Pause Quotes

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. (Guillaume Apollinaire)
First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you. View quote
Tony Benn
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. View quote
Mark Twain
LOVE He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed. Albert Einstein (1879-1955) View quote
Albert Einstein
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. View quote
Rollo May
Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. View quote
Samuel Johnson
This is what my friend said to me; he said "You know what I like? Mashed potatoes." It's like, "Dude. you gotta give me time to guess. If you're gonna quiz me, you must insert a pause in there." View quote
Mitch Hedberg
The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around. View quote
Mary McCarthy
Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a pause. View quote
Edward Young
The sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest. (Lord Byron)
I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make despair pause. For in truth we who are creatures of impulse are not creatures of despair. View quote
Joseph Conrad
For many of us, clean water is so plentiful and readily available that we rarely, if ever, pause to consider what life would be like without it. View quote
Marcus Samuelsson
And what is happiness, Nathan? In my experience, it's only a moment's pause here and there on what is otherwise a long and difficult road. No one can be happy all the time. View quote
William Kent Krueger
Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause. View quote
Arthur Henderson
When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
"I can't believe you recently had a baby. How do you do it?" [pause] The baby starts to come down... and once that happens you can't-it comes out. Whether you let it or not, the baby comes out. So that's how I did it. View quote
Tina Fey
How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use, As tho' to breathe were life. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Interviewer: "So Jeff, what are your main musical influences?" Jeff (after a long pause): "Love, anger, depression, joy and dreams. ...And Zeppelin. Totally." View quote
Jeff Buckley
Three cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy's war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or rather a pause in war. View quote
Benito Mussolini
There was a pause – just long enough for an angel to pass, flying slowly. (Ronald Firbank)
"Call me Meier," Goring said, but he did not pause to explain the joke. View quote
Philip José Farmer
The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to anyone comparing politicians with those poor, underestimated creatures. View quote
Frans de Waal
It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what ourcountry has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
When we can build something like the Hubble telescope and fathom images of this vast cosmos of which we are a part, it really gives pause to wonder what and who we are within a larger framework than linear adventures at the shopping mall and taxes. View quote
Vanna Bonta