pressing the Stop button, whereas when you leave the book facedown, you've only pressed Pause.
~ Anne Fadiman
I don't think anybody should be expanding Medicaid. I think it's a mistake to create new and more expensive entitlement programs when we can't afford the ones we've got today. We've got to stop this culture of government dependence.
~ Bobby Jindal
Some runners have a constant progression, but mine was very stop and start because of injuries.
~ Mary Cain
Human misery must somewhere have a stop:             there is no wind that always blows a storm;             great good fortune comes to failure in the end.
~ Euripides
Faster... Faster... it'll stop all right when the time comes...
~ Evelyn Waugh
The Bible was the only book he read. He didn't read it often but when he did he wore his mother's glasses. They tired his eyes so that after a short time he was always obliged to stop.
~ Flannery O'Connor
The third-down sacks are critical ones, 'cause that's getting off the field.
~ Dan Quinn
Filming typically takes a bit away from the climbing experience, since you have to stop all the time and shoot.
~ Alex Honnold
I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion.
~ Ricky Jay