Standing Still Quotes (page 4)

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• work
• workings
• stands

We have much work ahead, to stand still. Said Musa

• moments
• momentous
• still

Eternity: a moment standing still for ever. James Montgomery

• love
• running
• returns

You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return. Arthur Miller

• new
• new love
• dance

And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede. Dick Gregory

• art
• history
• develop

History develops, art stands still. E. M. Forster

• winning
• evening
• together

Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together. Gerald R. Ford

• song
• achievement
• pretty

I don't want to be somebody who stands still and sings pretty. Each song is a world. Each song is a story. I don't achieve nearly what I want. Renee Fleming

• meditation
• feeling
• moments

One of the things I like about performing on the stage is that it is a kind of meditative experience. Time does stand still. You have no concept or feeling of the passing of two or three hours' time. It's all kind of one present moment, which is a kind of a description of meditation. Michael Emerson

• tree
• universe
• manly

Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree. Thomas Dekker

• sacrifice
• women
• life

Life does not stand still for families and local communities when our brave men and women are deployed, but we can make their time apart more bearable by recognizing their sacrifice and fulfilling our commitments to them. Mark Pryor

• life
• thinking
• believe

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. T. S. Eliot

• look
• new
• mountain

I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move. Olafur Eliasson

• law
• standing
• stillness

The law must be stable, but it must not stand still. Roscoe Pound

• life
• death
• devil

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil. Laurence Stern

• learning
• framed
• mindfulness

The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something. Carson Daly