#stopped

I've never been arrested. I've been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops. ↗

— Tim Meadows

#been #chicago #cops #gun #had

Once again I stopped listening to the news this week. ↗

— Donella Meadows

#i #listening #news #once #stopped

I've never stopped being Argentine, and I've never wanted to. I feel very proud of being Argentine, even though I left there. I've been clear about this since I was very young, and I never wanted to change. Barcelona is my home because both the club and the people here have given me everything, but I won't stop being Argentine. ↗

— Lionel Messi

#barcelona #because #been #being #both

I got cocky and I stopped taking my vitamins. It was an inconvenience to have a suitcase full of vitamins with me on the road. About two years ago, it caught up with me. ↗

— Mary Ann Mobley

#ago #caught #cocky #full #got

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

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

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. ↗

— Colin Powell

#bringing #care #case #concluded #confidence