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Never try to leap from a standstill. -- Mason Cooley
Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them. -- James Cash Penney
I started working on a line of clothes last year, but right now we're kind of at a standstill. -- Beverley Mitchell
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. -- Barbara Tuchman
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. -- Robert Anton Wilson
While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago. -- John Adams
Fear isn't an excuse to come to a standstill. It's the impetus to step up and strike. -- Arthur Ashe
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. -- Bill Gates
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. -- Tove Jansson
We are reaching the point where the temperature standstill is becoming the major feature of the recent global warm period that began in 1980. In brief, the global temperature has remained constant for longer than it has increased." -- David Robert Whitehouse
The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
And this, incidentally, is my thumbnail sketch of American marriage: A woman sees a man; she likes him. Now she jumps on this thing and rides it to some kind of standstill. Then she changes it and trains it, and to the exact degree that she's able to do this, she disrespects him. -- Jack Nicholson
When he utilizes combined energy, his fighting men become as it were like unto rolling logs or stones. For it is the nature of a log or stone to remain motionless on level ground, and to move when on a slope; if four-cornered, to come to a standstill, but if round-shaped to go rolling down. -- Sun Tzu
He who wants to educate himself in Chess must evade what is dead in Chess...the habit of playing with inferior opponents; the custom of avoiding difficult tasks; the weakness of uncritically taking over variations or rules discovered by others; the vanity which is self-sufficient; the incapacity for admitting mistakes; in brief, everything that leas to standstill or to anarchy. -- Emanuel Lasker
We are up against the unseen power that controls this dark world and the spiritual agents are from the very headquarters of evil. Therefore, we must wear the "whole armour of God," that we may be able to resist evil in its day of power, and that even when we have fought to a standstill, we may still stand our ground. -- Corrie Ten Boom
Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill. The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation is the same as in the life of the individual. Pessimism kills the instinct that urges men to struggle against poverty, ignorance and crime, and dries up all the fountains of joy in the world. -- Helen Keller
A journey, after all, neither begins in the instant we set out, nor ends when we have reached our door step once again. It starts much earlier and is really never over, because the film of memory continues running on inside of us long after we have come to a physical standstill. Indeed, there exists something like a contagion of travel, and the disease is essentially incurable. -- Ryszard Kapuscinski
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print. -- Barbara Tuchman
Whenever life's at a standstill, I need some action. -- Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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. -- Jenna Ushkowitz
Trends carry on forever, until they stop. I want to be around after things come to a standstill. As a result, I tend to be pretty conservative. -- Johann Rupert
2014 was a year of intense social upheaval. In truth, the same could be said for most every year. There is no standstill in a world filled with so many people, scrambling for so much. -- Roxane Gay
Then, with lots of people doing that without ever looking over their shoulders to see how they were affecting anybody else, it couldn't work, and it didn't work, and it just came to a standstill. -- Barbara Castle
Listen, global warming is a real problem, but it' s not the end of the world. A 30-centimetre sea level rise is just not going to bring the world to a standstill, just like it didn't over the last 150 years. -- Bjorn Lomborg
His manhood sways briefly, then comes to a standstill. -- Carla H. Krueger
Every journey is played out between standstill and flight. -- Claudio Magris
... scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill ... -- George Eliot
At present there are such goings-on that everything is at a standstill. -- Boyle Roche
Poverty can turn a person into a flaming torch for change and revolution, without which mankind would come to a standstill. -- Jean Sasson
The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
People not only stood to respect it but perhaps their thoughts and heartbeats came to standstill, and only inspiration and patriotism was flowing through their veins. -- Amit Kalantri
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. -- Jonathan Hull
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. -- Paulo Coelho
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. -- Al Roker
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. -- Bashar al-Assad
Don't go into great detail describing places and things, unless you're Margaret Atwood and can paint scenes with language. You don't want descriptions that bring the action, the flow of the story, to a standstill. -- Elmore Leonard

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