Stationary Quotes
60 quotes by 59 authors
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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
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We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.
— James Freeman Clarke
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[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
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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
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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
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There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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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
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Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades.
— Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Either the car is stationary, or it's on the move.
— Murray Walker
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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
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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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