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Quotes About Pause

There really isn't a time to pause and have a celebration. I feel so serious about the whole thing.
~ Story Musgrave
The clock doesn't matter in baseball. Time stands still or moves backwards. Theoretically, one game could go on forever. Some seem to.
~ Herb Caen
Never run from what you don't understand, as it will be waiting for you every time you come to a stop.
~ Guy Finley
The world is still spinning and so are we and so are you. When the spinning stops - that'll be the time to worry. Not before.
~ John Lennon
Sometimes you take time off, and then you look around and you go, "Hello. What happened? Oh dear!"
~ Pierce Brosnan
Time for a little something.
~ A. A. Milne
Between stimulus and response, there is a space, and when you take time to pray or make a cuppa, you don't have to live in reaction to a situation.
~ Roma Downey
After a pause he says, 'Trust you to bring everything back to sweets.' He is a fine one to talk, him and his birds.
~ Marian Keyes
A moment is such a slight thing, I mean, that its abiding is a most gracious reprieve.     Once
~ Marilynne Robinson
Mocht de patiënte zich op enig moment tijdens de behandeling 'ontgoocheld' voelen - hij pauzeerde even om tot ons te laten doordringen dat deze verduidelijking belangrijk was -, dan zou ze die onmiddellijk kunnen onderbreken.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Take all the time you need.
~ Marisha Pessl
He seemed about to speak; then, as if he could not give sufficient weight to the words while we walked, he stopped and faced me.
~ Anthony Powell
There was a pause. Maclintick, unable to bear the sight and sound of these negotiations, had taken a notebook from his pocket and begun a deep examination of his own affairs; making plans for the future; writing down great thoughts; perhaps even composing music.
~ Anthony Powell
Mrs. Dadds, who was telling a story about her chilblains, brought her narrative to a more or less satisfactory conclusion and paused to regain her breath.
~ Anthony Powell
Don't do something—just stand there!
~ Anthony Robbins
We all woke up this morning and we had with it the amazing return of our conscious mind. We recovered minds with a complete sense of self and a complete sense of our own existence — yet we hardly ever pause to consider this wonder.
~ Antonio Damasio
This was the pause when history held its breath, the hushed moment between the lightning flash and the advent of the first concussion. Soon the thunder would be rolling round the world; and soon there might be no world at all, while he and his people would be homeless exiles among the stars.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
When you don't know what to do, do nothing.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
above all, do not fret until you know that you really have a cause for it.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
In a long pause he was made to feel her superior strength, and the fact that she had been withholding it for years out of charity.
~ Shirley Hazzard
Three hundred years later, the van came to a stop.
~ Sibella Giorello
All of this could have been different if both of his parents had taken a breath.
~ Silas House
See how I stopped mid-sentence? I can do it too. When I don't necessarily want to reveal the exact thought I'm having.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Between the businesse of life and the day of death, a space ought to be interposed.
~ George Herbert