Suspend Quotes

#1. When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend. You want him to become a robot.

Ayn Rand

#2. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's, but apples did not suspend themselves in mid-air, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from apelike ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered.

Stephen Jay Gould

#3. People often need to suspend their self-promotion, and have someone in their lives they do not need to impress. This explains dog ownership.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#4. Doubt is a first cousin to faith, Ghosh. To have faith, you have to suspend your disbelief.

Abraham Verghese

#5. I determine nothing; I do not comprehend things; I suspend judgment; I examine.

Michel De Montaigne

#6. Fear, when your friends say to you what you have done well, and say it through; but when they stand with uncertain timid looks of respect and half-dislike, and must suspend their judgement for years to come, you may begin to hope.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. To invent a war means that you've become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.

Gore Vidal

#8. The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings.

Mo Ibrahim

#9. Bureaucracies temporarily suspend the Second Law of Thermodynamics. In a bureaucracy, it's easier to make a process more complex than to make it simpler, and easier to create a new burden than kill an old one.

Clay Shirky

#10. But we must be careful not to do our enemies' work for them. To argue that to preserve our freedoms we must suspend our freedoms, that to safeguard elections we must cancel elections, that to defend ourselves from dictatorship we must appoint a dictator - what logic is this? We

Robert Harris

#11. There is a challenge of doing something new. Sometimes you have to suspend whether you believe in yourself doing it and just give yourself over to the idea that they believe in you.

Josh Peck

#12. I have never been a fan of science fiction. For me, fiction has to explore the combinatorial possibilities of people interacting under the constraints imposed by our biology and history. When an author is free to suspend the constraints, it's tennis without a net.

Steven Pinker

#13. The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief.

Fred Saberhagen

#14. Truly creative people in all fields can temporarily suspend their ego and simply experience what they are seeing, without the need to assert a judgment, for as long as possible. They are more than ready to find their most cherished opinions contradicted by reality.

Robert Greene & Joost Elffers

#15. It is my hope that when a reader chooses to suspend their reality for mine, that it will be time well spent.

Sharon Van Orman

#16. I just invited close friends and family, the usual suspects whose opinion I value but who I know will enjoy the film [ Before I Go To Sleep]. I don't know how difficult it is for them to suspend their disbelief because they obviously know me and what they're seeing is not me.

Mark Strong

#17. The Mode of circular reasoning is the form used when the proof itself which ought to establish the matter of inquiry requires confirmation derived from the matter; in this case, being unable to assume either in order to establish the other, we suspend judgement about both.

Sextus Empiricus

#18. The very first thing you need to do to get your life back, heal your past or excel in your future is to suspend certain beliefs.

Tanja Diamond

#19. [We should] suspend our belief of every tale that deviates from the laws of nature and the character of man.

Edward Gibbon

#20. It's absurd to think of 'Pride and Prejudice,' this classic, beloved book, beset with a zombie uprising. The goal is to make you suspend your disbelief enough to allow you to get lost in the story and believe what you're reading for a while.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#21. It wasn't just about doing tricks. It's about taking an audience to another place, a special place, so they can really suspend their disbelief. Its about amazing the audience as well as moving them.

David Copperfield

#22. You must be able to say "I understand," before you can say "I agree," or "I disagree," or "I suspend judgment.

Mortimer J. Adler

#23. With theatre, we all agree to suspend our disbelief about so many things, but not about race. It's totally OK to have one actor playing five roles - people are willing to believe that. But they won't believe it if there's a black or an Asian kid who has white parents. What does that say about us?

David Henry Hwang

#24. No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.

Alexander Pope

#25. The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.

Daniel Defoe

#26. The past was a bridge that looked solid and sturdy, but once you were on it, you saw that it extended only far enough to strand you, to suspend you between loss and longing with nowhere to go at all.

Bret Anthony Johnston

#27. Suspend for a moment your disbelief and encounter once again the sense of wonder you knew when there was ... magic!

Andrew Lord

#28. My hope is that the work is in some way counter-pinup. A pinup asks you to suspend interest in who the person is and occupy yourself entirely with looking at the body and fantasizing about what you could do with that body, completely ignoring how the person might feel about it.

Jock Sturges

#29. Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.

Ernest Dimnet

#30. Courage is the ability to suspend the imagination.

Tim Dorsey

#31. It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.

Edward Gibbon

#32. The best way to stop the problem of agents would be for the NCAA to come down hard and suspend a school for two years if it finds players with agents on campus.

Dean Smith

#33. The vitrines exist so that you can see objects, but not touch them: they frame things, suspend them, tantalise through distance.

Edmund De Waal

#34. But I also wanted to give them an intelligent emotional journey, without having to suspend reality - to be able to look at those characters and see reasons for the relationships and why what happens happens.

Graeme Murphy

#35. It is now, at Advent, that I am given the chance to suspend all expectation ... and instead to revel in the mystery.

