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Letter "H" » halting
«Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.»
Author: Alan Bennett
(
Actor,
Writer)
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About:
Children,
Parents,
Sex
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Keywords:
assume,
conception,
grinding,
halt,
halted,
halting,
halts,
sexual
«People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.»
«Men's 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.»
«Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.»
«Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.»
Author: Og Mandino
(
Essayist,
Psychologist)
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Keywords:
boast,
conceit,
conceits,
correct,
fist,
FISTED,
fists,
guard,
halt,
halted,
halting,
halts,
hole,
importance,
on guard,
pail,
pails,
Pride and,
remaining,
remove,
remove it,
speak for,
tempted,
The Hole,
traps,
watering hole,
with conceit
«For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.»
«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.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(
Novelist,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
asked,
believe in,
coming,
cry,
from nowhere,
halt,
halted,
halting,
halts,
minds,
non,
nowhere,
only when
«Don't halt before you are lame.»
«Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(
Essayist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
Fear,
Perfection
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Keywords:
advance,
advancing,
corrupt,
halt,
halted,
halting,
halts,
thorns
«In our last conflict four of his five wits went halting off, and now is the whole man govern'd with one.»