Stopping famous quotes

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
-- Aaron Copland

#Music #Would Be #Stopping

The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It's not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
-- Adam McKay

#Land #Stopping #Invasion

How about not equating death with stopping?
-- Alanis Morissette

#Stopping

When I'm nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Stopping #Nervous #Starting

Sometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping.
-- Anita Shreve

#Feet #Stopping #Matter

Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery.
-- Anna Godbersen

#Heart #Envy #Stopping

Although I have lived in London, I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me, and it has been too.
-- Annie Lennox

#Home #Stopping #London

I can't envisage stopping writing.
-- Antony Beevor

#Writing #Stopping

Meditation is not about stopping thoughts, but recognizing that we are more than our thoughts and our feelings.
-- Arianna Huffington

#Meditation #Feelings #Stopping

The people who leave the planet during the time of Earth changes do not fit in here any longer, and they are stopping the harmony of Earth. When the time comes that perhaps 20 million people leave the planet at one time there will be a tremendous shift in consciousness for those who are remaining.
-- Barbara Marciniak

#People #Stopping #Earth

Stopping crime before it occurs is the most effective crime fighting tool of all.
-- Blanche Lincoln

#Fighting #Stopping #Tools

The deluded mind is the mind affectively burdened by intellect. Thus, it cannot move without stopping and reflecting on itself. This obstructs its native fluidity.
-- Bruce Lee

#Moving #Mind #Stopping

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

#Dog #Criminals #Stopping

Learning more truth is a poor and cheap substitute for stopping and putting into action the truth already learned
-- Charles R. Swindoll

#Stopping #Action #Truth Is

I always thought when I was doing more melodramatic stuff like Everwood that the directors were constantly reeling me in and stopping me from being funny. I've always tried to find a funny angle on things, and 99 percent of the time, it just doesn't work.
-- Chris Pratt

#Directors #Stopping #Stuff

The only person stopping you from doing something is yourself, and looking for excuses all the time just gets in the way of obtaining your own goals. It's like the writer who keeps getting up and straightening the pictures in the room.
-- Chrissie Hynde

#Effectiveness #Goal #Stopping

I know how to go, go, go. Stopping, I've learned is the stuff of mastery.
-- Danielle LaPorte

#Mastery #Stopping #Stuff

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.
-- Dave Eggers

#Book #Unique #Stopping

The wrong answers are stopping the right ones from emerging.
-- David Rock

#Stopping #Answers #Emerging

Nothing is made, nothing disappears. The same changes, at the same places, never stopping.
-- Dejan Stojanovic

#Stopping #Disappear #Made

A poet articulating the dreads and horrors of our time is necessary in order to make readers understand what is happening, really understand it, not just know about it but feel it: and should be accompanied by a willingness on the part of those who write it to take additional action towards stopping the great miseries which they record.
-- Denise Levertov

#Writing #Order #Stopping

The storm starts, when the drops start dropping When the drops stop dropping then the storm starts stopping.
-- Dr. Seuss

#Rain #Storm #Stopping

Mindfulness has helped me succeed in almost every dimension of my life. By stopping regularly to look inward and become aware of my mental state, I stay connected to the source of my actions and thoughts and can guide them with considerably more intention.
-- Dustin Moskovitz

#Mindfulness #Inward #Stopping

Stopping Vieques bombing range good; sooner is better.
-- Ed Pastor

#Stopping #Range #Bombing

There was a young lady named Mae Who smoked without stopping all day; As pack followed pack, Her lungs first turned black, And eventually rotted away.
-- Edward Gorey

#Black #Stopping #Firsts

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

#Inspiring #Journey #Stopping

There's so much world to see, what's stopping you from flying free?
-- Eyedea

#Flying #Stopping #World

But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.
-- Frances Perkins

#Depression #Progress #Stopping

Stopping an army, isn't that something you try 300 times before you do it?
-- Gabrielle

#Army #Trying #Stopping

When the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes thinkable.
-- Gary Zukav

#Pain #Stopping #Threshold

I enjoy going on motorcycle trips and stopping in small towns and enjoying drinks with the locals.
-- George Clooney

#Motorcycle #Stopping #Towns

I can now see to the bottom of my own depths, there is nothing stopping my gaze, no obstacle is in the way. And there is nothing there.
-- Georges Bernanos

#Depth #Stopping #Way

I have a real problem with stillness. With just stopping and being quiet.
-- Gillian Anderson

#Real #Stopping #Quiet

Once I unlocked the mystery of the alphabet that led to words, a multitude of words connecting me to the world, there was no stopping me.
-- Gloria Naylor

#Stopping #World #Alphabet

I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.
-- Harold Prince

#Past #Thinking #Stopping

Ministry, however, is simply loving the person in front of you. It's about stopping for the one and being the very fragrance of Jesus to a lost and dying world.
-- Heidi Baker

