Quotes about stop
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“For younger girls living in any small town, it can be hard to move forward and get out. You are more than capable, the only thing stopping you is you.”

Source: https://www.indianagazette.com/news/indiana-native-launches-line-of-swimwear/article_21fdcb08-1ad3-11eb-9024-072dc8b9d80e.html

Bill Maher photo
Mwanandeke Kindembo photo
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Bret Weinstein photo

“[T]he boundaries of the evolutionary environment do not stop at the market's edge.”

Bret Weinstein (1969) biologist, professor, public intellectual

The Personal Responsibility Vortex (April 16, 2012)

Nathaniel Banks photo

“Stop men! Don't you love you're country?”

Nathaniel Banks (1816–1894) politician of Massachusetts and general of the Union Army (1816-1894)
Guy Consolmagno photo

“Science doesn't stop when it comes up with a nice answer. It looks for more data. It comes up with new ideas. It's willing to admit it's wrong.”

Guy Consolmagno (1952) American Jesuit, Catholic Priest, research astronomer and planetary scientist at the Vatican Observatory.

[From MIT to Specola Vaticana: Guy Consolmagno at TEDxViadellaConcialiazione, April 24, 2013, TEDx Talks, YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmU2gDbP_Tk] (quote at 6:38 of 17:52)

Marcelo H. del Pilar photo

“I have not stopped wishing for the renewal of our former ties, for I believe that slight differences in procedure are not enough to destroy our common principles, purposes, and feelings.”

Marcelo H. del Pilar (1850–1896) Filipino writer, lawyer, and journalist (1850-1896)

Marcelo H. del Pilar to José Rizal (20 July 1892)

“To change our idea of the world is the crux of shamanism. And stopping the internal dialogue is the only way to accomplish it.”

Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from "Tales of Power" (Chapter 10)

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“I've often started off with a lawyer joke, a complete caricature of a lawyer who's been nasty, greedy, and unethical. But I've stopped that practice. I gradually realized that the lawyers in the audience didn't think the jokes were funny and the non-lawyers didn't know they were jokes.”

William H. Rehnquist (1924–2005) Chief Justice of the United States

1997 speech at University of Virginia Law School, as quoted in Marc Galanter, Lowering the Bar: Lawyer Jokes and Legal Culture (2006), p. 3.
Books, articles, and speeches

Matt Ridley photo

“If you still thought evolution was about the good of the species, stop thinking so right now.”

Source: Genome (1999), Chapter X and Y “Conflict” (p. 113)

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Michael Moorcock photo

“Everything dies eventually—but that shouldn’t stop us enjoying life while it is there to be enjoyed.”

Michael Moorcock (1939) English writer, editor, critic

Source: The Wrecks of Time aka The Rituals of Infinity (1967), Chapter 6, “Klosterheim on a Mountain” (p. 49)

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“Whenever the internal dialogue stops, the world collapses, and extraordinary facets of ourselves surface, as though they had been kept heavily guarded by our words.”

Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from "Tales of Power" (Chapter 10)

“When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become attainable.”

Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from "Tales of Power" (Chapter 10)

Susan Sontag photo

“Shall I tell you about getting older? When you get older, 45 plus, men stop fancying you. Or put it another way, the men I fancy don't fancy me. I want a young man. I love beauty. So what's new?”

Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist

Source: "Finding fact from fiction", The Guardian (27 May 2000) http://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/may/27/fiction.features

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“First, kill all the math classes beyond algebra. Stop wasting so much of our students’ time learning math. It’s not useful, it’s not helpful.”

Jonathan Haidt (1963) American psychologist

Source: Knowledge@Wharton https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/the-righteous-mind-why-liberals-and-conservatives-cant-get-along/ (2013)

Benjamin Creme photo

“So how to we get at stopping war? We have to create trust. We have to get rid of injustice.”

Benjamin Creme (1922–2016) artist, author, esotericist

Source: The State of the World 2010, public lecture in New York City, USA, (July 2010)

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“How can we stop the mind? Not hitting it with a hammer. Stop the mind by the mind.”

Baba Hari Dass (1923–2018) master yogi, author, builder, commentator of Indian spiritual tradition

Source: Silence Speaks, from the chalkboard of Baba Hari Dass (1977), p.31

Baba Hari Dass photo

“Can intellect aid understanding? It helps in the beginning but cannot give full enlightenment. The mind is the main instrument to gain enlightenment, but enlightenment is only reached when the mind stops.”

Baba Hari Dass (1923–2018) master yogi, author, builder, commentator of Indian spiritual tradition

Source: Silence Speaks, from the chalkboard of Baba Hari Dass (1977)

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Edward G. Robinson photo

“I hated every minute of it and couldn't stop crying.”

