#stopped

In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks. Or if I did find my way to put a pen to paper or finger on a keyboard I'd give up after a few minutes. I'd find other things to do: Anything but writing. ↗

— Mary Garden

#almost #always #anything #back #constant

The CIA could not face up to the American people and admit that its former employees had conspired to assassinate the President; so from the moment Kennedy's heart stopped beating, the Agency attempted to sweep the whole conspiracy under the rug. ↗

— Jim Garrison

#agency #american #american people #assassinate #attempted

The left-wing, which consists of armoured and motorized forces and has no enemy in front of it, will be stopped dead in its tracks upon direct order from the Fuhrer. ↗

— Franz Halder

#dead #direct #enemy #forces #front

I think my emotional revulsion against Stalin's terror would have stopped me in my tracks. ↗

— Theodore Hall

#emotional #i #i think #me #revulsion

There is some sign that North Korea is changing recently. There is ongoing successful negotiation to have a military talk to Pyongyang, which has been stopped for seven years. ↗

— Kim Dae Jung

#changing #korea #military #negotiation #north

I started riding bikes when I was really young, but I stopped when I was 19 because my mother asked me to, so I stopped riding for 35 years and now I'm just addicted. It is my only addiction. ↗

— Mark Boone Junior

#addiction #asked #because #bikes #i

You know you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle! ↗

— Bert Kalmar

#came #haven #here #i #i came

I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security. ↗

— Garry Kasparov

#against #any #could #course #i

I went out every single night so I was never alone with my stepfather. At 12, I stopped going on holiday with them. The times I was alone with him I always made sure I was all covered up. ↗

— Christine Keeler

#always #covered #every #going #him

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it. ↗

— Sandy Koufax

#became #good #hit #i #make