Staying Quotes
924 Staying quotes by 750 unique authors
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I’d been staying at the Holiday Inn with my girlfriend, honestly the most beautiful woman I’d even known, for three days under a phony name,…
— Denis Johnson
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I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing…
— Stanley Kubrick
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The Clique: The only thing harder then getting in is staying in.
— Lisi Harrison
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Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet…
— Dean Koontz
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Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.
— Flannery O'Connor
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But it does no good--solves nothing--to distance myself from the front lines of human need by using the mail as a safe shelter. I believe…
— Robert Fulghum
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The holiday season is a time for storytelling, and whether you are hearing the story of a candelabra staying lit for more than a week,…
— Daniel Handler
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The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Staying alive is nice, but you can’t do that forever. It’s how you live the life you have while you have it.
— Frank Peretti
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I won't change anything in my life I'm staying myself tonight
— Demi Lovato
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Thousands of people have talent. I might as well congratulate you for having eyes in your head. The one and only thing that counts is:…
— Noel Coward
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This person realizes that staying home means blowing off everyone this person has ever known. But the desire to stay in is very strong. This…
— Miranda July
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My Carmen," I said (I used to call her that sometimes) "we shall leave this raw sore town as soon as you get out of…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Firequencher raised his hand. "I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that?
— Orson Scott Card
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If you do the task before you always adhering to strict reason with zeal and energy and yet with humanity, disregarding all lesser ends and…
— Marcus Aurelius
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The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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What makes the strength of a soldier isn't the energy he uses trying to intimidate the other guy by sending him a whole lot of…
— Muriel Barbery
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It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.
— George Orwell
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for Mercutio's soul Is but a little way above our heads, Staying for thine to keep him company: Either thou, or I, or both, must…
— William Shakespeare
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We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates…
— Henry Cloud
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Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to…
— Oscar Wilde
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Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard for a dome.
— Emily Dickinson
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The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn't want to destroy anything or…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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We're staying for the moment. ut if you do anything i find the least bit suspicious, I'll kill you. Fair Warning?
— Nancy Holder
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India, she now knew, would not be content staying in the background, was nobody's wallpaper, insisted in interjecting itself into everyone's life, meddling with it,…
— Thrity Umrigar
Who Wrote These Staying Quotes
750 authors contributed a total of 924 Staying Quotes, led by these top contributors: