Motionless Quotes

104 quotes by 92 authors

When he utilizes combined energy, his fighting men become as it were like unto rolling logs or stones. For it is the nature of a… — Sun Tzu
The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a… — Jacques Barzun
Instantly, the noise stopped. The whole room lay in perfect silence. The tire builders stood in long lines, touching each other, perfectly motionless, deafened by… — Ruth McKenney
There is not a flower or bird in sight, only a small screen on which lines are moving, while the child sits almost motionless, pushing… — John Davy
A computer and a cat are somewhat alike - they both purr, and like to be stroked, and spend a lot of the day motionless.… — John Updike
The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris… — Natalie Babbitt
Very hot and still the air was, Very smooth the gliding river, Motionless the sleeping shadows. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious stands motionless in the cold. — Wallace Stevens
The wilderness is a place of rest - not in the sense of being motionless, for the lure, after all, is to move, to round… — David Douglas
If we reason, we would be understood; if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain were born anew within another's; if… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and… — Samuel Johnson
Professor Focke and his technicians standing below grew ever smaller as I continued to rise straight up, 50 metres, 75 metres, 100 metres. Then I… — Hanna Reitsch
When I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds, until… — Mary Oliver
There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Genuine trust involves allowing another to matter and have an impact in our lives. For that reason, many who hate and do battle with God… — Dan B. Allender
Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind… — Huangbo Xiyun
This is the river of the great 19th-century landscapists; of Cole, Cropsey and Church, and at the end of the summer it lies motionless under… — Judith Thurman
The fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of a reality which consists of… — Leon Trotsky
A person does not...stand motionless and clear before our eyes with his merits, his defects, his plans, his intentions with regard to ourself exposed on… — Marcel Proust
From the cab stepped a tall old man. Black raincoat and hat and a battered valise. He paid the driver, then turned and stood motionless,… — William Peter Blatty

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