Quotes of: Stillness Keyword

In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

We still have a lot to talk about," I said. "Talk?" He shook his head, his eyes full of desire. , he whispered to my thoughts.

Hush, Hush

When he told it, I remembered. He handed me my past like… like a spear. But I do not know if I should take it. Is it still mine, if I do not want it?

The House of Hades

If soldiers are punished before they have grown attached to you, they will not prove submissive; and, unless submissive, then will be practically useless. If, when the soldiers have become attached to you, punishments are not enforced, they will stil...

The Art of War

We do not need to go out and find love; rather, we need to be still and let love discover us.

Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

I understood about fear. And I knew better than anyone in that room what Mouse was capable of. But still I had been raised in a place where to show your fear was worse than cowardice. It was suicide, a sin.

Black Betty

Your best days are still out in front of you. So stop looking behind you and keep your focus on your roads ahead!

Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying

To be left with only the trace of a memory is to gaze at an armchair that's still molded to the form of a love who has left never to return: It is to grieve, dear reader, it is to weep.

The Black Book

Olympus is still a patriarchy. Zeus heads his royal household as jealously as Jehovah rules his harem of dull, harp-playing angels. Both are templates for order on earth, don’t you think?

Of Bodies Changed

We connect through our dreams. Like we could be a thousand miles apart and I'd still know you were there.

The Big Crunch

Are you okay?" Kelly cried. "I shot dinner," Nick said. Kelly snorted. "Look, Hannibal, you can shoot back if they 're shooting at you, but it's still not okay to eat them afterward.

Ball & Chain

I guess this was what it felt like to love someone and feel like you had lost them. Even when you were still holding them in your arms.

Beautiful Creatures

Do you imagine that they're going to issue me a citation...what was your name again?" "Still Eve." "No, I'm sure it's something else. That doesn't seem right.

Bite Club

We spend much of our lives going about completely blind to reality, and yet we still have the gall to act victimized when it invariably catches up to us.

Bleeds My Desire

That which now calls itself democracy differs from older forms of government solely in that it drives with new horses: the streets are still the same old streets, and the wheels are likewise the same old wheels.

Beyond Good and Evil

To respect the dignity of a relationship also implies accepting the end when it comes. Except in my mind, except in my dreams, where the aftertaste of her still lingers.

Before I Forget

A brick could be used to instill courage in the cowardly. But training must begin at birth, and the weak identified while they are still hiding in the womb. 

Brick and Blanket Test in Brick City (Ocala) Florida

Death and his scythe do not come. No sweeping black capes or ethereal escapes. There’s no pearly gate, no prisms of colors as his soul slips away. The stillness is cold steel. The silence is empty with no memory to mend it.

Burning Falls

Poverty is not intrinsically a trap, otherwise we would all still be poor.

The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

Even if most of the time we navigate so carefully we might as well be bombs trying not to explode, we are still always there, in each other’s paths. Just waiting for the moments we intersect.

The Book of Ivy

I sit, but I'm still stiff as a board. My hands are clenched tight, as if I'm holding my tears in my palms and if I loose my grip, they'll come tumbling out.

Being Sloane Jacobs