Stationary Quotes

60 quotes by 59 authors

It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.... — Andre Gide
We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life. — James Freeman Clarke
[A living organism] ... feeds upon negative entropy ... Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly high level of… — Erwin Schrodinger
In the history of physics, there have been three great revolutions in thought that first seemed absurd yet proved to be true. The first proposed… — Edward Teller
One orbit, with a radius of 42,000 kilometers, has a period of exactly 24 hours. A body in such an orbit, if its plane coincided… — Arthur C. Clarke
There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Now I walk every where I can. I also ride a stationary bicycle for a total of 30 minutes. I do it three or more… — Della Reese
Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades. — Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand
People don't think of their office as a workplace anymore. They think of it as a stationary store with Danish. You want to get your… — Jerry Seinfeld
Even a cursory reading of the book of Ecclesiastes shows that culture is a stationary bike that each generation climbs on in hopes of getting… — Mark Driscoll
By allowing the positive ions to pass through an electric field and thus giving them a certain velocity, it is possible to distinguish them from… — Johannes Stark
While we often huddle in groups of like-minded people, those with faith blaze a trail that threatens all of our comfort zones. Faith offends the… — Leonard Ravenhill
Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States remained almost, if… — Henry Charles Carey
The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity and then of… — Wilhelm Ostwald
The NFL today has bigger, stronger, bodies than ever, moving faster than ever, hitting a stationary object harder than ever before - so the physics… — Leigh Steinberg
Life is not stationary. Seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years all tick away at the same clip for everyone. No age-group can be… — Hugh W. Pinnock
I do ride a bicycle occasionally, but not those stupid stationary ones you see in gyms. I do have one of those, I must confess,… — Christine McVie
Either the car is stationary, or it's on the move. — Murray Walker
Her life was like running on a treadmill or riding on a stationary bike; it was aerobic, it was healthy, but she wasn't going anywhere. — Julia Phillips
The more recently power has originated, the less it can remain stationary - first because those who created it have become accustomed to rapid further… — Jacob Burckhardt

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