Jerusalem Jackson Greer

#36. The ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged.

Marya Mannes

#37. What are our priorities? First, the welfare, the survival of the people. Then, democratic norms and processes which from time to time we have to suspend.

Lee Kuan Yew

#38. I like movies! No, I like theater too. And paintings are great, and all of that! But to me, the great sort of artistic medium I think, of our time, is film. I really feel that. I mean to me, there's nothing else out there, where I can sort of suspend disbelief for two hours.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#39. Time seemed to suspend itself, or cease altogether. Place faded away. There was only her self, the centre that endured through all times, all events, from the world, from its pain. Timeless, eternal..

Lois Tilton

#40. The more people know about you, the more face-time you get in the media, the harder your job becomes to create a character in whom people suspend disbelief.

Vera Farmiga

#41. I will treat all my negative reactions to this form of meditation as merely thought forms prompted by my ego to keep me from taking it seriously. I will suspend judgment, criticism, and doubt.

Ram Dass

#42. When it comes to acting, people talk about the suspension of disbelief that you ask of the audience. Before that starts, you have to, as an actor, suspend your own disbelief.

Helena Bonham Carter

#43. [Suspend them there, in the mind's eye: skinny, young, coming through dark toward warmth, flying over the cold sand and stone. We will return to them.

Lauren Groff

#44. Earl gave me his version of what happened and asked me not to suspend the umpires.

Lee MacPhail

#45. You have to suspend disbelief a little bit to buy into your situation and to the story and to how the character will react. You have to tweak your credibility a little bit, is basically what it comes down to.

Richard Dean Anderson

#46. In listening to stories we tend to suspend disbelief in order to be entertained, whereas in evaluating statistics we generally have an opposite inclination to suspend belief in order not to be beguiled.

John Allen Paulos

#47. So that there is no misunderstanding from my perspective, I will suspend any player who tests positive for an illegal steroid. There will be no exceptions. The (players) union is aware of that and they accept it.

Bud Selig

#48. It is an art of no little importance to administer medicines properly: but, it is an art of much greater and more difficult acquisition to know when to suspend or altogether to omit them.

Philippe Pinel

#49. The broad goal, laid out by Congress, the Obama administration, and the U.N. Security Council, was that Iran would suspend all enrichment-related activities and not be permitted a path to ever pursue a nuclear weapons program.

Rob Portman

#50. I think audiences have hit the wall with CGI and special effects. They have seen so many over-the-top events that they can't suspend disbelief.

Sylvester Stallone

#51. A Piece of writing has to seduce the reader, it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust

Po Bronson

#52. On your quest to spirituality it is often required to suspend your rationality; but true spirituality asks that you enhance your rationality.

Steve Maraboli

#53. The art of movies is to allow the audience to suspend their disbelief. They need to use their imaginations.

William Friedkin

#54. To be successful, suspend your worries and your analytical thinking and just concentrate on reading the script as it is without any self-judgment.

Forbes Robbins Blair

#55. try to explain to her she's dead and therefore has no further need for Romeo's impressive erection, but she's finding it difficult to suspend her disbelief.

Leisa Rayven

#56. Very often I suspend my musical sensibilities to enjoy music as a fan.

Billy Sheehan

#57. Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses.

Don DeLillo

#58. Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

Ernest Hemingway,

#59. Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

John Lubbock

#60. Suspend judgment until you see the end of the situation.

Darrell Johnson

#61. An audience that is unwilling to suspend its own presuppositions and biases while considering an opposed (or even unopposed) viewpoint not only frustrates the function of extended argument but effectively denies its own beliefs a rational basis.

Vincent E. Barry

#62. Are there rules?'
'No gods, no staffs, first man to stay down for the count loses and we suspend the contest if the building collapses.'
- on magical duels

Ben Aaronovitch

#63. Palin, Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and others have made an art form of convincing far too many Americans to suspend their disbelief, and they have severely damaged the ability of our country to have serious discussions about serious challenges.

John Yarmuth

#64. The ability to suspend reality and go into a make-believe world can be really, really difficult if there's something really big going on.

Rupert Penry-Jones

#65. Let's say I dared to suspend myself in the moment between breaths.

Steve Erickson

#66. Be easier on yourself, on everyone, on everything. Suspend your judgments on the way things should be, must be, and ought to be. Suspending judgments gives you greater ease. Consider ease the antidote for disease.

Peter McWilliams

#67. I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

Yann Martel

#68. God is able to place stars in their sockets & suspend sky like a curtain; surely He is mighty enough to light your path.

Max Lucado

#69. To even win a nomination in this country, you have to say you're a person of great faith. You have to pledge to the people out there that you put your faith in things that are unable to be proven - that you suspend critical thinking as the way to go.

Bill Maher

#70. Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.

Ernest Hemingway,

#71. To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously.

Jerry Saltz

#72. Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize; that is, to discriminate what is sound from error and falsehood, to suspend judgement if they are not convinced, or to judge with reason if they agree or disagree?

