Quotes about stop
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“Ash held one finger up. "OK. Now listen-"
Mary-Lynnette kicked him in the shins. She knew it was inapporopriate, she knew it was uncalled-for, but she couldn't stop herself. She justto.
"Oh, for God's sake," Ash said, hopping backward. "Are you?”

L.J. Smith book Daughters of Darkness

Source: Daughters of Darkness

God

“I wonder how long it would take for anyone to notice if I just stopped talking.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

“So stop sulking. You're not old enough for the cool, tortured look.”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

“I can't tell if she's actually real, or if she's stopped caring if she's real or not. Or is not caring what makes a person real?”

Jennifer Egan A Visit from the Goon Squad

Source: A Visit from the Goon Squad

Personality

“Promise me you'll never stop dreaming.”

Melina Marchetta book Looking for Alibrandi

Source: Looking for Alibrandi

Dreams

“Sometimes, I get so consumed by depression that it is hard to believe that the whole world doesn't stop and suffer with me.”

Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac Nation

Source: Prozac Nation

World, Suffering

“Scientific inquiry shouldn't stop just because a reasonable explanation has apparently been found.”

Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958) American astrophysicist and science communicator

Source: Death by Black Hole - And Other Cosmic Quandaries

“I am as devoted to adventure now as then, and that’s never going to stop.”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

“Where’s a friggin’ rocket when you need it? Ah, crap, Jaden, stop with the pollen. I hate that. Yeah, taste honey, you punk! (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

Hate

“When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.”

Orson Scott Card book Speaker for the Dead

Source: Speaker for the Dead

Hate

“I'm a liar. And I can't stop thinking about boys.”

Meg Cabot book Pants on Fire

Source: Pants on Fire

Boy, Thinking

“The workshop door opened and Skulduggery emerged. "Ryan," he said, "stop leaning on my car.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: The End of the World

Cars

“You smell like honeysuckle. You likin' ole Jack now?"

"I never stopped liking you. Even when you were warding me away with the power of Catholicism.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Endless Knight

“Miss Hayes, have you stopped to consider that you might have this all backward? That in fact you are my fantasy?”

Shannon Hale book Austenland

Source: Austenland

“I haven't been able to stop thinking of you. One way or another you were always out of reach… I think I'm in love with you… Actually no, that's not true. I know I am.”

Jill Mansell (1957) British author

Source: To the Moon and Back

Love, Way, Thinking

“Stop it.
Do not feel safe with him. The Stockholm Syndrome is not your friend.”

Jessica Bird book Lover Unbound

Source: Lover Unbound

Feeling

“But just because you bury something, that doesn't mean it stops existing. Those feelings, they'd been there all along. All that time. I had to just face it.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: We'll Always Have Summer

Feeling, Time

“Love drains you, takes with it much of your blood sugar and water weight. You are like a house slowly losing its electricity, the fans slowing, the lights dimming and flickering; the clocks stop and go and stop.”

Lorrie Moore (1957) American writer

Source: Self-Help

Love, Light, Water, Housing

“What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.”

Liz Carpenter (1920–2010) American writer

“You cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them nesting in your hair.”

Eva Ibbotson book The Dragonfly Pool

Source: The Dragonfly Pool

Bird, Flying

“Come on sempai, would you please stop growing mushrooms in other people's closets?

-Haruhi”

Bisco Hatori (1975) Japanese manga artist

People

“I love you, I'll never stop.”

Ann Brashares The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Love

“There are boys so enraptured by love that they can't get their hearts to slow down enough to get some rest, and other boys so damaged by love that they can't stop picking at their pain.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Two Boys Kissing

Love, Pain, Boy, Heart

“Never, ever regret or apologize for believing that when one man or one woman decides to risk addressing the world with truth, the world may stop what it is doing and hear. There is too much evidence to the contrary.”

Robert Fulghum (1937) American writer

Source: Maybe, Maybe Not

Truth, World

“don't stop to think of the words when you do stop, just stop to think of the picture better-and let your mind off yourself in this work.”

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

Source: Dr Sax

Thinking

“Mrs. May looked back at her. "Kate," she said after a moment, "stories never really end. They can go on and on and on. It's just that sometimes, at a certain point, one stops telling them.”

Mary Norton The Borrowers

Source: The Borrowers

“Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me!”

Stephen King book It

Source: It

“Even if all the clocks in the station break down, thought Hugo, time won't stop. Not even if you really want it to.

Like now.”

Brian Selznick book The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Source: The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Time

“Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?”

