I never stopped working, but I did let my contract run out. And I didn't really actively pursue it.
Wars aren't stopped by fighting wars, any more than you can fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. You fight violence with nonviolence.
Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations.
What has changed is that people have stopped working together.
Of course it was Mamma who both stopped my career and crystallized my determination to resume it.
If you are pleased with what you are, you have stopped already. If you say, "It is enough," you are lost. Keep on walking, moving forward, trying for the goal.
Employers, have you ever stopped to reckon what the goodwill of your workers is worth?. . . In most large concerns it would be worth more in dollars and cents to have the goodwill of the working force than of those on the outside. It has been repeatedly demonstrated that the average working force is capable of increasing its production 25% or more whenever the workers fell so inclined. Workers animated by ill will cannot possibly give results equal to those of workers animated by goodwill. The tragic fact appears to be that a tremendous number of working forces are not so animated.
I gradually stopped wondering, ‘What life do I have?' and began to consider, ‘What life can I build?
Art simply can’t be stopped.
It was a bad one, the Winter of 1933. Wading home that night through flames of snow, my toes burning, my ears on fire, the snow swirling around me like a flock of angry nuns, I stopped dead in my tracks. The time had come to take stock. Fair weather or foul, certain forces in the world were at work trying to destroy me.
If we are a people who pray, darkness is apt to be a lot of what our prayers are about. If we are people who do not pray, it is apt to be darkness in one form or another that has stopped our mouths.
Since my father died and I stopped trusting my mother, no one else's arms have made me feel this safe.
She stopped at the desk and held up a can for his view. "This looks like an ordinary hairspray can, right?" "Of course. " he said though he had no idea what hairspray was.
Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of the assembly line. At first, workers rebelled. They quit in droves, unable to accustom their bodies to the new pace of the age. Since then, however, the adaptation has been passed down: we've all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into joy-sticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds.
He stopped and looked back at me "I love you too Pagan. I'll miss you. In every life.
The problem is, women have stopped setting the bar high.
I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?
Caught in a bad romance. Whoaaa-oh-ooooh!" Nellie wailed along to the XM radio blaring from the enormous speakers. "Can I uncover my ears now?" Dan called from the back, where he was reclined across the leather seat. "Has Nellie stopped her Lady Gag Me impression?
It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid.
I always find a couple of hecklers. . . I'll kinda look at them, stare at 'em, and let them know I can't be stopped.