Quotes About Pause

On the threshold she paused ... for perchance the idea of entering, all alone, and all so changed, the home of so intense a former life was more dreary and desolate than even she could bear.

We all need a moratorium on misery now and then.

people are worn away with striving, they hide in common habits. their concerns are herd concerns. few have the ability to stare at an old shoe for ten minutes or to think of odd things like who invented the doorknob? they become unalive because they are unable to pause undo themselves unkink unsee unlearn roll clear. listen to their untrue laughter, then walk away.

there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails.

it never happened but it seemed like there were times when rot stopped waited like a streetcar at a signal.

there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails. I pass the hotel

wishing you'd simply paused, taken a long, deep breath. Not allowed the personal moment and the pattern of your family and your stupid culture to shove you two-handed from behind, forcing you to stumble unbalanced into the future.

She paused, staring into the void. The void, for its part, stared back unblinking.

There are times when you want to turn up the volume on life and times when you want to turn it down and times when you just want to turn it off.

I'm not really deep enough to have enough to think about for fifteen minutes.

Usually halftime's only like 15 minutes.

I think in the darkest moments, we need a break.

When you're reading a book, you're always looking for the natural place to stop. With a movie, you can't really have that sense of it coming momentarily to a halt; there's pressure to keep the momentum up.

Antes de continuar me volví para ver si el tiempo seguía allí.

hesitated; swooped again; hesitated again; swooped once more

Georgie paused on the threshold for a moment as if hesitant to enter the habitation of such a perjurer lest it should be struck by lightning.

Something precious is lost if we rush headlong into the details of life without pausing for a moment to pay homage to the mystery of life and the gift of another day.

Our young people, raised under the old rules of courtesy, never indulged in the present habit of talking incessantly and all at the same time. To do so would have been not only impolite, but foolish; for poise, so much admired as a social grace, could not be accompanied by restlessness. Pauses were acknowledged gracefully and did not cause lack of ease or embarrassment.

We can't stop time, but it will sometimes stand still for love. PEARL S.

No se puede parar el tiempo, pero para el amor a veces se detiene. Pearl S. Buck

Then someone finished a story, someone else paused to think of the right word, and a silence opened and spread through the brightly lit room.

I smiled. He looked like he was waiting

I don't know what to say,' she said after a pause. 'I don't want to tell you a lie, and I don't know the truth.' It was maybe the most honest thing anyone had ever said to me.

Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.