A Quote by Benjamin Franklin

At a great pennyworth pause a while.

Benjamin Franklin

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Benjamin Franklin
American - Politician
January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790

The new light above my table is a great improvement. With all this darkness around me I feel less alone. (Pause.) In a way. (Pause.) I love to get up and move about in it, then back here to... (hesitates) ...me. (Pause.)

Samuel Beckett

This benefit of seeing...can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image...the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.

Dorothea Lange

Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can.

W. Somerset Maugham

This is what the Sabbath should feel like. A pause. Not just a minor pause, but a major pause. Not just lowering the volume, but a muting. As the famous rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel put it, the Sabbath is a sanctuary in time.

A. J. Jacobs

Menopause. A pause while you reconsider men.

Margaret Atwood

He that pays for work before it's done, has but a pennyworth for two pence.

Benjamin Franklin

Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.

Rollo May

Death is not complete annihilation. It is a pause. It is like pressing the pause button on a tape recorder.

Mata Amritanandamayi

Even in the busiest lives, there is room for a sacred pause. Between actions, pause and remember who you are.

Jennifer Kavanagh

Sabbath is not simply the pause that refreshes. It is the pause that transforms.

Walter Brueggemann

A pause while my mother made high-pitched sisterly devotions of gratitude.

Maureen Johnson

Creation sleeps! 'T is as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause,- An awful pause! prophetic of her end.

Edward Young

I was diagnosed with necrotizing chronic pancreatitis, and it definitely put a pause on live performances for a while.

Blackbear

Learning to pause is the first step in the practice of Radical Acceptance. A pause is a suspension of activity, a time of temporary disengagement when we are no longer moving toward any goal ... The pause can occur in the midst of almost any activity and can last for an instant, for hours or for seasons of our life ... You might try it now: Stop reading and sit there, doing 'no thing,' and simply notice what you are experiencing.

Tara Brach

An underestimated element in poetry, that reading aloud makes clear, is the pause. I mean especially the force of a pause or a couple of pauses close together, contrasted with a longer unit of grammar.

Robert Pinsky

I took my hand off the pause button. I had my life on pause. You get stuck, especially when you're drinking and isolating. I started homing in on what I wanted to do as a person. Just try to grow up.

Jeff Bauman

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