Quotes about stop
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“If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper (2004)

Sister

“you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead.”

Elizabeth Gilbert (1969) American writer

World, Heart

“May be she’ll learn something about what death really is, which is where the pain stops and the good memories begin. Not the end of life but the end of pain.”

Stephen King book Pet Sematary

Source: Pet Sematary

Life, Death, Pain, Learning

“Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride
You will not die, it’s not poison”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Tombstone Blues

“When you already believe something, how can you suddenly stop? When you are a loyal friend, how can you no longer be one?”

Amy Tan The Hundred Secret Senses

Source: The Hundred Secret Senses

“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”

Dave Eggers (1970) memoirist, novelist, short story writer, editor, publisher

Books, Way, Time, Forgetting

“The saddest day in the world will be the one when she stops pretending.”

Jodi Picoult book The Tenth Circle

Source: The Tenth Circle

World

“I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Leaving Time

People

“For you, my darlings, freedom to do what you like is the discovery of how unlikable what you like to do makes you. Not that that stops you doing what you like, since you like doing what you like more than you like liking what you do…
[Lucifer]”

Glen Duncan (1965) British writer

Freedom

“I know what it is to hope and pray so hard that you're sure God will answer your prayer just so you'll stop asking.”

Karen White (1964) American writer

Source: The Beach Trees

God, Hope

“It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Variant: Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Life, Change, Sad

“Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that. Revealed faith is not harmless nonsense, it can be lethally dangerous nonsense. Dangerous because it gives people unshakeable confidence in their own righteousness. Dangerous because it gives them false courage to kill themselves, which automatically removes normal barriers to killing others. Dangerous because it teaches enmity to others labelled only by a difference of inherited tradition. And dangerous because we have all bought into a weird respect, which uniquely protects religion from normal criticism. Let's now stop being so damned respectful!”

Richard Dawkins (1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author

When asked how the world had changed following the September 11, 2001 attacks <br class="br"> Has the world changed? http://books.guardian.co.uk/writersreflections/story/0,1367,567546,00.html, The Guardian (October 11, 2001)

People, Faith, Religion, Confidence

“Then stop trying to throw logic at nightmares. Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they're real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster. ~Bibiana to Anita”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Bullet

Variant: Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they’re real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster.'
- Chang Bibi to Anita
Source: Bullet

Way

“If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person; nevertheless, I cannot stop writing or loving…”

Isabel Allende book Paula

Source: Paula

Love, Fear, Personality

“But after a certain point in a marriage, you stopped having a certain kind of fight, Olive thought, because when the years behind you were more than the years in front of you, things were different.”

Elizabeth Strout book Olive Kitteridge

Source: Olive Kitteridge

Marriage, Fight

“There's no liquor in the land that can stop your brain from bleedin”

Bob Dylan book Tarantula

Source: Tarantula

“I could no more have stopped myself from feeling that sadness than you could stop yourself from smelling an apple that has been cut open on the table before you.”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

Sadness, Feeling

“When we don’t put the brakes on our self-absorption, we have nothing stopping us from total self-destruction. We become the fruits of our actions.”

Zeena Schreck (1963) Tantric Buddhist/Sethian

Source: Beatdom #11: The Nature Issue

“An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.”

Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995) French philosopher

Source: Dialogues II

People, Thinking

“The whole city stopped - And this is a pause worth savouring, because the world will soon be complicated again.”

Jon McGregor book If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

Source: If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

World

“You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you’d never, ever stop grieving.”

Alexandra Fuller (1969) Zimbabwean writer

Source: Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness

Learning

“ignorance is like a cow that a lot of people can't stop milkin!”

Mary Monroe (1951) American writer

Source: God Don't Play

People

“She stopped at the desk and held up a can for his view. "This looks like an ordinary hairspray can, right?"
"Of course." he said though he had no idea what hairspray was.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: Heart of the Dragon

Idea

“You will never find happiness until you stop looking for it.”

Willie Nelson (1933) American country music singer-songwriter.

Source: The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart

Happiness

“Some choices are forever…. Just because people aren't in our lives anymore, doesn't mean they stop thinking about us and vice versa.”

