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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

To stand still is to fall behind. — Mark Twain

Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. — John F. Kennedy

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

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

Fearlessness requires attention and receptivity-it takes focus to stand in the still eye of a tornado and not be swept away by it. — Susan Piver

I want to know if you can live with failure yours and mine and still stand at the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon,"Yes." ... — Oriah Dreamer

Life does not stand still and if you're not thriving then you're receding, there is no other option. — Jonathan Cragle

We just stand there for a while. Breathing each other in. Being. Still not fixed, but far less broken. — Leisa Rayven

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

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.

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

To stand still is to regress. — Edward Brooke

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck. — David Hasselhoff

The soul was never put in the body to stand still. — John Webster

It is better to gain a foot than to stand still, even when you seek to gain a mile. — Hubert H. Humphrey

I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean. — Lee Ann Womack

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

I know my place in the universe; now lie still so I can stand on your throat. — Morgan Blayde

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

There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist? — Don DeLillo

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

Do not stand still for injustice. If you know something isn't right, find your strength and stand against it. — Kristen Ashley

If you stand still there is only one way to go, and that's backwards. — Peter Shilton

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

If they ask you to stand still, you should dance. — Colum McCann

If pure, eternal, unconditional Love is the foundation on which you stand, even if all else falls away, you are still valuable because you are loved. — Amy Lichtenhan

Lighten up while you still can, don't even try to understand. Just find a place to make your stand, and take it easy. — Jackson Browne

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

Books are so strong, you can break their spines and they will still stand for eternity. — Donald J. Bingle

If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still. — Samuel Johnson

A voice speaks to each of us in the still silent places - a voice that tells us to stand, to have courage, to do what is right. — Holly Lisle

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

Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run — Andrew Marvell

Making the ballet really taught me how to get things moving. Ballet dancers don't stand still. — Guy Maddin

I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State. — Dana Carvey

Being diagnosed with diabetes can be a very scary thing, and it can easily make your life stand still for a moment. — Charlie Kimball

Now, I think the people who are still doing stand-up are doing it because they love stand-up. — Wanda Sykes

We are not on this earth to just stand still & look pretty. The museums already have enough statues. — Mandy Hale

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

The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still. — Thomas B. Macaulay

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

[On dishonesty:] If there were a cry of 'stop thief!' we would all stand still. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

One must stand stiller than still. On reverse time travel. — James Jeans

Love is like a magic trick
You know you are getting fooled, but still, you stand in line
And pay to see it again and again. — Yarro Rai

If you fall still stand your ground and strive for that new start. — Jonathan Anthony Burkett

You cannot travel within and stand still without. — James Lane Allen

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you. — Victor Kiam

It's still a pretty sexist world out there and someone's got to stand up and say something. — Eliza Dushku

Put your trust in me, let this love be. This is for real, let time stand still. — Smokey Robinson

Books, I found, had the power to make time
stand still, retreat or fly into the future. — Jim Bishop

But still the block of Vengeance firm doth stand, and Fate, as swordsmith, hammers blow on blow. — Aeschylus