Quotes About Standstill

I took office as president in January 2003, and in April 2003, I sent to Congress my first proposal for tax reform. Some parts were voted on, with respect to federal taxes, and then it came to a standstill. Why? Because each state is interested in its own tax reform, has its own tax policy, and each state has its federal deputies and senators.

When the traffic is at a standstill, some of the smaller cottages look dwarfed by the cars. It is possible for the people in the cottages and the cars to look at one another.

I can't see where there is anywhere left to move. If you don't have a recount it's hard to receive any more votes.

The. bus stopped again.

You know there are moments such as these when time stands still...

So far we've gotten nowhere at a thousand miles an hour.

Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.

We're the only creature God ever created that doesn't want to adapt. We want to make it stand still. And one thing that's constant is nature is constantly changing.

One of the aspects of form that I have been very interested in is stasis - the concept of form which is not so directional in time, not so much climactic form, but rather form which allows time, to stand still.

I was arrested on suspicion of breach of Official Secrets Act in March 2003, but they didn't charge me until November. Now, the in-between months, I was bailed and re-bailed, and my life was on standstill. I was in limbo. It was a difficult time for me and my family, because we just did not know what the future held for us.

Now, he numbly stands stock-still, in abject fear that this whole catastrophe may well be his doing.

Mahan held that a nation must expand or decline—for it was impossible for a nation to hold its own while standing still.

Can it really be that the world- our world- still exists? Or is this just inertia, the generator is off, but the gears are still turning and plodding along- two or three more rotations, then on the fourth, they'll come to a standstill...

He stood at the entrance to the kitchen, blocking my path to the front door like the Berlin Wall. -- Least Wanted

Neither alive nor dead; no one lets up, no one wins.

Always becoming, never arriving. Life is at a standstill - only ideas flash past. In such confusion I find myself running after them: Hey! Stop! Stop! But they escape, leaving me staring at a grey English spring.

If I'm going east and west, nothing's happening.

Ik kan er niet mee ophouden, maar ik kan er ook niet mee doorgaan.

In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still.

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.

But it feels like everything all around me is shifting in ways I didn't expect, when all I want is for things to stand still.

He realized straight away that the conversation hadn't advanced a jot during his short absence.

I will never forget the first time I was teargassed or the night I hid under my steering wheel as the SWAT vehicle drove down a residential street. I will never forget that it was illegal - in St Louis, in the fall of 2014 - to stand still.

Duelo) No Continuo, sino Inmóvil