Top 100 Stand Still Quotes
#1. Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth; or, to put it another way, we can only grow as long as we are interested.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#2. I had hoped that the rest of the world would stand still while I got myself together again, but Chaos and Tragedy had marched into other lives close to mine as well.
Julie Metz
#3. I'll never pause again, never stand still, till either death hath closed these eyes of mine, or fortune given me measure of revenge.'
Cassandra Clare
#4. The law must be stable, but it must not stand still.
Roscoe Pound
#5. Should I tell her of the moments of joy, the intense pleasure of holding the hand of the one you love and wishing that time would stand still?
Kelly Long
#6. Science does not stand still, and neither does philosophy, although the latter has a tendency to walk in circles.
Peter Singer
#7. A leader does not stand still and reject all paths forward.
James W. Mercer
#8. Do not exalt any path above god. There are many paths that lead to god. So people are capable of finding and following the ways that suit them, provided they do not stand still.
Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
#9. If you're unwilling to leave someplace you've outgrown, you will never reach your full potential. To be the best, you have to constantly be challenging yourself, raising the bar, pushing the limits of what you can do. Don't stand still, leap forward.
Ronda Rousey
#10. Character, mon cher, does not stand still. It can gather strength. It can also deteriorate. What a person really is, is only apparent when the test comes - that is, the moment when you stand or fall on your own feet.
Agatha Christie
#11. What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or perish.
Ayn Rand
#12. Hello, everyone." I didn't think lying was an option, appearing as I did, so I told the truth. "I've come to kill you all. It would be much easier if you would kindly stand still.
Scarlett Dawn
#13. You go ahead, stand still, or go backwards in life.
Your objective should be to go ahead.
Napoleon Hill
#14. Time itself flows on with constant motion, just like a river: for no more than a river can the fleeting hour stand still. As wave is driven on by wave, and, itself pursued, pursues the one before, so the moments of time at once flee and follow, and are ever new.
Ovid
#15. Be always displeased with what you are if you wish to be what you are not. Always add, always walk, always proceed. Neither stand still nor go back nor deviate.
Saint Augustine
#16. 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
#17. It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet and his church were full of the reverberations of the awful, gracious, beautiful voice for which he listened.
Phillips Brooks
#18. When you stand still, you reject the struggle, and you refuse to change and grow. Ultimately, you reject fulfillment, happiness, the dance for joy and everything else that is eternally good.
Matthew Kelly
#19. 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
#20. Do but stand still in the hour of trial, and you will see the help of God, if you trust in Him. But there is so often a forsaking the ways of the Lord in the hour of trial, and thus the food of faith, the means whereby our faith may be increased, is lost.
George Muller
#21. But time does not stand still, though the Sun be lost.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#22. Don't look for an unshakable rock to stand on; there ain't any! Rather, learn how to stand still on a shaking rock!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#23. If you ever don't know which direction to go in, or you start moving in the right direction but then get lost along the way, don't get rattled and start moving fast, this way and that. Instead, stand still and be quiet. Then you'll be showed which way to go.
Sandra Kring
#24. So considering how the current official religion of China seems to be something like "Stand still while we bulldoze your house to build this dam" it's hard to put a finger on the relationship between ancient Chinese tales and any specific religion.
Cory O'Brien
#25. A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
Arthur Miller
#26. PRINCIPLES ARE LIKE THE LIGHTHOUSES. THEY STAND STILL. SO WE DON'T LOSE OUR WAY.
Kenan Crnkic
#27. We don't fit," I say. "I just want to find a spot, warm not cold, with a nice view, everything I could want, and I want to stop moving and stay there - in that spot. And you will never stand still.
Katy Evans
#28. For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy
#30. Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically - while simulating a triumphant march forward - than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?
Alexander Herzen
#31. We fought that tree to a vicious stand-still
Shuvom Ghose
#32. The second I left my old life's cowpath, I discovered I didn't need a drink. It became possible to stand still in the dark under the oaks, hands at my sides, and watch and wait.
Walker Percy
#33. What? You run? Coward! Stand still and die!
Percy had no intention of doing that.
Rick Riordan
#34. Any girl can be glamorous. All she has to do is stand still and look stupid.
Hedy Lamarr
#35. The future is the one thing you can count on not abandoning you, kid, he'd said. The future will always finds you. Stand still, and it will find you. The way the land just has run to sea.
Marianne Wiggins
#36. The next time you find yourself alone in a dark alley facing the undeniables of life, don't cover them with a blanket, or ignore them with a nervous grin. Don't turn up the TV and pretend they aren't there. Instead, stand still, whisper his name, and listen. He is nearer than you think.
Max Lucado
#37. The nimble lie
Is like the second-hand upon a clock;
We see it fly; while the hour-hand of truth
Seems to stand still, and yet it moves unseen,
And wins, at last, for the clock will not strike
Till it has reached the goal.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#38. I've read somewhere in a book when something happens that is unbearable to you, sometimes, time stops. Like your inner clock just stops working, even if the world keeps spinning you will stand still for the rest of your life.
Katja Michael
#39. Today's digital organizations simply just can't stand still. Bridging the 'gap of opportunity' between where you are and want to become is a welcomed challenge.
Pearl Zhu
#40. You see only the beautiful things when you stand still. You only see things that you don't ordinarily notice. The birds are the prettiest things, I imagine.
Heather O'Neill
#41. You made my world stand still, and in that stillness, there was a freedom I never felt before.
Sarah McLachlan
#42. Stand still for a while
Our blood entered this soil
But we straightened up again
Miroslav Florian
#43. The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions.
Saul Bellow
#45. Stand still, thou hurrying orb in the high heavens, and make this hour immortal!
