Standstill Quotes

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

Government, While, Three

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Barbara Tuchman

History, Science, Thought

Never try to leap from a standstill.
Mason Cooley

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

Real, Place, Between

Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.
James Cash Penney

Success, Change, Men

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

End, Real, Problem

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

Made, Actor, Wants

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

Work, Else, Looking

I started working on a line of clothes last year, but right now we're kind of at a standstill.
Beverley Mitchell

Working, Last, Year

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