Quotes About Dormant

They were appliances left unplugged.

For hundreds of years, Casmeer's libido had lain dormant, but now, as if the act of writing had rekindled a forgotten lust, he was moved to inflict his feelings upon his stories. He'd no intention of doing that. Also he felt as if the tales themselves were running away from him. He found it hard to keep them in line.

Something must happen to 'stir up their heredities,' as I am fond of saying—to excite in them the variability that normally lies dormant," Burbank later explained

There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.

No hay lenguas muertas, sino cerebros aletargados.

There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.

Non esistono lingue morte ma solo cervelli in letargo.

Nu exist? limbi moarte, ci numai creiere în letargie.

There are no dead languages, only dormant minds

Some men are like swords, made for fighting. Hang them up and they go to rust.

Rip van Winkle was lazy.

I'm an extinct volcano.

The unchained workers of decay were waiting in a dormant state for the necessary conditions to be established, as soon enough they would be, when they might recommence their interrupted struggle, that predetermined, merciless assault in the course of which they would dismantle whatever had been alive once and once only, reducing it into tiny insignificant pieces under the eternally silent cover of death.

Stock market has become so boring for the last 1 week that traders feel that it is going nowhere as there is hardly any movement almost in dormant sleepy mood

Will: Have you ever seen what happens to someone with demon pox? First it lies dormant. One begins to turn yellow and green. Then the swelling sets in - Jem: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS DEMON POX.

You have a decent brain, you just keep it in mothballs all the time." "You

My objective was to awaken their hearts to the ideas dormant there, rather than to implant facts into their memory.

The spirit of rebellion is present in every great city, and the great task of wise government is to keep it dormant, for if it wakes it is a torrent which no dam can hold back.

But the female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that capacity will be expanded; the average woman will be as well educated as the average man, and then better educated, for the dormant faculties of her brain will be stimulated to an activity that will be all the more intense and powerful because of centuries of repose. Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.

Right now, the economy is a whole lot like a fairly good-looking brain-dead chick in a persistent vegetative coma. You can't really wake her up, but there's things she's still good for.

Everyone is asleep. They've all been asleep for years. You seemed ... awake.' Alex is whispering now. He closes his eyes, opens them again.'I'm tired of sleeping.

There exists in man a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition,to the grave.

so the knowledge of their presence remained, for the time being, strictly within the bounds of people's private thoughts, lying dormant in a corner of their minds like a secret language spoken only at home.

Was du vergisst, geht nicht verloren, Es schläft nur, um eines Tages wieder zu erwachen.