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Though inclination be as sharp as will, My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect.

William Shakespeare

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

Charles Dickens

I think that gives companies some pause -- that the folks that might purchase their shares think this is an important issue of corporate management and governance.

Chris Davis

If there is anything more than 250,000 jobs then everything reverses and all bets about a pause at 3.25 percent are off.

Jack Ablin

I think things are coming to a pause with Yang stepping down.

Jerry Lou

I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make despair pause. For in truth we who are creatures of impulse are creatures of despair.

Joseph Conrad

Just to avoid that, we are going to pause until things are clearer.

Tony Wright

We pause to remember the tragic loss of over 3,000 innocent men, women, and children from some 90 countries around the world.

Howard Baker

In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.

Marcia Gay Harden

This is about trust, this system. So the question is how you price that, and it's given the foreign exchange market pause.

Paul Podolsky

The fact that the Dow went through this barrier so cleanly shows the inherent weaknesses in the market, ... The fact that it didn't even pause is ominous.

James Dines

They had a good quarter but there are a number of things that we heard in the conference call to give us pause.

Michael Judd

We've got a lot to be proud of, but moments like this give us pause for thought.

Upinder Dhillon

There is nothing at this point to suggest that Fed officials will pause.

Chris Rupkey

Some well-known commentators on Fed policy have come out and said that the Fed has finished, the Fed is on pause or the Fed should take a pause.

Richard Franulovich

This is a pause. It is not a renunciation of criminal activity.

Mariano Rajoy

That's signaling that they may be moving toward a pause.

Philip Wee

I don't get a sense that there's a lot of volume occurring on all of this. It's been a nice run, so why not a pause?

Donna Van Vlack

We just want to take a step back and pause to discuss this situation. We hope that we can end the moratorium quickly. We favor competition to cable, but we want it to be fair and to follow the law.

Robin Weaver

Another interest rate hike in March is a 'done deal' among market participants and a pause is likely to come after that in May.

Masamichi Koike

A pause on rate increases would be another plus for stocks.

Bill Strazzullo

The market has had an extremely good run since October and it was due a pause and a bit of profit-taking. I would not be surprised if we get a little bit more.

Roger Cursley

The Fed would only pause on the GM news if there were some indication that the news threatens the health of the economy as a whole or the health of the financial markets as a whole.

Chris Low

The market moved up rapidly, and it needed a pause.

Jim Glassman

It's healthy for a market trending higher to take a pause, things don't go into the sky forever.

Kevin Kruszenski

All the market is talking about is Katrina, what it means and is the Fed going to pause. It's just relentless at the moment, it's just dollar selling.

Lee Ferridge

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Guillaume Apollinaire

We may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the Earth's music.

David Brower

When police went in, there were a number of circumstances that gave them great pause.

Wayne Shelor

Our base case is that they (Fed) will go to five percent this quarter and then pause. There is a risk that they could do one more, but we're sticking with five percent.

Bilal Hafeez

However, after a long pause in talks, which lasted more than a year, it would be too optimistic to expect any radical breakthroughs.

Alexander Alexeyev

But if core inflation slows in the next two months, that would be a good cause to pause.

Orawin Velz

With lower-than-expected growth, it makes the job a lot easier for the Fed -- especially with its two new Bush-appointed members -- to pause from its rate-hiking plan.

Paul Mendelsohn

Given the uncertainty of the effect the hurricane may have on the economy, the Fed may take a pause in raising interest rates.

Stuart Thomson

I'm hopeful that what has occurred over the last several weeks will give us all pause and encourage us all to seek a better solution.

Amy Mcnamara

The consensus appears to be a likely pause in June as the Fed assesses the effects of past rate hikes on consumers and the housing sector.

William O'donnell

My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.

Al Pacino

It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.

Jack Benny

There's a point at which the Fed has to indicate that it has to pause and look around for a while, and that could come in these minutes, or the next ones.

David Kotok

In the absence of any new M&A speculation this is more of a pause for breath more than anything else. With the exception of the retailers UK Plc is in very good health.

Richard Hunter

These comments have reduced expectations that we will see any hint of a pause in tightening in Greenspan's testimony on Wednesday.

Tom Vosa

It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.

Tony Benn

It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The interest rate markets have moved to swiftly price in one last act of enlightened risk management from Greenspan in the form of a tightening pause.

Michael Wallace

I feel basically safe. But when you hear something like that, it gives you pause for thought.

Betty Davis

Twilight: A time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much dark, if twilight were not.

Howard Thurman

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Mark Twain

You got to raise doubts about his character, to give some pause to the religious conservatives who are looking on him as a very different candidate.

William Binning

Exploration really is the essence of the human spirit, and to pause, to falter, to turn our back on the quest for knowledge, is to perish.

Frank Borman

Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Lance Morrow

One thing we need to watch is that he doesn't keep the screws on too tight and go overboard with these hikes. Everybody was looking for some language that would suggest a pause near these levels.

