Suspending Quotes

#1. What really interests me about capturing and suspending movement is that I get to experience something invisible and inaudible, as elusive and fleeting as thought itself, and give it form ... Maybe my paintings are all just little fragments of the Cosmic Dance suspended in time.

James Nares

#2. You can't really do a big character in an action film; you're already suspending your disbelief in the action, then to suspend your disbelief in the character is too much.

Adam McKay

#3. I am suspending my presidential campaign, because of the continued distractions, the continued hurt caused on me and my family, not because we are not fighters. Not because I'm not a fighter.

Herman Cain

#4. Academic sceptics argued for the conclusion that knowledge was impossible; Pyrrhonian sceptics aimed to reach no conclusions at all, suspending judgement on all questions, even the question of the possibility of knowledge.

Jennifer Nagel

#5. Climate change now represents so urgent a threat to mankind that the only way to deal with it is by suspending democracy.

James Lovelock

#6. That all power of suspending laws, or the execution of laws, by any authority, without consent of the representatives of the people, is injurious to their rights, and ought not to be exercised.

George Mason

#7. Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality.

Milan Kundera

#8. We are not saved by a compromise, by mercy defeating justice, or law suspending its operations; no, we defy the eagle's eye to detect a flaw in the groundwork of our confidence.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#9. Never fear what people will say ... Never think you can't do it because it was never done before! You can be the source of change that is suspending for quite a long period now! You too can fly!

Israelmore Ayivor

#10. The power of faith is suspending judgment long enough to gain the rewards available.

Marshall Sylver

#11. They probably didn't care if it was the real thing or not. They wanted it to be. And by suspending their disbelief they could believe in the illusion.

Alexandra Potter

#12. In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story.

Edward Norton

#13. The war on drugs to me is absolutely phoney, its so obviously phoney, ok? It's a war against our civil rights, that's all it is. They're using it to make us afraid to go out at night, afraid of each other, so that we lock ourselves in our homes and they get suspending our rights one by one.

Bill Hicks

#14. We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin.

Alan Watts

#15. A lot of my humor centers on the act of telling jokes and I think this can prevent certain audiences from suspending their feeling of disbelief. It might piss a few people off, but I can't help it.

Michael Showalter

#16. He was the last thread suspending me in the light. Without him, I can feel myself spiraling downward, falling to a place where I can no longer pull myself back up.

Marie Lu

#17. In all candor, the Court fails to perceive any reason for suspending the power of courts to get evidence and rule on questions of privilege in criminal matters simply because it is the president of the United States who holds the evidence.

John J. Sirica

#18. When we teach people that suspending moral judgments is a virtue, the necessary outcome is moral horror.

Peter Boghossian

#19. Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.

Thomas Carlyle

#20. Love disarms our emotional defenses; it makes us vulnerable to the other...in suspending our emotional defenses, love exposes our sympathy to the needs of the other.

Paul F. Velleman

#21. Yes, your kids should go to school. No, you shouldn't bankroll their degree whatever the cost. You've spent your life creating a sound financial plan; don't upend it by suspending your retirement savings or taking out a home equity line of credit to pay for a pricey college.

Suze Orman

#22. Porn is about orgasm. Erotica is about suspending orgasm.

Chloe Thurlow

#23. The Obama administration has issued numerous orders essentially suspending deportations, prompting a major spike in illegal crossings.

Aaron Klein

#24. Genuine listening means suspending memory, desire, and judgment - and, for a moment at least, existing for the other person.

Michael P Nichols

#25. 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

#26. There is a big risk for the Republicans in a race, especially with Hillary Clinton as a likely Democratic nominee in a contest that will focus on the possibility of the first woman president to be six months suspending up the nomination of a black woman, who is imminently qualified.

Barack Obama

#27. Ralph also took some classes in philosophy and literature and felt himself on the brink of some kind of huge discovery about himself. But it never came.

Raymond Carver

#28. If you see your nature, you don't need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud your awareness. Doctrines are only for pointing to the mind. Once you see your mind, why pay attention to doctrines?

Bodhidharma

#29. I'm not really a flirt; I just try to be myself.

Niall Horan

#30. If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship.

Luc De Clapiers

#31. For a sailor to sail around the world, the thought is just, sometimes, too much. Thus, one simply goes from port to port in the same direction.

Hal Moore

#32. There are times, where I am sad for the public. I am sad, because they do not get to know the brilliance that is Sebastian Janikowski.

Sebastian Janikowski

#33. It was never the way she looked
always the way she was
I would have fallen in love with her
with my eyes closed.

Atticus Poetry

#34. Let me finish my beer." (Stark)
"Of course. The end of the world can wait.(Kasabian)

Richard Kadrey

#35. Report any sightings as they happen." "Will a girly scream work?" Rolf asked. "It's always worked for you in the past," a huge, blond-bearded commando shouted good-naturedly. "Why change now?

Lisa Shearin

#36. When you're on a submarine you're usually underwater for months at a time, and you don't get to Skype or make phone calls. When you get messages, they're maybe two sentences. They're very short.

Jessy Schram

#37. Other dragons are bastards. I moved out of my mother's cave after my mother tried to rip my guts out.
Granted, I had tried to steal her Tiara of Clairvoyance.

Zen Cho