#Jesus #Dying #Stopping

If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Stopping #Laziness #Ruins

When I began writing, the words that inspired me were these: A writer is someone who has written today. If you want to be a writer, whats stopping you?
-- J. A. Jance

#Writing #Stopping #Want

If you want to be like someone, there's nothing stopping you from modeling yourself after someone else. You don't have to BE them - that's not your job in life. Your job in life is not to be someone else. You just want to be as good at being you as that person is at being them.
-- Jenna Marbles

#Being Yourself #Jobs #Stopping

if we begin on the men, there is no stopping. We must love them when we can.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Men #Stopping #He Man

This is exciting, it is bold and it is absolutely necessary if we are to have any chance of stopping potentially catastrophic changes to our climate system.
-- Jerry Brown

#Climate #Stopping #Chance

I am all for art's finding a large audience. But the way that's happening now, with big works filling big galleries and bigger shows, is mostly stopping statements from being made. Or heard. Or talked about. Or really examined. It's watering things down.
-- Jerry Saltz

#Art #Stopping #Way

There is no way of steering successfully between a failed situation and a failed self except by stopping and taking our bearings.
-- Jo Coudert

#Failure #Self #Stopping

I've been obsessed with stopping people from blowing each other's brains out since I was ten.
-- Joan Baez

#People #Brain #Stopping

Umpire Harold Bird, having a wonderful time, signalling everything in the world, including stopping traffic coming on from behind.
-- John Arlott

#Umpires #Bird #Stopping

As a World-trekker, go-getter Retirement won't have you stopping You'll be seen where the bananas and mangos come from At the supermarket....doing the shopping
-- John Walter Bratton

#Retirement #Shopping #Stopping

Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
-- Jon Kabat-Zinn

#And Love #Stopping #Sanity

That was never on my radar, traffic stopping. It was never important to me.
-- Kathy Ireland

#Important #Stopping #Traffic

Relationships do change throughout the course of your life, and I always think in terms of relationships changing and evolving rather than starting and stopping.
-- Kimora Lee Simmons

#Thinking #Stopping #Starting

I completely bombed the audition... I was insecure, stopping and starting. I went to the bathroom and cried.
-- Lake Bell

#Insecure #Stopping #Auditions

You want a better, more fraternal, more just world? Well then, start building it: Who is stopping you? Build it inside yourself and around you, build it with those who want it. Build it small, and it will grow.
-- Lanza del Vasto

#Stopping #World #Want

Freedom is about stopping the past.
-- Lawrence Lessig

#Past #Stopping

Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal.
-- Lawrence Lessig

#Past #Trying #Stopping

Television. An advanced technical method of stopping people from making their own entertainment.
-- Leonard Rossiter

#People #Stopping #Television

I want to keep pushing the limits to see what's possible. That's the nice thing about ski racing - no one is stopping you from going faster.
-- Lindsey Vonn

#Nice #Racing #Stopping

If you wanna go somewhere, you can do; nothing is stopping you.
-- Louis Tomlinson

#Stopping

I like coming up with these spectacular extravaganzas that will, hopefully, totally blow people away. But I also like the intimacy of stopping it all and sitting at the edge of the stage and connecting with individual people in the audience.
-- Madonna Ciccone

#Blow #People #Stopping

Barry recounts all this in prose of often startling beauty. Just as he describes people stopping in the street to look at Roseanne, so I often found myself stopping to look at the sentences he gave her, wanting to pause and copy them down.
-- Margot Livesey

#People #Stopping #Looks

How many thoughts float in and out of your head without your stopping to identify them? How many ideas and insights have escaped because you forgot to pay attention?
-- Maria Konnikova

#Ideas #Stopping #Attention

Creative work, summarized: In the time you set aside each day to work your ***** off, ignore anything that makes you consider stopping.
-- Merlin Mann

#Creative #Each Day #Stopping

It seems like we're spending billions of dollars on whiz-bang technology and not enough money on human resources, which really is proven to be the most effective way of stopping terrorism.
-- Mike Huckabee

#Technology #Dollars #Stopping

Well, as everyone knows, once witchcraft gets started, there's no stopping it.
-- Mikhail Bulgakov

#Stopping #Witchcraft #Wells

You know the real me," she said, stopping to peer up at him. "More than anyone else.
-- Nicholas Sparks

#Real #Stopping #Peers

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.
-- Noam Chomsky

#War #Stopping #Way

The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.
-- Orson Scott Card

#Jobs #The End Of The Day #Stopping

Do not pass by the oasis without stopping to drink.
-- Otto Gross

#Oasis #Stopping #Drink

I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
-- Paul Cezanne

#Artist #Years #Stopping

Philosophy can be compared to some powders that are so corrosive that, after they have eaten away the infected flesh of a wound, they then devour the living flesh, rot the bones, and penetrate to the very marrow. Philosophy at first refutes errors. But if it is not stopped at this point, it goes on to attack truths. And when it is left on its own, it goes so far that it no longer knows where it is and can find no stopping place.
-- Pierre Bayle