Ryan Larson

It's natural to think the dollar has just entered a short-term downward correction. It could be just a temporary pause before the dollar heads higher again.

Tohru Sasaki

There are shifting expectations on whether the Fed will pause or not after its meeting next week. Signals from the Fed that it may pause in June may see a bid for Treasuries.

Craig Chan

I think even before Katrina I would have been through. I would have been arguing to pause, if I were still there.

Robert Mcteer

I think the Fed keeps going as long as GDP growth stays between 3 percent and 4 percent. That would be not too hot to make them go faster or too cold to make them pause.

Chris Probyn

Those are the two measures by which we look at a market, and when you increase potential numbers of properties that might be damaged and the severity of that damage, you give us great pause.

William Bailey

Obviously, any controversy in the marketplace causes companies to pause and reevaluate.

James Hodges

We are in a pause. People are still trying to figure out where we are in this cycle.

Patrick Ho

I'd be heartened if I saw a bunch of people doing it and thought I could do it better. Seeing no one doing it at all would give me pause.

Mike Schultz

There is a pause effect. There is a delay in manufacturing. In some ways, the March quarter and the June quarter are a victim of some of the success they have had.

Gene Munster

There is enough bad news in that report to give us tremendous pause, ... The clock is nearly up.

Kevin Ryan

We might be due for a pause near-term in the dollar's gains.

John Horner

The Fed is closer to moving to a pause in monetary policy. We've turned more bearish on the dollar.

Paresh Upadhyaya

They've given us a lot to pause and look at the strong role they've played in the community. They have been good corporate citizens all the way back to our history as a region.

Sean Fitzgerald

I think the market needed to pause.

Gail Dudack

Holding the rate in December was just a pause.

Tomas Flores

If I had known there was an entire day-care center, it might have given me pause to switch targets. That's a large amount of collateral damage.

Timothy Mcveigh

Global equity markets are in the midst of a pause after a very long upward march.

Akber Khan

As a result, I voted to pause in the removal of policy accommodation until more was known.

Mark Olson

Guests can actually order a show or movie, press pause, leave their room and come back and pick up where they left off. Digital is so flexible, it is amazing.

Matthew Stern

There's certainly sufficient in there to give the Reserve Bank pause for thought.

John Bolsover

He opened the door a little bit to a Fed pause, and to the chance that maybe the economy hasn't been quite as strong as he had been saying.

Gerald Lucas

To stop everything, for Milosevic, for all of us, it is very important to add that once more they should stop everything. Do a pause, everything, although most important is that the bombing stops. Stop killing people.

Viktor Chernomyrdin

Right after Katrina it looked like a no-brainer. Uncertainties about where things were going as a result of Katrina would force the Fed to pause. But since then, the idea of the Fed pausing is fading.

Charles Dumas

These numbers give you pause. The ISM and the fact that jobless claims continue to rise suggest there continues to be job loss.

Gerald Cohen

I want reforms to be continued without pause.

Hiroshi Okuda

The liver, that great maroon snail: No wave of emotion sweeps it. Neither music nor mathematics gives it pause in its appointed tasks.

Dr. Richard Selzer

It's just adding to the notion that the Fed is on the cusp of an imminent and extended pause. It's proving what everybody was thinking -- the I-told-you-so crowd -- that oil is going to weaken things.

Joseph Lavorgna

(The performers) will pause and talk about abstinence issues - which is good thing for our kids to hear.

Marty Renfroe

If unit labor costs are not increasing as much as we initially expected, that would get the Fed to pause (rate hikes) sooner than expected.

Tim Mazanec

It is a proprietary system, and that gives us pause.

Paul Reddick

We're still on pause waiting for things to shape up better. I don't think the commentary is anywhere near as dire as it had been.

Donna Van Vlack

The market is still concerned about the interest rate and whether the Fed is on a possible pause.

Ian Stannard

I would take a pause and see how it goes. I think the big move has been made already.

Mark Hughes

There's this spider's web of corporate earnings. Companies are making the bottom line, but the outlooks are tepid and cautious. It's giving the market some pause.

Liam Dalton

I was in the camp that the Fed would pause, but there is nothing in anything any of the Fed members have said since the hurricane that indicates that the tightening cycle will be ending any time soon.

Joe Francomano

It gives characters the opportunity to pause before a critical confrontation and decide how they are going to play this scene. Sometimes they completely blow it, and sometimes you say all the right things, but to no avail.

Evan Yionoulis

I led my parents in the wrong direction ... because I didn't want us to be the one who found him, because then they'd know I'd (pause), then they'd be thinking then I knew exactly where he was.

Evan Savoie

Gains have been a bit quick. We have to take a pause. Investors' attention is on companies' outlooks.

Emmanuel Soupre

A pause by the Fed would give a temporary boost to stocks.

Edgar Peters