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

“Oh, we'm come up from Somerset,
Where the cider apples grow,
We'm come to see your Majesty,
An' how the world do go.
And when you're wanting anyone,
If you'll kindly let us know,
We'll all come up from Somerset,
Because we loves you so!”

Fred Weatherly (1848–1929) English lawyer, author, lyricist and broadcaster

“Some of the biggest Drys in the country buy from me and have for years, so let's stop kidding.”

Al Capone (1899–1947) American gangster

“Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.”

Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story

“But, said Alice, if the world has absolutely no sense, who's stopping us from inventing one?”

Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer

“As for religious faith, a lack of it shouldn't stop us from doing good deeds for their own sake.”

Juliet Marillier book Heart's Blood

“All I can say right now is the US Government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.”

Edward Snowden (1983) American whistleblower and former National Security Agency contractor

“Zionism from its outset was a settlement movement. If we stop going on this path, how can we justify the faith that all of Zion belongs to us?”

Reuven Rivlin (1939) Israeli politician, 10th President of Israel

“Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451