#halt

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. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#against #flux #freezes #giving #halts

Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel. ↗

— Jane Porter

#authors #chief #country #dr #glory

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#forever #forgotten #lasts #lists #need

Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must. ↗

— Branch Rickey

#i #indeed #mean #must #offense

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

— Ernst Toller

#class #halt #realized #socialism #until

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

#achieve #arrested #become #come #fail

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

— Henry W. Kendall

#decay #faces #halt #must #order

If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt! ↗

— Rudy Rucker

#answer #anything #clear #computation #final