Suspended Quotes

183 Suspended quotes by 162 unique authors

as a bird swoops down on it's prey, and assumes this land bound wretch into heaven, so did romeo steal her lips before they fled… — Anne Fortier
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
After you married, Crispin, she said, my heart was broken. I will not deny it. But I did not slip into a sort of suspended… — Mary Balogh
I would stare at the grains of light suspended in that silent space, struggling to see into my own heart. What did I want? And… — Haruki Murakami
That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at… — Margaret Atwood
She closed her eyes and jumped. For a moment she felt herself hang suspended, free of everything. Then gravity took over, and she plunged toward… — Cassandra Clare
On that walk around the building, two sets of cops coming out stopped to tell our guys to hustle us inside so they could head… — Kelley Armstrong
Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun. — Clifford Geertz
Jeez, Hazel," Percy said, "tell your horse to watch his language." Hazel tried not to laugh. "What did he say?" "With the cussing removed? He… — Rick Riordan
Sign by elevator put up by computer geeks in office building: REMEMBER: FIRST YOU PILAGE, THEN YOU BURN. THOSE WHO DO NOT COMPLY WILL BE… — Linda Howard
Two hundred miles from the surface of the earth there is no gravity. The laws of motion are suspended. You could turn somersaults slowly slowly,… — Jeanette Winterson
In the parallel universe the laws of physics are suspended. What goes up does not necessarily come down, a body at rest does not tend… — Susanna Kaysen
Acceptable rules of conduct were suspended when it came to the spoon shortage. The deficit had gotten so bad that prices were all but unaffordable,… — Jasper Fforde
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your… — Khalil Gibran
To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope. — Anne Carson
teenagers are never joking. when seeking to prove a point, principals and teachers should remember that teenagers are never, ever sarcasic or ironic. if they… — David Levithan
Law itself is either suspended, or regarded as an instrument that the state may use in the service of constraining and monitoring a given population;… — Judith Butler
Never forget that the universe is a single living organism possessed of one substance and one soul, holding all things suspended in a single consciousness… — Marcus Aurelius
Man's maker was made man that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother's breast; that the Bread might hunger, the Fountain thirst,… — Saint Augustine
I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of:… — Anna Funder
It seems wrong and unfair that Christmas, with its stressful and unmanageable financial and emotional challenges, should first be forced upon one wholly against one's… — Helen Fielding
In the presence of real tragedy you feel neither pain nor joy nor hatred, only a sense of enormous space and time suspended, the great… — Mervyn Peake
Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at… — Joshua Reynolds
I think it was David Hume who put it slightly vulgarly, this was again about the virgin birth I think. Which is more likely... that… — Christopher Hitchens
I was always the class clown and got kicked out of class at least once a day for just being a goofball. Not suspended or… — Damon Wayans, Jr.

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