Stops Quotes
956 quotes by 757 authors
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That's what sometimes separates people who always run and always train and people who maybe move on in life and do something else. I think…
— Dathan Ritzenhein
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The theist is persuaded that while nothing that contradicts science is likely to be true, still nothing that stops with science can be the whole…
— Gordon W. Allport
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A writer stops writing the moment he or she puts the last full stop to their text, and at that point the book is in…
— Alberto Manguel
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To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it seem like the commas…
— Margaret Fuller
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It is not always easy to diagnose. The simplest form of stupidity - the mumbling, nose-picking, stolid incomprehension - can be detected by anyone. But…
— Robertson Davies
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The old man, especially if he is in society in the privacy of his thoughts, though he may protest the opposite, never stops believing that,…
— Giacomo Leopardi
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A chronic lack of pleasure, of any enjoyable, rewarding or stimulating experiences, produces a slow, gradual, day-by-day erosion of man's emotional vitality, which he may…
— Ayn Rand
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A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a…
— Madonna Ciccone
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Human memory works its own wheel, and stops where it will, entirely without reference to the last stop, and with no connection with the next.
— William Saroyan
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The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively - because without this humble appliance, you can't know…
— Frank Zappa
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When guerillas engage a stronger enemy, they withdraw when he advances, harass him when he stops, strike him when he is weary, pursue him when…
— Mao Zedong
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The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don't take them, the universe says to itself, 'Oh I see, this person doesn't…
— Douglas Coupland
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Ocean people are very different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, which don't sleep like eyes.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
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Anytime you feel negative emotion, stop and say: 'Something is important here, otherwise I would not be feeling this negative emotion. What is it that…
— Esther Hicks
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Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature has a way…
— Ali Smith
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Most incredible, however, are the times we know Christ is with us in the midst of our daily, routine lives. In the middle of cleaning…
— Michael Card
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You cannot compel someone to love. Love is like the wind. It comes when it does, it stops when it does, it changes direction when…
— Frederick Lenz
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On the whole, anything that gets you writing and keeps you writing is a good thing. Anything that stops you writing is a bad thing.
— Neil Gaiman
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The light is not quantifiable. You experience it in meditation when thought stops. When you go beyond the limitations of the ego, the light is…
— Frederick Lenz
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The idea for each of the stories in this book came in a moment of belief and was written in a burst of faith, happiness,…
— Stephen King
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