Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes. – George Orwell 1984. Part 3, Chapter 1. During his beatings and torture Winston comes to realize that physical pain is the worst thing in the world and is unbearable.
The Palestinian must stop throwing stones, and the Israelis must stop firing rockets. And in the view of the Sharm el-Sheikh summit, rockets are equal to stones. – Hassan Nasrallah
I’m a four-down guy. I can rush the passer and stop the run. I know I can be a difference-maker. – Gaines Adams
We also have to stop the flow of precursor chemicals that meth cooks use to boil up this poison. – Greg Walden
I’m a very organised and rational and linear thinker, and you have to stop all that to write a novel. – Hilary Mantel
I’m a true-crime addict. It’s not something I’m particularly proud of, but I can’t stop. – Gillian Flynn
The United States should stop being the ’empire’ and be concerned about other countries. You’ve got to be more worried about your own people. – Hugo Chavez
The record companies fell apart – quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop. – John Lydon
If you took ISIS’ oil, that would not stop them. It’s not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them. – Jack Keane
The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobilized in over 30 states to stop it. These efforts are very partisan. – John Lewis
We have got to stop being a society that turns our heads and looks the other way. – Jane Velez-Mitchell
Up until the age of 16, I was very focused on sport – I played a lot of football. Then I tore my ACL and had to stop playing. – Josh Hartnett
Even if we were to stop putting out greenhouse gases right now, we’d still face decades of warming. – Jamais Cascio
I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn’t have a darkroom, but that didn’t stop me from photographing. – Imogen Cunningham