Stayed Quotes

#1. Winter collapsed on us that year. It knelt, exhausted, and stayed. - Author: Emily Fridlund

#2. One night I was meditating in such perfect stillness that two mosquitoes came and sat on each of my cheekbones and stayed there a long time without biting and then went away. - Author: Jack Kerouac

#3. History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth. - Author: Tansy Rayner Roberts

#4. This time, his gaze fixed on her and stayed. The wind blew, whipping her skirts about her ankles, as if he'd called up a gale with the intensity of his stare. - Author: Courtney Milan

#5. She had stayed inside so that she could watch it on the TV in the room, let him know how it had looked on video, how the commentators and pundits had framed it. It - Author: Neal Stephenson

#6. If we could have somehow stayed away from the public and the press, it might have been different, but every private issue seemed to be played out on the front page. - Author: Marla Maples

#7. Stronger than all the armies is an idea thats time has come ... The time has come for equality of opportunity in sharing in government, in education, and in employment. It will not be stayed or denied. It is here! - Author: Everett Dirksen

#8. And still I stayed to plan all my revenge, my vengeance against those who had turned me from good to evil, and made of me what I was going to be from this day forward. - Author: Virginia C. Andrews

#9. I stayed there loving you, though the love made me, not sad but I guess melancholy, for a reason I couldn't point
to. - Author: Daniel Handler

#10. What exactly did we learn in kindergarten? Nothing we wouldn't have learned if we;d stayed home. Okay, we learned that sometimes, by the time you get to the bathroom, it's too late. - Author: Jessica Zafra

#11. I was always taught as a kid that if there's anything you want in life, you've got to work towards it. I guess that sort of stayed with me, really. But also, for me, from the time I was, like, 10 years old, all I ever wanted to do was be in a band and make music. - Author: Paul Weller

#12. I've always stayed on the periphery of things. When I used to go to the punk clubs and things like that, I was never up front. I always wanted to be in the back, or on the side, because I wanted to get the whole view, rather than be staring up at someone's nostrils. - Author: James Wolcott

#13. I'd never really found a place in the outside world, but had stayed away too long to fit in at home. - Author: Chris Offutt

#14. Marty stayed busy as a chemistry major at Seattle University, - Author: Jamie Ford

#15. No matter what they thought of him, they'd walk a little taller tonight. It was why they stayed, why they gave their best approximation of loyalty for him - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#16. Me and Mama never did like the smell of cigarettes but after Daddy died, sometimes we would light one up and put it in his old ashtray. Today I stayed behind the man at Fletcher's and waited a little while in the cloud of smoke. - Author: Sandi Morgan Denkers

#17. I once stayed in a roach-infested hotel in Istanbul for a work trip. I had to share my room with a male model, and pointedly all we talked about was our other halves. - Author: Jasmine Guinness

#18. Europeans really provided many venues over there and hailed the jazz artists, and a lot of musicians went over there and stayed over there for a long time. A lot of them moved over there, lived over there, and died over there. - Author: Sonny Rollins

#19. If I had to do it over again, I would have danced like Buenos Aires.
I'd be a helicopter leaf, a snowflake falling. I would have stayed there spinning wild and lonely across the dark, lonely sky. - Author: Addie Zierman

#20. Darren stayed way past visiting hours and Healer Prentiss, not swayed by Darren's good looks, kicked them both out. - Author: Chanda Hahn

#21. Tack's eyes stayed locked on Shy's two beats then he said quietly. "Make her happy."
Shy held his gaze as, for the first time in fucking months, he began to breathe easy.
There it was.
Tack just gave it.
His blessing. - Author: Kristen Ashley

#22. The Nausea has stayed down there, in the yellow light. I am happy: this cold is so pure, this night so pure: am I myself not a wave of icy air? With neither blood, nor lymph, nor flesh. Flowing down this long canal towards the pallor down there. To be nothing but coldness. - Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

#23. If anyone can be trusted, it's the Savior. He's always true, always faithful, loving, kind, right ... He never left me then, but stayed firm and strong, like a rock. I learned - even though it's tough sometimes - my Father knows best. - Author: Ocieanna Fleiss

#24. It stayed there because, honey, I've never stopped loving you. In my heart, you are my wife and always will be. ~Carlos & Maddie - Author: Bernadette Marie

#25. In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory
horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene
and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since. - Author: Barbara Ehrenreich

