#stopped

The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#any #civil #civil war #development #direction

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

Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#been #daytime #decade #declining #gradually

It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid. ↗

— Andy Partridge

#jazz #rock #snobby #sort #stopped

And everything stopped quite rapidly because I knew that nobody in Europe was able to go to space. It was the privilege of being either American or Russian. ↗

— Philippe Perrin

#american #because #being #either #europe

But of course, now we're told we're in recovery but this sure doesn't feel like a recovery to more than 9 percent of the Americans out there who are unemployed, or the 16 percent of the African-Americans, 11 percent of Hispanics in the same position, or the millions who can only find part-time work or those who have even stopped looking for a job. ↗

— Rick Perry

#even #feel #find #hispanics #job

I ended up becoming so self-conscious that my songs stopped being about my life and started being about what people thought of my music. And that was really bad. ↗

— Liz Phair

#bad #becoming #being #ended #i