Quotes about stop

page 7

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

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

“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?”

“Promise me you'll never stop dreaming.”

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

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

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

“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)”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

-Haruhi”

“I love you, I'll never stop.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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!”

“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.”

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

“You fail only if you stop writing.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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?”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“After a while you learn that everything stops.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Smoking is similar to hitting yourself over the head with
a hammer because, when you stop, you feel better”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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!”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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?”

“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.”

“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.”

“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”

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

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

“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!”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“Heathcliff, make the world stop right here. Make everything stop and stand still and never move again. Make the moors never change and you and I never change.”

“My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.”

“But I'm not ready to stop listening to the screwed-up inner voice that's been ordering me around for a lifetime. My head thinks it can kill me… and go on living without me.”

“a lesson must be lived
in order to be learned
and the clarity to see and stop this now
that is what i've earned”

“Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out there, a volcano might blow, Israeli commandos might decimate a Palestinian village. I couldn't stop it. I was going to sleep.”

“I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.”

“It's just me and the Bane. And I'm fighting him because he killed all of those innocent mice and people, and I have to stop him. Not because Sandwich says so but because I say so.”

“No 'Glory shall be your reward' for me. Oh, no, for me, it is, 'Stop whining' and 'Go to bed'.”

“And now I have to stop. Because every time I remember this, I have to cry a little by myself. I don't know why something that made me so happy then feels so sad now. Maybe that is the way it is with the best memories.”

“Inuyasha: "Stop blubbering already, I'm fine."
Kagome:"I'm not blubbering."
Inuyasha:"Okay, crying."
Kagome:"I am not."
Inuyasha:"Are too."
Kagome:I am NOT!"
Inuyasha:"You are so!"
Kagome:"I am not, so just shuddup and sit!”

“Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.”

“I run after her, not really giving chase. I’m running because I can, because I must.
Because I want to see how far I can go before I have to stop.”

“If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.”

“When he says we’re forgiven, let’s unload the guilt. When he says we’re valuable, let’s believe him…. When he says we’re provided for, let’s stop worrying. God’s efforts are strongest when our efforts are useless”