Ernest Hemingway book Men Without Women

Source: Men Without Women

“You fail only if you stop writing.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

“A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.”

Frank Herbert (1920–1986) American writer

Understanding

“It's good to keep changing your mind. It shows you're thinking. I'll only stop changing my mind when I'm dead. And maybe not even then.”

John Marsden (1950) author

Source: Darkness, Be My Friend

Thinking, Change, Dead

“If I stopped loving Him, I would cease to believe in His love. If I loved God, then I would believe in His love for me. It's not enough to need it. We have to love first, and I don't know how. But I need it, how I need it.”

Graham Greene (1904–1991) English writer, playwright and literary critic

Love, God

“If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again.”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

“Is it still there?" I asked, staring at his head, bent over, as he wedged the stethoscope beneath my left breast. And then, before I could stop myself, "Does it sound broken?”

Jennifer Weiner book Good in Bed

Source: Good in Bed

“I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Moveable Feast

As quoted in Reporting (1964) by Lillian Ross
Source: A Moveable Feast

Spring, Learning, Parting, Night

“Love doesn’t stop people from betraying each other”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Eternal Lover

Love, People

“I wish I could stop being in love with Sam. I really do.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Love

“I always pushed myself. Whenever I felt I needed to stop, I made myself run faster.”

Cecelia Ahern book A Place Called Here

Source: A Place Called Here

“How do you get off a non-stop flight?”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

“America's political system used to be about the pursuit of happiness. Now More and more of us want to stop chasing it and have it delivered.”

Jonah Goldberg (1969) American political writer and pundit

Source: Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning

Happiness

“The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.”

Bette Davis (1908–1989) film and television actress from the United States

Life, Dead, Motivational, Graduation

“Early in the journey you wonder how long the journey will take and whether you will make it in this lifetime. Later you will see that where you are going is HERE and you will arrive NOW… so you stop asking.”

Ram Dass book Be Here Now

Source: Be Here Now

“Oooh! Stop that. When you smile at me I want all of it."
"What?" He looked confused”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: The Dark Highlander

Smile

“It would be nice if you’d stop almost killing me because you don’t want to screw other people.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Danse Macabre

Source: Danse Macabre

“But I've never despised myself so much as I did that day - she was so small and - so fierce, so, it was like breaking a hawk's wings, stopping up a clear spring with bricks - digging up roses to make space to park your tank. Pointless and ugly.”

Elizabeth Wein book Code Name Verity

Source: Code Name Verity

Spring

“And I stop listening to me, because to put it bluntly, I tire me.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.”

Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet

Source: Moby-Dick or, The Whale

World, Way, Travel

“The English play hockey in any weather. Thunder, lightening, plague of locusts… nothing can stop the hockey. Do not fight the hockey, for the hockey will win.”

Maureen Johnson (1973) writer from the USA

Fight, Weather, Hockey

“But sometimes the world disrobes, slips its dress off a shoulder, stops time for a beat. If we look up at that moment, it's not due to any ability of ours to pierce the darkness, it's the world's brief bestowal. The catastrophe of grace.”

Anne Michaels book Fugitive Pieces

Source: Fugitive Pieces

World, Time

“Because I never have any definite destination. This ship is not for going to places, but for getting away from them. When I stop at a port, it's only for the sheer pleasure of leaving it. I always think: here's one more place that can't hold me.”

Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher

Pleasure, Thinking

“I need to write. It keeps me focused for long enough to complete thoughts. To let each train of thought run to its conclusion and let a new one begin. It keeps me thinking. I’m afraid that if I stop writing I’ll stop thinking and start feeling.”

Carrie Fisher book The Princess Diarist

Source: The Princess Diarist

Feeling, Thinking, Training

“But what I wanted back had never really been there. He was a temporary illusion, a mirage of water after walking in the desert. I had made him up. And he could have killed me. You've got to stop the ride sometimes. Stop it and get off.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

Water

“As if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. Since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Variant: And now I'm looking at you, he said, and you're asking me if I still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything ever has.
Source: City of Glass

Love, Time

“I felt a queasy mixture of relief and horror: when you finally stop an itch and realize it’s because you’ve ripped a hole in your skin.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“After a while you learn that everything stops.”

Bret Easton Ellis (1964) American novelist

Learning

“I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.”

Elizabeth Strout book Abide with Me

Source: Abide with Me

Love, Hope

“Calmness of mind does not mean you should stop your activity. Real calmness should be found in activity itself. We say, "It is easy to have calmness in inactivity, it is hard to have calmness in activity, but calmness in activity is true calmness.”

