Standing Quotes

I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.

I used to do poetry and write stories and stuff - I never really had anybody standing over my shoulder, like, "What did you write? Let me hear it." I hate that type of stuff.

This morning I was standing in the shower and thought how I was sick of losing and how it was about time I had a big game.

Shadwell hated all southerners and, by inference, was standing at the North Pole.

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.

Many a standing ovation has been caused by someone jumping to his feet in an effort to beat the rest of the audience to the parking lot.

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.

When humans face testings and tragedy, they should remember the angels who are always standing ready to lend their celestial assistance, comfort and council.

With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.

A bulger of a place it is. The number of the ships beat me all hollow, and looked for all the world like a big clearing in the West, with the dead trees all standing.

I'm standing on my Monopoly board that means I'm on top of my game

The Dharma Path is to keep walking forward. But the true Dharma has no going forward, no going backward, and no standing still.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

I walked backstage, standing ovation. Everyone was backstage clapping.

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?

But what I'd really like to tell you is I never dreamed of being in the Hall of Fame. Standing here with all these great players was beyond any of my dreams.

I saw you standing on a veranda you'd built with your own hands. And I loved you.

The press needs stories constantly. No need to bleed, just feed. Branding will keep you standing... Get press not stress.

An armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics - that without standing armies their liberty can never be in danger, nor with large ones safe.

He wanted that again, that feeling of standing with her against all odds and succeeding. He wanted it so bad, he was going to risk destroying everything he and his father had worked for.

I never really worried about those hurdles. They were just standing there, and I was always zooming past them just to get back on the ground again.

I used to spend hours at night, downstairs, in front of the only full-length mirror in the house, standing on the table working out what I would wear to school the next day.

I hate it. It looks like a stickup at 7-Eleven. Five guys standing there with their hands in the air.

I can say I made a lot of mistakes, but I don't regret things. Because at least I didn't spend a life standing outside, wondering what living would be like.

Cut the "im" out of impossible, leading that dynamic word standing out free and clear-possible.

Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps: silence of paintings. You language where all language ends. You time standing vertically on the motion of mortal hearts.

I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you.

When it comes to standing up for veterans, we cannot be the Republicans and Democrats, we have to be the red, white, and blue party.

They'd been standing like that for thirty seconds of forever.

I went to the Home Depot, which was unnecessary. I need to go to the Apartment Depot. Which is just a big warehouse with a whole lot of people standing around saying "We don't have to fix anything."

I dreamed you were standing in this dark place and you touched these dead flowers and they lit up like they were electric or something. Electric lilies. Lighting up the Valley.

One minute I'm standing at Ronnie Scott's getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I'm on a marble slab

Basically it's just a whole bunch of blokes standing around scratching themselves

Individuality doesn't just mean individualism-standing alone. It means developing one's unique gifts, and being able to share them for the enjoyment of oneself and others.

There is no word in the English language for the feeling someone gets when they suddenly realize they're standing next to an unholy monster impersonating a human. Monstralization, maybe?

But most of my songs were about believing in yourself, standing up for yourself and fighting for what you believe in.

Men and women of high professional standing were reduced to the status of vagrants, unable to find employment and forced to eat the bitter bread of public or private charity.

Children, we should always eat our food sitting down. Do not eat standing or walking around.

Scars show toughness: that you've been through it, and you're still standing.

I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith

There hasn't been one highlight that stands out... but touring and performing has been great.

Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.

Republicans are going to have to come to the conclusion that there's a political price for standing against 90 percent of their constituents to stand with the gun lobby.

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they'd have to sleep standing up.

But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care.

All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.

standing in line is a form of oppression

I was just standing around and suddenly I was cast as an extra. I hated it because I was so shy.