Quotes about stop
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“His sister had been sent down to the village to ask Mistress Garlick the witch how you stopped spelling recommendation.”

Terry Pratchett book Guards! Guards!

Source: Guards! Guards!

Sister

“Start calling yourself healed, happy, whole, blessed, and prosperous. Stop talking to God about how big
your mountains are, and start talking to your mountains about how big your God is!”

Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author

Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

God, Happiness, Mountain

“stop fixing your bodies and start fixing the world!”

Eve Ensler (1953) American playwright, performer, feminist, activist and artist

World

“People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.”

Stephen King book Carrie

Source: Carrie

People, Thinking

“A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”

Henry Adams book The Education of Henry Adams

Source: The Education of Henry Adams

Life, Parent, Teachers

“When people say a knight's job is all glory, I laugh and laugh and laugh. Often I can stop laughing before they edge away and talk about soothing drinks.”

Tamora Pierce Squire

Source: Squire

People, Drink

“He neither walks with the multitude nor cheers with them. The writer who is a writer is a rebel who never stops.”

William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer

The William Saroyan Reader (1958)
Context: The writer is a spiritual anarchist, as in the depth of his soul every man is. He is discontented with everything and everybody. The writer is everybody's best friend and only true enemy — the good and great enemy. He neither walks with the multitude nor cheers with them. The writer who is a writer is a rebel who never stops.

“Nature is not primarily functional. It is primarily beautiful. Stop for a moment and let that sink in. We’re so used to evaluating everything (and everyone) by their usefulness that this thought will take a minute or two to begin to dawn on us. Nature is not primarily functional. It is primarily beautiful. Which is to say, beauty is in and of itself a great and glorious good, something we need in large and daily doses.”

Stasi Eldredge

Source: Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul

Beauty, Nature

“I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.”

Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author

People

“Tell me where it hurts, she'd say. Stop howling. Just calm down and show me where.

But some people can't tell where it hurts. They can't calm down. They can't ever stop howling.”

Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer

People, Hurt

“In school they told me "Practice makes perfect." And then they told me "Nobody's perfect," so then I stopped practicing.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

When the Leaves Blow Away (2006), I Still Have a Pony (2007)

School, Perfection

“The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.”

Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist

“If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old”

Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant

Leadership, Back To Work, For Team

“Her singing always cheered him up. Life seemed so much brighter when she stopped.”

Terry Pratchett book Pyramids

Source: Pyramids

Life, Singing

“So you're gonna end this by dying, huh? Stop running away!”

Hiro Mashima (1977) Japanese manga artist

“Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame”

Virginia Woolf book Mrs Dalloway

Source: Mrs. Dalloway

Effort, Time

“This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher

Business

“The important thing is not to stop questioning.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Old Man's Advice to Youth: "Never Lose a Holy Curiosity," http://books.google.com/books?id=dlYEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&dq=Life%2C%202%20May%201955&pg=PA61#v=onepage&q=Life,%202%20May%201955&f=false LIFE magazine (2 May 1955) statement to William Miller, p. 64. 1950s Context: The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day. Never lose a holy curiosity. … Don't stop to marvel.

Question, Deep, Hope, Graduation

“Stop moping, sule," galladon said with a grunt."It doesn't suit you-it takes a fine sense of pessimism to brood with any sort of respectability.”

Brandon Sanderson Elantris

Source: Elantris

Sense

“Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back.”

Eve Ensler (1953) American playwright, performer, feminist, activist and artist

Source: I am an Emotional Creature

“The fact is that those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!”

Galén (129–216) Roman physician, surgeon and philosopher

Galen, On the Natural Faculties, Bk. 1, sect. 13; cited from Arthur John Brock (trans.) On the Natural Faculties (London: Heinemann, 1963) p. 57.

Knowledge, Learning

“You cannot "love" a dog out of her bad behavior, just as you can't "love" a criminal into stopping his crimes.”

