Best Stopping Quotes

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

To be nobody-but-yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Buying cheap to save money is like stopping the clock to save time. Neither works.

Stop worrying and start living.

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.

The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn’t stop anyone.

Oh, they’ve been putting in the long hours … But is that because they don’t have the skills, and everything takes twice as long? Or do they put in these hours to avoid what they should be doing … which is stopping and binning a lot of [their work]?

If you wanna go somewhere, you can do; nothing is stopping you.

Television. An advanced technical method of stopping people from making their own entertainment.

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.

Freedom is about stopping the past.

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.

It took me years after stopping the cocaine before I was able to enjoy a sunrise and enjoy the sound of birds.

Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.

Living for today will bring about dying for today. You can’t just think, ‘I’m going to die anyway,’ because that’s what’s stopping us from moving forward.

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.

A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing and changing scemery.

Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.

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.

There’s no stopping Randy Orton!

I do think it’s only by stopping movement that you can see where to go. And it’s only by stepping out of your life and the world that you can see what you most deeply care about… and find a home.

I am stopping so I can be a full time father to my two young sons on a daily basis.

I believed that once we got to the Moon, there was no stopping us. But in fact, we did stop.

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

The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.

Hard working people stopping for a drink on the way to work.

At 19, if a woman said no, no meant no. If she didn’t say anything and she was open, and she was down, it was like how far can I go? If I touch her breast and she’s down for me to touch her breast, cool. If I touch her lower, and she’s down and she’s not stopping me, cool. I’m going to kiss her or whatever. It was simply if a woman said no or pushed you away that was non-consent.

I don’t see myself stopping, even though it gets harder and harder. Especially when you find out that you can’t really compromise because of age.

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.

Skateboarding doesn’t make you a skateboarder; not being able to stop skateboarding makes you a skateboarder.

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.

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.

Barry recounts all this in prose of often startling beauty. Just as he describes people stopping in the street to look at Roseanne, so I often found myself stopping to look at the sentences he gave her, wanting to pause and copy them down.