#suspend

Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each flat, but to each indifferent, Incongruous and strange the moonlight shines. ↗

— Claude McKay

#clothes #each #flat #ghosts #hang

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#brief #dominion #masters #only #periods

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination. ↗

— Richard Hofstadter

#between #character #corruption #delicate #eternal

You can only avoid responsibility for so long. The catalyst ended up being the law coming down and finally saying, 'You guys suspended judgement and that's fine, because we're not.' ↗

— Rosario Dawson

#because #being #catalyst #coming #down

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. ↗

— James Douglas

#dark #dawn #garden #good #good idea

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

— Jeremy Larner

#idea #longer #people #sentences #some

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not. ↗

— John Lubbock

#duty #evidence #judgment #our #sufficient

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

— William Minto

#belief #doubt #him #independent #joy

You're suspended sixty feet up in the air, you've been up there for three hours, and all the shot requires is that you have to sort of react to getting punched in the head. ↗

— Alfred Molina

#been #feet #getting #head #hours

My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that. ↗

— Richard Powers

#bed #been #closest #doing #dream