Standing Quotes

She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.

You are only as good as the woman you are standing beside.

Standing in the park, I was wondering why a frisbee looks larger the closer it gets...then it hit me

Open your heart - open it wide; someone is standing outside.

When I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon I cried

You cannot lift another soul until you are standing on higher ground than he is. You cannot light a fire in another soul unless it is burning in your own soul.

Art respects the masses, by standing up to them for what they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.

You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'

There is not one obstacle standing in the way of your success anymore.

I prefer to leave standing up, like a well-mannered guest at a party.

You're gonna have to go through hell, worse than any nightmare you've ever dreamed. But when it's over, I know you'll be the one standing. You know what you have to do. DO IT!

Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view.

Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you.

I like California but I'm dyed-in-the-wool Oklahoma. I see a deer in L.A., and everybody's standing around it taking pictures. Back home, that's the enemy!

It's fun to be liked, but when standing up for what you believe in, it's also very fun not to be liked.

No woman should be told she can't make her own decisions about her body. If women's reproductive rights come under attack, I will be standing up for women.

Although the doctrine of innate equality of the race has been proclaimed, yet so far as woman is concerned it has been a standing falsehood.

I don't mind getting punched in the nose by a guy standing in front of me. It's getting stabbed in the back that I can't handle.

If it seems like you can see farther than most people, it is because you're standing on shoulders of giants.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished.

I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world. May God have mercy on my soul.

The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.

Those that perished in Hitler's gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.

Never leave an enemy standing.

It's a mystery to me how anyone ever gets any nourishment in this place. They must eat their meals standing up by the window so as to be sure of not missing anything.

The things that stand out are often the oddities.

You weren't made to fit in. You were born to stand out!

Standing at the bus stop sucking on a lollipop Once she gets pumping its hard to make the hottie stop

I do this 'Walker shake.' You got to get knocked down many times, shake it off. Life is about ups and downs, and you got to keep standing up.

Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it.

A standing army is a standing menace to liberty.

I work in waves, because I'm impatient. Because of a certain physicality, of lack of breath from standing. It has to be done and I do take liberties I wouldn't have taken before.

To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or her to be on earth at this moment

Standing still is never an option so long as inequities remain embedded in the very fabric of the culture.

We have more faith in what we imitate than in what we create

You don't break ground by doing the same thing over and over and over. That's like standing in place. You have to risk to gain it all.

If you stand back and analyze the best way to do something, you'll be standing there forever. Follow your gut and jump right in!

Everything we do as a government is focused on getting help and support for hard-working Australian families. We are standing up for them.

We should be less concerned about hurting the feelings of the oppressors and more concerned about standing in solidarity with the oppressed.

People love that you're human and that we're frail and we face the same situations. Honesty tends to communicate with people better than standing up there like you have an 'S' on your chest.

Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.

You know, people at Wal-Mart are standing there with their uniforms on. I feel like I'm putting on a uniform to do a movie. I don't feel like it's dressing in drag.

But there is yet another form of this hidden heresy, and, paradoxically, it can affect those who are proudest of their long-standing and unimpeachable orthodoxy; heresy in the form of indifference.

The Wall will be standing in 50 and even in 100 years, if the reasons for it are not removed.

Calming the mind is yoga, not just standing on the head

Standing in our power requires us to let go of the need to make others like us & instead stand committed to honoring ourselves.

I look at climbing not so much as standing on the top as seeing the other side. There are always other horizons in front of you, other horizons to go beyond and that's what I like about climbing.

The only person standing in your way is you.

It becomes an emperor to die standing (i.e., "in harness"). [Lat., Decet imperatorem statem mori.]