Stop Quotes - page 11

Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out there, a volcano might blow, Israeli commandos might decimate a Palestinian village. I couldn't stop it. I was going to sleep. (Haruki Murakami)
I don't want to walk in the middle. I want people to read what I write and feel strongly about it. If, at some point, whatever I am doing is failing to elicit a response, whether it's very positive or very negative, then I am going to stop doing it. View quote
James Frey
THERE is scarcely any inquiry more curious, or, from its importance, more worthy of attention, than that which traces the causes which practically check the progress of wealth in different countries, and stop it, or make it proceed very slowly, while the power of production remains comparatively undiminished, or at least would furnish the means of a great and abundant increase of produce and population. View quote
Thomas Malthus
Life will be much more exciting when we stop creating applications for mobile phones and we start creating applications for our own body. View quote
Neil Harbisson
Revelation is where all crazy people end up. It's the last stop on the nutso express. View quote
Zadie Smith
Do you know that there's hardly anyone left of last year's Caucasian governments? I've tried to stop it, but in vain. Yet they can't all be Trotskyites and traitors. View quote
Lavrentiy Beria
Have I done something for the general interest? Well then I have had my reward. Let this always be present to thy mind, and never stop doing such good. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
We must at last put a stop to having people move into their quarters like chickens and rabbits into their coops. View quote
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state. View quote
Amos Oz
I ground matter to find the continuous line. And when I realized I could not find it, I stopped, as if an unseen someone had slapped my hands. View quote
Constantin Brâncuși
The Americans should stop insulting us, I'm not going to be an accomplice to the depopulation of the land. It's not up to the Americans to tell us how to organise our farm policy and the balance of our society. Their attitude is to treat the EC as if it had the plague and then encourage the rest of the world to join in. (Jacques Delors)
Mathematics is of two kinds, Rigorous and Physical. The former is Narrow: the latter Bold and Broad. To have to stop to formulate rigorous demonstrations would put a stop to most physico-mathematical inquiries. Am I to refuse to eat because I do not fully understand the mechanism of digestion? View quote
Oliver Heaviside
Even the village rain-maker no longer claimed to be able to intervene. He could not stop the rain now, just as he would not attempt to start it in the heart of the dry season, without serious danger to his own health. View quote
Chinua Achebe
Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking. View quote
Ernest Renan
I was still interested in the youth rebellion but never-the-less I stopped being a victim. Stopped trying to attack the establishment realizing that it takes too much of your energy. View quote
Vivienne Westwood
I'll tell you what war is about, you've got to kill people, and when you've killed enough they stop fighting. View quote
Curtis LeMay
My solution to the problem would be to tell [the North Vietnamese Communists] frankly that they've got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the Stone Age. And we would shove them back into the Stone Age with Air power or Naval power-not with ground forces. View quote
Curtis LeMay
When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become attainable. View quote
Carlos Castaneda
Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it. View quote
Ai Weiwei
Whenever the current of money is forcibly stopped, and when money is prevented from settling at its just level, there are no limits to the possible variations of the exchange. View quote
David Ricardo
You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now. (Angela Davis)
The only salvation for us is to stop being an incoherent, loose mob and to change into a strongly organized, disciplined army. View quote
Roman Dmowski
To realize freedom the mind has to learn to look at life, which is a vast movement, without the bondage of time, for freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness care for watching, but don't stop and interpret "I am free," then you're living in a memory of something that has gone before. View quote
Bruce Lee
I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop. At the time that I am bored or understand - I use those words interchangeably - another appetite has formed. View quote
Robert Rauschenberg
It is the nature of the pig, that if there's nothing to stop her from stepping into abreuvoir - then it will. Nothing will stop bureaucracy from continuing to serve us "good" and protecting us from "evil" View quote
Janusz Korwin-Mikke