Stop Quotes

• I'll tell you who I really like - the lawyer Imran Khan. I did my dissertation on stop-and-search powers, and I put in loads of quotes from him. Years later, when I was selling insurance over in Harley Street, he rang up and asked for insurance. He told me his name, and I asked him if he was the lawyer, and he said yes.

  

  Adeel Akhtar
  • Up
  • Search
  • Lawyer

• You must also have a sense of when to stop.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Stop

• My goal keeps me alive, and no personal issue is going to interfere with that. If people try to put me in the crazy box–'crazy fucking Courtney'–go ahead. But if you think you’re going to stop me from where I’m going, you’re not going to do it. I work my ass off. I deliver the goddamn goods. And I will deliver them again.

  

  Courtney Love
  • People
  • Work
  • Crazy

• It's just rock and roll. A lot of times we get criticized for it. A lot of music papers come out with: 'When are they going to stop playing these three chords?' If you believe you shouldn't play just three chords it's pretty silly on their part. To us, the simpler a song is, the better, 'cause it's more in line with what the person on the street is.

  

  Angus Young
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Pretty

• Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn't solve any problems.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Good
  • Grateful
  • Thankful

• Positive obsession is about not being able to stop just because you're afraid and full of doubts. Positive obsession is dangerous. It's about not being able to stop at all.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Stop
  • Positive

• I believe comedy is a really good lens to filter serious issues through. If people are laughing, they don't necessarily realize until they stop laughing that they just took something in that's going to start a conversation.

  

  Kenya Barris
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• The human race is almost addicted to war. It's like we just can't stop.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • War
  • Stop
  • Human Race

• Stop the traffic...let 'em through.

  

  Louis Tomlinson One Direction
  • Stop
  • Traffic
  • Ems

• Look outside the window, there's a woman being grabbed They've dragged her to the bushes and now she's being stabbed Maybe we should call the cops and try to stop the pain But Monopoly is so much fun, I'd hate to blow the game And I'm sure it wouldn't interest anybody Outside of a small circle of friends.

  

  Phil Ochs
  • She
  • Friends
  • Fun

• My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts.

  

  Edna O'Brien
  • Work
  • Think
  • Hand

• As white authors, bloggers, and readers, we must stop promoting diversity as a business opportunity or a chance to buy ally points with our disposable income.

  

  Jennifer Armintrout
  • Business
  • Opportunity
  • Diversity

• I feel like guys don't want to stop me no more.

  

  Antonio Brown
  • Stop

• If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Women
  • Power
  • Stop

• I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I was also a veterinarian before I sold my first book, and I still volunteer my time to help with animal welfare causes. So that is a career I would be happy to return to - while still secretly writing strange stories back in my doctor's office.

  

  James Rollins
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Book

• This group is composed of those for whom belief in saucers is tantamount to religion...They believe men from outer space will step in on Earth 'before it's too late,' put a stop to the atomic bomb threat 'by their superior powers,' and enforce perpetual peace 'for the good of the universe'...

  

  Frank Herbert
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Men

• Right. I’ve been missing Nutty McFang anyway.” “Stop making up names for him.” “What about Count Crackula?” “Just stop.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • Missing
  • Names

• Starting a company is like going to war. You can't do anything else but be fully engaged. You have to be insanely, passionately, nothing-can-stop-me committed.

  

  Audrey MacLean
  • War
  • Stop

• Any kind of horror video game where I'm the first-person player and I'm... I suddenly stop caring about the video game dude, and I'm like, I really don't want him to die,' and then the minute he dies, it upsets me. I can't play those games.

  

  Kit Harington
  • Game
  • Die
  • Player

• Randy Edsall is a good, strong, decent man who is working his tail off on behalf of the University of Maryland. And there are more people that want to spend their days burning things down than building it up. At least just stop rooting against him. You know, give the guy a chance.

  

  Kevin Plank
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• There is a lot of pressure on pop stars, and I think a lot of it is the pressure that we put on ourselves. In our minds, we build up these huge, huge standards that we think people want from us, and actually, when you break it down, people just want you to make music and perform to the best of your ability, but anxiety can stop you from doing that.

  

  James Arthur
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• Women's bodies are used to sell anything and everything because it works, it grabs people's attention, and advertisers aren't going to stop using something that works.

  

  Liz Phair
  • People
  • Women
  • Attention

• Design must be an innovative, highly creative, cross-disciplinary tool responsive to the needs of men. It must be more research-oriented, and we must stop defiling the earth itself with poorly-designed objects and structures.

  

  Victor Papanek
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Design

• When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.

  

  Cheri Huber
  • Stop
  • Wish

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