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Quotes About Stop

A very long sentence, anchored in solid nouns, with countless subordinate clauses, scores of adjectives and adverbs, and bold conjunctions that launched the sentence in a new direction--besides unexpected interludes--has finally, with a surprisingly quiet full stop, come to an end.
~ Yann Martel
Reason is my prophet and it tells me that as a watch stops, so we die. It's the end.
~ Yann Martel
That's the natural response for all running mammals; when they build up more heat in their bodies than they can puff out their mouths, they have to stop, or they die.
~ Christopher McDougall
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
~ Unknown
Have you come to gloat?' I ask, frustrated. 'To stop me?' I am not sure how powerful a kelpie is out of the water and in the shape of a man. 'To surprise you,' he says. 'Aren't surprises wonderful?
~ Holly Black
Let's stop here," Tiernan says, and Oak collapses gratefully into the snow. "Wren has suggested we change clothes." "I do appreciate your commitment to us looking our best," says the prince.
~ Holly Black
He was just a reader and readers can't do anything to make a story stop - except close the book.
~ Holly Black
Let's stop here,' Tiernan says, and Oak collapses gratefully into the snow. 'Wren has suggested we change clothes.' 'I do appreciate your commitment to us looking our best,' says the prince.
~ Holly Black
A river town. The autumn rain has stopped. Our wine is gone. So, farewell!
~ Li Bai
Oh, that feeling of hopeless grief and just wanting the pain to stop.
~ Liane Moriarty
She always forgot how pain was so upsetting. Cruel. It hurt your feelings. You just wanted it to stop, please, right now.
~ Liane Moriarty
She always forgot how pain was so upsetting. Cruel. It hurt your feelings. You just wanted it to stop, please, right now. Epidurals were the way to go. One epidural for my headache, please. Thank you.
~ Liane Moriarty
She always forgot how pain was so upsetting. Cruel. It hurt your feelings. You just wanted it to stop, please, right now. Epidurals were the way to go. One epidural for my headache, please. Thank you. "Alice,
~ Liane Moriarty
I know many scientific facts about the human heart- not the least of which is that it's far easier to make a heart stop beating entirely than to keep it from loving the wrong person.
~ Lisa Kleypas
The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius.
~ Esa-Pekka Salonen
Stop the nurse like the monkey.
~ Jeff Lindsay
The children are no longer your concern," he said. "They belong to Moloch now. Moloch likes the taste of children." "Where are they?" I said. He waved his hand dismissively. "They're right here on Toro Key, but you're too late to stop the ritual.
~ Jeff Lindsay
The elevator thumped to a stop. The doors slid open and a dozen people began to stampede inside. "Walk me to my car," Alana said above the crowd, and she moved forward through the pedestrians with absolute confidence that they would melt away at her approach. Somehow, they all did. Deborah
~ Jeff Lindsay
Then one Sunday morning, before winter break, Abby's boyfriend, Whitney, materialized at their kitchen table, reading something called Of Grammatology. When Madeleine asked what the book was about, she was given to understand by Whitney that the idea of a book being about something was exactly what this book was against, and that, if it was about anything, then it was about the need to stop thinking of books as being about things.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Really, The smart thing to do was to stop dating and get a cat.
~ Jennifer Crusie
They must have stopped the world. They just must have.
~ Jessica Park
I know the truth now. You've figured out I'm falling in love with you and you're trying to make me stop by hurting me this way. Well it won't work.
~ Julie Garwood
There are those who work so they can stop. Stopping is the why of work.There are those who stop so they can work.Working is the why of work.
~ Unknown
But look, you did not have to be well versed in politics to know that some stupid things were going on. It is the counsel's job to stop them, and instead the coverup was created.
~ Fred F. Fielding