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I remained motionless, like a ventriloquist's dummy whose ventriloquist has gone off to the local and left it sitting. — P.G. Wodehouse

Time was unending when charmed, captivated, even delighted by the mystical motion of the ocean! — Ray Palla

Death is approaching,
life is departing,
but eternity is motionless. — Matshona Dhliwayo

A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to possess immutability. — Ivan Klima

As a professional journalist, I am always looking for new ways to get paid for being motionless. — Dave Barry

Very hot and still the air was, Very smooth the gliding river, Motionless the sleeping shadows. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

An Old World revolution is only a movement around a motionless center; it never breaks out of the circle. Firm in the center is belief in Authority. — Rose Wilder Lane

Conformity is a type of calm where you hover motionless on the edge of a scream that never comes. — Bryant McGill

The motionless person was once full of life in one moment in time. What a misery? — Lailah Gifty Akita

I stop and stand in front of him, motionless - we are former lovers turned strangers. — Kim Karr

The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze. — Livy

Like Lazarus lying motionless in the tomb, the unredeemed soul remains lifeless until the voice of God commands it, "Come forth! — John F. MacArthur Jr.

If water stands motionless in a pool it grows stale and muddy, but when it moves and flows it becomes clear: so, too, man in his wanderings. — Muhammad Asad

The truth is that there comes a time
When we can mourn no more over music
That is so much motionless sound — Wallace Stevens

We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious stands motionless in the cold. — Wallace Stevens

In New Orleans they have mastered the art of the motionless. In — Joan Didion

The good news: he dropped Annabeth. The bad news: he dropped her headfirst onto the rocks, where she lay motionless as a rag doll. — Rick Riordan

Nothing could be more heart rending than this mute and motionless dispair — Emile Zola

Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice;Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye,Frozen by distance. — William Wordsworth

Life is in infinite motion; at the same time it is motionless. — Debasish Mridha

After a hundred years
Nobody knows the place,
Agony, that enacted there,
Motionless as peace. — Emily Dickinson

motionless, waiting — Nicholson Baker

And as Jill gazed at its motionless bulk, she realized that she might as well have asked the whole mountain to move aside for her convenience. — C.S. Lewis

Now to investigate whether Being is one and motionless is not a contribution to the science of Nature. — Aristotle.

A few gray cotton chunks of cloud hung there, motionless. — Haruki Murakami

When an aircraft seems motionless, it's either heading directly toward you or directly away. Better know which it is or you're dead. — Patricia Cornwell

I too am my own forerunner, though I sit in the shadows of my trees and seem motionless. — Kahlil Gibran

Life is hard, we say. An oyster's life is worse. She lives motionless, soundless, her own cold ugly shape her only dissipation ... — M.F.K. Fisher

How am I supposed to move forward in life when everything important to me is motionless? — Jessica Sorensen

His plate was full but his fists sat motionless like two dark quartz stones on either side of it. — Flannery O'Connor

With knowledge there is no hope, ... without hope I would sit motionless, rusting like unused armor. — John Steinbeck

We are foolish, comic, motionless, corrupted, yet we are worthy of sympathy too. — James Joyce

The game was in his eyes a contest, a struggle with a difficulty, yet a motionless, unwearying struggle, congenial to his tastes. — Jules Verne

Ellen was motionless on the sidewalk, — Lois Lowry

Time is on its eternal journey at the same time it is motionless, emotionless and standing still. — Debasish Mridha

What I am seeking ... is a motionless movement, something equivalent to what is called the eloquence of silence ... — Joan Miro

To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds. — Gore Vidal

Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past. — Friedrich Schiller

It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly. — George Bernard Shaw

A Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe. — Peter Cave

And he beholds the moon; like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light. — Gustave Flaubert

On the front porch where she had come to weigh them quietly with her eyes, her quietness a condemnation, the woman stood motionless. — Ray Bradbury

I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more. — William Wordsworth

Photography is motionless and frozen, it has the cryogenic power to preserve objects through time without decay. — Peter Wollen

The security of faith does not make us motionless or close us off, but sends us forth to bear witness and to dialogue with all people. — Pope Francis

She stood motionless like that for — Donna Leon

Wisdom requires no form; her beauty must vary, as varies the beauty of flame. She is no motionless goddess, for ever couched on her throne. — Maurice Maeterlinck

Amidst the wreckage of overturned furniture and shattered belongings, lying motionless and silent, are my parents. — Rachel Morgan

Don't allow your imagination to colour events as lesser men would, and see movement in motionless things. — Chris Murray

There is something eternally satisfying about lying motionless for hours on end, watching the world move around us like the shadow on a sundial. — Fennel Hudson

I liked being with him, as I like being with swift animals who are motionless when at rest. — Colette