Quotes with pause

  • When you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
  • The Pause; that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however so felicitous, could accomplish it.

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  • Lord George Byron For 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 George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Albert Einstein He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Martin Luther King If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Birgitte Hjort Sorensen In film or TV work, you can have this amazingly dramatic pause, and they'll just edit it out.
    Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
    Danish actrice (1982 - )
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  • Jack Benny It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.
    Jack Benny
    American comedian, vaudevillian and actor (1894 - 1974)
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  • Tony Benn It's the same each time with progress. 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.
    Tony Benn
    British Labor politician (1925 - 2014)
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  • Al Pacino My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.
    Al Pacino
    American actor and filmmaker (1940 - )
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  • Lance Morrow Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
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  • Guillaume Apollinaire Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
    Guillaume Apollinaire
    Italian-born French poet, critic (1880 - 1918)
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  • Arvo Part Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God.
    Arvo Part
    Estonian composer
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  • Ben Casnocha Sometimes I have to pause to make the distinction between Ben the teenager and Ben the businessman.
    Ben Casnocha
    American author, entrepreneur, and investor (1988 - )
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  • Mary McCarthy 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.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Lord George Byron The dead have been awakened - shall I sleep? The world's at war with tyrants - shall I crouch? the harvest's ripe - and shall I pause to reap? I slumber not; the thorn is in my couch; Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear, its echo in my heart.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Mark Twain The Pause; that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however so felicitous, could accomplish it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Mark Twain The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Lewis Carroll There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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  • Arthur Henderson 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.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Benito Mussolini 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.
    Popolo dItalia (1 February 1921), quoted in The Menace of Fascism (1933) by John Strachey, p. 65
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Walt Whitman 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
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Mark Twain When you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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