The most important beauty is not that with which you were born, but the beauty of character which grows through a woman's life and maybe never stops growing.
In our day, a vast majority of people is dependent either on an employer or the government-or both. One way to rate your level of independence might be to measure how long you can survive, feed your family and live in your home after your employer stops paying you anything.
It's great to tell people you have your own show, but that's where the fun stops.
Anxiety, it just stops your life.
I've always wanted to take self-defense classes and I never did, for whatever reason. I don't know why. I don't know if it was fear or time, or whatever stops people from doing things that they want to do.
War is such a peculiar thing - inaugurated by the whims of few, affecting the fate of many. It is difficult, if not impossible, thing to understand, yet we feel compelled to describe it as though it has meaning - even virtue. It starts for reasons often hopelessly obscure, meanders on, then stops
If a man just stops to think what he has to praise God for, he will find there is enough to keep him singing praises for a week.
Meditation stops the sound-loving mind.
Some people think prayer stops bullets or rockets or land mines. It doesn't. That's magic, that's not God. Sometimes, you're just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
No nation can last long when it stops praying and takes up playing.
That moment - to this. . . may be years in the way they measure, but it's only one sentence back in my mind - there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails. I pass the hotel at 8 and at 5; there are cats in the alleys and bottles and bums, and I look up at the window and think, I no longer know where you are, and I walk on and wonder where the living goes when it stops.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
With stand-up, it doesn't matter who you are. If the audience claps because they love your movies, that clapping stops after five seconds, and then it's your job to make them laugh.
Hope. . . never stops at all.
When the world stops, time stops.
The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
A humble person never stops learning.
Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.
The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.
A sinning man stops praying; a praying man stops sinning.