Top 156 Suspension Quotes & Sayings

The Patriot Act followed 9-11 as smoothly as the suspension of the Weimar constitution after the Reichstag Fire Decree.

To believe in'the greater good' isto operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.

It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.

I'm not a media personality, I'm an actress. I want to protect that thing: the suspension of disbelief. The rest of it is just distraction.

To believe in 'the greater good' is to operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.

Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases of the suspension of the habeas corpus law have been worthy of that suspension. They have been either real treasons, wherein the parties might as well have been charged at once, or sham plots, where it was shameful they should ever have been suspected. Yet for the few cases wherein the suspension of the habeas corpus has done real good, that operation is now become habitual and the minds of the nation almost prepared to live under its constant suspension.

Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility, which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease.

It is said that friendship between women is only a suspension of hostilities.

Accordingly, it is not a Muslim ban at all, but a suspension of entrants from seven countries with conditions on the ground that both promote terrorism and make effective vetting impossible.

I prefer to think of faith, as Coleridge says of poetry, not as the taking up of belief but as "the willing suspension of disbelief". . . a willingness to be open, to explore, to investigate.

Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.

I accept my punishment and will begin serving my suspension immediately.

A food truce, the picnic suspension of oedipal feeling that permits the generations to love each other at family reunions.

We've suspended the willing suspension of disbelief. We have given up that relationship, that almost hypnotic engagement, with the characters up on the screen.

Belichick's actually great. I wouldn't mind being the New England Patriots. They seem to win a lot. Four-game suspension here and there doesn't hurt nobody.

Those who write need that "willing suspension of disbelief ", as Coleridge called it.

When I was a kid, Santa, the Tooth Fairy, my stuffed animals - they were real. There is the tremendous suspension of disbelief that you have as a child. It's harder as an adult.

A suspension program like TRX provides consistency, is great for strength training, and you can do it anywhere, which is good for us because we're always on the go!

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.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

My one suggestion going forward is, any felony committed against a woman should be a full-season suspension.

One of my favorite moments is onstage, when you see a dancer leap, and you think they're flying, and then they fall. It's that moment of suspension that you look for, and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't.

The stage is suspension of disbelief. Film is a literal medium.

Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.

I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.

I'm hoping that the suspension of the space program is just that, a suspension, and that it's not the final say in the matter, because I think we need it.

The infrastructure of the US is a long-term suspension of disbelief that such things won't be exploded deliberately by people who don't create anything.

By skepticism . . . we arrive first at suspension of judgment, and second at freedom from disturbance.

I take full responsibility for the mistakes that led to my suspension for the 2014 season.

I don't want players coming in from the college level that are either trying to avoid a suspension, declare themselves ineligible on their own, hire an agent and decide, 'I'm going to enter into the NFL.'

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

Suspension of disbelief and that whole question is part of the heart of the 'Leaves of Grass'movie.

Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based.

Suspension of disbelief is a necessary ingredient in all storytelling. So it has been with the government's narrative that it is delivering Brexit.

RECONCILIATION, n. A suspension of hostilities. An armed truce for the purpose of digging up the dead.

What is essential here is the presence of the spirit of dialogue, which is in short, the ability to hold many points of view in suspension, along with a primary interest in the creation of common meaning.

Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on.

The chief good is the suspension of the judgment [especially negative judgement], which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow.

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.

Writing is a suspension of life in order to re-create life

Everyone knows that a movie is false. But if as filmmakers we give the audience too many reasons to lose the suspension of disbelief, I believe we're working our way down a hole.

I think this conflict [against terrorism] is going to require a suspension of freedom and rights unlike anything we have ever seen, at least since World War II.

Patience is like good motor oil. It doesn't remove all the contaminants. It just puts them into suspension so they don't get into your works and seize them up. Patient people have, so to speak, a large crankcase. They can put a lot of irritants into suspension.

What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?

I guess love is the real suspension of disbelief.

California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension.

I want to regard my public as infinitely intelligent, as understanding notions of the suspension of disbelief and as realising all the time that this is not a slice of life, this is openly a film.

Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections.

Faith means the purposeful suspension of critical thinking. It’s nothing to be admired.

We will immediately lift the suspension of uranium enrichment and will halt implementation of the Additional Protocol.

Mogami cable is durable and flexible enough to practically build a suspension bridge with but I'll settle for using it for my guitars and amps!

The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements.

My suspension was a long-planned move... and was done to protect would-be convicts in Romanian politics.

I was in Minnesota in 2014 when Adrian Peterson was suspended. In that situation, we were about to play the Patriots when his suspension came out the Friday before the game.

I think, as a coach, you have to be willing to do what's best for the player. And you say what's best for the player: is it better to give him a game suspension, three-game suspension, no suspension. I think each case may be different in that.

Cinema, which demands suspension of disbelief, is an increasingly naive proposition.

The suspension of allowances was temporary and was to be reviewed periodically. It was reviewed in the appropriate time after our oil revenue improved.

Democracy makes many taxing demands on its practitioners, but suspension of the intelligence is not one of them.

The whole film genre is one of deceit. It is the suspension of disbelief. That's what all theater and all film is based on.