Quotes about stop
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“His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.”

Source: The Magicians

“The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.”

The Next in Line (1947)
Source: The October Country (1955)
Context: “Don’t these people ever get lonely?”
“They’re used to it this way.”
“Don’t they get afraid, then?”
”They have a religion for that.”
“I wish I had a religion.”
“The minute you get a religion you stop thinking,” he said. “Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.”

Religion, Idea, Thinking

“Fanfiction isn't copying - it's a. One long party, from the first capital letter to the last full stop!”

Jasper Fforde book One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

Source: One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

“Everywhere I've turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my good—only they were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?”

Ralph Ellison book Invisible Man

Source: Invisible Man (1952), Chapter 23.

“Stop!" he yelled at the others. "Multigrain fighting is not allowed!”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

Fight

“It's all right to be afraid. You just don't let it stop you from doing your job.”

Jim Butcher book Fool Moon

Source: Fool Moon

“And this wise man said: stop.
He said, stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing — because it's already blessed.”

Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2

National Prayer Breakfast (2006)
Context: A number of years ago, I met a wise man who changed my life. In countless ways, large and small, I was always seeking the Lord's blessing. I was saying, you know, I have a new song, look after it... I have a family, please look after them... I have this crazy idea...
And this wise man said: stop.
He said, stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing — because it's already blessed.

God

“Never thee stop believin' in th' Big Good Thing an' knowin' th' world's full of it - and call it what tha' likes. Tha' wert singin' to it when I come into t' garden.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

Source: The Secret Garden

World

“I held my breath as we do sometimes to stop time when something wonderful has touched us…”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Source: New and Selected Poems, Vol. 2

Time

“Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.”

Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) American playwright

Suffering, Dead

“Don't drink too much."
"When I can spell out your name in shot glasses, I'll stop."
"I'll have to get a shorter name."
"I'll have to forget how to spell it.”

Richard Kadrey (1957) San Francisco-based novelist, freelance writer, and photographer

Source: Kill the Dead

Drink, Forgetting

“You don't know me, but I know about you… I can't make you live longer. I can't stop you from hurting. But I can give you one wish, as someone did for me.”

Lurlene McDaniel (1944) American writer

Source: Sixteen and Dying

Hurt

“You take every opportunity given you in this world, even if you have too many opportunities. One day, the opportunities stop, you know.”

John Irving book The Hotel New Hampshire

Source: The Hotel New Hampshire

World

“And I was having too much fun to stop now.”

Jeff Lindsay book Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter

“Hate Scars. I'm physically flawless-why can't everyone be? Everywhere Lothaire went, people stopped and stared. Of course, then they usually ran. Lothair Enemy of Old”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dreams of a Dark Warrior

Hate, People

“Here's the funny thing about the world coming to an end. Once it gets going, it doesn't seem to stop.”

Susan Beth Pfeffer book Life As We Knew It

Source: Life As We Knew It

World

“You're terrified of being alone. Anything you do now will be motivated by that fear. You have to stop worrying about finding love again. It will come when it comes. Get comfortable with being alone. It will empower you.”

Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer

Source: This is Where I Leave You

Love, Fear, Motivation

“What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?”

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

Source: Frankenstein

Heart

“writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

People

“I don't know what I'm doing, but my incompetence has never stopped my enthusiasm.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Variant: I have no idea what I am doing but incompetence has never prevented me from plunging in with enthusiasm.

“Do not tarry, do not stop, no matter what happens.”

Garth Nix book Abhorsen

Source: Sabriel

“I wonder when you stopped telling me everything Yuki. In ten years, that`s the only thing that has ever changed.”

Matsuri Hino Japanese manga artist

Source: Vampire Knight, Vol. 2

Change

“Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.”

Ben Carson book Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

Source: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

People, Problem, Success

“The blood jet is poetry,
There is no stopping it.”

Sylvia Plath Ariel

"Kindness" http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/kindness.html <br class="br">Source: Ariel (1965)

“When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't…”

Luke Davies (1962) Australian writer

Source: Candy

“Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

Books

“When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

Source: Andy Warhol in His Own Words

People, Change

“When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.”

Jimmy Breslin (1928–2017) American journalist and author

Drink, Personality

“I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book The warrior's Apprentice

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)

“It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn't the whole population.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Friday

Source: Friday

People, Religion, Country

“Stop and consider! life is but a day;
A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way
From a tree’s summit.”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

" Sleep and Poetry http://www.bartleby.com/126/31.html", st. 5 <br class="br">Poems (1817) <br class="br">Source: The Complete Poems

Life, Way, Tree

“Will we ever stop being afraid of nights and death?

