Halt Quotes

• Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Blood

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• Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

  Khalil Gibran

  Courage, Blood, Perfection

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• Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.

  Alan Bennett

  Children, Parent, Assuming

  Alan Bennett (2008). “Alan Bennett Plays 1: Forty Years On, Getting On, Habeas Corpus and Enjoy”, p.82, Faber & Faber

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• To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

  Anna Pavlova

  Success, Hard Work, Persistence

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• It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Miracle, Mind

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• All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Luxury, Parent

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• Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.

  Ada Cambridge

  Pain, Eye, Law

  Ada Cambridge, “Honour”

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• We can prevent Europe from becoming a spiritless machine that, in the end, grinds to a halt.

  Jan Peter Balkenende

  Europe, Machines, Becoming

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• Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the grand-daughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. Slaver y is sixty years in the past. The operation was successful and the patient is doing well, thank you. The terrible struggle that made me an American out of a potential slave said "On the line!" The Reconstruction said "Go!" I am off to a flying start and I must not halt in the stretch to look behind and weep.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Depression, Daughter, Struggle

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• If my writing comes to a halt, I head to the shops: I find them very inspirational. And if I get into real trouble with my plot, I go out for a pizza with my husband.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Husband, Real, Writing

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• Halt regarded him. He loved Horace like a younger brother. Even like a second son, after Will. He admired his skill with a sword and his courage in battle. But sometimes, just sometimes, he felt an overwhelming desire to ram the young warrior's head against a convenient tree. "You have no sense of drama or symbolism, do you?" he asked. "Huh?" replied Horace, not quite understanding. Halt looked around for a convenient tree. Luckily for Horace, there were none in sight.

  John Flanagan

  Brother, Drama, Warrior

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• The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.

  Maimonides

  Sage, Limits, Reason

  Moses Maimonides (2016). “Guide for the perplexed”, p.288, Moses Maimonides

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• You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people.

  Wentworth Miller

  Education, People, Grind

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• The working class will not halt until socialism has been realized.

  Ernst Toller

  Eugenics, Class, Socialism

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• The Pacific had great hope that when the former President Mitered decided to halt nuclear testing, we had put behind us the issue of nuclear states testing their weapons in our Pacific region.

  Jenny Shipley

  Issues, President, Nuclear

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• The day that the black man takes an uncompromising step and realizes that he's within his rights, when his own freedom is being jeopardized, to use any means necessary to bring about his freedom or put a halt to that injustice, I don't think he'll be by himself.

  Malcolm X

  Freedom, Mean, Men

  Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

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• Celebrate Earth Day every day.

  John Denver

  Earth Day, Celebrate, Earth

  Song: Earth Day, Every Day, Album: Earth Songs

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• The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.

  Harold Rosenberg

  America, Stories, Metamorphosis

  "The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations". Book by Robert Andrews, p. 1473, October 30, 2003.

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• We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces.

  Henry W. Kendall

  Order, Decay, Faces

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• See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers.

  John Thomas Sladek

  Writing, Fiction, Research

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• Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

  Vernon Howard

  Courage, Thinking, Negativity

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• [Will]'d barely been asleep a few minutes when Halt's voice woke him. 'Will? Are you asleep?'... 'I was,' he said, a little indignantly. 'I'm not now.' 'Good,' Halt replied, a trifle smugly. 'Serves you right.

  John Flanagan

  Voice, Littles, Minutes

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• There are moments that stop the heart, that catch the breath, that halt the beat of blood in your veins, and you are suspended in time, held between life and death, and you wait for something to bring you back again.

  Robert Cormier

  Heart, Blood, Life And Death

  Robert Cormier (2013). “Fade”, p.10, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• I really want Congress to do its job, the constitutional power that they have, to halt an imperial presidency, to halt this fundamental transformation of America that is making us an unrecognizable mess of a nation at this time.

  Sarah Palin

  Jobs, America, Fundamentals

  "Palin Calls For Obama's Impeachment: 'Halt An Imperial Presidency'" by Ian Schwartz, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 08, 2014.

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• ‎Halt looked up at the trees above him. "Why does this boy ask so many questions?" he asked the trees. Naturally, they didn't answer.

  John Flanagan

  Boys, Tree, Doe

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