Quotes About Standing still

Good. Now, I want everyone to stand very still and close their eyes. Who is snoring? Scorchpaw, that's not nearly as funny as you think it is. Only horses sleep standing up, and if you'd like to go live with them and eat grass all day, I'm sure Blackstar can arrange it.

Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished. (from The Messenger)

Let me     keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be     astonished.

I didn't try to run. I didn't even move. I just stood there and let justice take its course.

I'm standing here, holding a half a lemon in my hand. I'm speechless, I'm excited . . . I'm a wreck. Caleb wants to be where I am.

They say in extreme moments time will slow, returning to its unmoving core, and standing there, it seemed as if everything stopped.

It was a narrow world, a world that was standing still. But the narrower it became, the more it betook of stillness, the more this world that enveloped me seemed to overflow with things and people that could only be called strange. They had been there all the while, it seemed, waiting in the shadows for me to stop moving. And every time the wind-up bird came to my yard to wind its spring, the world descendedmore deeply into chaos.

I could do just about anything if somebody made me. But I don't have an image of the one thing I really want to do. That's my problem now. I can't find the image... I'm standing still, and I can't find the image. - Toru

I can't find the image, I said to myself. I'm thirty, I'm standing still, and I can't find the image.

But here's the dilemma: Why is "how-to" so alluring when, truthfully, we already know "how to" yet we're still standing in the same place longing for more joy, connection, and meaning?

when you are convinced that all the exits are blocked, either you take to believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird. The miracle is that the honey is always there, right under your nose, only you were too busy searching elsewhere to realize it. The worst is not death but being blind, blind to the fact that everything about life is in the nature of the miraculous.

The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.

Trends carry on forever, until they stop. I want to be around after things come to a standstill. As a result, I tend to be pretty conservative.

If I flew for you, you would still be standing.

since coming home, her life had stood still and a fine day like this made her impatient, almost desperate.

There seems to be a hypnotic quality to ambition and speed, so that you feel that you are standing still just because you want to go so fast. You might actually be getting close to your goal.

I know I'm standing still, but I feel like I've stumbled and I'm starting to fall.

The birds will wing from the weather, While I stand, still as the harvest, With the sound of the fall in the air.

Theoretically, I learned in physics that the universe is expanding at a rate of, like, forty-five miles a second, but it sure as shit doesn't feel that way when you're standing still.

MARIE As the day is long and the world is old, lots of people can stand on one spot, one after another. WOYZECK I saw him. MARIE You can see all sorts of things if you've got two cyes and aren't blind, and the sun is shining.

He who thinks too long before taking the next step will spend his life standing on one leg.

Why am I standing in this stupid empty, empty tub?" she asked. "So it catches all the blood," he replied.

Someone has to stand still for you to love them. My choices are always on the run.

The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.