#stationary

Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#due #earth #moreover #motion #rather

Now he must not go the wrong way round the circuit, and unless he can spin himself stationary through 360 degrees I fail to see how he can avoid doing so. ↗

— Murray Walker

#avoid #circuit #degrees #doing #fail

The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity and then of aging decline. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#aging #decline #follow #growth #i

Now I walk every where I can. I also ride a stationary bicycle for a total of 30 minutes. I do it three or more times a week now and I have lost 20 pounds. ↗

— Della Reese

#also #bicycle #every #i #i can

I started mountain-bike riding two years ago, which is much better than riding a stationary bike in the gym. Mountain biking is a total body workout. ↗

— Samantha Stosur

#better #bike #biking #body #gym

I've always been more interested in organisms that can move on their own than in stationary plants. But when I canoe or hike along the edge of lakes or oceans and see trees that seem to be growing out of rock faces, I am blown away. How do they do it? ↗

— David Suzuki

#always #am #away #been #blown

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