Top 100 Quotes About Standing Still
#1. hand gripped his aspirator, but, oddly, his asthma had not closed down as it had on the day he fled from the hobo with the rotted nose. There was only that sense of standing still and watching the house slide stealthily
Stephen King
#2. We age slower when we move quickly versus standing still.
John Green
#3. Committing to the wrong thing is better than standing still.
Jeff Goins
#4. I changed my headlights the other day. I put in strobe lights instead! Now
when I drive at night, it looks like everyone else is standing still ...
Steven Wright
#5. She was secretly amused by the man who managed to give the impression of moving in all directions while standing still.
Peggy Darty
#6. Always remember there is more to be lost from standing still than there ever was from risking it all.
Martha R. Carr
#7. Most companies don't die because they are wrong; they die because they don't commit themselves. They fritter away their momentum and their valuable resources while attempting to make a decision. The greatest danger is standing still.
Andy Grove
#8. Either I'm changing very quickly, and everything is standing still, or I'm the one standing still and everything is changing around me. Either way, I'm out of joint with the world.
Bernie Su
#9. By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid only of standing still.
Benjamin Franklin
#10. The world needs people who are more comfortable standing still. We keep the earth on it axis when everybody else is bouncing around.
Bill Konigsberg
#11. As we drove, I imagined we were standing still and the world was coming toward us.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#12. The Dharma Path is to keep walking forward. But the true Dharma has no going forward, no going backward, and no standing still.
Ajahn Chah
#14. Time is standing still; we are moving with the waves of life.
Debasish Mridha
#15. Time is standing still. We are measuring ourselves by how far we are going.
Debasish Mridha
#16. Love like life should be maddening to the point of fulfillment. It should make the sun shine brighter, and when they look at you, the earth should never be standing still.
Nicole Banks
#17. Most days it feels as if the world is whirling around me and I am standing still. In slow motion, I watch the colors blur; people and faces all become a massive wash.
Sarah Kay
#18. Standing still is never a good option. Not in the ring, and not in life ... When you stop moving, you're done.
Georges St-Pierre
#19. Not feeling like I belong anywhere has made me crave constant motion; standing still feels risky, like asking to be a target.
Julie Buxbaum
#20. I am the one thing in life I can control. I am inimitable; I am an original. I'm not falling behind or running late. I'm not standing still: I am lying in wait.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
#21. Self - development should be a perpetual process. In life you are either growing or rotting. You're moving forward or backwards; there is no standing still.
Al Duncan
#22. We think that time is changing, but that may not be true. Everything else is changing and time is standing still and watching.
Debasish Mridha
#23. It's more comfortable standing still thinking of nothing.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#24. The only way you can check Gretzky is to hit him when he is standing still singing the national anthem.
Harry Sinden
#25. When God says go forward, don't even think about standing still.
Beth Moore
#26. The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one's hand.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#27. But however fast the world was spinning, time was standing still for Celine and Oliver, held in a magic moment they would never forget.
Betty Neels
#28. He could scarcely distinguish between sleep and wakefulness now, on the third day, found no important differences, either, between walking and standing still.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#29. Have you noticed," she asked him, "how standing still can sometimes be no different from moving backward? For the whole world moves on and leaves one behind.
Mary Balogh
#30. There is no such thing as standing still; you either move forward or regress.
Bohdi Sanders
#31. Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.
Louise Penny
#32. If I'm doing some weird tick with my mouth, or not standing still or something, I'll be the first person to notice it, and then want to change that. I think it's important just to maintain trajectory, to not just use your same tricks over and over.
Neil Patrick Harris
#33. Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished.
Mary Oliver
#34. Because, sir, the way I look at it is that we are all drawing on to the bottom of the hill, whatever age we are, on account of time never standing still for a single moment. So let us always do a kindness, and be over-rejoiced. To be sure!
Charles Dickens
#37. Moving forward implies MOTION when in all actuality it may be simply standing STILL and seeing the salvation of the Lord.
John Paul Warren
#38. But it is relevant. Because is and was is the difference between time standing still, and time moving forward.
Jay McLean
#39. Yes, I do. The ones who aren't growing and evolving, who are standing still. They're the ones who rarely got better.' 'Yes, that was it,' said Gamache. 'They waited for life to happen to them. They waited for someone to save them. Or heal them. They did nothing for themselves.' 'Ben,' said Peter.
Louise Penny
#40. All motion is relative. Perhaps it is you who have moved away-by standing still
Robert E.Lee
#41. I am standing still," Kelly said. "What, does that thing not work when I'm talking? It gets distracted? It's a metal detector with ADD?
Abigail Roux
#42. Innovation is about moving forward. If you are not moving forward, you are moving backward. There is no standing still.
Pearl Zhu
#43. This I have known, and these have come again
With echoing happiness in heart and brain;
Time standing still, surrendering to me
Beauty that otherwise would cease to be.
William Kean Seymour
#44. I believe that we have reached a stage in life in the economic development of Africa where moving forward is perilous, moving backwards is cowardice and standing still is suicidal but we must persevere because winners do not quit and quitter never win.
Patrick L.O. Lumumba
#45. I decided that I wanted to say to Sin-Jun, I like your skirt. But sometimes speaking is so hard! It's like standing still, then sprinting. I kept rehearsing the sentence in my head, examining it for flaws.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#46. Shades of a new morning standing still are worse than the shades of night. At least a person can understand the dark of night. It's not fickle like the day.
Sarah E. Wright
#47. Life is like riding a bike. It is impossible to maintain your balance while standing still.
Linda Brakeall
#48. If we don't act , we're just standing still. and the act of standing still is the same as moving backwards when everyone else is in motion all around us, around the world
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#49. It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
Miles Davis
#51. The Bible is full of dubious scientific impossibilities, from Jonah living inside a whale, to the sun standing still in the sky for Joshua.
