Quotes About Pause

Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe.

Life is a glass of wine and having your feet washed - it's a biblical event, might I add. This is part of mankind's story. You are always looking for a moment to take a break.

Perhaps there really are occasions in life when it's best not to say anything.

If life is a journey, time should pull over at a rest stop sometimes - we should all be given a chance to get off and stretch our legs, collect our thoughts and reorganize.

If I had more recreation time I would be able to step back and reflect on how life has changed. But it has been like a constant... boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!

Build gaps in your life. Pauses. Proper pauses.

There is no music in a "rest" that I know of, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody.

Whenever my life came to a halt, the questions would arise: Why? And what next?

Augustus, perhaps you'd like to share your fears with the group." My fears?" Yes." I fear oblivion," he said without a moment's pause. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark." Too soon," Isaac said, cracking a smile. Was that insensitive?" Augustus asked. I can be pretty blind to other people's feelings.

He let her have the silence while she selected her words.

Bad enough to be here, doing this. Worse to have to stop and think about it.

Well, she asked him questions about his age and his attainments. The fact that he was a Catholic gave her pause, but when I explained to her that the present Pope was a well-meaning sort of chap, she said she was prepared to meet him halfway.

At the door I paused. 'So what was your spirit animal?' 'A dolphin. Fun in the sun, endless summer. What about you?' 'Dee Dee Ramone,' I said, and left.

Lasciate che il cuore faccia una pausa, fosse anche solo il tempo di cento battiti, tanto per riprendere fiato, e tutto è finito. I miliardi di battiti precedenti non conterebbero più nulla.

Le complacía la paz conseguida cada vez que cerraba la portezuela de un taxi. Era lo más parecido a una tregua con el mundo exterior: todo en suspenso, al otro lado de la ventanilla, durante el trayecto. Apoyó la cabeza en el respaldo, encantado con la perspectiva.

major paused in his jeep. "What's wrong?" he asked. "Are you sick, soldier?" "Nosir. I'm just spilling my guts for the hell of it." "Maybe you'd better report to the medics.

Did I catch you at a bad time?" she asked as a few moments passed without either of them speaking. He mentally shook himself out of his reverie. "Sorry, you looked so..." "Cold?" she suggested with a smile.

'The Master,' it was really important to me to go see that in the theater, but that's a very rare occurrence for me. I typically enjoy things on my laptop. I'm in bed; I can be able to pause them.

I very rarely get to enjoy doing nothing.

When I look back on my knee-jerk reactions now, I realize I should have just taken a breath.

The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.

I took a bit of a back seat, I had kids and I wanted to focus on them. There's that period in the late '90s, the early 2000s, where I didn't do a great deal.

There'll never be a 'Rocky IV.' You gotta call a halt.

You can't halt time.