Stopping Quotes - Page 21

• 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.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Freedom, Thinking, Doors

  George Bernard Shaw (2007). “Back to Methuselah”, p.55, 1st World Publishing

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• You held out your hand, and I took it without stopping to make sense of what I was doing. For the first time in almost a century, I felt hope.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Hands, Firsts, Eclipse

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• Meditation is a practice of detaching and then stopping ourselves from thinking; our thoughts are interruptions in the flow of awareness. Consciousness, in its highest aspect, is perfect and formless.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, Practice

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• Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that we are at liberty to suppose either that nothing was said, or that nothing witty was said, or that the fraction of three witty sayings lasted eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty nights, which does not leave a liberal allowance of wit for any one of them.

  Virginia Woolf

  Witty, Night, Years

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.495, Wordsworth Editions

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• No-strings relationships have helped cure me of love addiction. All my life I've been in long-term monogamous relationships. I had to break that pattern by not allowing myself to have a relationship for a year, stopping myself from committing to men. I haven't been celibate. I've had lots of dates and lots of sex, but I haven't been pushing to turn a date into a relationship. This has been a huge thing for me.

  Alanis Morissette

  Sex, Men, Years

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• Once the law starts asking questions, there's no stopping them.

  William S. Burroughs

  Asking Questions, Government, Law

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• When we live without listening to the timing of things, when we live and work in twenty-four-hour shifts without rest – we are on war time, mobilized for battle. Yes, we are strong and capable people, we can work without stopping, faster and faster, electric lights making artificial day so the whole machine can labor without ceasing. But remember: No living thing lives like this. There are greater rhythms, seasons and hormonal cycles and sunsets and moonrises and great movements of seas and stars. We are part of the creation story, subject to all its laws and rhythms.

  Wayne Muller

  Strong, Stars, War

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• 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, Sitting

  "Pop Sovereign: A Conversation With Madonna". Interview With T. Cole Rachel, pitchfork.com. March 2, 2015.

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• 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.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Inspirational, Memorable, Goes On

  Mary Catherine Bateson (2001). “Composing a Life”, p.14, Grove Press

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

  Dave Eggers

  Book, Unique, Way

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• Once in a while I experience an emotion onstage that is so gut-wrenching, so heart-stopping, that I could weep with gratitude and joy. The feeling catches and magnifies so rapidly that it threatens to engulf me.

  Julie Andrews

  Gratitude, Heart, Joy

  Julie Andrews (2008). “Home: a memoir of my early years”

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• When the starry sky, a vista of open seas, or a stained-glass window shedding purple beams fascinate me, there is a cluster of meaning, of colors, of words, of caresses, there are light touches, scents, sighs, cadences that arise, shroud me, carry me away, and sweep me beyond the things I see, hear, or think, The "sublime" object dissolves in the raptures of a bottomless memory. It is such a memory, which, from stopping point to stopping point, remembrance to remembrance, love to love, transfers that object to the refulgent point of the dazzlement in which I stray in order to be.

  Julia Kristeva

  Memories, Thinking, Sky

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• If you ever want to be a decent player, you have to be able to use both feet without stopping to think about it.

  Pele

  Athlete, Player, Thinking

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• To look at life without words is not to lose the ability to form words- to think, remember, and plan. To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam. It is the same with thinking, which is really silent talking. It is not, by itself, open to the discovery of anything new, for its only novelties are simply arrangements of old words and ideas.

  Alan Watts

  Thinking, Discovery, Talking

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns.

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Kings, Powerful, Chess

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• I still say if the ball is there to be won I will go for it, whether with my head or whatever, and if it means us scoring or stopping a goal, I won't think twice.

  John Terry

  Mean, Thinking, Goal

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• When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Determination, Business, Believe

  I've Been to the Mountaintop, delivered 3 April 1968, Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters), Memphis, Tennessee

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• Why won't they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, can't they use birth control on time? I want an interregnum. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping - rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Year's and Easter and Christmas - But, goodness, why need they do it?

  John Dos Passos

  New Year, Time, Easter

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• 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, Ability, Dues

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

  George Clooney

  Motorcycle, Towns, Small Town

  "George Clooney's La Dolce Vita". Interview with Jack Ross, dolcemag.com. March 24, 2014.

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• You come to a point in your life and you may be in bed just thinking about it. Ask yourself what is stopping you from becoming your dreams

  Kai Greene

  Dream, Thinking, Bed

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• The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day. Never let your correspondence fall behind. Whatever piece of business you have in hand, before stopping, do all the labor pertaining to it which can then be done.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Fall, Men, Hands

  "Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 2" by Abraham Lincoln, New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1953.

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• 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.

  Thomas Sowell

  Jobs, Taken, Mean

  Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 8, 2012.

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• 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, Paint

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• While I am proud of a number of accomplishments, there are real costs to being unreasonable. Long hours. Too little time with family. A near incapacity for, as they say, stopping and smelling the roses.

  Eli Broad

  Success, Real, Hard Work

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