Definition of Standstill

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Definition of Standstill
	Standstill A standing without moving forward or backward; a stop; a state or rest. Related Definitions: Backward, Forward, Moving, Or, Rest, Standing, State, Stop, Without

Standstill Quotations

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

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

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

Never try to leap from a standstill.
Mason Cooley

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

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

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

Standstill Translations

standstill in German is Stillstand, Stillstand, Stockung

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