Staying Quotes
924 Staying quotes by 750 unique authors
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I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I…
— Aimee Bender
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People around the world were moving from one place to another. No one was staying.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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I was sitting at home and had a profound experience. I experienced, in all of my Being, that someday I was going to die, and…
— Hubert Selby, Jr.
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Whenever I see her, we laugh enough to last for the month. She's my best friend, and someday when we're old enough I'm going to…
— Grace Lin
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weren’t you always distracted by expectation, as if every event announced a beloved? (Where can you find a place to keep her, with all the…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the…
— Paulo Coelho
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Dan was suspicious. "How did he find out where we were staying?" Amy frowned. "I think that's the message inside the message. He wants us…
— Gordon Korman
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...we're in English class, which for most of us is an excruciating exercise in staying awake through the great classics of literature. These works-- groundbreaking,…
— Libba Bray
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We have two alternatives: either we question our beliefs - or we don't. Either we accept our fixed versions of reality- or we begin to…
— Pema Chodron
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He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the…
— George Orwell
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Being in the uncomfortable zone is much better than staying in the cheese-less situation .
— Spencer Johnson
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Staying silent, staying away from him... that was the hardest thing I've ever done.
— Rick Riordan
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We were locked onto each other as though we had just discovered this incredible thing you could do with two mouths pressing close and moist…
— Josh Lanyon
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Men credited with all kinds of ability, talent, brains and know how, including the ability to see into the future, frequently have nothing more than…
— Earl Nightingale
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You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.
— Charles Dickens
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It's nothing. A school project. My go-to answer for anything. Staying out late? School project. Need extra money? School project.
— Jay Asher
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His door is closed behind me. It's staying closed. He's letting me go. I think I've made myself very clear, but no ones stepping forward…
— Jay Asher
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Just cuz yer going there and I'm staying here," I say. "It don't mean we're parting." "No," she says and I know she understands. "No,…
— Patrick Ness
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You ought to be ashamed of yourself, running around, not married, staying out all night. Ashamed!" "Ashamed!" my grandmother echoed. Good to know they still…
— Jeaniene Frost
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There is a wrong way of staying in the world and a wrong way of fleeing from it. In both cases we are fashioning ourselves…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Who Wrote These Staying Quotes
750 authors contributed a total of 924 Staying Quotes, led by these top contributors: