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Quotes About Halting

The conversation that ensued was anguished and halting. We avoided making eye contact. After five minutes, however, all four of us concurred: Hutchison's decision to leave Beck and Yasuko where they lay was the proper course of action.
~ Jon Krakauer
One of the gaps in our international development efforts is the provision of global public goods - that is, goods or conditions we need that no individual or country can secure on their own, such as halting global warming, financial stability and peace and security.
~ Anna Lindh
Decisions are hard. Everyone has the halting problem.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Wherever we halted we were surrounded by wandering troops of Bedouins.
~ Richard Francis Burton
The problem is essentially that of communications to an army in action. After a rapid advance communications become disorganized, and there is a temporary halting until they are again in working order.
~ John Desmond Bernal
as L-serine, they have shown that the misfolding of amyloid and tau doesn't continue happening, effectively halting the progression of Alzheimer's disease.
~ Sanjay Gupta
I didn't even need to know the specific that was troubling her, because to me her halting voice easily stood for the general woe that hangs in the air, even on life's happiest days.
~ Steve Martin
Your speech so halting and unguarded is the only thing left with which to content myself. But the accent is changed, the colour is different.
~ Eugenio Montale
tradition emphasises the uselessness of material barriers in halting a witch's notions
~ H.P. Lovecraft
I've already brought enough shame on the family without halting the family tree.
~ Alan Carr
Good things come to an end, bad things have to be stopped.
~ Kim Newman
What you hear is southern Michigan, not a drawl, but a halting kind of speech where you leave spaces when there shouldn't be any. We take a breath anywhere.
~ Tom Bodett
Feynman resented the polished myths of most scientific history, submerging the false steps and halting uncertainties under a surface of orderly intellectual progress, but he created a myth of his own.
~ James Gleick