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[E]very journey is played out between standstill and flight.
Stand-up is like a row boat: it's fun and romantic when you're choosing to do it. But if you have no other choice than to be in a row boat it's not as enjoyable; that's survival.
In today's competitive economy, to stand still is to die.
There is no pause in life, the moment we pause, we stop living.
Ahhh, God's balls! The Horrible Halt!" Adoulla pronounced the Dhamsawaati term for the complete standstill of traffic with a familiar disgust.
Stand strong. Stand firm.
It is one of the great ironies of my life that only when it became virtually impossible for me to keep my body from moving would I find the peace, security, and spiritual strength to stand in one place. I couldn't be still until I could - literally - no longer keep still.
Dead is the stoppest stop of all.
The still point in a turning world.
Eternity: a moment standing still for ever.
The heart of standing is you cannot fly.
scrambled to stand.
Waiting is a sustained effort to stay focused on God through prayer and belief.
As far as the Lord is concerned, the time to stand is in the darkest moment. It is when everything seems hopeless, when there appears no way out, when God alone can deliver.
The whole city stopped - And this is a pause worth savouring, because the world will soon be complicated again.
You can't stand still on one point for your entire life.
The faulty stands on his guard.
... to pause is to win & to rest can actually be part of the victory.
One must stand stiller than still. On reverse time travel.
It's good to stand in life and not sit,when you stand you get a better view
In nature nothing is at standstill, everything pulsates, appears and disappears. Heart, breath, digestion, sleep and waking - birth and death - everything comes and goes in waves. Rhythm, periodicity, harmonious alternation of extremes is the rule. No use rebelling against the very pattern of life.
The weight of wait.
Stand firm. Stand tall.
A life with extreme challenges is a life on pause.
Nothing ever stands still, and neither should you.
It was like standing at the end of everything.
I stood dumbfounded, founded in dumbness.
The foundation of all civilization is loitering.
Nothing can stay paused forever. Eventually, you have to hit play. Sometimes
Tell me..how do you stand there?
filling the doorway....of my life.
No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.
waiting for a friend to get off
You stand still, somebody might get close to you. I don't stand still much anymore.
Stand Fast, Stand Firm, Stand Sure, Stand True.
By standing still, we're making the things we don't like about Obamacare even worse, forcing Missourians to bear all the costs of this law - and reap none of the benefits.
Coming to interior stillness requires waiting.
The turmoil of the day freezes in a thousand absurd postures.
The heart of standing is that you cannot fly.
I, wanderer, stand awaiting the signal.
I do pauses, pauses work for me
She just stood there and looked at the empty highway, and you could almost tell how bored she was by the way she stood.
I stand upon a block of stillness. It is more secure than any sidewalk. I bring with me my own sidewalk.
Doing stand-up comedy is in the middle of a traffic jam getting everybody moving again.
Idling has always been my strong point.
Life stands still when mankind is afraid to take a chance.
A person seated instead of standing - fate hangs on such a thread as that.
As long as you SIT, you Stay In Trouble. Once you STAND, you Shift Toward A New Direction, take a STEP, and Start To Embrace Purpose, then WALK to Welcome Abundance, Love and Knowledge.
They stood there eclipsed by concrete columns, paradoxically trapped
There's no end to the stoppage of this drama
Freeze or panic.
The Revolution has got frozen up. They have frozen it up with their talk of moderation. To stand still in Revolution is to slip backwards.
Stand strong. Stand firm.
Stand tall like tower.
Relationships are forged in pauses
What does 'stuck' mean?" "It means I should make some big decision, I should do some enormous thing. And I can't do anything. I can't stand my life, and I can't change it." "Maybe it's not an enormous thing," he says. "Maybe you have to do one small thing and then another small thing.
Stand up and finish what you started
I remained motionless, like a ventriloquist's dummy whose ventriloquist has gone off to the local and left it sitting.
You're loitering, citizen." "Actually, I was hesitating.
You have to stand for something bigger than yourself.
In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action.
The longer I stood there, the longer I had to stand there. It was intricate and exponential. I looked like I was doing nothing, but really I was as busy as a physicist or a politician. I was strategizing my next move. That my next move was always not to move didn't make it any easier.
It is idle to await unanimity.
On stuck status? Don't crush the groove, bust a move.
[W]alking sometimes in a perfectly desolate plain where there have been no houses nor trees to guide me, I have been occasionally compelled to remain stationary for hours together, waiting till the rain came before continuing my journey.
Stand for right, even if you stand alone.
He who stands still, goes backward.
I'm standing at a crossroads. I'm not entirely sure what the future holds ... I'm at a crossroads, but it's a little bit different than the crossroads I've been at before because I'm doing what I do because I love it, and doing what I do because it's pure passion.
Inside every pause lived a contemplation
I stand here on this spring day in the center of my life. Chaos, din, and beauty. For a moment, I am still.
Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness, if you will; they are places for doing nothing and they have no life of their own ... their one constant is what might be called a decorative rigor mortis ...
Waiting at the wrong place, most like.
It is the waiting that cripples.
The most trying moments in human experience were those in which there was nothing to be done except to wait.
I'm on the verge of taking a stand.
Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached.
Being still does not mean don't move. It means move in peace.
Power immobilizes; it freezes with a single gesture-grandiose, terrible, theatrical, or finally, simply monotonous-the variety which is life.
Patience comes to those who wait.
They aimless halt, who halt for others.
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there ... and still on your feet.
Nothing waits, every thing Sets, every body is Set.
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.
It is difficult to enjoy people for whom we have waited too long. And in this familiar situation, which evokes such intensities of feeling, we wait and we try to do something other than waiting, and we often get bored - the boredom of protest that is always a screen for rage.
Standing still is always more tiring than walking
attempting to block progress.
The meaning is in the waiting,
The only thing lonelier than travelling is standing still.
There is a time to be still in the pose.
It used to be in the Senate that if you were filibustering, you stood up. There was a physical dimension to it, that you - when you became exhausted you would have to leave the floor. That was the idea of the filibuster.
Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.'
Stand and be true
Stand fast, firm and steadfast.
this TBT if you: Stand a lot;
Only stagnant people get stuck because they don't attempt to move at all.
No choice but stand. Somehow up and stand. Somehow stand. That or groan. The groan so long on its way. No. No groan. Simply pain. Simply up. A time when try how. Try see. Try say. How first it lay. Then somehow knelt. Bit by bit. Then on from there. Bit by bit. Till up at last.
Gotta keep moving; can't stop; stagnation kills.
Stand, you've been sitting much too long, there's a permanent crease in your right or wrong.
No matter what you do in life, a part of you still sits at a curbside, still hearing the drumbeat of a distant parade, still waiting for it to turn the corner.
I want you all to stand; will you do that for me, please?
She had been derailed, delayed, detained forever at the side of the road in a town surrounded by nothingness.
It's torturous standing there in front of him, waiting - for what, I don't know.