Pause For Thought Quotes

#1. I thought I was only seeing half the man But that was all there was to you You

Carrie Fisher

#2. Clary?" he thought.
Her voice came through, tinged with alarm. "What is it? What's happened? Did my mom find out I'm gone?"
"Not yet," he thought back. "Is Azazel the cat from the Smurfs?"
There was a long pause. "That's Azrael, Simon. And no more using the magic rings for Smurfs question.

Cassandra Clare

#3. When it is mid week, pause and ponder! The very single days we disregard are what become the very years we wished to have used effectively and efficiently. If we disregard today, we shall remember our had I know tomorrow. Time changes therefore think of the changing times.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#4. I've always thought you should be able to freeze time. This way you could hit the Pause button at a really good point in your life so that nothing changes

Jennifer Niven

#5. Dishwasher safe, debit only, Deborah produced from the arsenal of useful English words for immigrants, with barely a pause for thought.

Sorin Suciu

#6. In rare moments of self-doubt, Dexter had once worried that a lack of intellect might hold him back in life, but here was a job where confidence, energy, perhaps even a certain arrogance were all that mattered, all qualities that lay within his grasp.

David Nicholls

#7. The coops were finished. They were not masterpieces, and I have seen chickens pause before them in deep thought, as who should say: "Now what in the world have we struck here?" But they were coops, within the meaning of the act, and we induced the hens to become tenants.

P.G. Wodehouse

#8. Uh.. you'er Sophie?" Mrianda ventured
"That's me"
"How old areyou?"
Sophie rolled ker wide brown eyes,
"Ahunderd and forty-eight" she relied. "I got to live back when women coulden't vote, isn't that awesome?

Dianne Sylvan

#9. Every pause is a precursor to new thoughts, every thought is potentially a new story, every story is a new interpretation and every interpretation is a new shade of grey.

Mayank S. Sengar

#10. Each decade absolutizes its own fashions of thought and action without the least pause and consideration of the fact that a decade later those very fashions and ideas will be buried in the dustbin of history as one turns to a new decade.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

#11. I have a great admiration and tenderness for Azzedine Alaia. I haven't seen him in a while, but I guess he must be still sewing some dresses at night.

Hedi Slimane

#12. Writing is like breathing. Each written word is like exhaling and each pause is like inhaling as the next thought speedily arrives.

Lynn M. Dixon

#13. He was a man of black and white. And she was color. All the color he had.

Fredrik Backman

#14. He grinned a little as he thought it; for he had always liked that pause, that fearful pause, the moment before things changed.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#15. We're the police, we don't thump people.

Christopher Fowler

#16. The people see that Wall Street is running our economic policy, that big oil is running our energy policy and the military industrial complex is determining our foreign policy ...

Alan Grayson

#17. On one occasion when [William] Smart found him engrossed with his fundamental theory, he asked Eddington how many people he thought would understand what he was writing-after a pause came the reply, 'Perhaps seven.'

Arthur Eddington

#18. When reading you have the opportunity to pause for thought & spark your imagination. It develops intellect. Nothing more threatening to a politician than a well read working class.

Alan Moore

#19. Only then did she pause to read Juniper's card.Professor James Moriarty. She slipped it into her reticule without another thought. The name meant nothing to her, except that he looked more like a James than an Arnold.

Emma Jane Holloway

#20. You prosecute the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But leave the larger felon loose Who steals the common from the goose.

G.K. Chesterton

#21. Ada: And why life? (Pause.) Why life, Henry? (Pause.) Is there anyone about?
Henry: Not a living soul.
Ada: I thought as much. (Pause.) When we longed to have it to ourselves there was always someone. Now that it does not matter the place is deserted.

Samuel Beckett

#22. But most hearts say, I want, I want, I want, I want. My heart is more duplicitous, though no twin as I once thought. It says, I want, I don't want, I want, and then a pause. It forces me to listen ...

Margaret Atwood

#23. To be a femme fatale you don't have to be slinky and sensuous and disastrously beautiful, you just have to have the will to disturb.

Alice Munro

#24. Dumbfounded, I stood before the court, trying to figure out if there was a state of being between "guilty" and "innocent." Why were those my only alternatives? I thought. Why couldn't I be "neither" or "both"? After a long pause, I finally faced the bench and said, "Your Honor, I plead human.

Paul Beatty

#25. Pause and remember
Every moment is a choice. Every thought, word and deed is creating your future. Choose wisely and positively!

Jennifer Young

#26. I could speak by then, but neither of us thought it my best trick. Very often my exchanges with Ceno went something like:
Sing me a song, Elefsis.
The temperature in the kitchen is 21.5 degrees Celsius and the stock of rice is low. (Long pause.) Ee-eye-ee-eye-oh.

Catherynne M Valente

#27. If world problems feel too big to tackle, think small. Step by step. Small wins build confidence, lead the way to change.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#28. When a garden is used as a place to pause for thought, that is when a Zen garden comes to life. When you contemplate a garden like this it will form as lasting impression on your heart.

Muso Soseki

#29. What sort of exploring?" Shielding his eyes, Adam lifted his eyes to the sky. He thought he could hear Gansey coming. "Mountains. How do you feel about helicopters?" There was a long pause. "How do you mean? Ethically?

Maggie Stiefvater

#30. I was always the kid at school who thought it was a good idea to set off the fire alarm. And much as I'm aware that that's a trait which also propels other things which are good, I wish I could just pause and go, 'Is this really what you want to do?'

James Corden

#31. There's a thing in poetry called the caesura a pause between words, a silence. I thought: that's what real friendship is, too. Someone you can be quiet with. Someone who understands your mistakes and forgives you.

Margo Rabb

#32. Nature is not about preserving old things, but about creating new ones. New life. New ideas.

Gemma Malley

#33. I love deep cleavage on the foot. It reminds me of Berlin in 1930s, 'Cabaret.'

Christian Louboutin