#topped

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost. ↗

— Richard Branson

#car #determined #few #fields #find

I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: 'Wait a minute - if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?' And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#began #dawned #doing #got #i

When I stopped drinking, it was only because I thought if I don't stop, I'm going to die. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#die #drinking #going #i #only

When I got out of my Twenties I stopped playing women that were victims. I like playing women who are strong and have a piece of mind. ↗

— Kim Cattrall

#i #like #mind #out #piece

But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that. ↗

— Bryan Ferry

#art #career #completely #connected #extent

If I'm walking very, very fast down Madison Avenue in the middle of the day, I'll say I'm stopped 10 times. ↗

— Kristin Davis

#day #down #fast #i #madison

They reality is that we have 70% of our voters use a punch card system that I tried to change and that bipartisan resistance in the legislature stopped. ↗

— Kenneth Blackwell

#card #change #i #i tried #legislature

What has changed is that people have stopped working together. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#people #stopped #together #working #working together

We barely missed killing Bin Laden. There were numerous findings issued by the President to kill him. We rolled up terrorist cells. We stopped the millennium bombings. ↗

— Sidney Blumenthal

#bin #bombings #cells #findings #him

If I moved, he moved. If I stopped, he stopped. It was a duel. ↗

— Jennifer Esposito

#i #moved #stopped