Pause Quotes
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain -
We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?
Lee Iacocca
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It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.
Jack Benny -
Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.
Charles Dickens -
All beginnings are delightful; the threshold is the place to pause.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.
Naomi Shihab Nye -
My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.
Al Pacino -
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein
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I'd rather try and cram in another two gags than leave a pause to say, 'Hey, wasn't that bit funny?'
Edgar Wright -
I am one of the lingering bad ones, and so do I slink away, and pause, and ponder, and ponder, and pause, and do work without knowing why - not surely for this brief world, and more sure it is not for heaven - and I ask what this message of Christ means.
Emily Dickinson -
Several large, artificial constructions are approaching us, ZORAC announced after a short pause. The designs are not familiar, but they are obviously the products of intelligence. Implications: we have been intercepted deliberately by a means unknown, for a purpose unknown, and transferred to a place unknown by a form of intelligence unknown. Apart from the unknowns, everything is obvious.
James P. Hogan -
We passionately long that there may be another life in which we shall be similar to what we are here below. But we do not pause to reflect that, even without waiting for that other life, in this life, after a few years we are unfaithful to what we have been, to what we wished to remain immortally.
Marcel Proust -
I like the pause that tea allows.
Waris Ahluwalia -
Nothing is more dramatic than a well-placed pause.
Carmine Gallo
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If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.
Honore de Balzac -
That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.
Oscar Wilde -
The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die.
George Eliot -
If you don't listen deeply, the connection won't take place.... [You have to be] willing to be changed by the person you're listening to, where you're not just waiting for a pause so you can say your thing, but you're actually letting them have an effect on you if they can.
Alan Alda -
Economists are behavioural psychologists, but they think more is better; they want to make everyone richer. They should pause. More's not necessarily better
David Hemenway -
There's always the possibility that, if there's sufficient uncertainty that we may choose to pause simply to gain more information, to learn better what the true risks are and how the economy's actually evolving.
Ben Bernanke
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New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.
Hamilton Wright Mabie -
Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.
Charles Dickens -
The market is still concerned about the interest rate and whether the Fed is on a possible pause.
Ian Stannard -
O precious is the pause between the winds that come and go, And sweet the silence of the shores between the ebb and flow.
Arthur O'Shaughnessy