Standing Quotes

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 have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. -Loving Frank

The use of violence in movies is a subject that's worth addressing. I'm not standing on a soapbox or wagging a finger, but I'm interested in those subjects for sure.

And I am standing in front of my mother, and my whole life I have wanted to make my mother proud. And now I'm going to make my daughter proud.

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

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

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

I was a halfway-decent-looking English boy who looked nice in a drawing-room standing by a piano.

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

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

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.

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

When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners.

You saw him standing out there, and you knew you had a pretty damn good chance to win the baseball game.

The bridge fell away into the chasm, and the Cyclops howled ... with delight, because he was standing right next to us.

For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.

If you are moving, even fire will not hurt you. If you are standing still near the fire, even though you are not in the fire, the heat will eventually get to you.

To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.

Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world.

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 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.

Being an occupier is not good for anybody's global standing. It is a catalyst for terrorist recruitment.

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.

We need a commander in chief not a professor of law standing at a lectern - the lectern.

When we win, it will tell every politician in America that if you are bold, if you do the right thing, if you tackle the tough issues, there will be people standing there right with you.

I love metaphors. I've never been on this train. ... If I'm standing on the middle of a track, I'm definitely going to get derailed. I have to make sure that I'm on the train and not in front of it.

Criticism comes to those who stand out.

I had a constant fear, a constant little doubt in my mind: 'OK, I'm getting ready to do my standing back full on beam and I might re-tear my ACL.'

I had not yet gotten into the world of light. But I felt as one who, standing outside, could knock against the wall and hear an answering knock from within.

It is obvious that the best qualities in man must atrophy in a standing-room-only environment.

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

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army

You have to stand out if you want to move up.

The heart of standing is that you cannot fly.

I very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision

I was in Independence, Missouri when Johnson signed the Medicare bill, with Truman standing there. Truman had first proposed Medicare, but couldn't get it through.

I'm always standing on the edge of something bad.

So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.

My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line.

I always feel I have to take a stand, And there's always someone on hand To hate me for standing there. I always feel I have to open my mouth, And every time I do, I offend someone, somewhere.

Passion and standing up for things can help create a sense of unity. But you still have to act a certain way.

If you're standing in the manure pile, it's somebody's job to mention the stink.

I'm happy that I'm at a moment where I'm not standing here going what do I do next?

When I saw my first movie, I was fine, but I thought, "Oh, my heavens. It's not about just standing there on my mark and saying these lines. I need to actually act."

If bin Laden is in fact publicly killed, then the US military will find itself standing around with its hands in its pockets, wondering what's supposed to come next.

It's not whether you fall or make a mistake, it's what you do when you fall. And I say you stand up. You keep standing up. It's not how many times you fall, it's how many times you stand up.

The boy was standing alone as though the broken glass all around him were a shining sea and he were an island.

I am standing for NSW Super 12 coaching position. NSW great. Queensland bad.

But if I hadn't shoved you off the boat back there,you'd be lost at sea now,wouldn't you? We'd all be lost! So thanks to me you're all standing on land." (Pirates, its a good thing they're idiots)

You got an all-out prize fight, you wait 'til the fight's over, one guy's left standing and that's how you know who's won.