Statis Quotes & Sayings

He glanced at the sheep photograph and nodded to himself. In his present state it did not seem strange to him that the police were apprehending sheep. — John Ajvide Lindqvist

Sitting in this small pub with its cool flagged floor, listening to the murmuring voices of the haymakers and the click of dominoes falling, drinking beer here in the midle of summer in England in 1914, he suddenly felt a stillness creep up on him as if he were suffering from a form of mental palsy
as if time had stopped and the world's turning, also. It was a strange sensation
that he would be for ever stuck in this late June day in 1914 like a fly in amber
the past as irrelevant to him as the future. A perfect statis; the most alluring inertia. — William Boyd

Spiritual hunger and spiritual thirst But you got to change it On the inside first To be satisfied — Van Morrison

Even when we do not choose evil, we choose the good so half heartedly and with so many qualifications that mediocrity becomes our canonized statis quo. — Benedict Groeschel

Paradoxical thinking requires that we embrace a view of the world in which opposites are joined, so that we can see the world clearly and see it whole ... The result is a world more complex and confusing than the one made simple by either-or thought - but that simplicity is merely the dullness of death. When we think together we reclaim the life force in the world, in our students, in ourselves. — Parker J. Palmer

Leo simply goes one way with his body and another with the ball. You have to either guess right or foul him. — Gerard Pique

To people from 'Brooklyn-Brooklyn' North Brooklyn is really just South Queens. — Dallas Athent

There was in her the glow of the real diamond among glass imitations. — Leo Tolstoy

One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I'm going to do my five or 10 pages no matter what, and that I can always tear them up the following morning if I want. I'll have lost nothing - writing and tearing up five pages would leave me no further behind than if I took the day off. — Lawrence Block

It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth. — Sharon Stone