When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

Death, Fear, Star, Boy

“Surely the Shadowhunter community must honor you and hold you in high esteem as a gentleman who has truly advanced their race. No, Henry said sadly. Mostly they wish that I would stop suggesting new inventions and cease setting fire to things.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Princess

Communication

“I stop paying attention because as much as I love beauty, I hate stupidity, and seeing the two combined pisses me off.”

Tucker Max I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell

Source: I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell

Love, Hate, Stupidity, Beauty

“What he needed was to find fifty more people like him, who had stopped being themselves without realizing it.”

Jennifer Egan A Visit from the Goon Squad

Source: A Visit from the Goon Squad

People

“Maybe you can keep me from never being happy, but you're not going to stop me from HAVING FUN!”

Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist

Happiness

“Got your text,” he said when I climbed out. “How much did it hurt?”
“Not at all,” I said. “Apparently, I can’t get a tattoo because I’m a witch.”
“I could have told them-” He stopped. “Oh, you said witch.”
“Ha-ha.”

Kelley Armstrong The Gathering

Source: The Gathering

Tattoo, Hurt

“Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.”

Italo Calvino book Invisible Cities

Source: Invisible Cities

Star

“Would you stop thinking about what everyone wants. Stop thinking
about what I want, what he wants, what your parents want. What do you want?”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

Thinking, Parent

“Sorrow is like the ocean and sometimes I wish my heart would stop.”

Will Christopher Baer (1966) American writer

Heart

“But even a ninety-year-old blind priest would stop and stare at this woman. If he weren’t blind, that is. Dumb metaphor, I thought. I’ll have to work on that one. I have trouble with metaphors.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: Steelheart

“Sheriff Mossberg was one of those people who never stop speaking until
they are finished, so by this time he was saying: “Do you understand
these rights?”
“No, sir! Mi ne komprenas Dumbtalk!”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Shadow Souls

People, Understanding, Time

“Do not let what you think they think of you make you stop and question everything you are.”

Carrie Fisher book The Princess Diarist

Source: The Princess Diarist

Question, Thinking

“Being vegetarian here also means that we do not consume dairy and egg products, because they are products of the meat industry. If we stop consuming, they will stop producing. Only collective awakening can create enough determination for action.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Source: The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom

“… sometimes when we are beating ourselves up, we need to stop and say to that harassing voice inside, "Man, I'm doing the very best I can right now."”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

Source: Rising Strong

“I've got to stop being such a snob about leather-bound books, he reminded himself. E-books do have their moments.”

Dan Brown book Inferno

Source: Inferno

Books

“Alek said, "Do you think I'm being a fool?"

"I think you're trying to do something good. But doing good is rarely easy, and no weapon has ever stopped a war.”

Scott Westerfeld book Goliath

Source: Goliath

War, Fools, Thinking

“No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book.”

Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980) poet and political activist

Books, Reading

“He offered to stop the tide for me once. He offered to build me a palace at the bottom of the sea.”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

Sea

“It feels strange to have spen much time wishing for something, for someone and then one day, suddenly, to just stop”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Feeling, Time

“… this time I didn't launch into my usual tirade. Was it a memory of Krishna, the cool silence with which he countered disagreement, that stopped me? I saw something I hadn't realized before: words wasted energy.”

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1956) novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist

Source: The Palace of Illusions

Silence, Memory, Time

“When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.”

Tom Robbins (1932) American writer

“Because the moment you stop doing the very things that got you to the top of the mountain is the very moment you begin the slid down to the valley.”

Robin S. Sharma (1965) Canadian self help writer

Mountain

“So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.”

A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

Books

“Zach, we have to stop her!"
But Zach just held me. He looked at me with shock and awe and just a little bit of wonder. In spite of everything, I thought that he might laugh.
"Gallagher Girl," he told me, "youthe school.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: United We Spy

Youth, School, Girl

“A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….”

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer

Training

“Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.”

Tom Clancy (1947–2013) American author

As quoted in The Appraiser's Handbook : A Guide for Doctors (2007) by Nick Lyons, Susanne Caesar, Abayomi McEwen, p. 11.

Life, Learning

“Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.”

Tony Schwartz (1952) American writer

Learning

“I do so wish my breasts would stop staring at your eyes.”

Kresley Cole book No Rest for the Wicked

Source: No Rest for the Wicked

“See that little girl? I wanted to marry her mother, but she ran off with a coal miner," "A coal miner? Why did she want a coal miner if she could've had you?" "Because when he sings… even the birds stop to listen.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Girl, Bird, Singing

“You can include me, too." William blew Olivia a kiss, and her cheeks heated with a blush. "No need to say anything. I already know what words are perched on your tongue. Stop me if I'm wrong, but my getting to know you will be your pleasure.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Darkest Passion

Pleasure, Kiss

“You know you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle.”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

“Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.”

