
“if you stay still, earth buries you, ready or not.”
Source: For the Time Being
“if you stay still, earth buries you, ready or not.”
Source: For the Time Being
“I named my dog Stay, so I can say, 'Come here, Stay! Come here, Stay!”
“I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.”
Source: Dark Places
“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.”
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.”
Source: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Source: A Wallflower Christmas
“People around the world were moving from one place to another. No one was staying.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eye lids rather than disobey God.”
“Their plan had been very simple: to stay together for the rest of their lives.”
Source: P.S. I Love You
Source: Love in the Afternoon
“Art hurts. Art urges voyages—
and it is easier to stay at home.”
"The Chicago Picasso" (1968)
“I said earlier that dead things don't always stay dead.”
Source: Frostbite
“I want to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon but i want to STAY ALIVE.”
Source: Fruits Basket, Vol. 8
Source: Smart and Sexy
“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.”
1842
Source: Notebooks, The American Notebooks (1835 - 1853)
Source: A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life
“I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.”
“A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.”
“I know you’ll never love me but maybe you’ll stay for awhile.”
Source: Solipsist
Source: The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays
“Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.”
Weil die Dinge sind, wie sie sind, werden die Dinge nicht so bleiben wie sie sind.
As quoted in Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1976) by John Gordon Burke and Ned Kehde, p. 224, also in The Book of Positive Quotations (2007) by John Cook, p. 390
Source: Tap & Gown
“Throughout his life the memory of that happy day stayed locked secretly in (his) heart.”
Source: Martin the Warrior
“You've got to lie to stay halfway interested in yourself.”
“The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.”
Voices of Vision: Creators of Science Fiction and Fantasy, page 182 https://books.google.com/books/about/Voices_of_Vision.html?id=Nu4vUZT-7ToC&hl=en
Source: Strange Wine
“Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.”
Source: The Old Man and the Sea
Bluebird
The Last Night of the Earth Poems (1992)
Context: there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going
to let anybody see you.
... I only let him out
at night sometimes
when everybody's asleep.
... he's singing a little
in there, I haven't quite let him
die
... and it's nice enough to
make a man
weep, but I don't
weep, do
you?
Up, Simba
Essays
Variant: There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.
Source: Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
Context: If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don't bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical and to give you every possible psychological reason to stay at home doing one-hitters and watching MTV on primary day. By all means stay home if you want, but don't bullshit yourself that you're not voting. In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.
“You sure you don’t want me to stay? I’ll make you coffee and ask you about your day.”
Source: Magic Strikes