Cesar Millan (1969) Mexican - American dog trainer and television personality

Source: Cesar's Way: The Natural, Everyday Guide to Understanding and Correcting Common Dog Problems

Love, Dogs, Behavior

“Disarmed, I realized how easily you can lose all animosity toward someone you've deemed your enemy as soon as that person stops behaving as such.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

Personality

“His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.”

Terry Pratchett book Night Watch

Source: Night Watch

Cats

“I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die.”

Patrick Rothfuss (1973) American fantasy writer

Reading

“Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.”

Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)

Remarks at the Annual Salute to Congress Dinner http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1981/20481b.htm (4 February 1981) 1980s, First term of office (1981–1985) Variant: Thomas Jefferson once said, "We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works." And ever since he told me that I stopped worrying. Context: Thomas Jefferson made a comment about the Presidency and age. He said that one should not worry about one's exact chronological age in reference to his ability to perform one's task. And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

Age

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer

People, Dreams, Birthday, Graduation

“It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone’s mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop them.”

Terry Pratchett book Wyrd Sisters

Source: Wyrd Sisters

Chance

“Sandry: "I am silly, now and then. My mother said I was, anyway."
Daja: "If you know, you can stop it."
Sandry: "Then you've never been silly or you'd know it just creeps up without any warning.”

Tamora Pierce book Sandry's Book

Source: Sandry's Book

“I'm always going to keep your heart safe, even if mine has to stop beating for that to happen.”

P. C. Cast (1960) American writer

Heart

“Never let the things you can't do, stop you from doing what you can.”

Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)

“Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining.”

James Hillman (1926–2011) American psychologist

Love, Imagination

“Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.”

Abraham Verghese book Cutting for Stone

Source: Cutting for Stone

Life, Understanding

“Idiots must stop claiming that atheism is a religion. Religion is defined as the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power. And atheism is… precisely not that. Atheism is a religion like abstinence is a sex position”

Bill Maher (1956) American stand-up comedian

Religion, Sex

“Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

This derives from a folk proverb sometimes attributed to Clementine Paddleford, but in use as an "old proverb" as early as 1908, when Paddeford was only 10 years old.
Misattributed
Source: Eat, Pray, Love

For women, Hope, Positive

“If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!”

T. Harv Eker (1954) American writer

Source: Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth

Problem, Change, Motivational, Success

“I don’t stop when I’m tired. I only stop when I’m done…”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

“To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

A Poet's Advice (1958)
Context: Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel …
the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.
To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

World, Fight, Night

“The erosion of our confidence in the future is threating to destroy the Social and the Political fabric of America. The confidence that we have always had as a people, is not simply some romantic dream, or a proverb in a dusty book, that we read, just on the Fourth of July. It is the idea of which founded our nation and has guided us in our development as a people. Confidence in the future has supported everything else. We've always believed in a thing called, progress. We've always had a faith, that the days of our children, would be better than our own. Our people are losing that faith. Fopr the first time in the history of our country, a majority of our people believe, that the next five years, will be worse than the past five years. We were taught that our armies were always invincible and our causes were always just, only to suffer the agony of Vietnam. We respected the presidency as a place of honor, unitl the shock of Watergate. We've got to stop crying and start sweating. Stop talking and start walking. Working together, with our common faith, we cannot fail.”

Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)

Children, People, Books, Faith

“You, yes, you, linger inside my heart
The same you who stopped us before we could start.”

Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist

Source: Second Helpings

Heart

“The universe is always speaking to us…. Sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities, reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more.”

Nancy Thayer (1943) American novelist

Universe

“Stop swimming around in your own mind. That is a dangerous neighborhood that you should not go into alone.”

Marc Levy (1961) French writer

“You don't stop loving someone just because you hate them.”

Hanif Kureishi (1954) English playwright, screenwriter, novelist

Source: Intimacy

Love, Hate

“When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.”

Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) American playwright

“We can't stop here, this is bat country!”

Hunter S. Thompson book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Country

“We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.”

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

People, Time, Sad

“If you can't stop the bad thoughts from coming to visit, at least you can make fun of them while they're hanging around.”

Jim Butcher Turn Coat

Source: Turn Coat

“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

World, Sense

“Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically.”

