Quotes About Standstill

If pro is the opposite of con, then what is the opposite of progress?

He lifted his hand to knock, but then he stopped. He could go neither forward nor back, so he simply stayed that way—hand frozen in the air.

Sequestration, sequestation - however you pronounce that word - and gridlock aren't all that bad.

Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?

not that anything very much ever happened.

You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but your didn't. As long as your heart kept pumping an your blood kept blowing and your lungs kept filling, you didn't. The pang she felt for Tibby carried something like envy. You couldn't stand still for anything short of death, and God knew she had tried.

doldrums, not only did prices continue to decline

Everyone had an opinion and no one had a solution.

the Republic of Texas is nervous. They fought Gilead to a standstill, but they don't want to be invaded. They're avoiding provocations.

Nothing moves at the Hotel New Hampshire! We're screwed down here-for life!

It is said that life is too short, and that's quite true, unless you are lonely. Loneliness can bring time to its knees; an absolute and utter standstill.

If nothing ended, then we'd all be stuck in the middle.

But scepticism, as we know, can never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill:

Time seemed to do that thing everyone knew was impossible. It stood still.

I felt little interest in possible danger of their being run over: only a great relief that the bus must in any case come to a standstill, whether they were killed or not.

Radicalism and old-fogyism, of which we have lately heard from a political master, whose eloquence has been employed in teaching us that progress can only be expected from those whose declared purpose is to stand still.

Enough words! The criminals are escaping, we the victims, we stand still.

For years, I lived a life in which nothing really happened.

But every time my thoughts reached this point, every time, my desire to speak would vanish. And so we remained precisely as we were, making no waves, at a standstill.

This time you've dug yourself an anchor too heavy to move ahead with.

The alternative was to do nothing.

It is not the anger of other women that will destroy us but our refusals to stand still, to listen to its rhythms, to learn within it, to move beyond the manner of presentation to the substance, to tap that anger as an important source of empowerment. I

It is not the anger of other women that will destroy us but our refusals to stand still, to listen to its rhythms, to learn within it, to move beyond the manner of presentation to the substance, to tap that anger as an important source of empowerment.

Much of official Washington had seemed to come to a standstill. With the Senate, the House of Representatives, and the White House in open conflict now, such petty considerations as budgets had to wait.