Standstill Quotes
47 quotes by 46 authors
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While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four…
— John Adams
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The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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
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Each one of us has some goal we want to reach, and we must work toward that goal one step at a time. You can’t…
— Sid Luckman
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Listen, global warming is a real problem, but it's not the end of the world. A 30-centimetre sea level rise is just not going to…
— Bjorn Lomborg
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The best defence of the country is the fear of the fighter. If we are strong in fighters we should probably never be attacked in…
— Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
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We must do jobs we detest because we are part of an organized society, and if everyone did what they wanted to do, the world…
— Paulo Coelho
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To face tomorrow with the thought of using the methods of yesterday is to envision life at a standstill. To keep ahead, each one of…
— James F. Bell, III
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The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Iceland—a small disturbance in the complex mechanism of life on the Earth—can bring to…
— Slavoj Žižek
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Every journey is played out between standstill and flight.
— Claudio Magris
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Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill. The consequence of pessimism in the…
— Helen Keller
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Whenever calamity howlers shake their heads and impress upon you that this, that, and the next dire catastrophe is to befall this nation or the…
— B. C. Forbes
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development…
— Barbara Tuchman
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If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be…
— Bill Gates
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The position of First Lady has no rules, just precedent, so its evolution has been at a virtual standstill for years. If Martha Washington didn't…
— Paula Poundstone
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If you say, 'You've made it,' then you kind of come to a standstill, and I don't think any actor wants to do that.
— Jenna Ushkowitz
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It is said that life is too short, and that’s quite true, unless you are lonely. Loneliness can bring time to its knees; an absolute…
— Jonathan Hull
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Shipping first time code is like going into debt. A little debt speeds development so long as it is paid back promptly with a rewrite.…
— Ward Cunningham
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At present there are such goings-on that everything is at a standstill.
— Boyle Roche
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Never try to leap from a standstill.
— Mason Cooley
Who Wrote These Standstill Quotes
46 authors contributed a total of 47 Standstill Quotes, led by these top contributors: