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Quotes About Pause

I can't stay long; I'm in between meals.
~ Louie Anderson
We're all human and we all need a rest now and again!
~ A. J. Odudu
Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.
~ John Goodman
He paused again. "Hello?" he called out. "Yoo-hoo!
~ Peter Meredith
Sabbath is not dependent upon our readiness to stop.
~ Peter Scazzero
The essence of being in God's image is our ability, like God, to stop. We imitate God by stopping our work and resting.
~ Peter Scazzero
SPECIES USED TO GO EXTINCT. NOW THEY GO ON HIATUS. —Deborah MacLennan, Tables of our Reconstruction
~ Peter Watts
That was the longest run-on sentence I've ever heard in my entire life. Did you even take a breath in between words there?
~ Phil Brooks
A mistake proves that someone stopped talking long enough to do something.
~ Phoenix Flame
When you're hurrying around too quickly," he had said, "there's a part of the world you can't see. If, for example, you're taking a wrong direction in your life, it's only when you stop and look at things clearly that you can revise your direction and take a more proper course. Then message of Zen is that in order to find ourselves, we've got to learn to stop.
~ Pico Iyer
Cette stupeur va durer quelques secondes, pendant lesquelles tout le monde va quitter la vie, s'absenter, perdre le fil de l'existence.
~ Pierre Charras
The secret of it is to read what you've got in front of you. Don't, if you suspect that something has a double meaning, don't pause. Don't put on a leery vocal expression if you know what I mean on radio. Don't sort of do anything other than read it.
~ Humphrey Lyttelton
Research indicates that a pause tends to be a signal that a cluster of deceptive cues is on its way. This is a key reason why voters routinely associate Trump with authenticity: He rarely pauses.
~ Pamela Meyer
I have two settings: full speed and stop.
~ Garrett McNamara
I basically took six or seven years off, but then I had another five or four of me not working at all because I was in school. It was really 13 years of me not working at all... I really couldn't even think about it.
~ Gaby Hoffmann
When you have to put on shades in the studio, you know you have to stop.
~ Mike Patton
Even Shakespeare gives you a scene off.
~ Roger Rees
The whole city stopped - And this is a pause worth savouring, because the world will soon be complicated again.
~ Jon McGregor
He wonders how so much water can resist the pull of so much gravity for the time it takes such pregnant clouds to form, he wonders about the moment the rain begins, the turn from forming to falling, that slight silent pause in the physics of the sky as the critical mass is reached, the hesitation before the first swollen drop hurtles fatly and effortlessly to the ground.
~ Jon McGregor
Time for a little something.
~ A. A. Milne
Halfway down the stairs, is a stair, where I sit. There isn't any, other stair, quite like, it. I'm not at the bottom, I'm not at the top; So this is the stair, where, I always, stop. Halfway up the stairs, isn't up, and isn't down. It isn't in the nursery, it isn't in the town. And all sorts of funny thoughts, run round my head: It isn't really anywhere! It's somewhere else instead!
~ A. A. Milne
The present had somehow ceased to be an emergency.
~ Adam Haslett
I tell women to not make hasty decision based on circumstances on just that moment in time. Press the pause button.
~ Lynne Doughtie
What we achieved was a nuclear pause, not a nuclear halt.
~ Jim Mattis