Stationary Quotes

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  Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Love, Motor Racing, Car

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• Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Earth, Sun, Remains

  Nicolaus Copernicus (1978). “On the revolutions”

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• The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity and then of aging decline.

  Wilhelm Ostwald

  Aggravation, Growth, Patterns

  "Chemistry: 1901-1921" by Nobel Foundation, (p. 166), 1966.

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• No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

  Emma Goldman

  Law, Ideas, Wheels

  Emma Goldman “Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature”

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• We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Inspirational, Recovery, Progress

  "Edge-Tools of Speech". Book by Maturin M. Ballou (p. 397), 1886.

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• Either the car is stationary, or it's on the move.

  Murray Walker

  Moving, Car, Moving Forward

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• There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Ignorance, Men, Class

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• I'm paranoid. On my stationary bike, I have a rear view mirror.

  Richard Lewis

  Funny, Humor, Mirrors

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• No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law?

  Emma Goldman

  Law, Ideas, Chariots

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• Never can a new idea move within the law. It matters not whether that idea pertains to political and social changes or to any other domain of human thought and expression - to science, literature, music; in fact, everything that makes for freedom and joy and beauty must refuse to move within the law. How can it be otherwise? The law is stationary, fixed, mechanical, 'a chariot wheel' which grinds all alike without regard to time, place and condition, without ever taking into account cause and effect, without ever going into the complexity of the human soul.

  Emma Goldman

  Moving, Expression, Law

  Address to the Jury, delivered 9 July 1917, New York

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• Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary organism. Junk is a pain killer. A plant has no libido in the human or animal sense. Junk replaces the sex drive. Seeding is the sex of the plant and the function of opium is to delay seeding. Perhaps the intense discomfort of withdrawal is the transition from plant back to animal, from a painless, sexless, timeless state back to sex and pain and time, from death back to life.

  William S. Burroughs

  Sex, Pain, Animal

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• The more recently power has originated, the less it can remain stationary - first because those who created it have become accustomed to rapid further movement and because they are and will be innovators per se; secondly, because the forces aroused or subdued by them can be employed only through further acts.

  Jacob Burckhardt

  History, Movement, Firsts

  Jacob Burckhardt (2012). “Judgements on History and Historians”, p.84, Routledge

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• Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again on the road to the Ideal.

  Franz Liszt

  Music, Taken, Style

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• As long as you are stationary, no one will complain. Dogs don't bark at parked cars.

  Max Lucado

  Dog, Long, Car

  Max Lucado (2014). “One God, One Plan, One Life: A 365 Devotional”, p.263, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Knowledge, in so far as it is directed to practical matters, has only to enumerate the principal possible attitudes of the thing towards us, as well as our best possible attitude towards it. Therein lies the ordinary function of ready-made concepts, those stations with which we mark out the path of becoming. But to seek to penetrate with them into the inmost nature of things, is to apply to the mobility of the real a method created in order to give stationary points of observation on it.

  Henri Bergson

  Nature, Real, Order

  "An Introduction to Metaphysics".

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• Common sense is not something rigid and stationary, but is in continuous transformation, becoming enriched with scientific notions and philosophical opinions that have entered into common circulation. 'Common sense' is the folklore of philosophy and always stands midway between folklore proper (folklore as it is normally understood) and the philosophy, science, and economics of the scientists. Common sense creates the folklore of the future, a relatively rigidified phase of popular knowledge in a given time and place.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Common Sense

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• I share my name with an aerobatic bird that can whiz across a whole summer sky in seconds. A swift is so equipped for speed that it can scarcely cope with being stationary.

  Graham Swift

  Summer, Sky, Names

  "Graham Swift: 'As a novelist, I'm in for the long haul'". www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2017.

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• Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants.

  Martin Lewis Perl

  Mother, Father, School

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• To have lived long does not necessarily imply the gathering of much wisdom and experience. One who has pedaled twenty-five thousand miles on a stationary bicycle has not circled the globe. He or she has only garnered weariness.

  Paul Eldridge

  Wisdom, Long, Twenties

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• I know when I've been playing a lot of golf it takes me a while to get back into cricket again. It's not so much the different shape of the swings, more the fact that you are stationary when you hit a golf ball. In cricket you have to move forward or back, which is an instinctive timing thing.

  Ricky Ponting

  Moving, Golf, Swings

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I started mountain-bike riding two years ago, which is much better than riding a stationary bike in the gym. Mountain biking is a total body workout.

  Samantha Stosur

  Workout, Years, Two

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The main aim of education should be to send children out into the world with a reasonably sized anthology in their heads so that, while seated on the lavatory, waiting in doctors' surgeries, on stationary trains or watching interviews with politicians, they may have something interesting to think about.

  John Mortimer

  Education, Children, Thinking

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• The world is changing. We're not really proceeding on a stationary basis.

  Kenneth Arrow

  World, Bases, Proceeding

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• Time neither moves nor is stationary. Time changes.

  Paulo Coelho

  Time, Moving

  "Aleph". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2011.

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