Motionless Quotes

104 quotes by 92 authors

When all is complete deep in the teapot, when tea, mint, and sugar have completely diffused throughout the water, coloring and saturating it...then a glass… — Simonne Jacquemard
When mental development is under discussion, there are many who say, 'How does movement come into it? We are talking about the mind.' And when… — Maria Montessori
If you go through any newspaper or magazine and look for active, kicking verbs in the sentences, you will realize that this lack of well… — Rudolf Flesch
On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels… — Charles Dickens
An Old World revolution is only a movement around a motionless center; it never breaks out of the circle. Firm in the center is belief… — Rose Wilder Lane
The large shiny black forehead of the first whale was no more than two yards from us when it sank beneath the surface of the… — Virginia Woolf
I think people tend to forget that trees are living creatures. They're sort of like dogs. Huge, quiet, motionless dogs, with bark instead of fur. — Jack Handey
Spring scarce had greener fields to show than these Of mid September; through the still warm noon The rivulets ripple forth a gladder tune Than… — Edward Dowden
He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things: a one-track mind near the track's end of pure insanity; mulish imperturbability under… — James Agee
It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly. — George Bernard Shaw
Did you ever see a chameleon catch a fly? The chameleon gets behind the fly and remains motionless for some time, then he advances very… — Lobengula
If water stands motionless in a pool it grows stale and muddy, but when it moves and flows it becomes clear: so, too, man in… — Muhammad Asad
Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest creative thinkers of all time, strongly recommended the habit of meditation in the dark. He wrote: "For I… — Wilferd Peterson
The security of faith does not make us motionless or close us off, but sends us forth to bear witness and to dialogue with all… — Pope Francis
In him converge all previous streams of tendency, not as into a pool, stagnant, passive, motionless, but as a noble river that received its tributary… — Johannes Brahms
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who… — Claude Monet
There is a thing inherent and natural which existed before heaven and earth. Motionless and fathomless, It stands alone and never changes; It pervades everywhere… — Laozi
All that was neither a city, nor a church, nor a river, nor color, nor light, nor shadow: it was reverie. For a long time,… — Victor Hugo
The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze. — Livy
I guess I remembered clearest of all the early mornings, when the lake was cool and motionless, remembered how the bedroom smelled of the lumber… — Elwyn Brooks White

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