Wendy Mass Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

Source: Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

People, Thinking

“More and more, the hardest part of crying is when I can't stop.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

Parting, Cry

“He hadn’t stopped wanting love. He had simply, somehow, stopped looking.
He wondered if you could be exhausted without knowing it, if hope could be lost not all at once but could slip away gradually, day by day, and vanish before you ever realized.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything

Love, Hope

“Must stop. This ink is amazing, it really doesn't smear, even when you cry on it”

Elizabeth Wein book Code Name Verity

Source: Code Name Verity

Cry

“Yuki: "Honda-san… you'd better stop, or he'll get a swelled head."

Kyo: "Doesn't Shigure already HAVE a swelled head?”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

Source: Fruits Basket, Vol. 2

“sometimes it’s okay to cheat on things - but don’t ever cheat on people. because once you start, it’s very hard to stop. you find out how easy it is to do.”

David Levithan book Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson

People, Cheating

“When carrying a jar of honey to give to a friend for his birthday, don't stop and eat it along the way.”

A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author

Source: Pooh's Little Instruction Book

Way, Birthday, Birthday

“I've seriously got to stop turning my girlfriends gay, but like I can really help it. It's my animal appeal.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: Alice in Zombieland

Help, Animals

“Wow. This makes grand central look like a bus stop in Buttfuck Nebraska.”

Stephen King book The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands

Source: The Waste Lands

“I stopped. She was bleeding after all. Perfect lines crossed her wrists, not near any crucial veins, but enough to leave wet red tracks across her skin. She hadn; t hit her veins when she did this; death hadn't been her goal.”

Richelle Mead Vampire Academy

Source: Vampire Academy

Death, Perfection

“I regret everything because it has just finished, and already when I was twelve, I lamented the time that had gone by. Even in the best of spirits, it's always been as though I wrestle with the present in a vain effort to stop its becoming the past.”

Andrew Solomon book The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Effort, Time, Past

“Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

Love, Death, Romantic

“Honey, some boys stopped by to see you. They had wood.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Abandon

Boy

“There is, though, nothing that prepares us for the worst things in our life. There is nothing you can do to stop the shock, or buffer the pain.”

James Frey book The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

Source: The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

Life, Pain

“When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes

“I was yours once 'till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now - I can't hang about whining forever - and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness?”

E.M. Forster book Maurice

Source: Maurice

Death, Happiness, Way

“I love you," I told him. There. Nice and simple. "I knew you would find me."
He smiled at me. "I would never stop looking.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Breaks

Love, Smile

“Stop saying no offense,” I said, “when you say offensive things. It’s not a free pass.”

Daniel Handler book Why We Broke Up

Source: Why We Broke Up

“When you quit drinking you stop waiting.”

Caroline Knapp (1959–2002) American writer

Source: Drinking: A Love Story

Drink, Waiting

“And maybe you should stop pitying yourself,” he said. “Most people are lucky to have even one great love in their life. You have found two.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Love, Life, People

“And what of the dead? They lie without shoes
in their stone boats. They are more like stone
than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse
to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

"The Truth the Dead Know"
All My Pretty Ones (1962)

Lie, Shoe, Sea, Dead

“He took her face in his bloody hands. "I’ll come and find you wherever you are. I’ll not stop breathing until I do. So you’re going to have to promise me that you won’t lose hope. That you will keep yourself alive.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Froi of the Exiles

Hope

“I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Moveable Feast

Source: A Moveable Feast

Way

“I don't want to hurt myself. I want to stop hurting.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

Hurt

“I'd stop the world from spinning for you”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Entwined with You

World

“All is love… All is love. With love comes understanding. With understanding comes patience. And then time stops. And everything is now.”

Brian L. Weiss

Love, Understanding, Time, Patience

“You can't stop your heart from loving, really -- it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Mermaid Chair

Source: The Mermaid Chair

Love, Heart

“Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming — well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate. Isn’t that true?”

Amy Tan The Hundred Secret Senses

Variant: Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming — well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate. Isn’t that true?
Source: The Hundred Secret Senses (1995)

Fate, Dreams, Hope, Change

“At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come out with personal truth.”

