Standstill Quotes

Standstill Quote of the day

The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.

If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.

Fear isn't an excuse to come to a standstill. It's the impetus to step up and strike.

Never try to leap from a standstill.

Poverty can turn a person into a flaming torch for change and revolution, without which mankind would come to a standstill.

At present there are such goings-on that everything is at a standstill.

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

If somehow every volunteer vanished tomorrow, so much of this country would come to a standstill: schools, hospitals and libraries. You can't name an institution that doesn't depend on volunteers.

I started working on a line of clothes last year, but right now we're kind of at a standstill.

The position of First Lady has no rules, just precedent, so its evolution has been at a virtual standstill for years. If Martha Washington didn't do it, then no one is sure it should be done.

Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill.

It is still summer, but the summer is no longer alive. It has come to a standstill; nothing withers, and fall is not ready to begin. There are no stars yet, just darkness.

We must do jobs we detest because we are part of an organized society, and if everyone did what they wanted to do, the world would come to a standstill.

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 you say, 'You've made it,' then you kind of come to a standstill, and I don't think any actor wants to do that.

It is a dangerous thing for the perfecting of our minds to gain applause by works that do not call forth the whole of our energies; for in that case one generally comes to a standstill.

Every journey is played out between standstill and flight.

In the war, you lose areas, but you recapture another area. So, it is difficult to tell whether you are losing or gaining or it was a standstill. No-one has this answer.

Some people who have been working out regularly for months or even years are still out of shape because the number of cheat days they have in a week exceeds six.

We stand the risk of a standstill, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.