And, behold, the L passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the L; but the L was not in the wind: and after thewind anearthquake; butthe L wasnot inthe earthquake: And after the earthquake a fire; but the L was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDORDORDORD1 Kings19:11^12.

Stand inawe, and sinnot: communewithyourownheart upon your bed, and be still.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 4:4.

He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire. Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 46:9^10.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has cummings thoroughly and perfectlyannihilated by that vast and painful process of Unthinking which may result in a minutebitof purelypersonal Feeling.Whichminutebit is Art. colossal faults, but onething cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.

-cummings, e e pen name of  Edward Estlin Cummings
  The Enormous Room, ch.12. 1927  'Why I Like  America', in Vanity Fair, May.

They shut me up in Proseö As when a little girl They put me in the Closetö Because they liked me'still'.

-Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth
c.1862  Complete Poems, no.613 (first published1935).

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith But the faith and the hope and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought, So the darkness shall be the light and the stillness the dancing.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.1.

At worst, one is in motion; and at best, Reaching no absolute, in which to rest, One is always nearer by not keeping still.

-Gunn,Thom(sonWilliam)
  'On the Move'.

   No economy ever stands still.

-Harrod, Sir Roy
  The British Economy.

The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.Like whentheysay 'Asit wasin the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end'.

-Rhys,Jean pseudonym of  Ellen Gwendolen Rees Williams
  Voyage in the Dark, ch.4, pt.1.

Still falls the Rainö Dark as the world of man, black as our lossö Blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails Upon the cross.

-Sitwell, Dame Edith Louisa
  'The Raids,1940. Night and Dawn'.