Quotes About Pause

Richard paused again. Bert hated that pause; he knew it all too well from his meetings with the town selectmen. Bureaucrats implemented such pauses when they were adjusting the truth or trying to decide how much of it the sheriff needed to know.

Just pause, my loves, remember me, & then keep going.

Nick." "Yeah?" "Come to bed. It's too cold to sleep on the floor." There was a pause. "You sure?" "Yep" "Thanks." Nick said. "Oh, sure. It's nothing. Couldn't let you freeze, not with Jesus watching.

How long is forever?" asks Alice. "Sometimes, just one second," replies the White Rabbit. There are dreams lasting an instant in which everything seems frozen for an eternity.

Genuis hesitates

If I'm making a movie and get hungry, I call time-out and eat some crackers.

Perhaps it is while drinking tea that I most of all enjoy the sense of leisure.

What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

So, we'll go no more a roving     So late into the night, Though the heart be still as loving,     And the moon be still as bright. II For the sword outwears its sheath,     And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause to breathe,     And love itself have rest. III

You can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.

Actuality is when the lighthouse is dark between flashes: it is the instant between the ticks of the watch: it is a void interval slipping forever through time: the rupture between past and future: the gap at the poles of the revolving magnetic field, infinitesimally small but ultimately real. It is the interchronic pause when nothing is happening. It is the void between events.

The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the skier poised at the top of a mountain trail, the basketball player with the rough skin of the ball against his palm preparing for a foul shot, the tennis player at set point over his opponent--all of them savoring a moment before committing themselves to action.

The best lies contain within them nuggets of truth, enough to give a listener pause.

It was not a silence, just a quiet, the indrawn breath that comes before the shout.

When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.

If it's working, keep doing it. If it's not working, stop doing it. If you don't know what to do, don't do anything.

To sleep! perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause.

It is always dullest before the yawn.

Të shikosh. Sa gjë e pashpjegueshme! Ja, unë drejtoj fytyrën nga lagjet e poshtme të qytetit dhe sytë, si dy pompa të fuqishme, fillonin të thithnin dritë dhe pamje të ndryshme: tymtarë, ndonjë dru fiku të vetmuar, rrugë, kalimtarë. E ndjenin ata që unë po i thithja? Mbyll sytë. Stop. Rrjedha ndalet. I hap sytë. Rrjedha vazhdon.

When you enter a new experience, all that requires healing rushes to the surface . . . You have to pause.

Yeah, well, 'true' isn't a question mark, either," V took a pause.

Breath is life. You are not the pebble washed to shore by the wave, but the fish that swims in the wave. Breathe in to fill, to draw in the light. Slow," he told her, "with awareness. Breathe out to empty. And pause, hold in that space between. Now in to fill.