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Letter "P" » pause
«Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.»
«New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights»
Author: Hamilton Wright Mabie
| About:
New Year
| Keywords:
breathless, come with, Eve, every month, every other, march, moment of silence, nights, noted, passage, pause, The Coming, this evening, twelve
«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.»
Author: Lance Morrow
(Essayist, Journalist)
| Keywords:
babble, babbling, backtrack, disconcerting, induce, On and On, opponent, pause
«The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium.»
«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.»
« Love is all around you like the air and is the very breath of your being. But you cannot know it, feel its unfeeling touch, until you pause in your busy-ness, are still and poised and empty of your wanting and desiring. When at rest the air is easily offended and will flee even from the fanning of a leaf, as love flees from the first thought. But when the air or love moves of its own accord it is a hurricane that drives all before it. »
«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.»
Author: Mary McCarthy
| Keywords:
criminality, crucifixion, crucifixions, notwithstanding, outstanding, pause, the other way around
«Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
attaches, attaching, attach to, curse, cursed with, development, inaction, in progress, pause, paused, pausing, progress
«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.»
Author: Lewis Carroll
(Logician, Mathematician, Novelist, Photographer)
| Keywords:
absolute, at length, cessation, endure, length, pause, paused, pausing, prostration, the point
«My friend said to me, You know what I like? Mashed potatoes. I was like, Dude, you have to give me time to guess. If you're going to quiz me you have to insert a pause.»
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