Stopping Quotes - Page 6

• 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.

  Judi Bari

  Hands, People, Madness

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

  Jennifer Stone

  Men, He Man, Ifs

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

  A.S. King

  Thinking, People, Alcohol

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• Real winning and losing all takes place at the meditation table. This is where the battles are. Winning is stopping thought. Losing is sitting there and being subjected to all kinds of ridiculous thoughts

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Buddhism, Winning

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• Eloquence: saying the proper thing and stopping.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Speech, Eloquence

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• Owen meany who rarely wasted words and who had the conversation-stopping habit of dropping remarks like coins into a deep pool of water... remarks that sank, like truth, to the bottom of the pool where they would remain untouchable.

  John Irving

  Water, Coins, Pool

  John Irving (2012). “A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel”, p.31, Harper Collins

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

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Action, Truth Is, Poor

  Charles R. Swindoll (1993). “Strike the Original Match”, p.73, Zondervan

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• The only justifiable stopping place for for the expansion of altruism is the point at which all whose welfare can be affected by our actions are included within the circle of altruism. This means that all beings with the capacity to feel pleasure or pain should be included; we can improve their welfare by increasing their pleasures and diminishing their pains.

  Peter Singer

  Pain, Mean, Circles

  Peter Singer (1982). “The expanding circle: ethics and sociobiology”, Plume

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• 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, Way, Obstacles

  Georges Bernanos (2000). “Monsieur Ouine”, p.243, U of Nebraska Press

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• Facts have proved that prosperity at the expense of the environment is only delaying disaster. We cannot passively protect our environment by simply stopping economic development.

  Zhou Shengxian

  Development, Facts, Environment

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• Stopping smoking was most dramatic for me. After 23 years, I picked up a cigarette one day and didn't know why I was doing it. Smoking was no longer in alignment with what I had intended to experience of myself.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Years, Smoking, One Day

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• It is my observation that 98% of the people are spending 98% of their time focusing on the 98% of things that don't matter. Stopping meditation is one of the easiest, quickest and most powerful forms of meditation. It is virtually effortless and its power relative to the effort is remarkable.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Powerful, People, Effort

  Source: www.trulyalive.net

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• One wants more time, more youth. That is it. That is all one asks for - nothing but that, a little more time. Hear it running by! Listen! In the night, in the morning, at noon, at even, rushing by, silent, stealthy, trying to hoodwink you by the fixed appearance of things that seem not to change; but never stopping. Oh, to stop it! Oh, to get it back! Oh, to dig one's toes in and refuse to be rushed headlong towards the brink!

  Mary Borden

  Running, Time, Morning

  Mary Borden (1925). “Three pilgrims and a tinker: a novel”

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• You're beautiful this morning," Archer said, stopping before her, kissing her nose. "You're impossibly sweet in my shirt." That might be but she felt like death. She would gladly make the trade; how blissful it would be to feel impossibly sweet and look like death.

  Kristin Cashore

  Beautiful, Sweet, Morning

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.60, Penguin

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• The Tarahumara would party like this all night, then rouse themselves the next morning to face off in a running race that could last not two miles, not two hours, but two full days. According to the Mexican historian Francisco Almada, a Tarahumara champion once ran 435 miles, the equivalent of setting out for a jog in New York City and not stopping till you were closing in on Detroit.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Morning, New York

  "Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen". Book by Christopher McDougall, March 29, 2011.

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• In your hands The dog, the donkey, surely they know They are alive. Who would argue otherwise? But now, after years of consideration, I am getting beyond that. What about the sunflowers? What about The tulips, and the pines? Listen, all you have to do is start and There’ll be no stopping. What about mountains? What about water Slipping over rocks? And speaking of stones, what about The little ones you can Hold in your hands, their heartbeats So secret, so hidden it may take years Before, finally, you hear them?

  Mary Oliver

  Dog, Rocks, Hands

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• 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.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Pain, Soul, Mind

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

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Funny Things, Miscellaneous

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• Yes, the academic world is screwed up, and there is nothing you can do about it. But don't worry about that. Just do what you want. If you know what you want to do and advocate for it, no one will put any energy into stopping you.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Worry, Energy, World

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• In Iraq and Syria, American leadership - including our military power - is stopping ISIL's advance, instead of getting dragged into another ground war in the Middle East, we are leading a broad coalition, including Arab nations, to degrade and ultimately destroy this terrorist group.

  Barack Obama

  Leadership, Military, War

  Sixth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2015

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• Awakening is not a state but a process: an ethical way of life and commitment that enables human flourishing. As such, it is no longer the exclusive preserve of enlightened teachers or accomplished yogis. Likewise, nirvana-the stopping of craving-is not the goal of the path but its very source. For human flourishing first stirs in that clear, bright, empty space where neurotic self-centredness realizes that it has no ground at all to stand on. One is then freed to pour forth like sunlight.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Teacher, Commitment, Self

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• Stopping a man from what he wants to do is like taking a sweet from a child. Sometimes you have to do it, but sometimes it just isn't worth the trouble.

  Robert Jordan

  Sweet, Children, Men

  "The Fires of Heaven". Book by Robert Jordan, 1993.

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• Conservation is sometimes perceived as stopping everything cold, as holding whooping cranes in higher esteem than people. It is up to science to spread the understanding that the choice is not between wild places or people, it is between a rich or an impoverished existence for Man.

  Thomas Lovejoy

  Men, Wild Places, People

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• Nothing is made, nothing disappears. The same changes, at the same places, never stopping.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Disappear, Made, Never Stopping

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• 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.

  Michael Welch

  People, Lucky, Matter

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