Shunryu Suzuki (1904–1971) Japanese Buddhist missionary

Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

“When we stop caring about what people think, we lose our capacity for connection. When we become defined by what people think, we lose our willingness to be vulnerable.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

People, Thinking

“They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, which I was sure they would never do, they planned to change the world.”

Gloria Whelan book Listening for Lions

Source: Listening for Lions

Books, World, Change, Painting

Allan Pease book The Definitive Book of Body Language

Source: The Definitive Book of Body Language

Feeling

“good call. A second drag and your next stop's the wastepaper basket - and not to toss your kleenex, true.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Reborn

“An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop.”

Iain Banks book Excession

Source: Excession

Way, Problem

“Meg! I love you! I want to marry you!"
"That's weird," she said without stopping. "Only six weeks ago, you were telling me all about how Lucy broke your heart."
"I was wrong. Lucy broke my brain.”

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer

Source: Call Me Irresistible

Love, Heart

“When you interrupt, you've stopped listening. People need to be heard.”

Jerry Seinfeld (1954) American comedian and actor

People

“Stop your doubting, my love. I knew you would find me. ~Jack”

Melissa de la Cruz book Misguided Angel

Source: Misguided Angel

Love

“They've arrested Sebastian! For m-murder! You've g-got to stop them! He d-didn't do it! He can't have done it! He doesn't believe in murder! He's a v-vegetarian!”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Big Boned

“I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.”

William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) American poet

Disease, Thinking

“If you stop thinking, if you stop wondering, you die.”

Gary Shteyngart Super Sad True Love Story

Source: Super Sad True Love Story

Thinking

“I’m stopped by the sight of Finnick kissing Peeta.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Kiss

“It's like banging my head against the wall, except if I were actually banging my head on a wall, I'd be able to make myself stop.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

“Stop running, you fools!" Kronos yelled. "Stand and ACKK!"
That last part was because a panicked Hyperborean giant stumbled backwards and sat on top of him. The lord of time disappeared under a giant blue butt.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Fools, Time, Parting

“View your life with KINDSIGHT. Stop beating yourself up about things from your past. Instead of slapping your forehead and asking, “What was I thinking,” breathe and ask yourself the kinder question, “What was I learning?”

Karen Salmansohn American writer

Source: Bounce Back Book

Life, Question, Thinking, Learning

“When you go through a disappointment, when you go through a loss, don’t stop on that page. Keep moving forward. There’s another chapter in front of you, but you have to be willing to walk into it.”

Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author

Source: I Declare: 31 Promises to Speak Over Your Life

Disappointment, Loss

“There are a lot of questions I keep asking myself about why I do comedy. I guess I laugh to keep from crying. And I guess if you ever get me crying, I might not stop. This is the way I look at tragedy or else I'll cry.”

Bob Newhart (1929) American stand-up comedian and actor

Way, Question, Cry

“Perfection is the satin-lined casket of creativity and originality. If you are a perfectionist, at least stop telling everybody you're one and try to get over it yourself, alone in your home with the lights off”

Augusten Burroughs (1965) American writer

Source: This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.

Home, Light, Perfection

“Georgie, stop trying to resurrect the shoes. They were never alive in the first place.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: On the Edge

Shoe

“What if we could stop being different colors, different backgrounds, and just be in love?”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

Love, Color

“I'm scared," Nico mumbled. He was fiddling with something—a little metal toy soldier of some kind.
"Stop talking!" Dr. Thorn said. "Face me!”

Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse

Source: The Titan's Curse

“Please stop looking at me, she thought, afraid of his eyes and terrified of her own heart.”

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

Source: The Bronze Horseman

Heart

“I find myself looking into people's eyes more than I ever did before. And I realize, that's where we stop being a certain gender or color. Just look right into the center of the eye.”

David Levithan book Another Day

Source: Another Day

People, Color

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

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

Deep, Leadership, Back To Work

“Owen meany who rarely wasted words and who had the conversation-stopping habit of dropping remarks like coins into a deep pool of water… remarks that sank, like truth, to the bottom of the pool where they would remain untouchable.”

John Irving book A Prayer for Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany

Truth, Water

“If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.”

Norman Douglas (1868–1952) British writer

Children

“Clovis,’ Nico growled, ‘for the gods’ sake, stop dreaming so powerfully!”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

God, Dreams

“I know why we laugh. We laugh because it hurts, and it's the only thing to make it stop hurting.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Stranger in a Strange Land

Variant: I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much... because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

Hurt