- Nov 07, 2020
Pause Quotes
Sayings that celebrate the quiet space between actions.
This collection honors the pause as an act of care — the calm of a tea ritual, the peace found under trees, and the instinct to slow down for a creature in need before continuing on.
- Last Updated on Aug 01, 2026
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
Under trees, the urban dweller might restore his troubled soul and find the blessing of a creative pause.
- Contemplating
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't eat animals. I rescue strays and take injured pigeons to the wildlife rehab. I carry spiders and wasps outside in a cup covered with a 3x5 card. It would only follow that I'd take pause when contemplating the abrupt and apparently brutal ending of a tiny human being's life, or even a potential human being's life.
- Nov 07, 2020
There really isn't a time to pause and have a celebration. I feel so serious about the whole thing.
- Distance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of the process of reading is constantly hitting the pause button, and now and then the rewind button, to ponder a word that's been chosen by the author as exquisitely as the filmmaker chooses an image or a sound editor chooses a sonic clue - the tolling of a bell in the distance to evoke memory, for instance.
- Curious
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- Nov 07, 2020
Roughly 65% of American households owned a video recorder by 1989, when 'The Simpsons' was launched. This meant that fans could watch episodes several times and pause a scene when they had spotted something curious.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Master,' it was really important to me to go see that in the theater, but that's a very rare occurrence for me. I typically enjoy things on my laptop. I'm in bed; I can be able to pause them.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life would be indeed easier if the experimentalists would only pause for a little while!
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.
- Crowd
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a litigation lawyer, following the crowd off the proverbial cliff, when I pressed the pause button.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.
- Deceptive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Research indicates that a pause tends to be a signal that a cluster of deceptive cues is on its way. This is a key reason why voters routinely associate Trump with authenticity: He rarely pauses.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
Typically, when you read, you have more time to think. Reading gives you a unique pause button for comprehension and insight. By and large, with oral language - when you watch a film or listen to a tape - you don't press pause.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cook. I did the Escoffier course in Paris when I was 21 in one of those periods when it was like a pause. I can cook anything Italian, Chinese.
- Nov 07, 2020