Stills Quotes - Page 5

• Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.

  T Bone Burnett

  Years, Two, Records

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• Before you can kill a demon, you have to be able to say it's name. Names have power. While the word Alzheimer's terrorizes us, it has power over us. When we are prepared to discuss it aloud, we might have power over it. It's thought of as a mental illness and it is a physical illness, affecting the brain. There should be no shame in having it, yet people still don't talk about it

  Terry Pratchett

  Alzheimer's, Names, People

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• Never has so much military and economic and diplomatic power been used so ineffectively, and if after all of this time, and all of this sacrifice, and all of this support, there is still no end in sight, then I say the time has come for the American people to turn to new leadership not tied to the mistakes and policies of the past.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Military, War, Mistake

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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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• In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.

  Mark Twain

  Flower, Years, Twenties

  Mark Twain (1976). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume I: (1855-1873)”, p.105, Univ of California Press

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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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• The only person I ever hurt was myself and even that I did to the minimum. If you can do that and you're still functioning, you're the luckiest person in the world.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Hurt, Pain, World

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

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• When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I advance, the happy prospect of futurity shall vanish only with my existence.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Horizon, Retreat, Illusion

  Maria Edgeworth (1833). “Tales and Novels”, p.320

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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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• I still believe Emmitt has enough left in the tank to be a productive back over the next couple of seasons.

  Al Michaels

  Couple, Believe, Tanks

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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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• The world is deathly ill. It is dying. The Great Physician has already signed the death certificate. Yet, there is still a great work for Christians to do. They are to be streams of living water, channels of mercy to those who are still in the world. It is possible for them to do this because they are overcomers.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Christian, Water, Dying

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• A gardener is never shut out from his garden, wherever he may be. Its comfort never fails. Though the city may close about him, and the grime and soot descend upon him, he can still wander in his garden, does he but close his eyes.

  Beverley Nichols

  Eye, Garden, Cities

  Beverley Nichols (1932). “Down the garden path”, Doubleday, Doran & co., inc.

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• We've been expected to be perfect but we aren't. We're still human.

  Mariah Carey

  Perfect, Humans, Expected

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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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• The White House softball team played the pro-marijuana lobbyists' team and lost 25-3. Still no word yet on which side President Obama played for.

  Jay Leno

  Softball, Team, Marijuana

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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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• Mistaken, always second guessing, underestimated, look I'm still around.

  Pink

  Looks, Guessing, Mistaken

  Song: Fuckin' Perfect

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• Perhaps the hardest thing I've learned, and still struggle with, is that I don't have to be finished in order to be whole.

  Mark Nepo

  Struggle, Order, I've Learned

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.96, Conari Press

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