Suspended Quotes

183 Suspended quotes by 162 unique authors

Job is perhaps the oldest piece of literature known to man. How did Job know the Earth is suspended in space? Job could only know… — Adrian Rogers
Something amazing happens when the rest of the world is sleeping. I am glued to my chair. I forget that I ever wanted to do… — Anne Fadiman
We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching… — Tahar Ben Jelloun
And hate the bright stillness of the noon without wind, without motion. the only other living thing a hawk, hungry for prey, suspended in the… — Dana Gioia
The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air. It rings to announce endings and beginnings. And it rings because there is fresh… — Vera Nazarian
It's clear Israel has suspended the peace process, despite the so-called moderation of the Arab world, because it has no interest in peace. — Hanan Ashrawi
The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the… — Terence McKenna
There are often lists of the great living male movie stars. How often do you see the name of Nicolas Cage? He should always be… — Roger Ebert
Five or six hundred [aristocratic] heads lopped off would have assured you repose and happiness; a false humanity has restrained your arm and suspended your… — Jean-Paul Marat
I have seen ministers of justice, clothed in magisterial robes and criminals arraigned before them, while life was suspended on a breath in the courts… — Parley P. Pratt
The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time. — Rabindranath Tagore
Venice never quite seems real, but rather an ornate film set suspended on the water. — Frida Giannini
You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks… — Terence McKenna
I was watching MTV and there were girls dancing in suspended cages. That would be an ambivalent situation: "I'm trapped! ...but enjoying the music". — Demetri Martin
Everyone used to chuck snails at each other at school, and I used to try and save them. And not only did I get in… — Robert Pattinson
It is far more than the discovery of life without a self. The immediate, inevitable result is an emergence into a new dimension of knowing… — Bernadette Roberts
I'm not very good in a classroom sort of setting. I never was. I was kind of a clown in high school - got suspended… — Bobby Cannavale
Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I am the beast with a contorted grin, contracting down to illusion and dilating toward infinity, both growing and dying, delightfully suspended between hope for… — Emile M. Cioran
The great majority of Americans are suspended between these opposing attitudes. They are uneasy with injustice but unwilling yet to pay a significant price to… — Martin Luther
Liberals are people who think that being tough on crime means longer suspended sentences. — Ronald Reagan
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say. — Samuel Johnson
The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere… — Lucinda Franks
Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death,… — Jean Baudrillard
There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth. — Meryl Streep

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