#suspended

In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking; in war, service for the tribe or state becomes supreme, and personal liberty is suspended. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#even #liberty #organization #over #peace

Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations. ↗

— Dan Stevens

#anything #could #demonstrations #early #getting

Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. ↗

— Pier Paolo Pasolini

#ambiguous #finished #got #life #once

The Pulitzer isn't a physical object. You can't hold it in your hand. You get some money ($7,500 in my day), and you get a little Tiffany's paperweight with your name on it and the image of Joseph Pulitzer suspended in the crystal. When people see my 'Pulitzer' (I keep it in my sock drawer), they are pretty amazed at its meagerness. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#crystal #day #drawer #get #hand

The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity. ↗

— Lucinda Franks

#eternity #itself #mantelpiece #meaning #mind

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. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#because #bottom #generalized #intellectuals #international

We didn't think he would play on Sunday because he was suspended - that makes me think he has all the qualities to join Arsenal! ↗

— Arsene Wenger

#because #join #makes #me #play

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

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

I admitted I bet on baseball, but I wasn't suspended from baseball for betting on baseball. ↗

— Pete Rose

#baseball #bet #betting #i #suspended