Edward G. Robinson (1893–1973) Romanian American actor

Source: On Love Story (1970); op. cit.

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Wang Qishan photo

“What we need to do is make the pie bigger while looking for ways to share it in a more equitable way. The last thing we should do is to stop making the pie and just engage in a futile debate on how to divide it. Shifting blame for one’s own problems onto others will not resolve the problems.”

Wang Qishan (1948) Chinese politician

Source: "China’s Vice President Decries Technological Hegemony" in The Wall Street Journal https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-vice-president-urges-governments-to-address-their-domestic-problems-11548258999 (23 January 2019)

Bill Maher photo

“Those are the lights on the head of death. Death puts them on like a hat and then shoots off on a gallop, gaining on us, getting closer and closer. Sometimes it turns off its lights. But death never stops.”

Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from A Separate Reality (Chapter 6)

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“It seemed to be a natural period when I wanted to stop doing pop records; it came with a falling-out between my record company and me...There was a hole in my career. Instead of a valley, it became a peak to me. I decided I was going to do something that I hadn’t really had time to do.”

Dan Hartman (1950–1994) American singer, songwriter, guitarist, keyboardist, record producer

Source: On the career fugue that led him to create the album New Green Clear Blue in “Dan Hartman Manages to Turn a Career Valley into Peak” https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=943&dat=19890307&id=gGkLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=OlMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6768,567004&hl=en in Mohave Daily Miner (1989 Mar 7)

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“We are supporting Saudi Arabia while they inflict unthinkable human rights violations on the Yemeni people. Congress must do its job and stop providing military support and arm sales to the Saudi government.”

Ro Khanna (1976) U.S. Representative from California

Source: Twitter post https://twitter.com/RoKhanna/status/1080272966250708992 (2 January 2019)

Ro Khanna photo

“Let us stop this system of putting people in positions just because of the contacts they have. That is a major reason why we remain a poorly governed and undeveloped country.”

Grace Alele-Williams (1932–2022) mathematician

Source: https://guardian.ng/features/how-to-have-more-female-vice-chancellors-in-nigerian-varsities/Prof Grace Alele on allowing qualified people in position regardless of the gender.

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“We must stop looking outside of ourselves for a messiah but look inward, making a conscious decision to play our parts in the puzzle.”

Yemi Adamolekun Executive Director of Enough is Enough

Source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/10/nigeria-61-eie-11-light-hope-power-and-voice-opinion/ Speaking about Nigeria (October 18 2021 )

“American dollars should be spent on Americans’ safety and security, and if the national security threat is having an armed gunman in our school rooms, then we need to put our children first and stop sending our dollars overseas.”

Christina Hagan (1988) Member of the Ohio House of Representatives

Source: NRA-Endorsed Christina Hagan: ‘Stop Sending Our Dollars Overseas,’ Pay Armed Veterans to Protect Schools https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/04/24/nra-endorsed-christina-hagan-stop-sending-our-dollars-overseas-pay-armed-veterans-to-protect-schools/ (24 April 2018)

“We will not stop until every Nigerian girl-child has found their voice and found their pocket.”

Ibukun Awosika (1962) Nigerian business magnate

Source: https://theafricadebate.com/news-2018/2018/an-interview-with-ibukun-awosika Speaking in an interview about herself (April 18 2018)

David Lloyd George photo

“[T]he League of Nations will be of no value unless it has behind it the sanction of strong nations, prepared at a moment's notice to stop aggression. Otherwise the League of Nations will be a scrap of paper.”

David Lloyd George (1863–1945) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Prime Minister
Source: Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1919/jul/03/unprovoked-attack-upon-france#S5CV0117P0_19190703_HOC_333 in the House of Commons on the Treaty of Versailles (3 July 1919)

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“We should always remember that when God comes to someone's help, no worldly power can stop the success He gives.”

Mirza Masroor Ahmad (1950) spiritual leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community

Eid and Friday Sermons
Source: Total Trust and Dependence on Allah https://www.alislam.org/friday-sermon/2014-11-28.html, Friday Sermon November 28th, 2014

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie photo

“Feminism is not that men and women are the same. If men and women are the same, we won't have sexism. We are just stating the differences and people should stop giving negative value to all the attributes that women have. It's not that men and women are the same but they've equally human.”

Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie (1977) Nigerian writer

Source: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: ‘I want to say what I think’ https://www.bbc.com/news/av/entertainment-arts-59568638 chimamanda ngozi adichie speaking on her speech of 2012 on feminism on (9th December 2021)

Josh Homme photo

“Whenever someone says, 'We're all one,' I've always been like 'No we're not, and that's what's great, so stop saying that or everyone's gonna start believing you.'”

