Stills Quotes - Page 13

• I still believe in the power of the word, that words inspire.

  Joni Mitchell

  Believe, Inspire, I Still Believe

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• Some find it easier to bend their knees than their minds. Exciting exploration is preferred to plodding implementation; speculation seems more fun than consecration, and so is trying to soften the hard doctrines instead of submitting to them. Worse still, by not obeying, these . . . lack real knowing. Lacking real knowing, they cannot defend their faith and may become critics instead of defenders!

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Faith, Fun, Real

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• I use nothing but the best ingredients. My cookies are always baked fresh. I price cookies so that you cannot make them at home for any less. And I still give cookies away.

  Debbi Fields

  Home, Service Culture, Air

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• Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Roots, Generosity, Certain

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.124, Penguin

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• One day I am satisfied, the next day I find it all bad; still I hope that some day I will find some of them good.

  Claude Monet

  Next Day, One Day, Goodness

  Claude Monet, Centre culturel du Marais (1983). “Claude Monet at the Time of Giverny”, Rizzoli International Publications

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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!

  Robert Browning

  Stars, Failure, Men

  'Popularity' (1855) st. 1

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• If it ever seems to us that the world is a place where bad things only happen to good people, it is because we still believe that bad things happening to bad people is a good thing.

  Philip K. Jason

  Believe, People, World

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• But still, the other voice, the intuitive, returns, like grass forcing its way through concrete.

  Susan Griffin

  Voice, Intuition, Way

  Susan Griffin (1983). “Made from this earth: an anthology of writings”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.

  Barney Ross

  Fire, Black, Burning

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• Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed.

  Neil LaBute

  Teaching, Men, Company

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• I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good as my teacher. It took a lot of practice, which I enjoyed, and still do.

  Matt Cameron

  Teacher, Practice, Play

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• Being still at least once a day will enhance your life.

  Oprah Winfrey

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• Last Exit to Brooklyn should explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America and still be eagerly read in a hundred years.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Years, America, Bombshells

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• It’s important for people to know that I’m still focused on football... I’m handling my business to get ready for the next season.

  Colin Kaepernick

  Football, People, Important

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• Speak and live in simple sentences. Bring closure -- put a period to -- those experiences that you don't want to carry on forever and ever. Use commas in those places where you're still growing... and use exclamation points at the end of every lesson.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Simple, Exclamation Points, Forever

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• Tabouli is the best salad, but still, you don't win friends with salad

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Winning, Salad

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• Taking steps is easy
  Standing still is hard...
  Everything is different
  The second time around.

  Regina Spektor

  Different, Steps, Easy

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• With few exceptions, every major pop singer in the US during her generation has been touched in some way by her genius. It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me. Lady Day is unquestionably the most important influence on American popular singing in the last twenty years.

  Frank Sinatra

  Holiday, Years, Musical

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• Why is our free-enterprise system so strong?- Not because it stands still, frozen in the past, but because it has always adapted to changing realities

  Lee Iacocca

  Strong, Past, Reality

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.216, Bantam

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• Distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Distance, Home, Creativity

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• A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing;
  Our helper He, amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing:
  For still our ancient foe doth seek to work us woe;
  His craft and power are great, and, armed with cruel hate,
  On earth is not his equal.

  Martin Luther

  Hate, Crafts, Earth

  Martin Luther (1931). “Early Protestant Educators: The Educational Writings of Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Other Leaders of Protestant Thought”, Ams PressInc

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• I thank God that America still has one party that reaches out their hands in love to lift up all of God's children - born and unborn, and says that each of us has dignity and all of us have the right to live the American Dream.

  Rick Santorum

  Dream, Children, Party

  Republican National Convention speech, www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.

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• Change is like to surfing. You can't just paddle into life, stand still and expect to stay on top of your board. The waves of change will knock you off and drag you under. Some people even think changes are fun! You are where you are because you want to be there. If you want to be somewhere else, you'll need to change.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Fun, Thinking, Somewhere Else

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• I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.

  Robert Frost

  Self, Self Education

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• Today's child is bewildered when he enters the 19th century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is scarce but ordered and structured by fragmented, classified patterns subjects, and schedules.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Children, Educational, Schedules

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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