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Letter "S" » stand still
«I think it's the end of progress if you stand still and think of what you've done in the past. I keep on.»
«They who are afflicted with it, are seized while they are walking, (more especially if it be up hill, and soon after eating) with a painful and most disagreeable sensation in the breast, which seems as if it would extinguish life, if it were to increase or to continue; but the moment they stand still, all this uneasiness vanishes. . . . In all other respects, patients are, at the beginning of this disorder, perfectly well. . . . Males are most liable to this disease, especially such as have past their fiftieth year.»
Author: William Heberden
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«I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.»
«Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.»
Author: Charles R. Swindoll
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Clergyman,
Writer)
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«Now hast thou but one bare hour to live / And then thou must be damned perpetually! / Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven,/ That time may cease and midnight never come.»
«Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.»
Author: Robert Collier
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«Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the LORD of all the righteous acts of the LORD, which he did to you and to your fathers.»
«Stand still. The trees ahead and bush beside you are not lost.»
Author: Albert Einstein
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Physicist)
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«In Lowell, Indiana, there was a four-hour hostage standoff in a bank. The bank customers were made to line up and stand still for hours . . . just like in a regular visit.»
Author: Bill Maher
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Actor,
Comedian,
Producer,
Writer)
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«Stand still, true poet that you are! / I know you; let me try and draw you. / Some night you'll fail us: when afar / You rise, remember one man saw you, / Knew you and named a star!»