Josh Homme (1973) American musician

Source: Reported in Jay Babcock, " MUSIC IS NEVER WRONG: A visit with Josh Homme & John Paul Jones of Them Crooked Vultures http://www.arthurmag.com/2009/10/15/them-crooked-vultures/", Arthur Magazine (October 15, 2009).
Context: But yeah, as we all look at the same projection on the wall, we do become one, and I started to realize the horror of that. And I make no attempt to try to alter it from being that; my thing is more about trying to apply some principles of magic—how to walk between the raindrops—and take advantage of a situation like that, because it’s the only choice you have.

“I can’t wait until the baby is old enough to play pretend. That was my favorite thing to do as a kid, and I suppose I never stopped.”

Andrea Brooks (1989) Canadian actor

Source: 'When Calls the Heart' Star Andrea Brooks Opens Up About Her Pregnancy Journey (Exclusive) https://www.etonline.com/when-calls-the-heart-star-andrea-brooks-opens-up-about-her-pregnancy-journey-exclusive-128970 (July 20, 2019)

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“Failure is a frequent stop on the road to success.”

Jay Samit (1961) American businessman

Future Proofing You (2021)

Lisa Taddeo photo

“I learned that comprehending someone’s heartache is, unfortunately, very often the only way to stop condemning them…I learned that most of us wouldn’t necessarily do certain things over again—like not partake in a moment of passion—even if we know how long it might stay with us/hurt us.”

Lisa Taddeo (1980) American writer and journalist

Source: On what she learned after completing Three Women in “Three Women Author Lisa Taddeo: ‘You Are Seen’” https://www.bookish.com/articles/lisa-taddeo-three-women-interview/ in Bookish (2019 Jul 9)

Anthony Fauci photo

“It’s almost like passing a baton in a race. You don’t want to stop, and then give it to somebody, you want to just essentially keep going”

Anthony Fauci (1940) American immunologist and head of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Fauci says Trump administration should work with Biden transition team on coronavirus response https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/15/dr-fauci-trump-should-work-with-biden-transition-team-on-coronavirus.html" (November 15 2020) on CNN’s Jake Tapper State of the Union
2020

Edgar Guest photo

“I did not stop to ask the lad his little tale to tell,
There was no need of that because I knew the story well -
"She never gave a chance to me!"”

Edgar Guest (1881–1959) American writer

that sentence held it all.
A hundred times I'd lived the scene in days when I was small,
A broken rule, a teacher vexed, hot rage where calm belonged,
A guilty judgment blindly made - a youngster sadly wronged.<p>I still can see that little chap upon his homeward way,
"She never gave a chance to me," I still can hear him say,
And so I write this verse for him, and all the girls and boys
Who shall their tutors now and then disturb with needless noise.
Be fair, you teachers of our land, in every circumstance;
Don't let some little fellow say he never had a chance.
She Never Gave Me a Chance, third and final stanzas.
The Passing Throng (1923)

Nana Akufo-Addo photo

“Stop dey use COVID-19 vaccination as immigration control against Africans.”

Nana Akufo-Addo (1944) President of Ghana

Nana Akufo-Addo (2021) cited in: " Ghana President Nana Akufo-Addo to UN - 'Stop dey use Covid-19 vaccination as immigration control against Africans' https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-58661993" in BBC News, 23 September 2021.

Gilbert O'Sullivan photo

“Where to begin?
The pain I am in,
hard to know when to stop.
Out of the blue
a dream came true,
only to see it drop.
I'm no genius where love's concerned,
more fool me to pretend.
Whatever it takes, while my heart aches
I'll never love again.”

Gilbert O'Sullivan (1946) Irish singer-songwriter

"I'll Never Love Again" (song)
Gilbert O'Sullivan, "I'll Never Love Again" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IIlAUIwQdc (song on YouTube)
Song lyrics

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Greg Walden photo

“There's more to do to stop the bad behavior by big entities in this space because there's so much money in this space. They aren't looking out for patients like they used to.”

Greg Walden (1957) American politician

Source: Exclusive–Greg Walden: Private-Equity ‘Scare Tactics’ Will Not Stop ‘Surprise Medical Bill’ Reform https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/09/13/exclusive-greg-walden-private-equity-scare-tactics-will-not-stop-surprise-medical-bill-reform/ (13 September 2019)

Julian Assange photo

“If wars can be started with lies, they can be stopped by truth.”

