Top 300 Suspended Quotes & Sayings

The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever-growing influence of the Bible.

That was a matter suspended between heaven and earth, awaiting the hand of destiny.

Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.

For some people, their idea of getting tough is longer suspended sentences.

Growing up as a kid, in elementary and middle school, I was always getting in trouble. Always getting suspended. I got suspended for 90 days for fighting beginning my freshman year, so I missed Homecoming, and that's when I turned the page. I went on honor roll and had good grades after that. It was the changing point.

The madness of love can always be suspended--to cook dinner or catch a plane, for instance.

It was here that I suspended my religious inquiries (aged 17).

An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him.

The distinction between indoors and outdoors, which in England is usually so marked, was temporarily suspended in a hot gauzy haze.

Usually when I mention suspended animation, people will flash me the Vulcan sign and laugh.

There will always be players injured or suspended.

Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.

The great majority of Americans are suspended between these opposing attitudes. They are uneasy with injustice but unwilling yet to pay a significant price to eradicate it.

The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.

Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.

Illinois is a state of suspended animation and the people live in hibernation from Oct. to whenever it ever gets warmer.

I have been unable to live an uncommitted or suspended life. I have not hesitated to declare my affiliation with an extremely unpopular cause.

Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.

On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar.

I get my best ideas in that state of suspended consciousness just before sleep.

You see a virus very differently when it's caught and suspended on a slab of glass than when you're observing how it's ravaged a fellow human being.

In my career I haven't been suspended much.

'Everything beautiful occurs when the body / is suspended,' Helena Mesa quotes a performance artist who hangs his own pierced body in the air. Mesa's poems are artfully suspended between lyric and narrative, between humans and animals, between Latin America and the U.S., between desire and the difficulty of its fulfillment. Horse Dance Underwater is an inventive, musical, and powerful debut.

A journey is time suspended.

Law itself is either suspended, or regarded as an instrument that the state may use in the service of constraining and monitoring a given population; the state is not subject to the rule of law, but law can be suspended or deployed tactically and partially to suit the requirements of a state that seeks more and more to allocate sovereign power to its executive and administrative powers. The law is suspended in the name of "sovereignty" of the nation, where "sovereignty" denotes the task of any state to preserve and protect its own territoriality.

Campaigns are these moments of suspended animation where people usually learn how to be friends afterward.

The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.

There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.

[The essences of things] are suspended on the invisible dimension whose vibrance has been denied the human eye at all times save in the intuition of ecstasy.

I might be the first fighter who has ever been suspended after retirement.

In 1957's 'There's No You,' Sinatra is suspended at the intersection of a loss he can't face and a memory he can't relinquish.

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

In animation, action is changing so quickly that there's really not a lot of suspended moments.

It's always a blow for a team if important players get injured or suspended.

The lichen on the rocks is a rude and simple shield which beginning and imperfect Nature suspended there. Still hangs her wrinkledtrophy.

Emotional honesty transcends reality; it's what allows disbelief to be suspended and yet what makes a story stay true.

Liberals are people who think that being tough on crime means longer suspended sentences.

My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military.

I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement.

It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.

Whenever I am acting, it's everything, you know. If I'm researching a role, I'm completely consumed in that and, between action and cut, I live in this suspended time.

We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.

What do I mean when I say 'suspended animation'? It is the process by which animals de-animate, appear dead and then can wake up again without being harmed. OK, so here is the sort of big idea: If you look out at nature, you find that as you tend to see suspended animation, you tend to see immortality.

Those two pilots that sped 150 miles past their Minneapolis destination have been suspended. They got suspended because they were looking at their laptops instead of flying the plane. Think about this -- everybody else on the plane has to turn off their laptops except for the people flying the plane.

The bowed head, the buried face. She is silent, she will never speak, never forgive, never reach a hand, never leave this frozen present tense. All waits, suspended. Suspended the autumn trees, the autumn sky, anonymous people. A blackbird, poor fool, sings out of season from the willows by the lake. A flight of pigeons over the houses; fragments of freedom, hazard, an anagram made flesh. And somewhere the stinging smell of burning leaves.

No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation.

Tom Brady was suspended 4 games for hiding evidence. Hillary should have to sit out first 4 primaries.

We've come to this dark time in which the new Gestapo of Homeland Security lurks here, where citizens are having their rights suspended.

If I'm going to get suspended, I want to hit the guy.

I was watching MTV and there were girls dancing in suspended cages. That would be an ambivalent situation: "I'm trapped! ...but enjoying the music".

Venice never quite seems real, but rather an ornate film set suspended on the water.

I was suspended for two years and I got really fat. That was a polite way of putting it.

All sorts of famous sports people have been suspended for extended periods.

I'm not very good in a classroom sort of setting. I never was. I was kind of a clown in high school - got suspended a lot.

I've already made some changes. I have suspended certain things. Certainly, opening bank accounts, and whether you can or cannot as an illegal immigrant, I'm not sure that the data that we have is accurate enough, so I have suspended that for the time being.

We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam

My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.

Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation.

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.