Top 1200 Standing Still Quotes & Sayings

The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.

There is something very shocking about seeing him standing dark and still on our doorstep. I lean the door a ways. The night's getting chilly. "You got away from the yard." "Is it still all right?" "It's all right. It's me and Gabe and Finn and Tommy Falk." "I've brought this." He holds up the bread, which is clearly a Palson's loaf, and it's still so fresh that I can smell the warmth of it. He must've come straight from there.

There is no such thing as standing still.

I'm never standing still and that makes my life pretty exciting.

This is what a memorial is: standing still, staring at something that isn’t ther

It don't matter what you tried to do, you couldn't destroy me! I'm still standing! I'm still strong! And I always will be.

So I feel now very much like a guardian. I'm standing in front of art. I'm standing in front of cinema. I'm standing in front of Black culture. I'm standing in front of the history of America, and I'm protecting it by making art, by protecting our art, and by promoting our art.

'The Machinist' changed me. I learned that I really enjoy, literally, not saying a damned word for days at a time, except for what was in the scene. Whole days of... nothing. Just... standing still. I know a lot of people found it bizarre, because they'd be standing right next to me thinking, 'Why aren't we talking? What's going on?'

When God says go forward, don't even think about standing still.

In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action.

I'm still standing up there tall and strong every night that I perform.

A lot of the players I'm with, thank God, we're all still vertical. We've lost so many great players through the years, and we're still standing, as Elton John says.

Failure in life does not matter; the greatest misfortune is standing still.

Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.

The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.

There is no standing still because time is moving forward.

Just friends, just friends. Standing there in the bookstore, watching Seth walk away, I half wondered how anyone could still use that line. But I knew why, of course. It was used because people still believed it. Or at least they wanted to.

Love is a condition where the world seems to be standing still, and it's you who are spinning on your axis.

Well I am still not drunk" I straightened up against the pillows as best I could. "You told me once that if you could still stand up, you weren't drunk." You aren't standing up." he point out. You are.

You can create space just by standing still.

In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.

We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still.

As far as sometimes being involved with different demonstrations, I did an anti-war protest in San Fran in January, and I'm standing there, amongst all these people, and it's this great thing to see people being active and actually standing up for what they believe in and still letting the government know that there are people who will still sacrifice a portion of their day to stand up for what they care about, but I'm just thinking to myself, "God, man, these protests have been going on throughout I-don't-even-know-how-many years, and here we are again."

Standing, standing, standing - why do I have to stand all the time? That is the main characteristic of social Washington.

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.

And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing.

Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill.

Many a false step is made standing still.

Eternity: a moment standing still for ever.

Taking steps is easy Standing still is hard... Everything is different The second time around.

Many a false step was made by standing still.

The one certainly for anyone in the path of an avalanche is this: standing still is not an option.

He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.

Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.

I'd rather die on an adventure than live standing still.

It was peculiar to be standing so close to him. He's just a man, but still, what a thing to be Neil Armstrong!

I was only seven but I remember thinking that everything in the world was standing still.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.

I've always been better moving than I am standing still.

For me, [John Wheeler] was the last Titan, the only physics superhero still standing.

The most enjoyable things are the old eighteenth-century terraces that are still standing, that domestic architecture.

A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.

Ghana is one of the countries in Western Africa that still has quite a few of their slave castles still standing.

We still have prostitutes standing on our corner, and people crapping round the back of buildings. The charms are still there.

I'm standing up for the right of self-determination. I'm standing up for our territory. I'm standing up for our people. I'm standing up for international law. I'm standing up for all those territories - those small territories and peoples the world over - who, if someone doesn't stand up and say to an invader 'enough, stop', would be at risk.

Scars show toughness: that you've been through it, and you're still standing.

To be still standing 20 years in this business is a great feeling, I can't even tell you.

Your automatic guidance system cannot guide you when you're stalled, “standing still”.

We still need to have one beautiful lady standing there.

My dream was to become a rec league coach. I love basketball so much, I love playing it, I just never thought I'd make it to college, NBA, or be standing up here today. It is a surreal feeling. So many people doubted me and motivated me. I failed so many times and got back up. I got through the toughest times with my family, but I'm still standing.

With all the injury problems we have in men's tennis at the moment, I'm happy to still be standing.

All motion is relative. Maybe it's you who've moved away by standing still.

Real zeal is standing still and letting God be a bonfire in you.

Standing still is never a good option. Not in the ring, and not in life... When you stop moving, you're done.

Don't you know I”m still standing better than I ever did. Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid. I'm still standing after all this time.

Architecture, by definition, is always standing still.

Liam learned that it was possible to appear to move forward when you were really standing still.

It may look like I'm moving but I'm standing still.

Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world.