Staying Quotes
924 Staying quotes by 750 unique authors
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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
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There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won't put these futures back together. All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn't be enough to bring…
— Aimee Mann
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I was full of a hot, powerful sadness and would have loved to burst into the comfort of tears, but tried hard not to, remembering…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Bess had become the ocean, always breaking against the rocks but never staying broken. Her love was the ocean, too, endless and always changing, yet…
— Megan Hart
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Nearly all runners do their slow runs too fast, and their fast runs too slow." Ken Mierke says. "So they're just training their bodies to…
— Christopher McDougall
Who Wrote These Staying Quotes
750 authors contributed a total of 924 Staying Quotes, led by these top contributors: