Stopping Quotes
When the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes thinkable.
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.
Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken by illegal aliens.
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.
Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.
When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator.
Design job fell on me. I didn't want to do it. It was an accident. For the first 10 years I said, "Tomorrow I'm stopping."
Umpire Harold Bird, having a wonderful time, signalling everything in the world, including stopping traffic coming on from behind.
Americans threw away their communities in order to save a few dollars on hair dryers and plastic food storage tubs, never stopping to reflect on what they were destroying.
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
There is no way of steering successfully between a failed situation and a failed self except by stopping and taking our bearings.
Death - a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh.
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.
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.
Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.
Sometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping.
I've always really just liked football, and I've always devoted a lot of time to it. If it is 11 against 10 then you have almost no chance of stopping him.
When a thing is not done, continuing to work is the strength; but when it is done, the strength lies in stopping.
I've been obsessed with stopping people from blowing each other's brains out since I was ten.
Meditation is not about stopping thoughts, but recognizing that we are more than our thoughts and our feelings.
For it is the working people who have their hands on the machinery. And only by stopping the machinery of destruction can we ever hope to stop this madness.
Half of my success is my fearlessness and recklessness, of just seeing the end and not stopping until you get there.
When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.
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.
When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.
I double-knot my shoe laces. It's a pain untying your shoes afterward-particularly if you get them wet-but so is stopping in the middle of a race to tie them.
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
I believe that preventing radicalisation is far more efficient than de-radicalisation, meaning stopping someone joining is a lot easier than trying to pull someone out once they've joined.
The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.
It's easy to operate under the illusion that what we are doing is so important we cannot stop doing it. ... Stopping is a spiritual act. It is the refuge where we drink life in.
I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the 'monkey mind' -- the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl.
Your time as the entrepreneur is worth hundreds of dollars an hour. If you are doing tasks you could hire out, those are stopping you from earning that kind of money.
I was a wayward child, very passionate and very determined. If I made up my mind to do something, there was no stopping me.
You'll often find that it's not mom or dad, husband or wife, or the kids that's stopping you. It's you. Get out of your own way.
The only real form of pollution is people. Any ecological system which does not include the reduction or stopping of growth of the population is eyewash
The stopping of the Judicial courts, had been blended, in the minds of some people, with the redress of grievances considered only as a mode of awakening the attention of the legislature.
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
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.