#Philosophy #Errors #Stopping

Eleanor had never thought about killing herself – ever – but she thought a lot about stopping. Just running until she couldn’t run anymore. Jumping from something so high that she’d never hit the bottom.
-- Rainbow Rowell

#Running #Jumping #Stopping

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.
-- Ralph Ellison

#Power #Self #Stopping

I've done sexual stuff before - onstage, which is even more emotionally difficult. With a TV crew around, you are stopping and starting; it becomes really technical. It's not erotic at all.
-- Randy Harrison

#Stopping #Done #Stuff

There's no stopping Randy Orton!
-- Randy Orton

#Stopping #Randy Orton #Randy

A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing and changing scemery.
-- Ray Bradbury

#Rivers #Stories #Stopping

Go ahead with your life, your plans.... Don't waste time by stopping before the interruptions have started.
-- Richard L. Evans

#Waste #Stopping #Wasting Time

You didn't think that when you got up this morning that this would be the day your life would change did you? But it's going to happen because the only thing that stands between you and grand success are getting started and not stopping.
-- Robert H. Schuller

#Morning #Thinking #Stopping

Men and women walked casually about as they did on the main floor, every now and then stopping one another, exchanging pleasantries or scraps of relevantly irrelevant information. Gossip.
-- Robert Ludlum

#Men #Gossip #Stopping

I don't fear stopping a 100 mph slap shot. I fear not stopping it!
-- Roberto Luongo

#Hockey #Mph #Stopping

Communicate everything you can to your associates. The more they know, the more they care. Once they care, there is no stopping them.
-- Sam Walton

#Inspirational #Care #Stopping

I'll have to admit, he really does have quite a smile.Kind of heart-stopping, especially as it comes out of nowhere. I mean... you know. If your heart was in the kind of place to be stopped.
-- Sophie Kinsella

#Mean #Heart #Stopping

Clearly the secret of happiness...is a variation on the general principle of banging your head against a wall, and then stopping.
-- Stef Penney

#Wall #Secret #Stopping

You've probably got a device on you that can shoot decent video, so what's stopping you?
-- Steve Garfield

#Marketing #Stopping #Video

Stopping is a spiritual art. It is the refuge where we drink life in.
-- Sue Monk Kidd

#Spiritual #Art #Stopping

This is about doing something difficult and not stopping when it becomes not just difficult, but cold and difficult...or cold and wet and difficult...or cold and wet and dark and difficult.
-- Suzy Favor Hamilton

#Dark #Champion #Stopping

Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.
-- Tara Brach

#Beautiful #Offering #Stopping

I dont plan on stopping anytime soon.
-- Teena Marie

#Stopping #Plans

I'm more old-fashioned than a lot of women...I don't view abortion as just a nothing. It is stopping the process of life.
-- Teresa Heinz

#Views #Abortion #Stopping

No, because retiring is stopping. If I wanted to stop, I would have stopped.
-- Thierry Henry

#Retirement #Stopping #Retiring

My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.
-- Thomas A. Edison

#Quality #Stopping #Ability

‎"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.
-- Thomas Merton

#Jobs #Stopping #Worthy

As long as I have people's attention, I can't stop. You can't put the public on hold, because they might not be there when you get back. I have a pathological fear of stopping.
-- Tina Turner

#Long #People #Stopping

So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'
-- Tommy Cooper

#House #Stopping #Want

Remarriage is or is not approved in shastra; I have no authority to speak on this subject. But I surely cannot go on without saying this much, that remarriage has helped a great deal in stopping crime in Fiji.
-- Totaram Sanadhya

#Goes On #Stopping #Fiji

We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality.
-- Wallace Shawn

#Country #Scary #Stopping

There are many ways to grow football-wise. You go slow or are pushed to go faster, otherwise you get left behind. For me, there would be trouble in stopping learning.
-- Wayne Rooney

#Wise #Football #Stopping

Many Canadian nationalists harbour the bizarre fear that should we ever reject royalty, we would instantly mutate into Americans, as though the Canadian sense of self is so frail and delicate a bud, that the only thing stopping it from being swallowed whole by the US is an English lady in a funny hat.
-- Will Ferguson

#Humorous #Self #Stopping

I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.
-- Will Rogers

#War #Lasts #Stopping

The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process.
-- William Devane

#Stopping #Aging #Process

Stopping emissions growth represents the most minimal of do-something responses.
-- William H. Calvin

#Growth #Climate #Stopping

There's just no stopping those girls with guitars.
-- Wynonna Judd

#Girl #Guitar #Stopping

Something in me wanted to find out how far I could run without stopping.
-- Zac Hanson

#Running #Stopping #Wanted