Top 116 Stationary Quotes & Sayings

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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
I work out: I do a little jump-rope. I punch a bag in the gym. I do the treadmill. I do stationary-bike exercise. I maintain a healthy diet.
Walking is central to my relaxation because when I'm writing I'm stationary for seven hours at a time.
In Denver, I was more of a stationary shooter for some reason. — © Evan Fournier
In Denver, I was more of a stationary shooter for some reason.
I hate going to the gym, so sweating outdoors sure beats sitting on a stationary bike staring at my navel.
We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.
The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the view that the heaven, sun, moon, stars, and in short all of the things on high are stationary, and that nothing in the world is in motion except the earth, which by revolving and twisting round its axis with extreme velocity produces all the same results as would be produced if the earth were stationary and the heaven in motion. . . ."
Her life was like running on a treadmill or riding on a stationary bike; it was aerobic, it was healthy, but she wasn't going anywhere.
There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.
I tried my hardest to stay fit and active during quarantine. I went to my PT office four to five times a week. I did weights, a stationary bike, a rowing machine, and lots of abs.
There is no magic milkshake or workout machine. I think the real machine is your body. I do love treadmills, ellipticals, stationary bikes, free weights.
When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change
There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.
The sense that my world is stable and stationary, that change will never come and that all will go on continuously as it is, is the nature of all delusion. — © Brenda Shoshanna
The sense that my world is stable and stationary, that change will never come and that all will go on continuously as it is, is the nature of all delusion.
To have lived long does not necessarily imply the gathering of much wisdom and experience. One who has pedaled twenty-five thousand miles on a stationary bicycle has not circled the globe. He or she has only garnered weariness.
I'm not a huge gym person, so I try to stay away from the gym. But I love to run on the beach or go for a walk. It's better than riding a stationary bike.
As long as you are stationary, no one will complain. Dogs don't bark at parked cars.
I chose a career in the kitchen because the thought of sitting and doing the same thing every day and being stationary was not something that I could get my head around.
Now he must not go the wrong way round the circuit, and unless he can spin himself stationary through 360 degrees I fail to see how he can avoid doing so.
We use the free weights because there is a balance factor involved. It's not just a stationary exercise. It's balance as well as strength, plus you go through the full range of motion with bulk weight.
The safest place to be during an earthquake would be in a stationary store.
Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States remained almost, if not quite stationary.
I haven't had a stationary home since going with the circus, but since my parents lived in Lafayette about 25 years ago and my sister lives here now, I always claim it as home.
I'm paranoid. On my stationary bike, I have a rear view mirror.
...love is never stationary.
The stationary condition is the beginning of the end
When I see a room full of people pedaling away on stationary bikes, I fall into an existential spiral. It's confirmation that all we do as humans is pedal, pedal, pedal, and go nowhere. We're just specks of dust in the universe, riding 1970s stationary bicycles.
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
There is no such thing as a stationary tradition. Traditions are always developing, living things.
We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.
Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants.
Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you.
The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.
Her killer wrote a note on that stationary." "A note." Now Renquist's eyebrows lifted. "Well. That was rather arrogant of him, wasn't it?
Let's have a moment of silence for all those Americans who are stuck in traffic on their way to the gym to ride the stationary bicycle.
Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades.
Keeping stationary drains your brain, but moving around shows you new things, new inspiration, and keeps the blood moving.
The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity and then of aging decline.
Time neither moves nor is stationary. Time changes. — © Paulo Coelho
Time neither moves nor is stationary. Time changes.
I do ride a bicycle occasionally, but not those stupid stationary ones you see in gyms. I do have one of those, I must confess, but its quite literally a pain in the arse, so I dont use it.
I share my name with an aerobatic bird that can whiz across a whole summer sky in seconds. A swift is so equipped for speed that it can scarcely cope with being stationary.
Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again on the road to the Ideal.
I believe the earth is stationary, but you have to realize I was an atheist for seven years. I just believed everything was a lie - all the wars, that there was no government, that corporations ran the world, that everything was a fraud - that everyone lied about everything.
Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth.
Love is never stationary.
All is flux, nothing is stationary.
Either the car is stationary, or it's on the move.
The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state.
Sometimes, when it is going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationary. — © David Nicholls
Sometimes, when it is going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationary.
While we often huddle in groups of like-minded people, those with faith blaze a trail that threatens all of our comfort zones. Faith offends the stationary.
The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three dimensional and not in space or time.
By allowing the positive ions to pass through an electric field and thus giving them a certain velocity, it is possible to distinguish them from the neutral, stationary atoms.
Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
President Bush fell off his bicycle this weekend and you know what was really sad? It's a stationary bike.
It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.
Now I walk every where I can. I also ride a stationary bicycle for a total of 30 minutes. I do it three or more times a week now and I have lost 20 pounds
A stationary condition of capital and population implies no stationary state of human improvement. There could be as much scope as ever for all kinds of mental culture, and moral and social progress.
The world is changing. We're not really proceeding on a stationary basis.
Now I walk every where I can. I also ride a stationary bicycle for a total of 30 minutes. I do it three or more times a week now and I have lost 20 pounds.
For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving.
California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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