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• A good zoo," Stella said, "is a large domain. A wild cage. A safe place to be. It has room to roam and humans who don't hurt." She pauses, considering her words. "A good zoo is how humans make amends.

  Katherine Applegate

  Hurt, Zoos, Rooms

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• There was a brief pause for them to evaluate the full horror of the situation. Magnus. personally, was in horror up to his elbows.

  Cassandra Clare

  Elbows, Horror, Situation

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “What Really Happened in Peru”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• There’s a long pause. But it’s not a bad pause, because Mik is looking at me like I’m the treasure from the high shelf that someone’s just taken down and put into his hands. I find I don’t mind being looked at like this. I don’t mind it at all.

  Laini Taylor

  Taken, Hands, Long

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• A time will come, and soon, when, from mere habit, you will echo the scream of every delirious wretch that harbors near you; then you will pause, clasp your hands on your throbbing head, and listen with horrible anxiety whether the scream proceeded from you or them.

  Charles Robert Maturin

  Depression, Hands, Echoes

  Charles Robert Maturin (2008). “Melmoth the Wanderer: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.75, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• He hadn't realized yet that Gansey could persuade even the sun to pause and give him the time.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Giving, Sun, Gansey

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.37, Scholastic Inc.

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• Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation.

  Walter Lippmann

  Criticism, Littles, Endure

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Hold the old holding hand. Hold and be held. Plod on and never recede. Slowly with never a pause plod on and never recede.

  Samuel Beckett

  Hands, Holding Hands

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “Company / Ill Seen Ill Said / Worstward Ho / Stirrings Still”, p.58, Faber & Faber

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• The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you. It's the same as going on a vacation. Some people spend all their time on a vacation taking pictures so that when they get home they can show their friends evidence that they had a good time. They don't pause to let the vacation enter inside of them and take that home.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Home, Adventure, Vacation

  E.L. Konigsburg (2015). “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”, p.94, Pushkin Press

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• If you don't listen deeply, the connection won't take place.... [You have to be] willing to be changed by the person you're listening to, where you're not just waiting for a pause so you can say your thing, but you're actually letting them have an effect on you if they can.

  Alan Alda

  Waiting, Listening, Connections

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• Psychologists tested the story of the Good Samaritan. What they learned gives us reason to pause. The greatest determinant of who stopped to help the stranger in need was not compassion, morality, or religious creed. It was those who had the time. Makes me wonder if I have time to do good.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Religious, Compassion, Giving

  Richard Paul Evans (2012). “Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• What's interesting is the show allows for the awkward pauses to be captured, which makes it stylistically unique, especially for American audiences.

  Rainn Wilson

  Unique, Interesting, Awkward

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• My brother, Cecil Edward Chesterton, was born when I was about five years old; and, after a brief pause, began to argue. He continued to argue to the end. I am glad to think that through all those years we never stopped arguing; and we never once quarreled. Perhaps the principal objection to a quarrel is that it interrupts an argument.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Brother, Thinking, Years

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• Right now I don't call it the menopause, I call it men-on-pause.

  Marie Osmond

  Men, Menopause, Right Now

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• The way I photograph... in many ways it's directed by chance and all my mistakes, which are often the best stuff. I found that no matter if it's the same tape, the same TV, and the same camera, I can never duplicate an image... your arm jiggles, there's just too much chance. And I never put it on pause, or use any of that fancy equipment.

  John Waters

  Mistake, Arms, Fancy

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• We passionately long that there may be another life in which we shall be similar to what we are here below. But we do not pause to reflect that, even without waiting for that other life, in this life, after a few years we are unfaithful to what we have been, to what we wished to remain immortally.

  Marcel Proust

  Years, Long, Waiting

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.2893, Delphi Classics

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• Either it brings tears to their eyes, or else -" "Or else what?" said Alice, for the Knight had made a sudden pause. "Or else it doesn't, you know.

  Lewis Carroll

  Eye, Knights, Tears

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: 150th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.188, Penguin

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• Wake up now, look alive, for here is a day off work just to praise Creation: the turkey, the squash, and the corn, these things that ate and drank sunshine, grass, mud, and rain, and then in the shortening days laid down their lives for our welfare and onward resolve. There's the miracle for you, the absolute sacrifice that still holds back seed: a germ of promise to do the whole thing again, another time. . . Thanksgiving is Creation's birthday party. Praise harvest, a pause and sigh on the breath of immortality.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Party, Rain, Sunshine

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.284, Faber & Faber

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• Sir Beldevere: What makes you think she's a witch? Peasant 3: Well, she turned me into a newt! Sir Beldevere: A newt? Peasant 3: [meekly after a long pause] ... I got better. Crowd: [shouts] Burn her anyway!

  Graham Chapman

  Thinking, Long, Holy Grail

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• I do pauses, pauses work for me

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Humor

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• I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines. Spaces within a line, double colons, slashes, are indications of pause, of breath, of urgency, they are not metrically exact as in a musical notation but they serve (I hope) to make the reader think about the sound of the poem - just as traffic symbols, when driving, make us almost unconsciously aware of a steep hill, an intersection, an icy bridge etc.

  Adrienne Rich

  Thinking, Bridges, Space

  Source: criticalflame.org

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• When you care about the culture, you can stop, pause, and say, "Okay, where do I stand in the midst of this all?"

  LeCrae

  Culture, Care, Midst

  Source: www.artistdirect.com

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• Let me go: take back thy gift: Why should a man desire in any way To vary from the kindly race of men, Or pass beyond the goal of ordinance Where all should pause, as is most meet for all? ...Why wilt thou ever scare me with thy tears, And make me tremble lest a saying learnt, In days far-off, on that dark earth, be true? ‘The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.’ - Tithonus

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dark, Men, Race

  'Tithonus' (1860, revised 1864) l. 46

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• During the songs, you transcend yourself. The best way to be in the performance is to be without pause and be essentially in the moment, in that moment of expression.

  Florence Welch

  Song, Expression, Way

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• I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.

  Samuel Beckett

  Records, Delirium, Form

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.250, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The government and the opposition need to think about their people, if they actually went out and saw the conditions in which their people are living, it might actually mean that they would pause and think again about the importance of peace.

  Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos

  Peace, Mean, Thinking

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