Standing Still Quotes (page 2)

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• silence
• night
• words

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still. Arthur Rimbaud

• god
• sky
• willing

Pully, hauly, tug with a will; the gods wiggle waggle, but the sky stands still. Aldous Huxley

• time changes
• time
• life

Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. John F. Kennedy

• light
• shadow
• stills

Remember, light and shadow never stand still. Benjamin West

• great
• soul
• greatness

The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action... the soul was never put into the body to stand still. John Webster

• life
• stands
• standing

Life stand still here. Virginia Woolf

• time
• feeling
• will

The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it. Booker T. Washington

• people
• believe
• stand

Anna is part of a generation that often seems frozen in place by their unreleting sense of irony. Virtually everything people believe in can be exposed as possessing laughable inconsistencies. And so they laugh. And stand still. Scott Turow

• nature
• kindness
• manly

Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of any particular species - least of all the survival of her greatest and most fragile product: man. Ayn Rand

• god
• lies
• power

Therefore, dearly beloved brethren, let us cheerfully do all things that lie in our power; and then may we stand still, with the utmost assurance, to see the salvation of God, and for his arm to be revealed. Joseph Smith, Jr.

• greatness
• life
• great

THE FIGURE A POEM MAKESNo one can really hold that ecstasy should be static and stand still in one place. It begins in delight, it inclines to the impulse, it assumes direction with the first line laid down, it runs a course of lucky events, and ends in a clarification of life- Not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion. Robert Frost

• dark times
• framed
• film

The film medium is some sort of magic. I think also it's a magic that every frame comes and stands still for a fraction of a second and then it darkens. A half part of the time when you see a picture you sit in complete darkness. Isn't that fascinating? That is magic. Ingmar Bergman

• dance
• thoughts
• insanity

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those standing still Friedrich Nietzsche

• words
• enough
• victimization

Enough words! The criminals are escaping, we the victims, we stand still. Sophocles

• broken
• time
• clock

we left about midnight and walked down the hill in silence. the night was muggy, and all around me i felt the same pressure, a sense of time rushing by while it seemed to be standing still. whenever i thought of time in puerto rico, i was reminded of those old magnetic clocks that hung on the walls of my classrooms in high school. every now and then a hand would not move for several minutes -- and if i watched it long enough, wondering if it had finally broken down, the sudden click of the... Hunter S. Thompson