Top 25 Pauses Quotes of 32

Sabbath is not simply the pause that refreshes. It is the pause that transforms.

Sabbath is not simply the pause that refreshes. It is the pause that transforms.

Walter Brueggemann

Sabbath, Pauses

Walter Brueggemann (2014). “Sabbath as Resistance”, p.45, Westminster John Knox Press

Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God.

Arvo Part

Silence, Silence Is, Pauses

"Behind the Music: Gregorian Trap at En Noir Spring 2014" by Stelios Phili, www.gq.com. September 13, 2013.

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

Abundance, Shimmer, Pauses

Sometimes you need to press pause to let everything sink in.

Sebastian Vettel

Needs, Sometimes, Pauses

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

I was eventually to become one person, gathered up maybe, during a pause, at a comma.

Lyn Hejinian

Persons, Pauses

Lyn Hejinian (2013). “My Life and My Life in the Nineties”, p.19, Wesleyan University Press

I like the pause that tea allows

Waris Ahluwalia

Tea, Pauses

It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.

Jack Benny

Knowing, Speak, Pauses

He hadn't realized yet that Gansey could persuade even the sun to pause and give him the time.

Maggie Stiefvater

Giving, Sun, Pauses

Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.37, Scholastic Inc.

Nothing that is can pause or stay.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Change, Pauses

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.956, Delphi Classics

Hold the old holding hand. Hold and be held. Plod on and never recede. Slowly with never a pause plod on and never recede.

Samuel Beckett

Hands, Holding Hands, Pauses

Samuel Beckett (2012). “Company / Ill Seen Ill Said / Worstward Ho / Stirrings Still”, p.58, Faber & Faber

The pause is a part of the walk.

Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

Walks, Pauses

Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness

Leo Tolstoy

Perfection, Levels, Pauses

When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.

Douglas Rushkoff

Answers, Sometimes, Pauses

Douglas Rushkoff (2013). “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now”, p.9, Penguin

Happy endings are bullshit. There are only happy pauses.

Brian K. Vaughan

Bullshit, Happy Endings, Pauses

At a great pennyworth pause a while.

Benjamin Franklin

Prudence, Pauses

Benjamin Franklin (1824). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral and Literary, with His Life, Written by Himself”, p.247

Pause awhile, And let my counsel sway you.

William Shakespeare

Pauses

William Shakespeare (1857). “The Complete Works of Shakspeare, Revised from the Best Authorities : with a Memoir, and Essay on His Genius”, p.234

Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can.

W. Somerset Maugham

Long, Reason, Pauses

W. Somerset Maugham (1937). “Theatre”

Build gaps in your life. Pauses. Proper pauses.

Thom Yorke

Gaps, Pauses

"Thom Yorke: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. February 13, 2013.

Stop it. Seriously. This isn't funny.' 'You're right.' A pause. 'It's pathetic.

Sarah Dessen

Pauses, Pathetic

Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.118, Penguin

Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you.

Samuel Beckett

Misery, Enough, Pauses

Samuel Beckett (2009). “Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces”, p.11, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

No work begun shall ever pause for death.

Robert Browning

Work, Pauses

Robert Browning, Stefan Hawlin (2001). “The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Volume VIII. The Ring and the Book”, p.289, Oxford University Press on Demand

I do not understand; I pause; I examine.

Michel de Montaigne

Pauses

Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt, Orlando Williams Wight (1859). “Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Journey Into Italy, and Letters”, p.108