Standing Quotes

Ghana is one of the countries in Western Africa that still has quite a few of their slave castles still standing.

The United States have developed a new weapon that destroys people but it leaves buildings standing. It's called the stock market.

The thing that attracted me to my husband was his pride. I'll never forget the first time I saw him, standing up on a hill, his hair blowing in the breeze - and he too proud to run and get it.

I don't see myself as some kind of lone figure standing out there and doing my work in solitary splendour, but as part of the human condition and part of the continuum of writers.

Each day, I read the New York Times before leaving for the theater. And I have this standing assignment: connect the world of Anthem to the late breaking events of the day.

Charlie Sheen is to stand-up what Larry Flynt is to standing up.

I don't understand why every single person in Congress isn't standing up and going, "He [Donald Trump] is in bed with Russia." And then they could just lock their arms and not let him in.

I can sleep anywhere. I can fall asleep standing up, literally anywhere.

You guys are just standing up because I fell, and it's so embarrassing.

Larry Lintz steals second standing up. He slid, but he didn't have to.

Kissing scenes with a boy or a girl, they're awkward. There's nothing sexy about it. There's a lot of people standing around.

Since coming back from Iraq, there's been so many triumphs and obstacles standing in my way, so whenever I set my mind to something, I definitely just go full blast at it.

I woke up and all I could see was Iraqis standing all around me, looking down upon me. I knew at that moment something terrible had happened and I wasn't in the right place.

I wrote the song 'Angels Standing By'... to try and soothe myself - rock myself to sleep, basically - because I was so scared and stressed.

I think there are a lot of people who feel very passionate about needing to have an open debate. And I think it's a real sign of leadership that the press needs to be actually standing up for that.

Remember Donald Trump had about $4 billion worth of free media, and Hillary Clinton has had about $2 billion, and we've had zero. I think it remarkable that we are standing where we are.

Standing alone among great democratic nations in imposing the death penalty is another moral decision that Americansare being forced to confront.

I don't like doing stand-up, because I don't like standing up.

I'm so excited by women right now, not just in America but globally. Women really are coming into their own. We're standing on the shoulders of forty years of hard and messy work.

Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam.

Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property, according to standing laws.

I'm not supposed to know what's going on. But I can tell you this, I won't be standing around scratching my head like Coach Johnson in that Denorex commercial.

Whenever I'm in Glasgow I go and stand outside the front of the house I grew up in, which is in Mount Vernon.

If you're standing in the middle of a ring and you're playing the villain, and everyone is booing and throwing things at you, that's real.

I look forward to standing up and holding George Bush accountable for pushing seniors off of Medicare into HMOs.

That's what I am standing up for - Israel's future as a Jewish and democratic state living side-by-side in peace and security with its neighbors.

There is some schedule showing what you (need) to do to get Iraqis standing up and defending themselves which is now suddenly beginning to happen, so there are some signs of progress.

Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.

Colin had always preferred baths; one of his general policies in life was never to do anything standing up that could just as easily be done lying down

More than anything else we should be concerned about meekness, or our standing in God's sight. If that standing is as it should be, nothing else matters. If it is not, nothing else counts.

There will be no war, but in the pursuit of principle no stone will be left standing.

I was a great one as a kid for standing and just looking out a window for hours and hours and hours. Now the TV does that for me, except for the view changes immensely.

The beliefs which we have most warrant for, have no safeguard to rest on, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded.

I think some musicians can almost forget that the stage is something to do something on, even if that thing is standing still.

In the long run, however much damage we come through, Obama's vision is the one that's going to be left standing. It's a question of how much pain and suffering America has to endure in the meantime.

It's a very different feeling just sitting around the side, playing piano, and dancing around as opposed to standing in front and singing.

T is as cheap sitting as standing.

In general, fakirs, like scribes and potters, are sitting down, when he's standing up, a fakir is just like an other man, and sitting down, he'll be smaller than the others.

Round-heads and Wooden-shoes are standing jokes.

Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery.

-"Nick?" "I'm still here, Laurant." -"Did you tell Tommy we slept together?" "No, but you just did. He's standing right here." She fell asleep. But this time she didn't have any dreams or nightmare.

Did you ever look in the mirror And see a stranger standing there? Did you ever drive for miles and miles And wonder how on earth you got yourself there?

Social standing and reptuation has always mattered, but now it 's happening on a global basis.

He had the vague sense of standing on a threshold, the crossing of which would change everything.

Don't fear moving slowly forward...fear standing still.

People expect you to be this weird cartoon sometimes when you're a musician. I hate that. I hate standing out. I hate people looking at me. I just want to be part of the crowd.

To someone standing in the nave, looking down the length of the church toward the east, the round window would seem like a huge sun exploding into innumerable shards of gorgeous color.

The sight of one man standing up to challenge God and country is something that Madison, Jefferson and Franklin would cheer, and every American can celebrate.

I'm a child of the '60s, so I love the fact that we are returning to a time when artists are standing up.

There, standing at the piano, was the original good time who had been had by all.