Quotes About Pause

outside the door. He breathed in, and he breathed

And then he paused, for the drama, as if inviting questions, but no one asked any. Not even: the beginning of what? Better to hear the pitch all the way through. Always safer, with orders from on high. Ratcliffe

She cleared her throat and

There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration

That brought D.D. up short.

It's easy to operate under the illusion that what we are doing is so important we cannot stop doing it. ... Stopping is a spiritual act. It is the refuge where we drink life in.

Death is not complete annihilation. It is a pause. It is like pressing the pause button on a tape recorder.

Stopping is a spiritual art. It is the refuge where we drink life in.

reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays....

And carefully he brought Time to a halt, for as long as he wished.

I paused. ...I'm not dreaming. True. Then I'm going insane. Do you want an honest answer? Yes. He shrugged. I'd only query the tense. But I'm not a professional, so, you know, seek out a second opinion.

It was time for tea as it so often was.

I think it is time that I put the kettle on

Tea, thought Mma Ramotswe—no matter what was happening, no matter how difficult things became, there was always the tea break—that still moment, that unchangeable ritual, that survived everything, made normal the abnormal, renewed one's ability to cope with whatever the world laid before one. Tea.

Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because sometimes they take a rest.

This is a potent moment that many of us experience daily, if not hourly—the moment of feeling a longing for happiness. If we can get comfortable in being in that pause, however it manifests for us physically, psychologically, and emotionally, we have a better chance of responding to our longing in a way that is not simply a stopgap measure.

When we contain rather than constantly discharge our feeling state, we allow ourselves to feel completely. In feeling completely, we reexperience our aliveness and the source of that aliveness. When we cultivate the discipline to pause, it becomes possible for us to make a choice that is outside our normal habit pattern. And it is in breaking through these entrained patterns that we can begin to experience a more liberated state of being.

Hoyer paused the recording. "Riveting, isn't it? And intriguing. You listen, wondering how this conversation could lead us all to being right here, right now.

Hoyer paused the recording. "Riveting, isn't it? And intriguing. You listen, wondering how this conversation could lead us all to being right here, right now. Realizing you're hearing the calm before the storm.

it should at some stage cause people to pause and reflect that the voices almost everybody wanted to demonise and dismiss were in the final analysis the voices whose predictions were nearest to being right.

unplug iPod music stops abruptly cricket song instead

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.

The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life.

As you're rushing through life, take time to stop a moment, look into people's eyes, say something kind, and try to make them laugh!