At present there are such goings-on that everything is at a standstill. — Boyle Roche Copy Share Image
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Poverty can turn a person into a flaming torch for change and revolution, without which mankind would come to a standstill. — Jean Sasson Copy Share Image
I started working on a line of clothes last year, but right now we're kind of at a standstill. — Beverley Mitchell Copy Share Image
Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you say, 'You've made it,' then you kind of come to a standstill, and I don't think any actor wants to… — Jenna Ushkowitz Copy Share Image
Good things don't come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate! — Julian Bond Copy Share Image
“You know how men are. When they don't feel good, the world comes to a standstill.” — Clare Vanderpool Copy Share Image
Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them. — James Cash Penney Copy Share Image
When I got to the library I came to a standstill, - ah, the dear room, what happy times I have spent… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
If somehow every volunteer vanished tomorrow, so much of this country would come to a standstill: schools, hospitals and libraries. You can't… — Al Roker Copy Share Image
The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
“I felt little interest in possible danger of their being run over: only a great relief that the bus must in any… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
But eternity is not temporality at a standstill. What is oppressive about the concept of the eternal is the justification, incomprehensible to… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
We are reaching the point where the temperature standstill is becoming the major feature of the recent global warm period that began… — David Robert Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Then, with lots of people doing that without ever looking over their shoulders to see how they were affecting anybody else, it… — Barbara Castle Copy Share Image
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
By that time it was already clear that the next prime minster was going to be Golda Meir, a woman whom I… — Uri Avnery Copy Share Image
Your reason and your passion are your rudder and sails of your seafaring soul, if either your sails or your rudder be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He who wants to educate himself in Chess must evade what is dead in Chess... the habit of playing with inferior opponents;… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
Each one of us has some goal we want to reach, and we must work toward that goal one step at a… — Sid Luckman Copy Share Image
What the carburetor, sparkplug and self-starter are to an automobile, initiative, private enterprise and executive ability are to industry as a whole,… — William J. H. Boetcker Copy Share Image
I was twenty-one at the time, about to turn twenty-two. No prospect of graduating soon, and yet no reason to quit school.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If, on thinking this, I look up to see if reality can quench my thirst, I see inexpressive facades, inexpressive faces, inexpressive… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
My Emmy nomination came in September 2020 and in 2020 work was at standstill. — Arjun Mathur Copy Share Image
Rock n' roll is at a standstill, I think - and comedy is taking its place as something exciting. — John Belushi Copy Share Image
A large amount of work has come to a standstill all around, so I thought why not just go for weight loss? — Shehnaaz Gill Copy Share Image
Fear isn't an excuse to come to a standstill. It's the impetus to step up and strike. — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
“scepticism, as we know, can never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Some people wait so long for their ship to come in, their pier collapses. — John Goddard Copy Share Image
It is a dangerous thing for the perfecting of our minds to gain applause by works that do not call forth the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
2014 was a year of intense social upheaval. In truth, the same could be said for most every year. There is no… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image