A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.
— William Shakespeare
Unexpected Stillness quotations
Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all;
but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.


A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!
Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door.

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
If you want to change the world, start with yourself.
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.

Reality is, after all, too big for our frail understanding to fully comprehend.
Nevertheless, we have to build our life on the theory which contains the maximum truth.We cannot sit still because we cannot, or do not , know the Absolute Truth.
If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.
In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.

Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core.
To those of you with your years of service still ahead, the challenge is yours.
Stop doubting yourselves. Have the courage to make up your minds and hold your decisions. Refuse to be BOUGHT for a nickel, or a million dollars, or a job!
Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!
No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.
You can truly grieve for every officer who's been lost in the line of duty in this country, and still be troubled by cases of police overreach.

Every day, God has something to say to you.
Even when He seems to be quiet, God is still saying something.
Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
In a theatre it happened that a fire started off stage.
The clown came out to tell the audience. They thought it was a joke and applauded. He told them again, and they became still more hilarious. This is the way, I suppose, that the world will be destroyed-amid the universal hilarity of wits and wags who think it is all a joke.

I may not dress like Satan anymore, but I’m still down with the Devil and I will go medieval on your ass.
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams.
Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
I have never known more than fifteen minutes of anxiety or fear.
Whenever I feel fearful emotions overtaking me, I just close my eyes and thank God that He is still on the throne reigning over everything and I take comfort in His control over the affairs of my life.

I've lost a million and a half on the horses and dice in the last two years.
And the funny part is, I still like 'em, and if someone handed me another million I'd put it right in the nose of some horse that looked good to me.
Some jobs pay better, some jobs smell better, and some jobs have no business being treated like careers. But work is never the enemy, regardless of the wage. Because somewhere between the job and the paycheck, there’s still a thing called opportunity, and that’s what people need to pursue.
Men make history and not the other way around.
In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Throw dirt on my name, and I still come out clean
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope.
In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it.
The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
If I had a choice, I would still choose to remain blind.
..for when I die, the first face I will ever see will be the face of my blessed Saviour.
Africa is still lying ready for us it is our duty to take it.
It is our duty to seize every opportunity of acquiring more territory and we should keep this one idea steadily before our eyes that more territory simply means more of the Anglo-Saxon race more of the best the most human, most honorable race the world possesses.
In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.
We are born to love, we live to love, and we will die to love still more.