Quotes About Pause

There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hour, when time stalls and slips, when life -real life- seems to exist at one remove

There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, when time stalls and slips, when life—real life—seems to exist at one remove.

The funny thing about stopping is that as soon as you do it, here you are.

Always take all the time to reflect that circumstances permit, but when the time for action has come, stop thinking. (Andrew Jackson)

Making tea is a ritual that stops the world from falling in on you. Everything pauses while you do familiar things with taps and kettles; it allows you to catch your breath and become calm.

You're not bothering me. I'm not doing anything." Well, I was breathing, and my heart was beating. But the rest of me wasn't busy.

El "etcétera" es el descanso de los sabios y la excusa de los ignorantes.

Some novels even overdramatize events, which, in real life, happen in a far more unassuming and inconsequential way; they happen, then they're over, they run into one another, floating like clouds scattered by the wind between the odd deceptive pause that turns out to be impossible, because time—which no one understands—stops for nothing.

During the pause while I was changing my string, the frenzied audience would often break into a slow handclap, inspiring Giorgio to dream up the nickname of "Slow hand" Clapton.

Halt still, Birkenpfote!

those words of old in their place of old end of part three and last present formulation at the end before the silence the panting without pause the animal in want of air the mouth murmuring them in the mud and the continuation of old when the panting stops ten words fifteen words a murmur to the mud

her on the side of the road?" He ran a hand through his wet hair, wishing he could

Given that all three of us were Londoners, we paused a moment to carry out the ritual of the "valuation of the property." I guessed that, given the area, it was at least a million and change. "Million and a half, easy," said Carey. "More," said Guleed. "If it's freehold.

When in doubt, don't.

Sheila backed off—for the moment.

we chose to hold off.

martes, una de esas tardes de verano en que la Tierra parece haberse detenido. El teléfono, sobre la mesa de mi despacho, tenía

Thinking involves not only the flow of thoughts, but their arrest as well.

The human race needs a time out from all this techno-magic-mischief, a period to reflect on what we've done and how we ought to behave with this stuff.

I got some time off from international cricket so I could come back to India and reflect on what was not going right for me.

I think I had a kind of pause for insight in my 20s when I wasn't in a relationship and my career wasn't going the way I wanted it to go. I had time for reflection then.

The craziest thing I've done for love? Put my life on hold.

When you're in a hole, stop digging.

I love to take some holidays. In fact, I am a guy who wants to take a break for at least 10 days after each movie.