It is hard to stay focused with so much swirling around me. God is distracting. He never stops talking, and I can never stop listening. There is a reason we sleep.
The trouble with nude dancing is that not everything stops when the music stops.
Anxiety, it just stops your life.
No nation can last long when it stops praying and takes up playing.
The stubborn stops when finding a mistake, the wise man will not stop until finding the true.
Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
If the script is not so good and it is a great director you're more likely to do it. But generally speaking, my passion for a project starts or stops with the quality of the script.
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
When knowledge becomes rigid, it stops living.
Love dies only when growth stops.
We had a saying that the fun stops at one.
Even though work stops, expenses run on.
Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head.
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.
The first commandment of economics is: Grow. Grow forever. Companies get bigger. National economies need to swell by a certain percent each year. People should want more, make more, earn more, spend more - ever more. The first commandment of the Earth is: enough. Just so much and no more. Just so much soil. Just so much water. Just so much sunshine. Everything born of the Earth grows to its appropriate size and then stops.
Wakan Tanka never stops creating.
The problem with revenge is that it never evens the score. It ties both the injured and the injurer to an escalator of pain. Both are stuck on the escalator as long as parity is demanded, and the escalator never stops.
I've never seen an obese person who has said, 'I am well in my mind. ' Happiness stops food being a compensation.
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.
There were moments when I wondered at the gossamer veil that stops licence from being libel. I suspect that taking on the job of England manager puts you outside the protection of the courts. It must be part of the job description that you will be held hostage by media speculation and can have your character tortured, molested and finally executed at the public whim, in exchange for a lifetime's supply of money.