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After a hundred years Nobody knows the place, Agony, that enacted there, Motionless as peace. -- Emily Dickinson
Very hot and still the air was, Very smooth the gliding river, Motionless the sleeping shadows. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting -- but waiting for what? -- Edward Abbey
Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blending with the fiction, playing with the details, follows the outline of the adventures. It mingles with the characters, and it seems as if it were yourself palpitating beneath their costumes. -- Gustave Flaubert
The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze. -- Livy
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds. -- Gore Vidal
I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more. -- William Wordsworth
Indian classical dance is sustained by a profound philosophy. Form seeks to merge with the formless, motions seek to become a part of the motionless, and the dancing individual seeks to become one with the eternal dance of the cosmos. -- Nita Ambani
All trembling, I reached the Falls of Niagara, and oh, what a scene! My blood shudders still, although I am not a coward, at the grandeur of the Creator's power; and I gazed motionless on this new display of the irresistible force of one of His elements. -- John James Audubon
Redwood time moves at a more stately pace than human time. To us, when we look at a redwood tree, it seems to be motionless and still, and yet redwoods are constantly in motion, moving upward into space, articulating themselves and filling redwood space over redwood time, over thousands of years. -- Richard Preston
As to the effect of the wave on the air, we will suppose the water to be quite flat and the air motionless, a heavy undulation comes on the scene, it has to pass, so it pushes the air up with its face, letting it fall again as its back glides onwards. -- Lawrence Hargrave
Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing? -- Wislawa Szymborska
All I can say is that you only realize how big your mountain is once you're laying motionless, helpless, and hopeless in the valley below. No one goes there on purpose, if you get what I'm saying, because the only way to find your personal low is to slip and roll down that mountain of yours, straight through to the bottom, no holds barred. -- Artie Lange
Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past. -- Friedrich Schiller
Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow. -- George F. Kennan
And he beholds the moon; like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light. -- Gustave Flaubert
How am I supposed to move forward in life when everything important to me is motionless? -- Jessica Sorensen
We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious stands motionless in the cold. -- Wallace Stevens
Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice;Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye,Frozen by distance. -- William Wordsworth
With knowledge there is no hope,... without hope I would sit motionless, rusting like unused armor. -- John Steinbeck
As a professional journalist, I am always looking for new ways to get paid for being motionless. -- Dave Barry
Don't allow your imagination to colour events as lesser men would, and see movement in motionless things. -- Chris Murray
Photography is motionless and frozen, it has the cryogenic power to preserve objects through time without decay. -- Peter Wollen
What I am seeking... is a motionless movement, something equivalent to what is called the eloquence of silence... -- Joan Miro
I watched a bowl of fruit on the table remain motionless. Just another example of life imitating art. -- Jarod Kintz
We made love like two folding lawn chairs. We were both motionless, but the possibility of movement permeated the moment. -- Jarod Kintz
It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly. -- George Bernard Shaw
Life is hard, we say. An oyster's life is worse. She lives motionless, soundless, her own cold ugly shape her only dissipation ... -- M. F. K. Fisher
A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to possess immutability. -- Ivan KlÃma
A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to possess immutability. -- Ivan KlÃma
On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels . . . -- Charles Dickens
Wisdom requires no form; her beauty must vary, as varies the beauty of flame. She is no motionless goddess, for ever couched on her throne. -- Maurice Maeterlinck
I think people tend to forget that trees are living creatures. They're sort of like dogs. Huge, quiet, motionless dogs, with bark instead of fur. -- Jack Handey
The security of faith does not make us motionless or close us off, but sends us forth to bear witness and to dialogue with all people. -- Pope Francis
I listen'd, motionless and still;And, as I mounted up the hill,The music in my heart I bore,Long after it was heard no more. -- William Wordsworth
And as Jill gazed at its motionless bulk, she realized that she might as well have asked the whole mountain to move aside for her convenience. -- C. S. Lewis
Already, he was dreaming of a refined solitude, a comfortable desert, a motionless ark in which to seek refuge from the unending deluge of human stupidity. -- Joris-Karl Huysmans
The fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of a reality which consists of eternal motion. -- Leon Trotsky
An Old World revolution is only a movement around a motionless center; it never breaks out of the circle. Firm in the center is belief in Authority. -- Rose Wilder Lane
If water stands motionless in a pool it grows stale and muddy, but when it moves and flows it becomes clear: so, too, man in his wanderings. -- Muhammad Asad
But Captain Vere was now again motionless, standing absorbed in thought. Again starting, he vehemently exclaimed, "Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet that angel must hang! -- Herman Melville
The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a room and not perish. -- Jacques Barzun
A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place. -- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place. -- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause. -- J. G. Ballard
A computer and a cat are somewhat alike - they both purr, and like to be stroked, and spend a lot of the day motionless. They also have secrets they don't necessarily share. -- John Updike
If everything when it occupies an equal space is at rest, and if that which is in locomotion is always occupying such a space at any moment, the flying arrow is therefore motionless. -- Aristotle
Cats are the slipperiest of domestic animals. Thousands of years of genetic coding has taught them to melt into azaleas, lie motionless behind garden gnomes, glide along fence tops, and slink under benches. -- Caroline Paul
This is the river of the great 19th-century landscapists; of Cole, Cropsey and Church, and at the end of the summer it lies motionless under the haze as under a light coat of varnish. -- Judith Thurman
On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding grounds. A new day has begun on the crane marsh. -- Aldo Leopold
Before making a great movement, stay motionless for a good while! If you give legs to the rocks, they will start running like crazy horses! Stillness accumulates liveliness; laziness accumulates industriousness; sleep accumulates motion! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
In him converge all previous streams of tendency, not as into a pool, stagnant, passive, motionless, but as a noble river that received its tributary waters and bearss them onward in larger and statelier volume. -- Johannes Brahms

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