Awkward Pause

Famous quotes containing the words awkward and/or pause:

“So awkward was this May
Then training to prepare
Summer’s impressive lie
Upon whose every day
So many ruined are
May could not make aware.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)