Pause Quotes
503 quotes by 393 authors
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I don't want the words to be naked the way they are in faxes or in the computer. I want them to be covered by…
— Siri Hustvedt
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Would you have done that in his place? Would you have left him and gone on?" "Of course I would!" Halt replied immediately. But something…
— John Flanagan
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He does this on purpose," Stephanie's mother said as they sat in the car, seat belts on and ready to go. They watched him appear…
— Derek Landy
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We are the owls of the weather chaw. We take it blistering, We take it all. Roiling boiling gusts, We're the owls with the guts.…
— Kathryn Lasky
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Now that I have you thoroughly confused, let me pause to hear your own dismayed cry.
— Ray Bradbury
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Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish…
— Rollo May
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I wish i'd hurt him I didn't do any damage at all-Bella I can fix that-edward I was hoping you would say that-bella there was…
— Stephenie Meyer
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A pause while my mother made high-pitched sisterly devotions of gratitude.
— Maureen Johnson
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She was right about something else too," Dimitri said after a long pause. My back was to him, but there was a strange quality to…
— Richelle Mead
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Pause for a moment and check where your own heart and thoughts are. Are you focused on the things that matter most? How you spend…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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And I' declared the Sawhorse, filling an awkward pause, 'am only remarkable because I can't help it.
— L. Frank Baum
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The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever…
— Mark Twain
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Nervous states of the worst sort control me without pause. Everything that is not literature bores me and I hate it. I lack all aptitude…
— Franz Kafka
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My fore-parts, as you so ineloquently put it, have names.†I pointed to my right breast. “This is Danger.†Then my left. “And this is…
— Darynda Jones
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Chloe? It's me." After a pause, he added, "Derek," like I could mistake that deep rumble for anyone else, like I could mistake that little…
— Kelley Armstrong
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He called me a pie!†she announced, defensively. There was a pause. “Wait. That’s not right.†“A tart?†“Yes! That’s it!
— Sarah MacLean
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I . . . hit him . . . elsewhere.†“Where?†“In his . . .In his inguine.†“Oh, dear God.†It was unclear whether…
— Sarah MacLean
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I pause a second. He doesn't look at me the way Will, Christina, and Al sometimes do - like I am too small and too…
— Veronica Roth
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To use an electronics analogy, closing a book on a bookmark is like pressing the Stop button, whereas when you leave the book facedown, you've…
— Anne Fadiman
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One thing I've always wondered—why did you enter that bikini contest when you were a teenager?†Her face flushed with a mixture of anger and…
— Nalini Singh
Who Wrote These Pause Quotes
393 authors contributed a total of 503 Pause Quotes, led by these top contributors: