Standing Quotes
For how can a man stand, unless he have something sure under his feet. Can a man tread the unstable water all his life, and call that standing? Better give in and drown at once.
Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.
The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
Actually loneliness has a kind of fascination; it's a state of egotistical, inner grace that you can achieve only by standing guard on old, forgotten roads that no one travels anymore.
Whether we are reading the Bible for the first time or standing in a field in Israel next to a historian and an archaeologist and a scholar, the Bible meets us where we are. That is what truth does
We live with the decisions we makeThat’s what bravery is. Standing by the consequences of your mistakes.
When you say, "History is written by the winners," you like to think about someone who isn't you. You want to think, "Oh, that's the juggernaut I'm standing against." But you're probably part of it.
Threats to our standing in the eyes of others are remarkably potent biologically, almost as powerful as those to our very survival.
For standing between Cody and his pain is my obligation, and standing between my uncle and his pain is my rent, but the pain I coax from Bronte is my joy
"Is standing by the window muttering about blood something he does all the time?" asked Simon. "No," Jace said. "Sometimes he sits on the couch and does it."
The one element that stands out most clearly among our peak performers is their virtually unassailable belief in the likelihood of their own success.
...that standing army can never be formidable (threatening) to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior to them in the use of arms.
We have no parties standing in opposition to each other, just as we have no class of capitalists and a class of workers exploited by capitalists in opposition to each other.
Sometimes just getting up in the morning and standing at the gate can bring the gate down.
Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner. The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting, diverse, and long-standing friends.
Polyphonic painting is superior to music in that there, the time element becomes a spatial element. The notion of simultaneity stands out even more richly.
Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.
If my clothing does stand out, then I guess it's a compliment, but I just wear whatever feels comfortable.
You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.
I didn't feel the need to have a lot of yes-men standing around me. As Mitchell Sharp once put it, the bigger the staff, the smaller the minister.
Let us help build the kingdom of God by standing up boldly and being defenders of marriage, parenthood, and the home.
It was mind-blowing. It was a small place with 2,000 standing-up tickets. It's great to have your band back and working and playing again, people have been so generous.
Dr. Seuss provided "ingenious and uniquely witty solutions to the standing problem of the juvenile fantasy writer: how to find, not another Alice, but another rabbit hole.
My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity.
We are standing on the threshold of a world-epoch of religious creativeness, on a cosmic divide.
Standing in the middle of nowhere, wondering how to begin. Lost between tomorrow and yesterday, between now and then.
Well, for me, my favourite 'Indiana Jones' is 'The Last Crusade,' because you get tears in your eyes when you see the old guard standing at the end, so that's my favourite one.
It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.
I knew how much it hurt to be the daughter of people who can't see you, not even if you are standing in front of them stomping your feet.
Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.
...a young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks, "Has the bus come yet?". If the bus came would I be standing here?
Your goal is to achieve the best results by following their wishes. If they want you to build a house upside down standing on its chimney, it's up to you to do it.
Fundamentally, I believe that the U.S. can improve its international standing and its national security by expanding trade and strengthening its relationships with moderate Muslim countries.
A dependent clause is like a dependent child: incapable of standing on its own but able to cause a lot of trouble.
A lonely fir-tree is standing On a northern barren height; It sleeps, and the ice and snow-drift Cast round it a garment of white.
Thus is the fruit of the Earth taken, its flesh torn. Thus is it given over standing, toward rot. It is the principle of corruption, the death of what is, the birth of what is to be. You are wine.
Self - development should be a perpetual process. In life you are either growing or rotting. You're moving forward or backwards; there is no standing still.
Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.
The good news is we have the technology and the tools to alleviate poverty on a global scale. All that is standing in our way is education and will.
In these long-standing conflicts, I find that most cases it gets resolved in about twenty minutes after each side can tell me the needs of the other.