Oscar Wilde
#47. There is no Great American Novel," she said absently. "This nation is too big and too diverse to produce only one great book. We've got lots of them and there will be more written in the future. Art doesn't stand still.
Jayne Ann Krentz
#48. 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
#49. Time could heal, but it wouldn't make wrongs go away. Time came back like a reminder. Time folded with memory. In a moment, everything could fold itself up, and time stand still.
Karen Tei Yamashita
#50. If they ask you to stand still, you should dance.
Colum McCann
#51. There aren't twelve types of people in the universe--there are two... The ones that stand still and try to fit in... and the ones that go seek out where they belong.
Romina Russell
#52. Put your trust in me, let this love be. This is for real, let time stand still.
Smokey Robinson
#54. When it comes to science, philosophers stand still.
Sam Houssami
#55. I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
Arthur Rimbaud
#56. Winning and losing are both very temporary things. Having done one or the other, you move ahead. Gloating over a victory or sulking over a loss is a good way to stand still.
Chuck Knox
#57. [On dishonesty:] If there were a cry of 'stop thief!' we would all stand still.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#58. Stand still, close your eyes and listen; in the silence you can hear the cries of pain and low moans of anguish of animals waiting to die ... do everything you can even if today it is just one small thing. There are no excuses for inaction, despair, egotism, or petulance that matter to the animals.
Ashley Montagu
#59. I felt obligated to change music to art, the same way that Galileo proved the Earth was round to the world and that the Sun did not stand still.
Phil Spector
#60. Art thou in the darkness? Mind it not, for if thou dost it will feed thee more. But stand still, and act not, and wait in patience, till light arises out of darkness and leads thee.
James Nayler
#61. The traditional metaphor for a spiritual investigation is that of the voyage or the journey. From this image I must dissociate myself. I do not consider myself a voyager, I have preferred to stand still.
Susan Sontag
#62. Letters remind us that when we write we can bring back the best of times, even make time stand still, if only for a few minutes.
Lois Wyse
#63. Stand still ... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.
Charles R. Swindoll
#64. New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It's a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just to stand still.
Barbara Walters
#65. Sometimes it seems to stand still. Like you're in a bag and you can't get out and somebody's always telling you that it will get better with time and time just seems to stand still and laugh at you and your pain.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#66. You desire to tame everything, but if you just stand still and feel for a moment you would know how everything yearns to be wild.
Jim Dodge
#67. What Leo does is so incredible that I have to be careful not to stand still watching him make his moves.
Thierry Henry
#68. Labor cannot stand still. It must not retreat. It must go on, or go under.
Harry Bridges
#69. Life does not stand still and if you're not thriving then you're receding, there is no other option.
Jonathan Cragle
#70. Take the broken pieces of your life, bake a master cake out of it. Don't stand still like a lake; keep flowing like a stream!
Israelmore Ayivor
#71. [A] competent magician should have the ability to stand still at a bus stop with closed eyes and have the entire universe disappear apart from a single blazing visualised sigil or muttered spell.
Peter J. Carroll
#72. The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd.
Leonard Maltin
#73. All along, he'd been looking in the wrong direction, trying to make time stand still, to re-create the past, but everything in life taught the opposite.
Margot Livesey
#74. We are not on this earth to just stand still & look pretty. The museums already have enough statues.
Mandy Hale
#75. I turned to face her. "What about fear. Can you outrun it?"
"Only if ye stand still and face it do ye have a chance against fear.
April White
#76. Sometimes the answers are not there until we stand still and listen. But they are there and they are usually surrounded by love. You are too.
Jan Hellriegel
#77. The soul was never put in the body to stand still.
John Webster
#78. Those small spaces of time, too soon gone, when everything seems to stand still, and existence is balanced on a perfect point, like the moment of change between the dark and the light, when both and neither surround you.
Diana Gabaldon
#79. In today's competitive economy, to stand still is to die.
Chuck Schumer
#80. It is hard to bear with people who stand still along the way, lose heart, and seek their happiness in little pleasures which they cling to ... You feel sad about all that self-indulgence and self-satisfaction, for you know with an indestructible certainty that something greater is coming.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#81. I felt that the studio recording process makes you stand still too long.
Kiri Te Kanawa
#82. In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.
Victor Kiam
#83. To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#84. All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.
Veronica Roth
#85. The painter had achieved what we would all like to do: capture time and make it stand still
Lian Hearn
#86. The future is ours to win. But to get there we can't just stand still ...
Barack Obama
#87. 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
#88. The Revolution has got frozen up. They have frozen it up with their talk of moderation. To stand still in Revolution is to slip backwards.
Hilary Mantel
#89. Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run
Andrew Marvell
#90. 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
#91. Two things were impossible to him: to stand still or to move aimlessly.
Ayn Rand
#93. Science and technology are the engines of prosperity. Of course, one is free to ignore science and technology, but only at your peril. The world does not stand still because you are reading a religious text. If you do not master the latest in science and technology, then your competitors will.
Michio Kaku
#94. If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still.
Samuel Johnson
#95. Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life.
John F. Kennedy
#96. Oh, I wish I lived in a caravan!' said Jimmy longingly. 'How lovely it must be to live in a house that has wheels and can go away down the lanes and through the towns, and stand still in fields at night!
Enid Blyton
#97. Dreams are like passing clouds but love makes the world stand still for something beautiful to happen.
Auliq Ice
#98. Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.
Edgar Quinet
#99. Enough words! The criminals are escaping, we the victims, we stand still.
Sophocles
#100. Stop moving around.'
'Your opponent"
Daniel panted
"isn't going to stand still and just let you hit him.' He held his boxing mitts out in front of him, welcoming a new attack.
He would if he knew what was good for him.
Bree Despain