#26. I figured as long as the music stayed hot and important and good, that there would always be a reason for 'Soul Train.' - Author: Don Cornelius

#27. I have stayed in south India all my life. English comes more naturally to me than Hindi. - Author: Anushka Sharma

#28. I couldn't stand in front of any camera, and I couldn't go to places where there were a lot of people. I thought people would criticize me if I smiled, or even if I just stayed still. - Author: Im Yoona

#29. I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural. - Author: Carl Sandburg

#30. I stayed with you inside the room, as the warm white walls became a womb. - Author: Dana Goodyear

#31. After the Second World War, San Francisco was the main point of re-entry for sailors returning from the Pacific. Out at sea, many of these sailors had picked up amatory habits that were frowned upon back on dry land. So these sailors stayed in San Francisco ... - Author: Jeffrey Eugenides

#32. I wanted to invent an engine that could run for ever. I could have developed a new train, had I stayed in the railway. It would have looked like the AK-47 though. - Author: Mikhail Kalashnikov

#33. To love her was to taste sweet surrender. For had she not entered his life, he would have sought the wonders of both Heaven and Earth. But she surpassed them all and, by her pleasing nature, stayed him. - Author: Richelle E. Goodrich

#34. Kenny just shook his head and pointed at the now closed envelope, his look devoid of emotion. "She's pretty." He had always been good at not saying what he thought. It was the reason why he stayed out of trouble - unlike Jett. "Yeah. - Author: J.C. Reed

#35. In Gym, the kids on my team learned not to pass me the ball and to step quickly in front of me if the other team tried to take advantage of my weakness. I happily stayed out of their way. - Author: Stephenie Meyer

#36. And there the wicked old witch stayed for a good long time ... And did she ever come out? ... Not yet. - Author: Gregory Maguire

#37. I needed to know you were what the promise of you seemed to be because I haven't been good with that shit in the past and, if you were, I needed to make certain you stayed where I wanted you to be. - Author: Kristen Ashley

#38. I love 'Saturday Night Live,' and I really feel like people who have left before me have always stayed with the show. They never really quite left, which is nice. Everyone kind of stays close. - Author: Fred Armisen

#39. I've stayed away from Twitter for a long time because I sort of didn't trust myself with such an intimate but very public way of relating to the world, but I feel like I've studied it enough. - Author: Elizabeth Reaser

#40. The difference between blues, jazz, rock n' roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It's scarier to look at poor people; it makes everyone uncomfortable. Their pain is something that people would like to see swept under the rug. - Author: Russell Simmons

#41. Marvel and Disney and all the other superhero movies have to stay within this box and this is an opportunity to jump outside that box. To be the apple among oranges, and really embrace it. So, in terms of us getting what we wanted and what we originally wrote, we largely stayed consistent to that. - Author: Paul Wernick

#42. Did you know your hair is just precisely the same shade as a teak inlaid ceiling in a monastery I once stayed at - Author: Stephenie Meyer

#43. I stayed sober for this? - Author: George R R Martin

#44. I often think that the last holiday is the greatest, but then some really stand out in my mind. One of the best was one my wife and I had in the Lake District. We stayed in a B&B and walked around the countryside for two weeks. - Author: Jay Parini

#45. I realized that my time in this place had come to an end; now that my schooldays
were over, I no longer belonged here. I had always been a stranger and, if I
stayed, I would become a stranger to myself as well. - Author: Peter Ackroyd

#46. I don't know how long we stayed frozen in that moment, but it was a long time. Sometimes I think there are parts of us still there, forever staring into the emotional maelstrom of one another's eyes. - Author: Tammy Blackwell

#47. Looking back, I think we were all quite mature, surprisingly responsible. In earlier wars, boys of our age had just gone off to raise hell or enlist or both, but we stayed dutifully at our desks doing tomorrow's homework. - Author: John Knowles

#48. Mobile communications have two functions: as a safety net, and as a marketing tool. I think it'd be foolish to not carry one for safety sake. Using one for marketing is an optional activity, and I've generally stayed away from extensively using one for this purpose because it's a distraction. - Author: Andrew Skurka

#49. If I had stayed with football in college, I probably would have been a first-round pick. - Author: Antonio Gates

#50. Brian came back in on the road and Al stayed, but Al's the original member of the group. - Author: Bruce Johnston

