Best Stand Still Quotations
180 Stand Still quotes by 148 unique authors
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One of the things I like about performing on the stage is that it is a kind of meditative experience. Time does stand still. You…
— Michael Emerson
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Take note, theologians, that in your desire to make matters of faith out of propositions relating to the fixity of sun and earth you run…
— Galileo Galilei
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You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but your didn't. As long as your heart kept pumping an your blood…
— Ann Brashares
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Put your trust in me, let this love be. This is for real, let time stand still.
— Smokey Robinson
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You made my world stand still, and in that stillness, there was a freedom I never felt before.
— Sarah McLachlan
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Language does not stand still. Surprisingly, despite this knowledge, most speakers are fearful of change.
— Peter Farb
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It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet and his church were full…
— Phillips Brooks
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I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.
— Walt Disney
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Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a…
— Edgar Quinet
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We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.
— Gerald R. Ford
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I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment.
— Walt Disney
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No court can make time stand still.
— Felix Frankfurter
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I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it's just that my…
— Idris Elba
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Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win…
— Gerald R. Ford
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The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.
— John F. Kennedy
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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.
— Victor Kiam
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Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
— Hedy Lamarr
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A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will…
— Arthur Miller
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Life does not stand still for families and local communities when our brave men and women are deployed, but we can make their time apart…
— Mark Pryor
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In today's competitive economy, to stand still is to die.
— Charles Schumer
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So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death…
— Laurence Sterne
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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
— Calvin Trillin
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I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
— Arthur Rimbaud
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Life stand still here.
— Virginia Woolf
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Now therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul transpires At every pore with instant fires…
— Andrew Marvell
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