Mortimer J. Adler

#73. The real use of imaginative reading is precisely to suspend one's mind in the workings of another sensibility.

Guy Davenport

#74. One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled.

Rex Stout

#75. We spend this life looking for a center, a place where we can suspend without a wobble. The specific coordinates are elusive, scalable only by the heart. _Population: 485_, p 202

Michael Perry

#76. If the president is allowed to suspend constitutional rights on his own personal whims, our free republic has effectively ceased to exist.

Steve Stockman

#77. In order to believe clients' accounts of trauma, you need to suspend any pre-conceived notions that you have about what is possible and impossible in human experience. As simple as they may sound, it may be difficult to do so.

Aphrodite Matsakis

#78. The whole point of Zen is to suspend the rules we have superimposed on things and to see the world as it is

Alan Watts

#79. There's something really powerful about groups and shared experiences. People might be skeptical about their ability to change if they're by themselves, but a group will convince them to suspend disbelief. A community creates belief.

Charles Duhigg

#80. Is it not better to remain in suspense than to entangle yourself in the many errors that the human fancy has produced? Is it not better to suspend your convictions than to get mixed up in these seditious and quarrelsome divisions?

Michel De Montaigne

#81. We cannot simply suspend or restrict civil liberties until the War on Terror is over, because the War on Terror is unlikely ever to be truly over.

Gerald Bard Tjoflat

#82. July is high burglary season because so many people leave town. To help avoid making that obvious, suspend your newspaper subscription and have your mail held. Another clear indication is if all your lights are off for an extended period. To fix that, you can buy a timer for about $30.

Jean Chatzky

#83. I am very supportive of Donald Trump's call to temporarily suspend immigration from countries where terrorists influence and impact represents a threat to the United States.

Mike Pence

#84. If ... it is not in my power to arrive at the knowledge of any truth, I may at least do what is in my power, namely, suspend judgement ...

Rene Descartes

#85. Were my smile not submerged in my countenance, / I should suspend it over her grave.

Else Lasker-Schuler

#86. Please, Kate. Suspend your dislike of me for a few moments and listen to what I have to say. It makes sense."
"I don't dislike you. It's an oversimplification.

Ilona Andrews

#87. I'm at my strongest when I'm able to let go, when I suspend my beliefs as well as disbeliefs, and leave myself open to all possibilities. That also seems to be when I'm able to experience the most internal clarity and synchronicities.

Anita Moorjani

#88. How is it possible to suspend topaz in one cup of the balance and weigh it against amethyst in the other; or who in a single language can compare the tranquillizing grace of a maiden with the invigorating pleasure of witnessing a well-contested rat-fight?

Ernest Bramah

#89. Our passing interrupted the road crossing, and the crowd bunched on both sides waited for us to go by as we all waited for the war to go by, thinking we can suspend or postpone living and not knowing that in war the heart grows older than it does in dreams

Dan Davin

#90. Pope Pius XI called for a world-wide day of prayer, to be held on 16 March 1930, on behalf of the persecuted believers in Russia. This action led Stalin to suspend temporarily the antireligious campaign, according to Roy Medvedev

Lynne Viola

#91. I think that love must be the ability to suspend one's intelligence for the sake of something. At the basis of love therefore must live imagination.

James Alan McPherson

#92. I love writing in first person more than third. I have to basically suspend my own world. I don't exist. I'm just a conduit. So I can be eight years old. I can be the mother of a kid that you find out certain things I'm not going to say.

Terry McMillan

#93. No one thinks Las Vegas is real; it is illusion, but visitors willingly suspend disbelief and pretend.

Hal Rothman

#94. I will tie you up, sometimes in very intricate, time-consuming bondage. I will suspend you from things. I will play with and tease and torment your bound and helpless body.

Sayara St. Clair

#95. Just as religion can lead its devotees to suspend reason for faith, it can also lead them to suspend morality for piety. Indeed,

Ali A. Rizvi

#96. It's freaking football. There are going to be big hits. I don't understand how they can do this after one weekend of hitting. And I can't understand how they can suspend us for it. I think it's a bunch of bull.

Brian Urlacher

#97. I set up a system, and the system can catch part of what is happening in the world - what's going on in the world - an appearance in the world, and suspend that appearance itself from being important ... The work is about the system.

Douglas Huebler

#98. For fifteen, maybe twenty minutes, she'd suspend her fierce judgment of the world and fall silent there. And when she did, a tiny space would clear in my head and I could think again.

Jenny Offill

#99. Certainly every historian brings certain predilections to the study of history. But every historian also has the ethical obligation to suspend judgment until finding the evidence overwhelmingly persuasive, the method beyond reproach, the results replicable, and the analyses sound.

George M. Dennison

#100. I'm a great audience. I cry very easily. I suspend disbelief in two seconds.

Stephen Sondheim