#51. I've been through a lot, but I stayed true to who I am. - Author: Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#52. I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat Club which was like a pseudo jazz / blues place. - Author: William Bell

#53. I'm surprised you stayed," I admitted to him. I had sort of been expecting him to bolt. "I'm never leaving. - Author: Jessica Florence

#54. It was the reward of the loyal female disciples who had accompanied Jesus to the place of crucifixion and stayed with him through the horror of his execution, to be entrusted by him with the most powerful message that has ever impacted the world: 'He is risen. - Author: Gilbert Bilezikian

#55. He lifted his hand to knock, but then he stopped. He could go neither forward nor back, so he simply stayed that way - hand frozen in the air. - Author: Anne Ursu

#56. Spy (1973)
Many years ago,
I was sent
to spy out the land beyond the age of thirty.
And I stayed there
and didn't go back to my senders,
so as not to be made
to tell
about this land
and made
to lie. - Author: Yehuda Amichai

#57. Many of my favourite hotels are in London. I like the Covent Garden Hotel and I stayed at Blakes last time I was in London. I like the feeling of warmth and homeliness that you get from both of those places. - Author: Diego Luna

#58. You hear headlines from time to time about the Amazon rainforest disappearing at a greater or lesser rate ... The real story is that over time the rate has stayed just the same. Year after year, decade after decade, we have failed to stop or really even decrease deforestation ... - Author: Patrick Symmes

#59. I have stayed in lots of great hotels around the world, and the Plaza Athenee is definitely one of my favourites. - Author: Tom Parker Bowles

#60. Was she cold? If he'd stayed with her last night, she wouldn't be cold. - Author: Anne Bishop

#61. In the evolution of the [The Hunger Games] movie, Gary [Ross] and I talked a lot about tonal bandwidth and making sure that the look and feel and style and choices of the movie stayed within a certain consistent bandwidth. - Author: Nina Jacobson

#62. I was first imprisoned in Pretoria, and then, thereafter, I was taken to Robben Island. I stayed there for a couple of weeks. I was taken back to Pretoria when I was charged in the Rivonia trial, when I was then sent to Robben Island for life. - Author: Nelson Mandela

#63. Jason managed a weak smile. At least it wasn't a head injury this time. I stayed conscious the entire fight. - Author: Rick Riordan

#64. Home was quite a place when people stayed there. - Author: E.B. White

#65. The stove, she knew, wished it were a volcano, the humble teaspoons wished they were steamshovels, and the sink wished it were a well so all the others could have their wishes. Yet they all stayed exactly the same no matter what they wished, no matter what they saw and heard. - Author: Georgess McHargue

#66. I thought of all the times we'd been together, how I kept coming closer, then retreating, while he stayed right where he was. A constant in a world where few, if any, really existed. - Author: Sarah Dessen

#67. Watson."
"What?"
"I'm sorry I picked a fight with you," Holmes said sleepily. "But you should know I had a good reason."
"I know, I was being an idiot."
"No, it wasn't your fault. The note said you'd be killed if you stayed, so I fixed it. I was horrible until you went away. - Author: Brittany Cavallaro

#68. Those of us who stayed were younger, more tractable. Less sure of ourselves socially and intellectually, we gave ourselves to the sport with little idea of what we could give or receive. - Author: Stefan Kieszling

#69. I remember someone said to me, "Never stand up when you can sit down, never sit down when you can lie down, never lie down when you can be asleep." Those are bits of advice that I haven't taken, really. I've done the opposite of them, but they have stayed with me. - Author: Michael Sheen

#70. You have to get over being shy, and just be comfortable with yourself, and I think that for me, if I'd stayed in a small town, I'd be a different person. - Author: Marisa Miller

#71. In Australia and New Zealand, and New Zealand especially, I always find everyone is so nice and friendly. It's one of the few places that I remember visually, like I remember where I stayed and my surroundings - and that's a good sign, because I've got a terrible memory. I'm looking forward to it! - Author: Ellie Goulding

#72. He picked the wrong profession. Should've stayed a prostitute. He'd have made millions. - Cat - Author: Jeaniene Frost

#73. I pissed off Quinn, and probably chased her into the arms of a psychopath. Oh, and I made out with another guy. It's a miracle our clothes stayed on. - Author: Brigid Kemmerer

#74. They came for the freedom, they stayed for the McNuggets. - Author: Caleb Crain

#75. I never intended to be a teacher, but once I started teaching, I found that junior high kids are easy to get hooked on, and I stayed for nearly twenty years. - Author: Susan Campbell Bartoletti

#76. Different reasons roused different peoples to leave their homes; but this at least is clear, nothing has stayed where it was born. The human race is always on the move: - Author: Seneca.

