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Quotes About Interruption

More than one thousand uninterrupted puffs until she came along. With her "Excuse me?" so soft and gentle that even before I turned around I knew she would be ugly, because pretty girls don't have to try so hard to be gentle: people do whatever they want anyway.
~ Etgar Keret
What's gotten into him?" "Five-Thirty," I called back. "I didn't ask the time," she called. "Get that dog out of there, and fill that hole in.
~ Betsy Byars
That was the trouble with this house. A girl couldn't even carry on a telephone conversation with any privacy
~ Beverly Cleary
Discover what hinders or interrupts your attention and make a plan to reduce the distraction. Then put the plan into action.
~ Beverly Lanzetta
Questions are allowed in the Kingdom, but lack of answers must not interrupt our heart-communion with God. If we demand answers from God, then we are walking in the spirit of offense.
~ Bill Johnson
One study estimated that for every hour of interrupted sleep during the previous night, people wasted 8.4 minutes in online puttering
~ Gretchen Rubin
It was that reverie which we give to things that will not return, the lassitude that seizes you after everything was done; that pain, in fine, that the interruption of every wonted movement, the sudden cessation of any prolonged vibration, brings on.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Era el desvarieig produït per l'absència d'una il·lusió sense retorn, la lassitud que deixen els fets acomplerts, el dolor, en fi, que promou la interrupció de tot moviment acostumat, la sobtada cessació d'una vibració perllongada.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
~ Alain Badiou
If you allow your rhythm to be interrupted, you'll create a void. Then to replace what you give up, you'll start to expect and need more from your partner.
~ Sherry Argov
One look at an email can rob you of 15 minutes of focus. One call on your cell phone, one tweet, one instant message can destroy your schedule, forcing you to move meetings, or blow off really important things, like love, and friendship.
~ Siegfried Lenz
The telephone about to ring.
~ Simon Van Booy
The reason I want you to put a shirt on is, well, because, um..." "You've never seen a guy with his shirt off?" "Ha, ha. Very funny. Believe me, you don't have anything I haven't seen before." "Wanna bet?" he says, then moves his hands to the button on his jeans and pops it open. Isabel walks in at that exact moment. "Whoa, Alex. Please keep your pants on.
~ Simone Elkeles
He interrupted me more frequently and summarized my complaints in an increasingly optimistic light. I couldn't see or feel these changes myself, but Dr. Fish was confident, and I half believed him. The truth is that I participated in the deception. I was studying for my oral exams then, and I was desperate for the treatments to work.
~ Siri Hustvedt
Recent research has indicated that the average individual listens for only seventeen seconds before interrupting and interjecting his own ideas.
~ Gary Chapman
As people, we love pattern. But interrupted pattern is more interesting.
~ Jay Maisel
For me to praise is interrupting praise.
~ Rumi
The aposiopesis was icy.
~ Max Beerbohm
Change always brings fear before it brings faith. We always assume the worst before we look for the best. God interrupts our lives with something we've never seen, and rather than praise, we panic! We interpret the presence of a problem as the absence of God and scoot!
~ Max Lucado
If today starts to get hectic, take five minutes to be alone with God. If your work gets interrupted, ask God for patience to deal with the interruption and for endurance to finish the task.
~ Max Lucado
There was such a thing as woman's work and it consisted chiefly, Hillary sometimes thought, in being able to stand constant interruption and keep your temper.
~ May Sarton
If I interrupted violence, by all means I'll step back. Always nice to see bloodshed first thing in the a.m.
~ Maya Banks
Well, hi, CeeCee, I said. Hi, Adam. Nice of you two to drop by. Ever heard of knocking? Oh, please, CeeCee said. Why? Because we might interrupt you and your precious Jesse? Jesse, upon hearing this, raised his eyebrows. Way up.
~ Meg Cabot
Hey, Dopey said when I was finished reading. How come they never mentioned me? I'm the one who found the skeleton. Oh, yeah, Sleepy said in disgust. Your role was really crucial. After all, if it wasn't for you, the guy's skull might still have been intact.
~ Meg Cabot