#stop

If I stop to think about fans, or best-selling, or not best-selling, or good reviews, or not-good reviews, it just becomes too much. It's like staring at the mirror all day. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#all day #becomes #day #fans #good

I've always thought the back is one of the most beautiful parts of a woman. I've created four versions of the front-to-back necklace which actually gives you two necklaces in one. I love the way they swing and catch the light as a woman is walking away. You almost want to pull on it and stop her! ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#almost #always #away #back #beautiful

Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one. ↗

— Harold Larwood

#bowled #bowling #cricket #dark #down

Never get a mime talking. He won't stop. ↗

— Marcel Marceau

#mime #never #stop #talking #won

She stops, pauses, turns to the left to glance at some possible threat or irregularity, and then continues to the north. This motion, so intensely human, transcends time. ↗

— Mary Leakey

#glance #human #intensely #irregularity #left

Kansas had better stop raising corn and begin raising hell. ↗

— Mary Elizabeth Lease

#better #corn #had #hell #kansas

The American people want a balanced budget. They want Congress to stop this barbaric practice of perpetual deficit spending. It really, if you think about it, is a form of taxation without representation. We fought a war over that issue and we won that war. ↗

— Mike Lee

#american #american people #balanced #balanced budget #barbaric

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure. ↗

— Jack Lemmon

#fear #seldom #stops #you

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. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#always #build #freedom #ideal #lost

When people don't want to come, nothing will stop them. ↗

— Sol Hurok

#nothing #people #stop #them #want