Pausing Quotes
46 quotes by 42 authors
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Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she…
— Victor Hugo
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Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without…
— Elizabeth Kenny
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Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing…
— Herman Melville
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How many times do we lose an occasion for soul work by leaping ahead to final solutions without pausing to savor the undertones? We are…
— Thomas Moore
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Whenever it poured like this, Max felt as if time was pausing. It was like a cease-fire during which you could stop whatever you were…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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My name is Herondale," the boy said cheerfully. "William Herondale, but everyone calls me Will. Is this really your room? Not very nice, is it?"…
— Cassandra Clare
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A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.
— Jane Austen
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He's not in a very good mood," said Luke, pausing in front of a closed door. "I shut him up in Freaky Pete's office after…
— Cassandra Clare
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Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory, Pausing, gazing, bending, and stopping
— Nicholas Sparks
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Fine." Magnus stood up. "But," he added, pausing by Alec's chair and leaning in close to him, "you are not trivial." Alec flushed. "If you…
— Cassandra Clare
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The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlid here, settling…
— Louisa May Alcott
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Did I ever tell you,’ said Lymond pausing on the afterthought, on his way to the flap, ‘that that aunt of mine once hatched an…
— Dorothy Dunnett
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Which tent is your favourite?" he asks. "The Ice Garden," Celia answers, without even pausing to consider. "Why is that?" Marco asks. "Because of the…
— Erin Morgenstern
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As soon as I look up, his eyes click onto my face. The breath whooshes out of my body and everything freezes for a second,…
— Lauren Oliver
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Been meddling, have you?†Royce asked, looking around at the hive of activity. “You must admit they didn’t have much in the way of a…
— Michael J. Sullivan
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A sickening howl stopped her, sucking the air out of her lungs. The night's chatter silenced, even the loitering city rats pausing to listen. Scarlet…
— Marissa Meyer
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While I'm gone," Gansey said, pausing, "dream me the world. Something new for every night.
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Pausing allows you to take a beat to take a breath in your life. As everybody else is rushing around like a lunatic out there,…
— Maria Shriver
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Pausing between stimulus and response allows you to show up in your life.
— Roma Downey
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Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.
— Sydney Smith
Who Wrote These Pausing Quotes
42 authors contributed a total of 46 Pausing Quotes, led by these top contributors: