Standing Quotes

You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.

But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.

Fathering makes a man, whatever his standing in the eyes of the world, feel strong and good and important, just as he makes his child feel loved and valued.

I had a standing arrangement with God: I'd agree to believe in him—barely—so long as he let me sleep in on Sundays.

Standing up to bullies is the hallmark of a civilized society.

Externally keep yourself away from all relationships, and internally have no pantings in your heart; when your mind is like unto a straight-standing wall, you may enter into the Path.

Standing up for yourself doesn't always involve verbal confrontation. Sometimes it's about not wasting energy on people who are negative.

The standing ovation threw me. ... To be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.

Nintendo DS is not standing still. As a tenth serious competitor decides to make a run at Game Boy, DS raises the bar on portable gaming, before they even get started.

You never have to be scared of the trials but of standing alone in the trials without shelter (Allah's help).

It's not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling.

You can call it nostalgia, I don't mind Standing on that windswept hillside Listening to the church bells chime Listen to the church bells chime In that magic time.

Well, I've had a long standing relationship with Gatorade and they've been very, very good to me. And I believe in their products, I really do. I've used them for many, many years.

All the Dachaus must remain standing.

I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much – in just standing and staring.

This fight against drilling in the Arctic Refuge is a fight about our principles. Its about standing up for our environment, our families and our future, and I wont give up this fight.

Men's legs have a terribly lonely life - standing in the dark in your trousers all day.

Do you want to choose winning over standing out? It's a choice every player on every championship team has to do

The Art of Being: A state of wholeness in which the mind functions freely and easily, without the sensation of a second mind or ego standing over it with a club.

Education is what allows you to stand out

At 7:45 p.m. I was shot in the left arm by a friend. The bullet was a copper jacket 22 long rifle. My friend was standing about fifteen feet from me.

Give voice to what you know to be true, and do not be afraid of being disliked or exiled. I think that's the hard work of standing up for what you see.

I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.

Elegance is not standing out, but being remembered.

Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there.

God is standing at the door of every heart. Call Him. He is waiting to come in.

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe.

It becomes an emperor to die standing.

Drekitude is the lowest point in the lowest ebb. It could be your look. It could be your shoes. It could be that you're standing wrong. Drek is a total, total, total hot mess.

The vital Christian arouses opposition because he is a standing rebuke to the selfishness and sin of those around him.

Don't be afraid to stand out. . .

Perhaps it's just me, but I am wary of any persons whose belief system is the only thing standing between them and repulsive behavior.

Aerobics is a really whacked-out way to get going. The loud rock 'n' roll music and the teachers standing before you, doing the exercises and screaming into the microphone, "Go! Go! Go for the burn!"

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

Success is a pile of failure that you are standing on.

Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

The law of life is to leave behind the ground one is standing on and then step forward.

If you’re really in love, you don’t care about all the other girls that are standing in line for you.

When I take up my pen to write, I feel the strength of standing up and refusing to be silent. In an oppressive situation, silence is death.

It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.

Abstention from labor is the conventional evidence of wealth and is therefore the conventional mark of social standing.

My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard at Birtwick, standing with my friends under the apple trees.

Confidence is what makes you stand out.

Satan's primary temptation strategy is to try and make us forget what God has said about us and to evaluate our standing before God by some other criteria

One night in Pittsburgh, thirty-thousand fans gave me a standing ovation when I caught a hot dog wrapper on the fly.

Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living.

I am not afraid of retaliations. I don't have kids. I don't have a wife, no car, no credit. It may seem pompous, but I'd rather die standing than live on my knees.

The only way you can check Gretzky is to hit him when he is standing still singing the national anthem.