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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
— Calvin Trillin
Mother Russia is on the move, she can't stand still, she's restless and can't find rest, she's talking and she can't stop.
— Boris Pasternak
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 Sterne
Bashar al-Assad and those who still stand by him are now responsible for the deaths of more than 20,000 in Syria.
— Susan Rice
He gave a sudden shake as if he couldn't stand to feel his life still holding on to him.
— Sarah Porter
From three to four, he planned to stand perfectly still and think of what it was like to be alive.
— E.B. White
The balloon seems to stand still in the air while the earth flies past underneath.
— Alberto Santos-Dumont
To stand still is to fall behind.
— Mark Twain
Science does not stand still, and neither does philosophy, although the latter has a tendency to walk in circles.
— Peter Singer
In today's competitive economy, to stand still is to die.
— Chuck Schumer
Better to stand still than travel in a hurry.
— Marty Rubin
Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life.
— John F. Kennedy
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
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
No. She couldn't stay here. She could not stand to be lost to the darkness forever, when there was still a whole universe she'd never seen.
— Marissa Meyer
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
— Florence Nightingale
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
I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
— Arthur Rimbaud
What I saw appalled me. I felt my hair rise like bristles on the back of my neck, and my heart seemed to stand still.
— Bram Stoker
Why did he have to be so gorgeous? Why did he have to stand so close, and why did I still love him so much?
— Jeaniene Frost
It hadn't escaped her notice that when she let him believe the worst of her, still he vowed to stand beside her and work toward forgiveness.
— Elizabeth Camden
You go ahead, stand still, or go backwards in life. Your objective should be to go ahead. — Napoleon Hill
You made my world stand still, and in that stillness, there was a freedom I never felt before.
— Sarah McLachlan
Life stand still here.
— Virginia Woolf
I stand back from him. I don't understand. You've seen parts of me that are not perfect, and you still love me?
— Liza Palmer
Sacred scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth.
— Martin Luther
The law must be stable, but it must not stand still.
— Roscoe Pound
If Republicans are going in the wrong direction, I am still willing to stand up against them.
— Steve Scalise
I'll always be doing stand-up as long as people are still interested in seeing me.
— Chelsea Handler
Joshua made the sun stand still in the sky, but I can't keep these thoughts of You from passing by.
— Rich Mullins
Do not stand still for injustice. If you know something isn't right, find your strength and stand against it.
— Kristen Ashley
Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.
— Robert Collier
Life does not stand still. Where there is no progress, there is disintegration.
— Grenville Kleiser
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
Still life is boring. Never stand still! Jumping bean life!
— Catherynne M Valente
She would just be catching up when I'd go again, swimming farther out into life because I still hadn't found a rock to stand on.
— Barbara Kingsolver
When it comes to science, philosophers stand still.
— Sam Houssami
I probably have mellowed down a bit. But when it comes to principles, I still have to make a stand.
— Gordon Wu
I can still stand on life's narrowest footing: but who would I be were I to show you this art. Would you like to see a ropedancer?
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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
It's still a pretty sexist world out there and someone's got to stand up and say something.
— Eliza Dushku
In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.
— Victor Kiam
You can't stand still on one point for your entire life.
— David Bowie
You cannot travel within and stand still without.
— James Lane Allen
If you fall still stand your ground and strive for that new start.
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett
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[On dishonesty:] If there were a cry of 'stop thief!' we would all stand still.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
I think it's the end of progress if you stand still and think of what you've done in the past. I keep on.
— Leslie Caron
This is the place. Stand still, my steed,- Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy past The forms that once have been.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We are not on this earth to just stand still & look pretty. The museums already have enough statues.
— Mandy Hale
Now, I think the people who are still doing stand-up are doing it because they love stand-up.
— Wanda Sykes
Being diagnosed with diabetes can be a very scary thing, and it can easily make your life stand still for a moment.
— Charlie Kimball
I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.
— Dana Carvey
Making the ballet really taught me how to get things moving. Ballet dancers don't stand still.
— Guy Maddin
When you come to the place where you can't do anything else, you must stand still and believe ... When you can't do anything, let God do it all.
— James MacDonald
Books are so strong, you can break their spines and they will still stand for eternity.
— Donald J. Bingle
I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean.
— Lee Ann Womack
It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for dinner.
— Georgette Heyer
What Leo does is so incredible that I have to be careful not to stand still watching him make his moves.
— Thierry Henry
I stand here on this spring day in the center of my life. Chaos, din, and beauty. For a moment, I am still.
— Marisa De Los Santos
Fear not! Stand your ground ... the Lord himself will fight for you; you have only to keep still.
— Moses
I could stand up and go to her and kiss her. I could. But there is still too much to be ruined.
— John Green
Time could truly be made to stand still. Texture could be retained despite sudden violent movement.
— Gjon Mili
In a still photograph you basically have two variables, where you stand and when you press the shutter. That's all you have.
— Henry Wessel Jr.
The city was in a panic, though a panic in Italy means most people still stand around coffee bars drinking espresso and Prosecco.
— Magnus Flyte
It is what it is...life. It goes on when we don't want it to. It moves forward when all you want to do is stand still or turn back.
— Joann Buchanan
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
It is better to gain a foot than to stand still, even when you seek to gain a mile.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
The soul was never put in the body to stand still.
— John Webster
To stand still is to regress.
— Edward Brooke
When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'
— Ralph W. Sockman
I couldn't stand it. I still can't stand it. I can't stand the way things are. I cannot tolerate this age.
— Walker Percy
We just stand there for a while. Breathing each other in. Being. Still not fixed, but far less broken.
— Leisa Rayven
If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck.
— David Hasselhoff
The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