Robert Anton Wilson (1932–2007) American author and polymath

Source: Cosmic Trigger: Die letzten Geheimnisse der Illuminaten oder An den Grenzen des erweiterten Bewusstseins

Death, Intelligence, Thinking

“Clary stopped dead in her tracks. "Simon?"

"Oh, God," said Jace, sounding resigned. "And here I'd actually hoped I'd got hold of something interesting." -Clary and Jace pg. 114”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

God, Hope, Dead

“As a ten-year-old boy, the Thief of Eddis could stop a grown man in his tracks with a single look. Where had that look gone?”

Megan Whalen Turner The King of Attolia

Source: The King of Attolia

Boy

“The point is, you see," said Ford, "that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.”

Douglas Adams Life, the Universe and Everything

Source: Life, the Universe and Everything

Madness

“Because Father said clocks slay time. He said time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.”

William Faulkner book The Sound and the Fury

Variant: Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
Source: The Sound and the Fury (1929)

Life, Time, Dead

“The more you try to crush your true nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Love, Nature

“When did we stop being people, being human?”

Malorie Blackman book Knife Edge

Source: Knife Edge

People

“This, she realizes, is the basis of all fear. That a light you are powerless to stop will turn on you and usher a bullet to its mark.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

Fear, Light

“A black cat crossed my path, and I stopped to dance around it widdershins and to sing the rhyme”

Joanne Harris book Chocolat

Source: Chocolat

Cats, Singing, Dance

“Gonna change my way of thinking, make my self a different set of rules. Gonna put my good foot forward and stop being influenced by fools.”

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

Fools, Way, Thinking, Change

“stop talking about the things that are bothering you so much.”

Esther Hicks (1948) American writer

Source: The Astonishing Power of Emotions: Let Your Feelings Be Your Guide

“Know the quiet place within your heart and touch the rainbow of possibility; be alive to the gentle breeze of communication, and please stop being such a jerk.”

Garrison Keillor (1942) American radio host and writer

Source: The Book of Guys

Jerk, Communication, Heart

“What do you think of that? It’s stopped raining."
I’m glad Jay." Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

Beauty, Thinking, Joy

“I’ve stopped talking because there’s really nothing left to say and there’s this piercing sort of pain where my heart is. Maybe I’m even having a heart attack, but it doesn’t seem worth mentioning.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Pain, Heart

“How do you tell an adult that maybe everything wrong in the world stems from the fact that she's stopped believing the impossible can happen?”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Between the Lines

World

“I wish everyone would stop crying, Tom. Uncle Joe would be so angry about it." But she's crying herself now. "He'd be so angry at us, Tom, for crying so much when all he did was laugh.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: The Piper's Son

Cry

“Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.”

Diane Ackerman (1948) Author, poet, naturalist

Time

“There's no way to release yourself from a memory. It ends when it wants to end, whether it's in a flash or long after you've begged it to stop.”

David Levithan book Every You, Every Me

Source: Every You, Every Me

Way, Memory

“What was a foreigner, anyway? Is the place you're born the only place you really belong? At what point do you stop being from "away" and start being from "here"?”

Blue Balliett book The Calder Game

Source: The Calder Game

“Cats are the lap-dancers of the animal world. Soon as you stop shelling out, they move on, find another lap. They're furry little sociopaths. Pretty and slick -- in love with themselves. When's the last time you saw a seeing-eye cat?”

Andrew Vachss (1942) American writer and lawyer

Source: Safe House

Love, World, Cats, Time

“They signed the unwind order just to spite each other, but laugh, laugh, laugh, Hayden, because if you ever stop laughing, it might just tear you apart worse than a Chop Shop.”

Neal Shusterman (1962) American novelist

Source: UnWholly

Tear

“You're my friend, Danny. You understand? There's no debt between friends."
Maybe it's just that the debt gets so high you stop counting it.”

Lilith Saintcrow (1976) American writer

Understanding

“We don't stop loving people just because we hate them, but we don't stop hating them either.”

Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer

Source: One Last Thing Before I Go

Love, Hate, People

“If people don't want to come to the ballpark how are you going to stop them?”

Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American baseball player, manager, coach

The Yogi book: I really didn't say everything I said!, Workman Publishing, 1997, ISBN 0761110909, p. 36.
The quote "If people don’t want to come, nothing will stop them" first appears in 1952, credited to music impresario Sol Hurok. It was first attributed to Berra in 1962. See http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/10/30/stop-em/
Disputed

People

“I wanted you to stop.” “I was encouraged by you breathlessly moaning my name.” I spun on my foot. “I wasn’t moaning your name. I was shrieking in alarm.” “That was the sexiest throaty shrieking I’ve ever heard.” “You need to get out more.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Burn for Me