Pause Quotes

503 quotes by 393 authors

I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps. — Samuel Beckett
Let me go: take back thy gift: Why should a man desire in any way To vary from the kindly race of men, Or pass… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. — Gertrude Stein
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… — Charles Dickens
Dream Song: As my eyes Search the prairie, I feel the summer in the spring. Whenever I pause The noise Of the village. — Frances Densmore
Politics deals with externals: borders, wealth, crimes. Authentic forgiveness deals with the evil in a persons heart, something for which politics has no cure. Virulent… — Philip Yancey
The light struck upon the trees in the garden, making one leaf transparent and then another. One bird chirped high up; there was a pause;… — Virginia Woolf
When Vanity kissed Vanity, a hundred happy Junes ago, he pondered o'er her breathlessly, and, that all men might ever know, he rhymed her eyes… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame... — Dodie Smith
The column hung above the middle of the pentacle, bubbling ever upward against the ceiling like the cloud of an erupting volcanoe. There was a… — Jonathan Stroud
Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move. How dull it is to… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
I go out there. I'm out there every day. [Pause] There is nothing out there. — David Mamet
Elend: "Each moment you fight is a gift to those in this cavern. Each second we fight is a second longer that thousands of people… — Brandon Sanderson
We know the battle ahead will be long, but always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the… — Barack Obama
She didn't care anymore... and she got no pleasure from the work she did, but she did it. Everything bored her. She found that when… — Louise Fitzhugh
But there's a juicy artery in your groin," he said after a pause to regroup, his voice as slithery as a snake on a slide.… — Charlaine Harris
...But also because I find I really doâ€¦" He paused, as if he were about to say something outrageous. "I find I have feelings for… — Charlaine Harris

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