Quotes About Standstill

Dov'è che due treni che s'incrociano non ripartono entrambi dopo essere arrivati?

The moment demanded action and all we had was paralysis.

Feminism, as it stands, well... stands. It has ground to a halt.

Everyone needs an objective, and everyone needs a goal, and it was frustrating just kind of being at a standstill.

Rock n' roll is at a standstill, I think - and comedy is taking its place as something exciting.

Nothing happened, and nothing kept happening.

Life stand still here.

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.

My first film was very static.

Either the car is stationary, or it's on the move.

The Doldrums, my young friend, are where nothing ever happens and nothing ever changes.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

In 1999, I was running my first tech start-up and learning the Unreal Engine, the tool that would define my career as a game developer, when news of Columbine ground all work to a standstill.

Time stood still. Then… pandemonium.

So we stood there, not knowing either how to stay or how to go, and felt the weight of that failure.

That's why the initial slowness of bargaining may be offset by a critical advantage: It speeds up implementation. The superintendent can make a lightning-fast decision if she makes it autocratically, but if her administrators and teachers hate it, then adoption will come to a standstill.

The idea is not to reinvent myself by venturing into different media because my film career has come to a standstill, but I have the urge to interpret life through different media.

The Cul-de-Sac ( French for "dead end" ) ... is a situation where you work and work and work and nothing much changes

No, you can forget their going anywhere.

The Revolution has got frozen up. They have frozen it up with their talk of moderation. To stand still in Revolution is to slip backwards.

If things are not working out, they just stop going forward.

Motivation is like quicksand. if you stand still for too long you will sink. When you start working towards your goal the start always hard until you aren't sinking anymore.

The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.

single car waited helplessly at a dormant traffic light;