Quotes about stop
A collection of quotes on the topic of stop, doing, people, use.
Quotes about stop

Song Life is Beautiful, Album: Come Over When You're Sober, Pt. 2

“Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.”
Source: Heliogabalus

“During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams”

Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

“(We make the traffic stop) "Stop the traffic…let 'em through…"”
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/5834782.Louis_Tomlinson

“If you don't like this, I'll stop writing music.”
Se questa non piace, non voglio più scrivere di musica.
Quoted in: Michael Talbot (1978) Vivaldi, p. 90
An ironic note written upon an aria score of his opera Orlando Furioso (1727).

Earth Song
HIStory: Past, Present & Future, Book I (1995)

“If you wanna drive a Ferrari one day, stop taking advice from Toyota drivers.”
Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/CVaNFkFsQMW/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

“We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.”

Source: The Best That Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty, & War (2002), p. 33.

Meeting with European legislators http://www.afghanistannewscenter.com/news/2000/june/jun23i2000.html (11 June 2000).

“Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.”
Source: Coming Up for Air, Part 3, Ch. 1

“You can only stop the flow of thoughts by refusing to have any interest in it.”

“We can't stop living because other people are dead.”
Source: Frostbite

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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Other

“Stop telling God what to do with his dice.”
A response to Einstein's assertion that "God doesn't play dice"; a similar statement is attributed to Enrico Fermi
Disputed
Variant: Einstein, don't tell God what to do.
Variant: Don't tell God what to do with his dice.
Variant: You ought not to speak for what Providence can or can not do. – As described in The Physicists: A generation that changed the world (1981) by C. P. Snow, p. 84

“LOVE is to stop making demands on people and give them room to grow.”

Chap. 8 : Change Your Circumstances by Changing Your Attitude
The Laws of Human Nature (2018)

"Ocean Eyes" — though her breakthrough hit after she posted her performance of it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d--DyK0wtYo to SoundCloud for her dance teacher on 18 November 2015, the lyrics were written entirely by her brother Finneas O'Connell, who also collaborates with her on most of her other musical work. · Official Music Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viimfQi_pUw
Misattributed

“I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to.”

Source: The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

“It's not the fall that kills you; it's the sudden stop at the end.”

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”

“And did you ever stop to think that im old enough to go to war but i aint old enough to drink.”

Robert Service, Stalin: A Biography (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005), p. 592.
Message found among the personal effects of Joseph Stalin.
Other

Colin Powell in My American Journey (1995)
Misattributed

“The day i stop enjoying football is the day ill go to drink tea with my mom”

Source: You Learn by Living (1960), p. 29–30
Context: You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." … You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

“Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul?
I cannot stop asking.”
"Who says words with my mouth?" in Ch. 1 : The Tavern, p. 2
The Essential Rumi (1995)
Context: Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul?
I cannot stop asking.
If I could taste one sip of an answer,
I could break out of this prison for drunks.
I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.
Whoever brought me here, will have to take me home.

“I shall never stop fighting. I mean this country to survive, to prosper and to be free”
Speech to Federation of Conservative Students Conference (24 March 1975) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102663
Leader of the Opposition
Context: I shall never stop fighting. I mean this country to survive, to prosper and to be free... I haven't fought the destructive forces of socialism for more than twenty years in order to stop now, when the critical phase of the struggle is upon us.


“A solution to stop gang banging: SNOW!!”
MTV interview

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiLR4sCgvnc
Context: But now, let’s give each other a chance.
It’s time to put away the harsh rhetoric.
To lower the temperature.
To see each other again.
To listen to each other again.
To make progress, we must stop treating our opponents as our enemy.
We are not enemies. We are Americans.

“Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.”
Other sources
Source: Banksy In His Own Words- Interview At The Sun https://web.archive.org/web/20181102203920/http://graffart.eu/blog/2010/09/banksy-in-his-own-words-interview-at-the-sun/, Graffart.eu, Retrieved 2 November 2018

“When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.”

As quoted in Straight Whisky: A Living History of Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll on the Sunset Strip (2003), by Erik Quisling, and Austin Lowry Williams p. 152

“Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.”

Source: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography

“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”

Dissenting, Shelby County v. Holder (2013)
" Eleven Satanic Rules of the Earth http://www.churchofsatan.com/Pages/Eleven.html"

(2009) Independent News article 2009 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/hayao-miyazaki-modern-movies-are-too-weird-for-me-1678129.html
On Ponyo

“Well, as everyone knows, once witchcraft gets started, there's no stopping it.”
Book One in the chapter 'Schizophrenia, as Predicted', B/O
The Master and Margarita (1967)

Inspirational Quotes to lighten our load, http://neuralorganizationtherapy.com/Inspirational_Quotes.html, Neural Organization Therapy
“I wish to never stop working on the things I love.”
Book: Cometan, the Omnidoxy

“If the soul does not exist, then stop believing in life and death as well.”

"Speech to the Norwegian Storting" (30 March 2022) https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/promova-prezidenta-ukrayini-volodimira-zelenskogo-v-parlamen-73961

“We'll stop it, even if my body crumbles to bits I'll stop it with my soul!”

“So does that mean you're going to fall in love with me again?
What makes you think i ever stopped?”
Source: Hidden Riches

“The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.”
“You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.”
Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter

“When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.”