Best Halt Sayings
230 Halt quotes by 141 unique authors
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We can prevent Europe from becoming a spiritless machine that, in the end, grinds to a halt.
— Jan Peter Balkenende
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A reduction in meat consumption is the most powerful single act that you can take to halt the destruction of our environment and preserve our…
— John Robbins
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The trigger has been squeezed, the deathly mechanism has been enabled, the fatal course of a bullet has been set. No amount of bleating or…
— Nicola Barker
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What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt Held in cohesion by unresting cells, Which work they know not why, which never halt, Myself…
— John Masefield
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To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause…
— Anna Pavlova
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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…
— Jenny Shipley
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Hopelessness may be the saddest word in our language. Despair is the enemy of our souls. It can paralyze us, halt our progress, and cause…
— Dwan J. Young
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There, by the starlit fences The wanderer halts and hears My soul that lingers sighing About the glimmering weirs.
— A. E. Housman
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The working class will not halt until socialism has been realized.
— Ernst Toller
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I once heard a learned man say, "Every evil has its remedy, except folly. To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach to a dolt…
— Khalil Gibran
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Perhaps it would be a good idea, fantastic as it sounds, to muffle every telephone, halt every motor, and stop all activity someday to give…
— James Adams
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My life's long radiant Summer halts at last, And lo! beside my path way I behold Pursuing Autumn glide: nor frost nor cold Has heralded…
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Britain, the first industrial nation, had offered the world a remarkable public experiment in liberal, capitalist democracy whose success was premised upon free trade and…
— Unknown Author
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Sometimes you can gradually improve things. But sometimes, they don't work, and you've just got to just say: Let's grind this baby to a halt.
— Abigail Johnson
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In Waziristan people get really upset when there are no drone attacks. Their apprehension is that the US and Pakistani government might enter in an…
— Unknown Author
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There is a place for everyone, man and woman, old and young, hale and halt; service in a thousand forms is open. There is no…
— Winston Churchill
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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…
— Sarah Palin
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Writing, painting, singing -- it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death's footsteps sound…
— Ally Condie
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When the machine grinds to a halt, the cogs themselves begin wondering about their function.
— Unknown Author
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When the rider demands the piaffe, he has to halt the horse a few strides before the latter wants to stop of his own accord.
— Nuno Oliveira
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Sloth is the desire for ease, even at the expense of doing the known will of God. Whatever we do in life requires effort. Everything…
— John Hardon
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Fred Astaire. Not a handsome man. He said himself he couldn't sing. He was balding his whole life. He danced like a cheetah runs with…
— Sebastian Barry
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While progress should never come to a halt, there are many places it should never come to at all.
— Paul Newman
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If we do not design policies to halt, and then reverse population growth, Nature by default will soon exact a most punishing solution
— Fred Thompson
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There are many outsiders that actively try to halt every natural resource development project in Alaska. Many of these same people have never even been…
— Lisa Murkowski
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