#interrupted

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#america #continue #european #interferences #objects

My graduate study was interrupted, like that of many others, by World War II. ↗

— Kenneth Joseph Arrow

#ii #interrupted #like #many #others

The last occasions when the timetable of our lives would be interrupted for many years to come. ↗

— Sister Parish

#interrupted #last #lives #many #occasions

Are you crazy? It's a common phrase, I know. But it means something particular to me: the tunnels, the security screens, the plastic forks, the shimmering, ever-shifting borderline that like all boundaries beckons and asks to be crossed. I do not want to cross it again. ↗

— Susanna Kaysen

#girl-interrupted #insanity #mental-illness #mental-illness

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#complete #family #friends #must #natural

To go from Girl, Interrupted, where I had to cry every day, to a TV show like West Wing where I get to laugh and joke around every day, has been a welcome relief. ↗

— Elizabeth Moss

#been #cry #day #every #every day

Bahrain lies at the epicenter of Gulf security and any violent upheaval in Bahrain would have enormous geopolitical consequences. Global economic stability depends on the uninterrupted export of crude oil from the Gulf to markets around the world - a job that historically has been assigned to the U.S. Fifth Fleet. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#around #assigned #bahrain #been #consequences

I believe the term modulation denotes in music the uninterrupted shift from one key to another: I do not know the term for change of rhythm without change of measure. ↗

— Allen Tate

#believe #change #denotes #i #i believe

A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#even #exercises #good #interrupted #many

I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent. ↗

— Susanna Kaysen

#survival #susanna-kaysen #talent #talent