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Quotes About Pause

so alone was almost spiritual—but something in Abby's voice makes her pause. "You might have a better idea," she says. "But you two were 'best friends,'" Abby says mockingly. She taps ash from her cigarette into a chipped teacup on the table. Kathryn looks at her. "I thought so." She swallows hard. "But
~ Christina Baker Kline
She pauses, hand on her hip. "Yes,
~ Christina Baker Kline
Madam, if I were Herod in the middle Of the massacre of the innocents, I'd pause Just to consider the confusion of your imagery.
~ Christopher Fry
You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out, practically.
~ Hector Elizondo
I used to be driven, but I pulled over.
~ Heidi Joyce
Le temps semble s'être arrêté… Tu baisses ton profil sublime, Et nous nous penchons vers l'abîme Dans un frisson d'éternité
~ Henri Barbusse
A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.
~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel
People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.
~ Henry Rollins
Between the dark and the daylight,When the night is beginning to lower,Comes a pause in the day's occupations,That is known as the Children's Hour.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Whatv is this life, if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?
~ Henry Williamson
When in doubt, my dear fellow, do nothing.
~ Leo Tolstoy
If in Doubt, don't do it
~ Leo Tolstoy
Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness
~ Leon Tolstoy
A story always ends just when it comes to an end. Like a breath.
~ Leonie Swann
She would love it. Just as he loved her. He paused for a second, his fingers touching the door handle. He was in love. The realisation came to him quite suddenly.
~ Lesley Lokko
"But wait a bit," the Oysters cried,"Before we have our chat;For some of us are out of breath,And all of us are fat!"
~ Lewis Carroll
We've all been tired and thought we wanted a long vacation when all we needed was a few days off, but didn't know it.
~ George Cukor
I take a week here. Maybe 10 days there. I never took a longer vacation than that.
~ Regis Philbin
Actually, between books is precisely when I do give myself vacations.
~ Jerry Spinelli
I think privacy is valuable. You don't have to share everything, and it's healthy to occasionally hit the pause button and ask yourself if you're oversharing. But at the end of the day, if you're not doing anything wrong, you don't have anything to hide.
~ Ashton Kutcher
Happy ending are only a pause. There are three kinds of big endings: Revenge. Tragedy. Forgiveness. Revenge and Tragedy often happen together. Forgiveness redeems the past. Forgiveness unblocks the future.
~ Jeanette Winterson
We stopped under a railroad bridge and got out of the car to admire the river that ran through the town.
~ Jeannette Walls
So it comes to this; one doesn't need rest. Why bother about sleep if one isn't sleepy? That stands to reason, doesn't it? Wait a minute, there's a snag somewhere; something disagreeable. Why, now, should it be disagreeable? …Ah, I see; it's life without a break.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Every day there comes a moment when a person lays his hands in his lap and all his busyness collapses like ashes. The work accomplished is, from the soul's point of view, entirely imaginary.
~ Robert Musil