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Quotes about Pause

Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying them.
— Anonymous
It occurred to her that mercy was the ability to stop, if only for a moment.
— Frank Herbert
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing
— AA Milne
So let your latest grand ideas cool off for a while
— Jason Fried
It was a kiss with a future in it: like a ring slipped upon her soul. And now, in the dreadful pause that followed--while Strefford fidgeted with his cigarette-case and rattled the spoon in his cup--Susy remembered what she had seen through the circle of Nick's kiss: that blue illimitable distance which was at once the landscape at their feet and the future in their souls.
— Edith Wharton
Life is a luminous pause between two great mysteries, which themselves are one.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
— Mark Twain
However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.
— Charles Spurgeon
We imitate God by stopping our work and resting.
— Peter Scazzero
Sabbath is not dependent upon our readiness to stop.
— Peter Scazzero
The essence of being in God's image is our ability, like God, to stop. We imitate God by stopping our work and resting.
— Peter Scazzero
Time for a little something.
— AA Milne