Lawrence M. Krauss
#52. I wish I knew I was doing this right," Cheris said, "but there's nothing to it but to move forward."
"The only unforgivable sin in war is standing still," Jedao said. "It's better to be doing the wrong thing wholeheartedly than freeze.
Yoon Ha Lee
#53. The room continued to spin though she was standing still, but her ears were hot. She felt like she'd just slammed three doubles of tequila and needed a fistfight chaser.
Michael R. Underwood
#54. In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action.
Brian Tracy
#55. Failure in life does not matter; the greatest misfortune is standing still.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#56. The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#58. There is no standing still because time is moving forward.
Greg Lake
#59. Courage is standing still even though you want to run. Courage is planting yourself and turning towards the thing that scares you, whether it's your leg or your friends or the guy who could break your heart again. It's opening your eyes and staring that fear down.
A J Betts
#60. Since I moved back to Truly," he said, "I've felt as if I were standing in one place, unable to move. But I wasn't standing still. I was waiting. I think I was waiting for you.
Rachel Gibson
#61. That's the thing about driving: You're alone but you're everywhere. You're standing still but moving really fast. It's just like perspectives constantly changing.
Galcher Lustwerk
#62. The only thing lonelier than travelling is standing still.
Sam Gayton
#64. A man who is looking backward all the time cannot move forward, he will be standing still
Sunday Adelaja
#65. Life's just an adventure. Can't live it standing still.
Luke Taylor
#67. The reality is that SXSW is packed with brilliant entrepreneurs, investors and partners. They're everywhere, zipping back and forth like thousands of atoms. Your chances of colliding with one actually improve just by standing still.
Ryan Holmes
#68. The important part of growing older was the growing part. Resisting change meant forever standing still, which was a sad way to live.
Barbara Delinsky
#69. Which would you prefer? To be perpetually standing still or perpetually running?
Benjamin Lebert
#70. [S]torytelling, in ancient and modern practice, is always a contemplation of the experience of time passing. A story depends on things not standing still, on the built-in condition of impermanence.
Joan Silber
#71. All motion is relative. Maybe it's you who've moved away by standing still.
Jerome Lawrence
#73. You can't isolate yourself, because that's the worst thing you can do. There's no healing if there's no movement, and isolation is the same as standing still.
Andrea Speed
#74. Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.
Alan Arkin
#75. You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.
Charles Kettering
#76. They were one flame made out of two people, with a love that had endured all the challenges and tragedies of life. But they were still standing, still alive, and still whole.
Danielle Steel
#77. Real zeal is standing still and letting God be a bonfire in you.
Catherine Doherty
#78. Taking steps is easy
Standing still is hard ...
Everything is different
The second time around.
Regina Spektor
#79. Nintendo DS is not standing still. As a tenth serious competitor decides to make a run at Game Boy, DS raises the bar on portable gaming, before they even get started.
Reggie Fils-Aime
#80. I can't find the image, I said to myself. I'm thirty, I'm standing still, and I can't find the image.
Haruki Murakami
#81. We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die ... So just standing still isn't really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#82. Time. Time has a way of standing still during the moments that define one's life.
The first kiss, the birth of one's first child, a paralyzing car accident, hearing of the death of a parent, the last kiss.
Benjamin M. Strozykowski
#83. Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world.
Lauren Bacall
#84. Love is a condition where the world seems to be standing still, and it's you who are spinning on your axis.
Robert Breault
#85. Great. So if I saw a guy standing still, and he wasn't wearing an old uniform, I just had to ask him to walk through furniture. If he stared at me like I was crazy, then I'd know he wasn't a ghost. - Chloe
Kelley Armstrong
#86. Standing still at dusk
Listen ... in far distances
The song of froglings!
Yosa Buson
#87. I was only seven but I remember thinking that everything in the world was standing still.
Eva Hart
#88. A man with no children can easily be lulled into a sense that time is standing still. It's not. It's marching past us, relentlessly. Having a child growing and changing before your eyes makes this unavoidably clear.
Jonathan V. Last
#90. The right place at the right time never comes to people standing still. - CHLOE TODD, A.K.A. BABY T-REX, OLYMPIC HOPEFUL, UNWITTING IMMORTAL
Kresley Cole
#91. Nothing on this earth is standing still. It's either growing or it's dying. No matter if it's a tree or a human being.
Lou Holtz
#92. If you are moving, even fire will not hurt you. If you are standing still near the fire, even though you are not in the fire, the heat will eventually get to you.
Robert Kiyosaki
#93. Time is standing still like the sun. We are the ones moving around time like planets orbiting the sun.
Debasish Mridha
#95. I've always been better moving than I am standing still.
Neil Young
#96. Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
Woodrow Wilson
#97. Boredom will eventually set in ... and one day you'll be standing still on an island, with no idea where to go, because all your bridges will have been burned ... The smaller you are, the larger and more terrifying the world. You should not be trying to reduce yourself so thoroughly.
Kristina Meister
#98. What is a fine person or a beauteous face,
Unless deportment give them decent grace;
Blessed with all other requisites to please,
To want the striking elegance of ease;
Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, without the skill
Of moving gracefully, or standing still.
Winston Churchill
#99. Time is a very rum thing, as Shakespeare knew--ambling, trotting, galloping and sometimes standing still; though why he had to add "withal" to these interesting facts we cannot explain. Perhaps he could not explain either, but wrote whatever came into his head.
Angela Thirkell
#100. By standing still, we're making the things we don't like about Obamacare even worse, forcing Missourians to bear all the costs of this law - and reap none of the benefits.
Jay Nixon
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