#stationary

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#binds #chariot #conditions #ever #fixed

Sometimes, when it’s going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery. The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell. Emma is lost on anything less than 120gsm. ↗

— David Nicholls

#funny #stationary #writer #writing #written-word

Somebody should have taken him to a stationary store and pointed out the difference between an envelope and a whore. ↗

— Richard Brautigan

#humour #noir #stationary #dreams

Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States remained almost, if not quite stationary. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#carolinas #exports #great #population #quite

We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life. ↗

— James Freeman Clarke

#life #progressing #remaining #stationary #such

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#approaches #back #closed #eyes #his

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#men #progressive #retrograde #stationary #three

Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#company #dealing #educations #ended #father

I'm not a huge gym person, so I try to stay away from the gym. But I love to run on the beach or go for a walk. It's better than riding a stationary bike. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#beach #better #bike #go #gym

By allowing the positive ions to pass through an electric field and thus giving them a certain velocity, it is possible to distinguish them from the neutral, stationary atoms. ↗

— Johannes Stark

#atoms #certain #distinguish #electric #field