#stopped

If we would have had the 262 at our disposal - even with all the delays - if we could have had in '44, ah, let's say three hundred operational, that day we could have stopped the American daytime bombing offensive, that's for sure. ↗

— Adolf Galland

#american #bombing #could #day #daytime

Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move. ↗

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

#back #bridle #broke #brought #bullet

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#democracy #discovers #far #go #how

The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan? This business must be stopped. It's a dirty business to produce such a horrible device. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#business #device #did #dirty #horrible

Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped! ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#could #handle #i #lot #more

I never stopped working, but I did let my contract run out. And I didn't really actively pursue it. ↗

— Juice Newton

#contract #did #i #never #out

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern. ↗

— Anais Nin

#ago #father #i #long #long time

As you stopped to say hello, oh, you wished me well, you couldn't tell that I'd been crying over you. ↗

— Roy Orbison

#crying #hello #i #me #oh

About four or five weeks after it was publicly announced I was no longer breastfeeding, I got a letter from the NHS saying they were being supportive of me, but basically, they were very disappointed I'd stopped. ↗

— Denise Van Outen

#after #announced #basically #being #disappointed

I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance. ↗

— Robert Plant

#apologizing #financial #great #having #i