Vladimir Nabokov book Pnin

Source: Pnin

Hate, Happiness, People, Feeling

“People and relationships never stop being a work in progress”

Nora Roberts Vision in White

Source: Vision in White

People

“Dear Non-American Black, when you make the choice to come to America, you become black. Stop arguing. Stop saying I'm Jamaican or I'm Ghanaian. America doesn't care.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Americanah

Source: Americanah

“There is nothing that cuts you down to size like coming to some strange and marvelous place where no one even stops to notice that you stare about you.”

Richard Adams book Watership Down

Source: Watership Down

“Decadence is the total loss of unconsciousness, which is the very basis of life. Could it think, the heart would stop beating.”

Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher

Life, Thinking, Loss, Heart

“Something must be wrong with me to stop a good girl-on-girl fight”

P. C. Cast (1960) American writer

Girl, Fight

“I repeat with the most vehement conviction: truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it. Today is only the beginning, for it is only today that the positions have become clear: on one side, those who are guilty, who do not want the light to shine forth, on the other, those who seek justice and who will give their lives to attain it. I said it before and I repeat it now: when truth is buried underground, it grows and it builds up so much force that the day it explodes it blasts everything with it. We shall see whether we have been setting ourselves up for the most resounding of disasters, yet to come.”

Emile Zola J’accuse…!

J'accuse! (1898)
Context: These military tribunals have, decidedly, a most singular idea of justice.
This is the plain truth, Mr. President, and it is terrifying. It will leave an indelible stain on your presidency. I realise that you have no power over this case, that you are limited by the Constitution and your entourage. You have, nonetheless, your duty as a man, which you will recognise and fulfill. As for myself, I have not despaired in the least, of the triumph of right. I repeat with the most vehement conviction: truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it. Today is only the beginning, for it is only today that the positions have become clear: on one side, those who are guilty, who do not want the light to shine forth, on the other, those who seek justice and who will give their lives to attain it. I said it before and I repeat it now: when truth is buried underground, it grows and it builds up so much force that the day it explodes it blasts everything with it. We shall see whether we have been setting ourselves up for the most resounding of disasters, yet to come.

Truth, Justice, Light

“This time it had been magic. And it didn't stop being magic just because you found out how it was done.”

Terry Pratchett book The Wee Free Men

Source: The Wee Free Men

Time

“Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like; everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going.”

Alice Hoffman book Practical Magic

Source: Practical Magic

Love

“When someone leaves you once, you expect it to happen again. Eventually you stop getting close enough to people to let them become important to you, because then you don't notice when they drop out of your world.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Leaving Time

People, World

“Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.”

Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor

Life, Thinking

“Frank Sinatra stopped his car. The light was red. Pedestrians passed quickly across his windshield but, as usual, one did not. It was a girl in her twenties. She remained at the curb staring at him. Through the corner of his left eye he could see her, and he knew, because it happens almost every day, that she was thinking, It looks like him, but is it? Just before the light turned green, Sinatra turned toward her, looked directly into her eyes waiting for the reaction he knew would come. It came and he smiled. She smiled and he was gone.”

Gay Talese (1932) American writer

"Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" (Esquire, April 1966)

Smile, Cars, Girl, Thinking

“The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connexion as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop.”

George Washington (1732–1799) first President of the United States

1790s, Farewell Address (1796)

Faith, Perfection

“The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.”

Paula Fox (1923–2017) Amercian book author

“The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now

Love, Peace, Joy

“Go on till you come to the end; then stop.”

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

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

“I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life and start figuring out the one I have.”

Holly Black book The Darkest Part of the Forest

Source: The Darkest Part of the Forest

Life

“If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do not stop living. The answer probably lies in the irrational character of life which maintains itself without reason.”

Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist

Source: On the Heights of Despair (1934)

Life, Sincerity

“To THINK BIG and to use our talents doesn't mean we won't have difficulties along the way. We will—we all do. How we view those problems determines how we end up. If we choose to see the obstacles in our path as barriers, we stop trying. “We can't win,” we moan. “They won't let us win.”However, if we choose to see the obstacles as hurdles, we can leap over them. Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.Whatever direction we choose, if we can realize that every hurdle we jump strengthens and prepares us for the next one, we're already on the way to success.”

