Stopping Quotes

The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.

But that's a side effect of alcohol, isn't it? Stopping to think about other people is not on the bar menu.

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

How about not equating death with stopping?

Falling didn't bother me. I could fall forever and not be hurt. It's stopping that's the problem.

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.

I can't envisage stopping writing.

I would only give a prize to whoever works for the peace in Syria, first of all by stopping the terrorists from flowing towards Syria, only.

Making changes isn't about stopping the problem, it's about starting the solution.

Change isn't about what you are stopping... it's about what you are starting.

Housewives of the 1950s were supposed to create show-stopping meals every night for their hard-working husbands.

Learning more truth is a poor and cheap substitute for stopping and putting into action the truth already learned

Writing a song is like playing a series of downs in football: Lots of rules, timing is crucial, lots of boundaries, lots of protective gear, lots of stopping and starting.

I don't think sleeping with you is going to solve anything," she said, stopping at the guest bedroom door. "I don't really care what you think.

When Elvis was there, they were stopping everything. Elvis had the moment for real. While I'm here, its not all about 50 Cent, but it was all about Elvis.

Chris Matthews can't start any sentence without 'Let me ask you this... ' And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does it. Who's stopping you? Just say it!

I've been writing since I was six years old. It's hard to imagine stopping. I would hate to think that I've already written my best book.

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.

Seeing occurs, of course, through stopping thought. Thought is the fog. When thought stops in meditation, at any point, when there's no thought, we see the other shore.

When you sit, you've put a place on the island of the tonal for the possibility of your thoughts stopping for a short period of time.

The dream is so thick; the Maya is so thick. There's no magic as long as there's all this thought. So the first condition for the practice of higher magic is the stopping of thought.

The place that you gain the most power is within your own mind. Stopping thought generates power. That is why people meditate. The longer you can stop thought, the more power you gain.

The key to gazing is stopping thought. Gazing is a soft focus; you are touching something with your luminosity. If you could but look into the mountains you would see a diffuse glow.

Stopping thought also involves shifting your values. Thought is stimulated by ideas that we have about life and the world.

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

When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.

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

Stopping at her house is a neighbor boy with evil on his mind, cause he's been peeking in Angie's room at night through her window blind.

I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.

If you have no drugs, then you have revolution, and then drugs will be the only thing stopping that.

You sure about this?" he asked in a guttural voice. "I get down on that mattress right now, I'm not stopping until I'm inside of you.

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

All I've ever wanted to do was be a great dad, and yet there's no stopping this existential mirror that's held up to yourself when you're about to have a kid.

The funny thing about stopping is that as soon as you do it, here you are.

I support gun control. But speaking honestly about the combustible mix of race and guns may be more important to stopping the slaughter in minority communities than any new gun-control laws.

For me, the battle isn't Hillary [Clinton] vs. [Bernie] Sanders. And I understand that for some people that's the battle. But for me, more than anything, it's stopping a Republican president.

At some stage I'm going to have to say, 'Right, that's it. I'm stopping for a bit'.

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.

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

What is the point of working all your life and then stopping?

I'm very interested in stopping time. And starting time. There is that aspect of time that I'm playing with, that it's elusive and unnoticed yet really in the end the most important thing.

Communism prevents organizations from developing by stopping the flow of information. The system is based on police and listening devices and triggers the worst characteristics in humans.

But, said Alice, the the world has absolutely no sens, who's stopping us from inventing one?

It will suffice thee to remember as concerning pain ... that the mind may, by stopping all manner of commerce and sympathy with the body, still retain its own tranquility.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

Genius is both the sail and the wind; that's why he continues his journey without stopping!

When I go outside of L.A., no matter where it is, really anywhere I go, people will be stopping me or taking pictures or whatever it is. And it's great. It's amazing. I'm just lucky.

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.

I think once you sort of cross over and you realize what books can be - and if they mean something to you - there's just no stopping you.

Digital [photography] has sped up the process to a point that it's a bit self-destructive. It is like driving by a new neighborhood without stopping for a walk. Special discoveries need time.