Stop Quotes
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Forgiveness to letting go of a bell rope. If you have ever seen a country church with a bell in the steeple, you will remember that to get the bell ringing you have to tug awhile. Once it has begun to ring, you merely maintain the momentum. As long as you keep pulling, the bell keeps ringing. Forgiveness is letting go of the rope. It is just that simple. But when you do so, the bell keeps ringing. Momentum is still at work. However, if you keep your hands off the rope, the bell will begin to slow and eventually stop.
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In Europe, we would congratulate anyone who is successful. But congratulations stop if we find that you start to misuse a dominant position.
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I knew what I was doing, always! I just couldn't stop.
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The reason I ran in 2006 was to make my district one of the fifteen that at the time it would have taken to switch the control of the House and stop the Bush agenda. The second priority I had was to provide health care for everybody. And the third was to do public financing of campaigns.
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When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.
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The condition of mankind is, and always has been, so miserable and depraved that, if anyone were to say to the poet: "For God's sake stop singing and do something useful like putting on the kettle or fetching bandages," what just reason could he give for refusing?
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Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead.
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Once you have made a careful decision based on facts, go into action. Don't stop to reconsider. Don't begin to hesitate, worry, and retrace your steps. Don't lose yourself in self-doubting which begets other doubts. Don't keep looking back over your shoulder.
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I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves.
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I never really thought it would be possible to keep making films. I thought I'd get to a point where it would just stop happening, and I still sort of feel that way. I don't know if any actor feels like they are going to have a career forever, unless they're a movie star.
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I build my cars to go, not to stop.
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We couldn't stop them. We got beat in every aspect of the game.
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I'm not sure why, but I seem to be drawn to stories about abuses of power. But I'm also drawn, not so much to victims' stories, as stories that tend to show how power works. Because if you don't understand the criminals, you can't figure out how to stop the crimes.
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It's just scary to think how fast everything is rolling, and you can't stop it.
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It's been helpful to have so many opportunities to look different so people stop pigeonholing you.
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The thing about reading is that if you are hooked, you're not going to stop just because one series is over; you're going to go and find something else.
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I know you feel worn and tired. I know you're tired of failing. Rest, but don't stop. You can do this. You got this.
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If you fall asleep on horseback, the horse will stop by the rock. Art is a car. Kitsch is a horse.
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There are certainly delays in this year's agreed program, and we must quickly catch up. Let's not kid ourselves, there is still big waste in the public sector, and it must stop.
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I am overfed, so when I am at home, I stop eating.
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This is the sheriff you're talking about, with a gun and badge that enforces the law. Nothing is going to stop me from cracking down on illegal immigration as long as the laws are there.
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Very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be.
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When you get the money, you still need to keep going; you don't stop. There has to be something else. I think it's the freedom to do what you want and to live your dreams.
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We can't get serious about immigration reform until we stop people from crossing the border illegally.
