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Quotes About Pause

When a family member's behavior threatens to knock the nice right out of us, we can pause. Recalculate. Punch in a different destination for the words now downloading from our brains onto our tongues. We can program them to first stop at gentleness, swing by to pick up respect, and finally — arrive with grace.
~ Karen Ehman
Instead, learn to seek and embrace the unique life God has for you at this age and stage of motherhood. Take a deep breath. Pause. Stop stressing. Quit running. Just relax.
~ Karen Ehman
Flee while there is still time and then stop to catch your last breath.
~ Karen Elizabeth Gordon
expected—"  He inhaled a deep breath.  "We only
~ Karen Rose Smith
again. Before closing the door I waited
~ Karen White
Calwyn stopped in her tracks, and her song faltered on her lips. For the space of a heartbeat she thought she must be dreaming; the steady chantment she'd been singing without pause since dawn jerked almost into silence.
~ Kate Constable
because when beauty awes you, you must halt and try to catch your breath and your staggered heart.
~ Kate Elliott
If one character, one pause, of the incantation is not strictly in proper form, the magic doesn't work. Human beings are not accustomed to being perfect, and few areas of human activity demand it. Adjustment to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program." The
~ G. Pascal Zachary
I've had enough of chasing after poetry; I believe that poetry lies at one's very door or perhaps in one's very bed. I'm still a man on the run, but I shall try to stop and wait.
~ Gerard de Nerval
If this were a game, he could hit pause. He could restart, say different things, the right ones this time. He could search his inventory for the item that would make Sadie not leave.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
She is no longer speaking. Clearly, some response is required
~ Gabrielle Zevin
It is twenty-two degrees out, and when he wakes his hand is blue where it had rested on the ice. He stands and warms his hands on his jacket. He has never passed out in the middle of a run before. "Madame Olenska," he says. DR. ROSEN GIVES him a full examination. A.J. is in good health for his age, but there's something strange about his eyes that gives the doctor pause.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
They pause just long enough to decide what matters and
~ Gary Keller
When time stops, life starts.
~ Gary Leblanc
We overeat because there are signals and cues around us that tell us to eat. It's simply not in our nature to pause after every bite and contemplate whether we're full. As we eat, we unknowingly—mindlessly—look for signals or cues that we've had enough.
~ Brian Wansink
There is no steady unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed gradations, and at the last one pause
~ Herman Melville
time for tea.
~ Hugh Lofting
The sound of my name in his voice stopped me in midturn. I don't know how the hell he did it, but whenever he said my name, it cut through all other distractions and made me pause, as if he'd clenched me to him and kissed me.
~ Ilona Andrews
Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.
~ James Altucher
When I finished the trilogy of 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies, I had a gear shift and thought, 'I need to take a moment to smell the roses.'
~ Orlando Bloom
For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.
~ Jean Paul
Stop the world. I want to get off.
~ Anthony Newley
She paused, cast her gaze to Tehol Beddict, and slowly frowned. 'You are rather shy for an emperor,' she observed. Tehol refuted that with the brightest smile, and it transformed him, and suddenly Lostara forgot all about the man's martial-looking brother. Spirits of the sand, those eyes…
~ Steven Erikson
We are all interludes in history, a drawn breath to make pause in the rush, and when we are gone, those breaths join the chorus of the wind.
~ Steven Erikson