Julian Assange (1971) Australian editor, activist, publisher and journalist

Source: Quoted in Fate Of Anti-War Journalism Lies in Upcoming Assange Hearings, Sam Carliner, https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/10/22/fate-anti-war-journalism-lies-upcoming-assange-hearings October 22, 2021

Gilbert O'Sullivan photo
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Rumi photo
Prevale photo

“I walk on the west side of town, | you walk all the other way around, | we meet in the middle of the street, | where we both stop and smile and we both show our shiny teeth.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

from Never Meet – Tarquini & Prevale
Source: Tarquini & Prevale Never Meet https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Tarquini-Prevale/Never-Meet-Tarquini-Prevale-Italo-Mix, Musixmatch.com, July 22, 2017

Larry Niven photo

“You don’t stop planning just because there’s no hope.”

Inconstant Moon (p. 260)
Short fiction, N-Space (1990)

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“I began drawing when I was one and a half years old. I never stopped.”

Tomasz Vetulani (1965) Polish artist

Vetulani.nl (The website of Tomasz Vetulani) https://web.archive.org/web/20220505120930/https://www.vetulani.nl/, archived from the original https://www.vetulani.nl/ (accessed on May 5th, 2022)

Sandy Koufax photo

“I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.”

Sandy Koufax (1935) American baseball player

As quote in "Quote... : Father knows best; Soviet hindsight; Life in the NBA: Koufax strategy," The Christian Science Monitor (June 24, 1976), p. 11

Edward Bellamy photo

“We must retain the positive values of our culture and use them to bring people to God. The habits of revenge and conflicts among tribes must be stopped. Love your neighbors and put your faith in Christ.”

Eduardus Sangsun (1943–2008) Indonesian bishop (1943-2008)

Diocese of Ruteng Welcomes New Bishop https://www.ucanews.com/story-archive/?post_name=/1985/04/24/diocese-of-ruteng-welcomes-new-bishop&post_id=32959 (24 April 1985)

Viktor Yanukovych photo

“Speaking of the agriculture, we should at least stop selling grain but instead we should process it, for example, into meat or meat products.”

Viktor Yanukovych (1950) Ukrainian politician who was the President of Ukraine

Source: * Янукович: Перерабатывать зерно в мясо ** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAmDEwlydIw ** en ** 2022-06-12 ** 2009-12-25

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“The social and economic revolution of the farm workers is well under way and will not be stopped until they receive equality.”

Dolores Huerta (1930) American labor leader

1966 speech, in Voices of Multicultural America: Notable Speeches Delivered by African, Asian, Hispanic and Native Americans, 1790-1995 by Deborah Gillan Straub

Dolores Huerta photo

“Once we got the medical plan, we found that that really didn't stop the abuses, because the doctors were still not giving the workers good health care. So the next step was then to build a clinic. So the workers started to build their clinics.”

Dolores Huerta (1930) American labor leader

1974 speech, in Voices of Multicultural America: Notable Speeches Delivered by African, Asian, Hispanic and Native Americans, 1790-1995 by Deborah Gillan Straub

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“Your dream will never end until you stop believing it.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Il tuo sogno non avrà mai fine finché non smetterai di crederci.
Source: prevale.net

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“In moments of fragility we need to stop, relax, turn off every type of thought, and start again from ourselves.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Nei momenti di fragilità abbiamo bisogno di fermarci, rilassarci, spegnere ogni tipo di pensiero, e ricominciare da noi stessi.
Source: prevale.net

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“Nothing will ever stop what needs to happen. Life has a strange habit to unite, what must reach you, will always find a way to do it.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Nulla potrà mai fermare ciò che deve accadere. La vita ha una strana abitudine di unire, ciò che deve raggiungerti, troverà sempre un modo per farlo.
Source: prevale.net

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“Gaza is a wound that will never stop bleeding.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Radiorama de Occidente. 1480 AM Rock and Pop. Guadalajara, Mexico.

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“Your safest place in the world is in my arms, where everything stops making noise.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Il tuo posto più sicuro al mondo è tra le mie braccia, dove tutto smette di far rumore.
Source: prevale.net

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“Loneliness is not a punishment, but a choice. A choice that simply shows you who stays, when you stop being useful.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: La solitudine non è una punizione, ma una scelta. Una scelta che ti mostra semplicemente chi resta, quando smetti di essere utile.
Source: prevale.net

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“When people stop shuddering at the pain of others, crime no longer needs executioners: consent is enough.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Radiorama de Occidente. La Otra Historia. 1480 AM Rock&Pop. Guadalajara, Mexico.

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“Ideas concretize at night, when everything stops making noise and becomes inspiration.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Le idee si concretizzano di notte, quando tutto smette di far rumore e diventa ispirazione.
Source: prevale.net