#stopped

The United States invented the Internet and it has been our gift to the world, paid for by our taxpayers. The U.N.'s desire to take that gift as a means of increasing its power must be stopped. ↗

— John Doolittle

#desire #gift #increasing #internet #invented

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. ↗

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#day #even #right #stopped #twice

My musical development stopped when Frank Sinatra died. ↗

— Alex Trebek

#died #frank #frank sinatra #musical #sinatra

I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing. ↗

— Muddy Waters

#ball player #baseball #baseball player #definitely #finger

I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#answer #course #does #faith #god

I went down and played with Magic Johnson at his all-star game in Atlanta. I remember Magic stopped the game and said, 'We need you here with us in L.A.' ↗

— Jayson Williams

#all-star game #atlanta #down #game #here

By the time I came out, that kind of stopped it. The bullying stopped when I claimed myself and proved that I wasn't afraid. A lot of it was when I was hiding when I was younger. ↗

— Randy Harrison

#bullying #by the time #came #claimed #hiding

And, as if nature were protecting man against his own ingenuity, the reproductive processes were affected for a time; men became sterile, women had miscarriages, menstruation stopped. ↗

— John Hersey

#against #became #had #his #ingenuity

When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my taxes. This only stopped, when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

#family #filed #guarantee #i #i always

We worked so hard we almost stopped enjoying it. ↗

— Susanna Hoffs

#enjoying #hard #stopped #worked