Quotes About Pause

I feel, right now, that if time stopped at this moment, it would be just fine by me.

Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.

While I remained ambitious, punctual, and hedonistic at home, I had learned to better appreciate the timeless beauties and blessings of nature, to value sincerity as a cardinal virtue and reject the Western reverence for affectation and hypocrisy, and to make my frantic life pause for sunrises, sunsets, and full moons.

Briefly everything was stopped, as if a hand had reached out and paused the world in its turning. She stood by the cooker now watching him, the pale blueberries of her eyes, watching him with pride, her two hands brought up to her mouth the way she always did when she had feelings two large for words.

The question is too big for him. I will see this often in the years to come, the way he could suddenly pause on a phrase or even just a word, as if in it were a doorway and his mind would enter and leave us momentarily. Back then we thought it was what all fathers did. We thought that fatherhood was this immense weight like a great overcoat and there were all manner of things your father had to be thinking of all the time just to keep the overcoat from crushing him.

As dad would always say, when in doubt- play for time.

You can press pause as much as you like, but it won't stop what's going to happen. Time to press start again; to un-pause this game and let it play out to the end.

Who advised counting to 10? Thomas Jefferson, the 3rd president of the United States. In his book entitled A Decalogue of Canons for Observation in Practical Life he wrote: "When angry, count to 10 before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.

She was already going to that place, the heart-stopping moment when the world pauses, the resumes as a crystal dream.

Gießen Sie sich einen Schluck ein, bevor Sie anfangen zu kochen.

The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium.

There is nothing quite as painful as a truly awkward silence.

You can sit there and

In her family they used to say that you always had to sit for a minute before heading off on any kind of trip—an old provincial Polish habit—

And everything else in your life will be held in temporary suspension until you make a decision.

Between blow and pain, there is that instant of numbness, an unreal moment...

J'aime la lecture car c'est la seule conversation à laquelle on peut couper court à tout instant, et dans l'instant.

It's all too easy to hit the "send" button before we've really had the chance to think about the effect on the audience.

The black cat slipped along the cloister in search of mice, his white patches faint in the little light there was, paused with a paw lifted in a patch of snow to consider him, then padded on into the shadows.

Mercy?" "Just a minute," I told Adam. "I'm in the middle of a revelation.

There was another pause, then the Marrok said in that light pleasant tone that warned everyone who knew him that all hell was about to break loose.

It felt weird to exchange a smile with Honey, so I stopped as soon as I could.

They lay together like a word and a comma, asleep within an unfinished sentence.

Az élet csak rohanás. És ha egyszer megállunk, talán abból tudjuk majd, hogy vége.