Top 160 Stopping Quotes

I have a real problem with stillness. With just stopping and being quiet.

Quite simply, federal laws already on the books aimed at stopping the flow of illegal immigration must be enforced. Furthermore, states must be given the resources necessary to confront the problem, which includes strengthening the border patrol.

There’s just no stopping me. I went through life big-bang-banda-boom-bada-boom.

Bringing an asteroid back to Earth? What’s that have to do with space exploration? If we were moving outward from there, and an asteroid is a good stopping point, then fine. But now it’s turned into a whole planetary defense exercise at the cost of our outward exploration.

I write fifteen hours a day, stopping at Oprah-o’clock.

I was a competitive swimmer as a teenager, only stopping when I got persistent ear infections. Every day was a 6 A.M. start to swim before lessons, then choir or dance classes after.

I’m not stopping. My dream has come true, and I’m staying.

The barn doors are open, and the horses are running out because we’ve got guns all over the place. It’s basically a cold war for individuals: you’ve got a nuclear bomb, and I’ve got a nuclear bomb, and the only thing stopping us from using them is the fact we both have them.

I’m always writing. There’s no stopping. It’s just that you can’t see it sometimes.

I always find myself stopping to write down ideas of things I’d like to make from computer hardware items to things new moms need – inventions to share with others to make their lives more fun or interesting or easy.

Washington’s a mess, but that’s not stopping me from getting bills to help Montana signed into law by President Trump.

Westminster is gripped by a fanatical race towards a cliff-edge Brexit and nobody is stopping to think about the impact it would have on the everyday lives of the people we serve as politicians.

When we go out to the country and just sit there, what we’re really doing is just switching off various kinds of alertness that we don’t have to use. When we do that, we are stopping being defensive. We are no longer shutting ourselves off from different types of experiences, we are welcoming them in.

Always, since our birth, we’ve insisted on another way of doing politics. Now, we had the chance to do it without arms, but without stopping being Zapatistas; that’s why we keep the masks on.

Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way: stop participating in it.

I got a little bit used to people stopping me in the street with ‘V,’ at least in America. Not that I think you ever really get used to it. It will always be a shock to be recognised for anything.

A father draws boundaries and calls a halt, whenever necessary. As I didn’t have that, I was able to stay childishly naive that much longer – so I did what I liked, because there was nobody stopping me, even when I got it wrong.

Half of my success is my fearlessness and recklessness – of just seeing the end and not stopping until you get there.

You can protect the integrity of elections without stopping anyone from voting.

Migos ain’t stopping. We’re gonna keep getting better and better.

I originally wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to be Kylie Minogue. My dad thought that was a very silly ambition and introduced me to drama classes. Once I became fixated on that, there was no stopping me.

There’s no danger to suddenly stopping fillers or Botox.

It starts in the home environment. If the parents eat bad? Those kids are going to eat bad. If they see their parents stopping at McDonald’s or Pizza Hut, then that’s what they’re going to eat as well.

I’m used to things changing, I’m used to having to keep going and not really stopping to think and stress out.

I believe prisons have emerged as a new frontline in the fight against crime. The fact is, new technology and sophisticated approaches mean that prison walls alone are no longer effective in stopping crime – inside or outside of prison.

I don’t want my kids going through what I went through – police stopping you, searching you and all that malarkey.

The industrial age was not about craftspeople trading peer to peer. It was about stopping that. You weren’t supposed to be a craftsperson, you were supposed to be an employee.

When I’m spiritually in the right place, there’s no stopping me.

Like I talked about, I’m not gonna let something like COVID get in the way of stopping me from obtaining my destiny.

We were stopping and frisking people based on their ethnicities and based on the communities they were in. That will never happen under my administration.

I can’t imagine Weezer stopping. We just love doing what we’re doing, and I think we’ll keep going until we fall down dead. Even if the audience is abandoning us, I can’t imagine doing anything else!

In addition to not stopping the spread of Ebola, isolating countries will make it harder to respond to Ebola, creating an even greater humanitarian and health care emergency. Importantly, isolating countries won’t keep Ebola contained and away from American shores.

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.

It’s interesting – I always thought when I was doing more melodramatic stuff like ‘Everwood’ that the directors were constantly reeling me in and stopping me from being funny.

Fitness has been a part of all my life since I was a young child. I started dancing ballet and doing yoga when I was three, before stopping ballet at five to start playing soccer and tennis instead. That lasted until my early teens.

Mindfulness has helped me succeed in almost every dimension of my life. By stopping regularly to look inward and become aware of my mental state, I stay connected to the source of my actions and thoughts and can guide them with considerably more intention.

One of the things that helps my vocal health immensely out on the road is stopping all my eating/drinking at least four hours before I go to bed. I actually set a timer after my last meal so I can’t cheat. This is to prevent acid reflux when I lay down in my bunk at night.

The band will always be our number one, and I don’t see it ever stopping. We love playing, so why would we want to stop?

Chris Matthews can’t start any sentence without ‘Let me ask you this… ‘ And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does it. Who’s stopping you? Just say it!

I was never very good at stopping crowds. I started blowing bubbles to attract people.

The environmental movement does not always have to be about stopping things. It can be about fixing problems.

Ending child poverty, stopping the opioid crisis, improving child nutrition, providing a high-quality public education to students, ending the racial wealth gap: These kinds of policies would boost the economy, too.

Some Sundays, I read it quickly – other Sundays, I savor it. I generally spend most of my time in ‘The New York Times Book Review,’ ‘Sunday Business,’ ‘Sunday Review,’ and ‘The New York Times Magazine.’ I turn all the other pages, only stopping when I find a headline that interests me.

When I’m nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.

I remember my first acting class: I was like, ‘That’s it.’ If I know that I want to do something then I’m going to do it and there’s no stopping me, whether it’s if I want to take a movie part or don’t, or eat sushi for lunch or don’t. There’s always a very clear goal. Once I figure out what I want that’s it.

There’s a disease that young writers are susceptible to, which is, I will do this because I can – hubris, I suppose – without stopping to work out why.

Once I finished ‘Eileen,’ I wanted to write more novels. I don’t see myself stopping any time soon.

Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal.

You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can’t stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.

Stopping Vieques bombing range good; sooner is better.

I had my first flower stall when I was seven, at the end of the drive in Minehead, Somerset. Nobody was stopping so I moved it to my neighbour’s drive, because I thought: ‘Location, location, location.’ It worked.

Just continue what you are doing. You should have no hesitation, no stopping – just keep on going to the next level.

In a Toyota, the cops don’t think about stopping you so much.

After the leg break it was a very tough time. I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t sometimes thought about stopping playing football.

I still say if the ball is there to be won I will go for it, whether with my head or whatever, and if it means us scoring or stopping a goal, I won’t think twice.

I do circuit training – different workouts without stopping. I like having that stamina, where I’ve never been too tired to put on a match or go above and beyond.

A quintessential experience is to raft the Rio Grande through the Blue Mountains, stopping off at waterfalls and having picnics of barbecued fish.