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Quotes including the word “stop”.

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Beckett

The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.

W. Burroughs

When you stop growing you start dying.

Truman Capote

“As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.”

Leonard Cohen

When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.

Emily Dickinson

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

Diderot

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Umberto Eco

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

Einstein

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Robert Frost

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

Isokratis

Consider sufficient what you have in the present, but don't stop to look for the best.

Franz Kafka

The meaning of life is that it stops.

Wassily Kandinsky

Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking!

Bob Marley

The day you stop racing, is the day you win the race.

Bob Marley

God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.

Gabriel Marquez

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

Jose Martí

Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.

Jacqueline Romilly

Learning to think, to be precise, to weigh your words, to hear each other, is to be able to communicate and is the only means to stop the scary violence that is growing around us.

Sartre

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

Skinner

A failure is not always a mistake; it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Jules Verne

Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.

Vonnegut

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

Tennessee Williams

There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.