#77. I left Sudan when I was 25 or 26 years old. If I had stayed, I would never have ended up being an entrepreneur. You can have the qualities, but if you don't have the environment, you just wither away. It's like a fish: take it out of water, it will not survive. - Author: Mo Ibrahim

#78. Paran flicked his gaze to his weapon, glared back up and around at the warriors, then his eyes returned to Chance. And stayed there. - Author: Steven Erikson

#79. She had stayed home and worked hard and a posthumous recognition had eventually followed. Not that Buck hadn't worked hard, sure he did, but in the end the body won't hold up as a work of art. - Author: Duff Brenna

#80. Some liberals think that describing any role that education gaps play in creating income inequality is some sort of sellout - that, in essence, you're telling the middle class, 'Tough luck; you should have stayed in college.' - Author: Timothy Noah

#81. You make choices, as a young man. I knew I wanted to be an actor, so I pursued that, but the desire to compete still stayed with me. - Author: Holt McCallany

#82. True love was a language, so many looks, touches and one word references that told the other more than full sentences of paragraphs, more than full outpourings of speech.
Our language was extensive and beautiful, and over a joyful lifetime together, we stayed fluent in it. - Author: R.K. Lilley

#83. I've just never been the kind of actor that things have stayed with. I've never needed to carry a character off stage. - Author: Morgan Freeman

#84. We have never stayed home long enough to experience the truth about ourselves. - Author: Erich Schiffmann

#85. Marriage teaches you loyalty, forbearance, self-restraint, meekness, and a great many other things you wouldn't need if you had stayed single. - Author: Paul Tournier

#86. I was thinking of going to college or staying in L.A. to act, and I stayed to give it a chance. I'm glad I did. I've had a lot of wonderful experiences - some horrible ones, but mostly really beautiful ones. - Author: Kaitlin Doubleday

#87. Lewis Alison, a dark, craggy man of more than common height, gave no sign of sharing in the general curiosity. He stayed in his place, seeming to have wrapped himself in a composure not easily disturbed. - Author: Charles Morgan

#88. It was a vivid memory for someone so young but one which has stayed with me forever. - Author: Nicci Greene

#89. I have to rely on Laurie to know that I wish he had been with me the last time I was on the roof. I have to trust that he knows I'm glad that I stayed. - Author: David Levithan

#90. He nudged her with his shoulder but didn't say anything. They stayed like that for a while, enjoying the silence of being alone and enjoying each other's presence. It was easy ... and comfortable. - Author: Kimberly Derting

#91. The weather was turning cold and I remember that Dante was using nothing but natural light as his electric department was away, prepping the scene in the cave. We stayed on that rock for the whole day. - Author: Madeleine Stowe

#92. We were so bad last year, the cheerleaders stayed home and phoned in the cheers. - Author: Pat Williams

#93. Californians tend to be outspoken. When the great migration began, the more timid people must have stayed home, and the bolder ones headed west. - Author: Shana Alexander

#94. I've been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent! - Author: Bruce Dickinson

#95. I pictured Phillip in the tree. How his arm stayed stretched out, his hand empty, long after my dad pulled me away. - Author: Jillian Dodd

#96. They ran. They stayed warmer that way and running seemed to be the right way to measure their love for Uncle Ben. They wanted to hear their breath, and their feet stamping the ground. They wanted to feel their lungs working, and their hearts. - Author: Roddy Doyle

#97. was just bad-tempered. I stayed - Author: Grace Greene

#98. We stayed at a cheap hotel that had a view out the window more beautiful than anything I'd ever seen. The water was wickedly blue. A cliff of dark rock jutted out of the sea. I wanted to cry because I was sure I would never get to be in such a place again. - Author: Jenny Offill

#99. I went into rehab December 14th, 1996, and got out eight months later? Then I went into a sober living place where I stayed for three months. I've been clean for a good year and a half. - Author: Marc Wallice

#100. And you let me leave
and then wished I'd stayed. - Author: Pleasefindthis