Stopping Quotes (page 34)

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• dead
• try
• dead alive

If you stop telling people it's all sorted out after they're dead, they might try sorting it out while they're alive. Terry Prachett

• failure
• guarantees
• stops

The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying John C. Maxwell

• happy
• running
• comforting

There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. Edith Wharton

• writing
• insanity
• stops

There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity. Charles Bukowski

• life
• serious
• forceful

Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously. Hunter S. Thompson

• success
• moments
• worrying

The moment you stop worrying about success is when success will happen. Glenn Beck

• friend
• feeling
• funeral

Ginny, listen...I can't be involved with you anymore. We've got to stop seeing each other. We can't be together."It's for some stupid noble reason isn't it?"It's been like...like something out of someone else's life these last few weeks with you. But I can't...we can't...I've got to do things alone now. Voldemort uses people his enemies are close to. He's already used you as bait once, and that was just because you were my best friend's sister. Think how much danger you'll be in if we keep... J. K. Rowling

• heart
• fighting
• fight

I'm gonna fight for you, until your heart stops beating. Stephenie Meyer

• white
• change
• cool

...One autumn night, five years before, they had been walking down the street when the leaves were falling, and they came to a place where there were no trees and the sidewalk was white with moonlight. They stopped here and turned toward each other. Now it was a cool night with that mysterious excitement in it which comes at the two changes of the year. F. Scott Fitzgerald

• time
• earth
• stop time

No force on earth can stop an idea whose time has come Victor Hugo

• work
• freedom
• fighting

In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as 'right-to-work.' It provides no 'rights' and no 'works.' Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining…. We demand this fraud be stopped. Martin Luther King jr.

• perfect
• ignorance
• happy

Just as there is a moment when the artist must stop, when the sculpture must be left as it is, the painting untouched - just as a determination not to know serves the maker more than all the resources of clairvoyance - so there must be a minimum of ignorance in order to perfect a life in happiness. Those who lack such a thing must set about acquiring it: unintelligence must be earned. Albert Camus

• him
• manly
• cuts

If any man tries to stop us, cut him down. -Lady Catelyn George R. R. Martin

• fall
• fun times
• lost

I didn't see it happening, but the wheels were falling off of me. I didn't care about responsibilities like paying rent, I was just on a runaway train ride. The horribly ironic cosmic trick of drug addiction is that drugs are a lot of fun when you first start using them, but by the time the consequences manifest themselves, you're no longer in a position to say, 'Whoa, gotta stop that.' You've lost that ability, and you've created this pattern of conditioning and reinforcement. It's never... Anthony Kiedis

• fly
• leaving
• watch

I remember the smell of the pines and the sleeping on the mattresses of beech leaves in the woodcutters' huts and the skiing through the forest following the tracks of hares and of foxes. In the high mountains above the tree line I remember following the track of a fox until I came in sight of him and watching him stand with his right forefoot raised and then go carefully to stop and then pounce, and the whiteness and the clutter of a ptarmigan bursting out of the snow and flying away and... Ernest Hemingway