Ben Carson book Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

Source: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
Source: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990), p. 232

People, Way, Problem, Thinking

“It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the end of our journey, He is also at every stopping place.”

Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary

God, Travel

“Do not let anyone stop you from succeding”

Sharon M. Draper (1948) American children's writer

“I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.”

Anthony Kiedis book Scar Tissue

Source: Scar Tissue

Life, Hate, Personality

“To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 20

World, Dreams, Baby, Personality

“When the medicine enters the body and stops the pain, the vibrations from the combined substances stop, and the various substances return to their original states, in which they emit their original vibrations. However, if these vibrations happen to damage other cell structures, then harmful side effects will result.”

Masaru Emoto (1943–2014) Japanese writer

Source: The Hidden Messages in Water

Pain

“The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying”

John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor

Failure

“The world is still spinning and so are we and so are you. When the spinning stops, that'll be the time to worry. Not before.”

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter

World, Time

“Could it think, the heart would stop beating.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

O coração, se pudesse pensar, pararia.
Source: The Book of Disquietude ["Livro do Desassossego"], by Bernardo Soares (Pessoa's semi-heteronym), translated by Richard Zenith (1996), text 1

Thinking, Heart

“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”

Aaron Copland (1900–1990) American composer, composition teacher, writer, and conductor

Music, Time

“The worst kind of pain is when you're smiling just to stop the tears from falling.”

Hiro Mashima (1977) Japanese manga artist

Pain, Smile, Tear, Depressing

“Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”

Paulo Coelho book Brida

Source: Brida

World

“Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.”

Sam Levenson (1911–1980) American journalist

Birth

“Halfway down the aisle, Jamie suddenly seemed to tire, and they stopped while she caught her breath… It was, I remembered thinking, the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make. In every way, a walk to remember.”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

Way, Thinking

“I leafed through the pages, inhaling the enchanted scent of promise that comes with all new books, and stopped to read the start of a sentence that caught my eye.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

Books, Reading

“There's a quality of legend about freaks.
Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.”

Diane Arbus (1923–1971) American photographer and author

Schjeldahl, Peter. "Looking Back: Diane Arbus at the Met" http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/03/21/050321craw_artworld?currentPage=all, The New Yorker, March 21, 2005. Retrieved February 4, 2010. source: Sass, Louis A. "'Hyped on Clarity': Diane Arbus and the Postmodern Condition". Raritan, volume 25, number 1, pp. 1–37, Summer 2005. Source: Kimmelman, Michael, The Profound Vision of Diane Arbus: Flaws in Beauty, Beauty in Flaws, https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/11/arts/design/the-profound-vision-of-diane-arbus-flaws-in-beauty-beauty-in.html, 1 November 2018, The New York Times, 11 March 2005

Life, People, Personality

“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 (1963) American retired professional basketball player and businessman

Parting

“Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.”

Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac Nation

Source: Prozac Nation

“You never fail until you stop trying.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Relationship, Good Night

“The meaning of life is that it stops.”

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author

Life, Wise, Heartbreaking, Moving On

“Relearn astonishment, stop grasping for knowledge, lose the habit of the past.”

Elias Canetti (1905–1994) Bulgarian-born Swiss and British jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer

J. Agee, trans. (1989), p. 146
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock] (1987)

Knowledge, Past

“His eyes met mine and the rest of the room faded away. ―I‘m always going to keep your heart safe, even if mine has to stop beating for that to happen,‖ he told me softly.”

P. C. Cast book Tempted

Source: Tempted

Heart

“We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.”

Friedrich Nietzsche Untimely Meditations

Source: Untimely Meditations

Life, Thinking, Universe

“The pas has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Past

“Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”

Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)

Remarks to the White House Conference on Small Business http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1986/081586e.htm (15 August 1986) 1980s, Second term of office (1985–1989)