Standing Quotes

Many a false step is made standing still.

I'm still standing up there tall and strong every night that I perform.

I never feel I'm standing on solid ground, and I do write with a certain kind of trembling fear.

Standing facing the door in an elevator and pretending you're the only person there, no matter how crowded it is.

Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Department is the last borrower left standing.

Catering on planes, like on British Rail, is a standing joke, but I don't really have a problem with it. I don't quite know what people expect.

When you have a company name that is to descriptive about what you do, you don't stand out.

Fashion is just really standing up in the forefront and it's being even mentioned at the same level as the music. I sort of feel like that's where it gets a little sketchy.

Oops, I thought. Oops is an all-purpose word standing for every bit of profanity, blasphemy, and pornographic and scatological execration I could think of.

No matter who or what we are, God restores us to right standing with Himself only by means of the death of Jesus Christ.

We still have prostitutes standing on our corner, and people crapping round the back of buildings. The charms are still there.

She looked back to see Sam standing there at the edge of the strip of sunlight inside Common Grounds, staring after her with an expression on his face like he'd lost his best- his only friend.

He sounded harassed more than anything else, like mass home invasion was just something standing between him and morning coffee.

Maybe I won't look so bad when you're not standing next to me.

I could take care of that obstacle for her - I'd tear down anything standing between us - but I couldn't destroy what I couldn't even see.

He looked like someone with a steerage ticket on the titanic. Somebody who'd be standing in line at Ellis Island. Undiluted and old-blooded. Also cute.

Let this truth go as deep in you as possible: that life is already here, arrived. You are standing on the goal. Don't ask about the path.

I don't like too much by-standing, on-looking, and spectator-behavior in people's lives.

You cannot win a game of tug-o-war by merely standing firm.

If you spend any time on the shooting of a drama, for television or movies, it's very slow and there's a lot of standing around.

If you go back into military history, the person who's leading the troops ought to be in with the troops and not just standing on the backline sending them into battle.

When I see a salt and pepper standing next to a bottle of ketchup, to me that's obviously a parent and two children, you know? Isn't it for everybody?

Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth.

Wearing your clothes or standing in the shower for over an hour, pretending that this skin is your skin, these hands your hands, these shins, these soapy flanks

It occurred to me that I was standing face to face with the hero of a love story nearly as dramatic as my own.

I looked around at us all: me in my nightgown, Kiyo bare-chested, Dorian in his extravagant robes, and Tim in his Native getup. God, I muttered, standing up, we all look like the village people.

A lot of the players I'm with, thank God, we're all still vertical. We've lost so many great players through the years, and we're still standing, as Elton John says.

There is always someone out there working harder than you, and you may be standing next to him or her in your next competition.

A terrific sadness swept over Jerry. As if somebody had died. The way he felt standing in the cemetry that day they buried his mother. And nothing you could do about it.

When people say 'What are underground comics?' I think the best way you can define them is just the absolute freedom involved... we didn't have anyone standing over us.

The natural wish and impetus to feel oneself to be an individual, to be special, includes standing out more than anyone else.

When you get people standing up saying, 'I'm going to just tell the truth; what do we have to fear?,' it encourages others, and it creates a counterresponse.

There weren't paparazzi standing outside. There weren't all these photographers. People really didn't know what fashion was and what was happening in the tents.

Singing your own songs live is so personal, it's like standing there reading out your diary pages. I still get really nervous so I would have to say performing is the greater rush for me.

I don't like to be the guy that stands out. I like kind of sneaking up on guys instead of being out front.

Well, I wasnt just kind of standing in a queue at McDonalds and someone sat down and said, Youre the director of a $100 million Hollywood movie. Ive been working in commercials for ten years.

I think Donald Trump is very alarmed and distressed over what Obama has done to the United States military and the perception of our standing and strength in the world.

Make good thy standing place, and move the world.

Morality is standing by your friends, standing by people when it's not popular. It's sacrificing things on a big international stage, and sometimes it's sacrificing your basic comforts.

And I felt a sudden whirl in my head, knowing this leap was inevitable, that I wasn't just standing on the cliff, toes poking over, but already in mid-air.

To win that war [with radical Islamic extremists] we need a commander-in-chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.

I have changed my mind. You can help cook by standing in a corner and not touching anything. Do it carefully. -Nick to Jamie

Anything television trivia I'm good at. But when you're on your couch, you're really good at it, but when you're standing there, it's probably scary.

Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.

It's entirely possible that there won't be a standing ovation at the end of your journey. That's okay. At least you lived.

She answered by standing and kissing him first and held his cheeks and closed her eyes and felt sure as bones and deep as blood that she had found her place.

All of the people of my time were bound with chains. They had forgotten the long fields and the standing corn. They had forgotten the west winds.

Watching somebody else fail definitely makes you feel better with what you've accomplished and where your standing is in life.

The strengths of America's international standing continue to be innovation, opportunities and vibrancy.

I'm standing here, holding a half a lemon in my hand. I'm speechless, I'm excited . . . I'm a wreck. Caleb wants to be where I am.