Pauses Quotes

• The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.

  Mark Twain

  Silence, Progressive, Achieve

  Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain in Eruption (Abridged, Annotated)”, p.154, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• Take a long pause ...breathe and know that things are happening for you not to you.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Long, Breathe, Knows

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• The most precious things in speech are the pauses.

  Ralph Richardson

  Teaching, Parenting, Speech

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• Pause and remember - If you just keep moving forward, everything you need will show up for you at the perfect time.

  Jennifer Young

  Moving, Perfect, Needs

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• We should probably all pause to confront our past from time to time, because it changes its meaning as our circumstances alter.

  Karen Armstrong

  Past, Should, Circumstances

  Karen Armstrong (2010). “The Spiral Staircase”, p.20, Vintage Canada

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• Speech as known to us was unnecessary. A fragment of a sentence amounted almost to a long-winded redundancy. A gesture, a grunt, the curve of a facial line--even a significantly timed pause yielded informational juice.

  Isaac Asimov

  Curves, Long, Juice

  Isaac Asimov (2004). “Second Foundation”, p.19, Spectra

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• We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves to be! We think that we alone are the life of the circle in which we move; in our absence, we fancy that life, existence, breath will come to a general pause, and, alas, the gap which we leave is scarcely perceptible, so quickly is it filled again; nay, it is often the place, if not of something better, at least for something more agreeable.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Moving, Thinking

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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 your quiet time may provide a valuable clue. Where do your thoughts go when the pressure of deadlines is gone? Are your thoughts and heart focused on those short-lived fleeting things that matter only in the moment or on things that matter most?

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Heart, Gone, Fleeting

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• The pause is a part of the walk.

  Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

  Walks

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• The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Summer, August, Years

  Natalie Babbitt (2015). “Tuck Everlasting”, p.3, Macmillan

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• The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.

  Gillian Flynn

  Lying, Waiting, Feelings

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “Gone Girl: A Novel”, p.157, Crown

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• We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Leadership, Wisdom, Health

  "Queen's Christmas message - full text", www.theguardian.com. December 25, 2013.

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• This is the key to life: the ability to reflect, the ability to know yourself, the ability to pause for a second before reacting automatically. If you can truly know yourself, you will begin the journey of transformation.

  Deepak Chopra

  Success, Journey, Keys

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• Opportunity comes to pass-not to pause.

  James Wallace

  Opportunity

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• The man who pauses in his honesty wants little of a villain.

  Henry Martyn

  Honesty, Men, Want

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• There were some ages in Western history that have occasionally been called Dark. They were dark, it is said, because in them learning declined, and progress paused, and men labored under the pall of belief. A cause-effect relationship is frequently felt to exist between the pause and the belief.

  Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk

  Dark, Men, Progress

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• The future is always fairyland to the young. Life is like a beautiful and winding lane, on either side bright flowers, and beautiful butterflies and tempting fruits, which we scarcely pause to admire and to taste, so eager are we to hasten to an opening which we imagine will be more beautiful still. But by degrees, as we advance, the trees grow bleak; the flowers and butterflies fail, the fruits disappear, and we find we have arrived--to reach a desert waste.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Beautiful, Flower, Future

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• His virtues walked their narrow round,
  Nor made a pause, nor left a void;
  And sure the Eternal Master found
  The single talent well employed.

  Samuel Johnson

  Void, Talent, Virtue

  Samuel Johnson (1816). “The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.: With an Account of the Author's Life”, p.109

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• What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Art, Wish

  Walt Whitman (1998). “The Journalism: 1834-1846”, Peter Lang Pub Incorporated

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• I am one of the lingering bad ones, and so do I slink away, and pause, and ponder, and ponder, and pause, and do work without knowing why - not surely for this brief world, and more sure it is not for heaven - and I ask what this message of Christ means.

  Emily Dickinson

  Mean, Knowing, Heaven

  Emily Dickinson (1986). “Selected Letters”, p.39, Harvard University Press

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• Pause awhile, And let my counsel sway you.

  William Shakespeare

  William Shakespeare (1857). “The Complete Works of Shakspeare, Revised from the Best Authorities : with a Memoir, and Essay on His Genius”, p.234

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• All beginnings are delightful; the threshold is the place to pause.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Luck, Threshold, Delightful

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• How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Shining, Age

  'Ulysses' (1842) l. 6

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• Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Climbing, Hatred

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• Sometimes, you need to stop taking your medicine to let your body heal itself. Sometimes, you need to pause so you can move forward. Sometimes, you need to turn away from something so you can see why you fell in love in the first place.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Moving, Heal Itself, Medicine

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