May Sarton (1912–1995) American poet, novelist, and memoirist

Truth, Fear, Personality

“I am unaware of his plans but I shall never stop believing in them because I cannot fathom them and I prefer to mistrust my own intellectual capacities than his justice.”

Alexis De Tocqueville book Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

Justice

“After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great.”

Donna Tartt book The Secret History

Source: The Secret History

“Murder is like potato chips: you can't stop with just one.”

Stephen King book Under the Dome

Source: Under the Dome

“People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean?”

Elizabeth Berg (1948) American novelist

Source: Dream When You're Feeling Blue

People, Hurt

“Jace told me once you’d walk all over my heart in high-heeled boots, and it hasn’t stopped me.
Isabelle gave a little gasp of startled laughter. “He said that? And you stuck around?”
He leaned in toward her … “I would consider it an honor.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Laughter, Heart

“Something changed. Somewhere along the line you stopped accelerating.”

Jay McInerney book Bright Lights, Big City

Source: Bright Lights, Big City

Change

“I'm getting really tired of bleeding. Someone stop the world, I want to get off.”

Lilith Saintcrow (1976) American writer

Source: Night Shift

World

“Single Mind:
If I love you with all my heart, she said, what will you give me? & then she stopped & said I didn't have to answer that because she was going to do it anyway.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Love, Heart

“Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: you have to learn the rhythm of respiration, acquire the pace; otherwise you stop right away.”

Umberto Eco (1932–2016) Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist

Source: Postscript to the Name of the Rose

Mountain, Learning

“This won't stop her from getting elected," Shane said. "Stupider people get elected all the time. It's America. We love the sleazy. And the crazy." "I would like to think better of us," Claire said, "but yeah. You're right.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Bitter Blood

Love, People, Stupidity, Thinking

“Unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop being true.”

Richard Dawkins book The Selfish Gene

Source: The Selfish Gene

“Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.”

Dorothy Day (1897–1980) Social activist

“The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.”

Molly Ivins (1944–2007) American journalist

“We must, together as a nation, stop watching Fox.”

Jon Stewart (1962) American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian

“You know the minute you stop thinking about it, it'll happen.”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

Thinking

“Ben yanked Hi sideways as spikes snapped from the wall…Once again, only Ben’s reflexes had saved him. “Please stop doing that!” Ben barked. “Please keep doing that!” Hi warbled.”

Kathy Reichs book Seizure

Source: Seizure

“Mind your own Brazilian!" The words fly out of my mouth before I can stop them. Oops.

OK. The trick when you've said something embarrassing by mistake is to pretend nothing happened.”

Sophie Kinsella book I've Got Your Number

Source: I've Got Your Number

Flying

“If you stop eating donutes you will live 3 years longer. It's just 3 more years that you want a donut. <. )
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Lewis Black (1948) American stand-up comedian, author, playwright, social critic and actor

“We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.”

Ben Okri (1959) Nigerian writer

Source: Tales of Freedom

“I don't-" I shake my head. (…)
"What? What were you going to say?" This is another trick of shrinks. They never let you stop in midthought. If you open your mouth, they want to know exactly what you had the intention of saying.”

Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story

Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

“I couldn't think of one clever way to stop this guy, so I just trusted to mindless violence.”

Grant Morrison (1960) writer

Source: Doom Patrol, Vol. 1: Crawling from the Wreckage

Way, Guy, Thinking

“After all this kind of fanfare, and even more, I came to a point where I needed solitude and to just stop the machine of 'thinking' and 'enjoying' what they call 'living,' I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds…”

Jack Kerouac book Lonesome Traveler

Variant: I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.
Source: Lonesome Traveler

Lie, Thinking, Solitude, Grass

“A story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader's. It was a magical process, so commonplace that no one stopped to wonder at it.”

Ian McEwan book Atonement

Source: Atonement

Feeling

“The nicest thing about the rain is that it always stops. Eventually.”

A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author

“To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they grow old, without knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love.”

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer

Variant: I would prove to the men how mistaken they are in thinking that they no longer
fall in love when they grow old--not knowing that they grow old when they stop
falling in love.

Love, Thinking

“You should stop and listen to yourselves sometimes. 'We're practically adults, let us run wild.' 'We're only kids, leave us alone.'… You can't have it both ways.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: United We Spy

Way