Standing Quotes
The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
Im one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. Im just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play.
The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I was standing in the crib singing God Bless America.
So I place my heart under lock and key, to take some time to look after me. But when I turn around you're standing there.
I'm standing here saying that those who miss the boat now, will miss it forever. So if you want to be in Africa, think about investing.
God is the one who saved me. He who believes in God, in His cause and His truth is capable of standing up to the greatest power.
Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.
I'm so uncoordinated, I can't really do that much, so my specialty is standing in one spot or holding on to something, like an exploding rocket or a jetski.
the trouble with a woman standing behind her man is that she can't see where she is going!
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.
But our hearts are more elastic than we think, and the work of forgiveness and transformation and growth can do things you can't even imagine from where you're standing now.
The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.
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 want to thank all the shoulders of the strong and brave and courageous women that I am standing on.
Id be happiest standing at the back, strumming my little banjo where no one could see me.
somehow at parties at which one stays standing up one seems to require to be more concentratedly intelligent than one does at those at which one can sit down.
You can never evaluate anything standing from outside; you have to evaluate yourself first.
But standing in that hallway, it was all coming back to me. Memories were waiting at the edges of things, beckoning to me.
It hit me that the students were talking about me, not God. I was standing before a holy God and robbing Him of the glory that was rightfully His.
On a personal level, as a Christian, it will not be Barbra Streisand I'm standing in front of when I have to make an accounting of my life.
I don't care about my character here on earth.I don't care about what other people think or say about me, all I care about is my standing before the Lord.
The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.
I'm officially middle-aged. I don't need drugs anymore, thank God. I can get the same effect just by standing up real fast.
The void in our society has been produced by the absence of values... we have no widespread belief in the value of participation. The rational system has made us fear standing out in any serious way.
Nothing is as uplifting as standing before a great painting whether it was painted in 1505 or last Tuesday.
It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.
Coffee: Induces wit. Good only if it comes through Havre. After a big dinner party it is taken standing up. Take it without sugar - very swank: gives the impression you have lived in the East.
I can remember standing in a W.P.A. line with a gunny sack, and I remember having to buy chocolate milk instead of white because it was one cent cheaper.
Reelection ought not to be the primary preoccupation of any politician. It ought to be standing up for truth and justice.
I find that the three truly great times for thinking thoughts are when I am standing in the shower, sitting on the john, or walking. And the greatest of these, by far, is walking.
It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture.
Today you are standing in a position that would please the friend and would anger the enemy and all the infidels. You will be victorious against the enemies and you are causing them to suffer.
Nature shows me incredible beauty standing just beyond the rat race. It's always there if I'm open enough to see it.
Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing.
I always thought that life was about standing your ground, no matter how strong the current was. But going with the flow isn't so bad after all. As long as it takes you forward.
According to Beckett's or Kafka's law, there is immobility beyond movement: beyond standing up, there is sitting down, and beyond sitting down, lying down, beyond which one finally dissipates.
There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in his society
If there were an honorable way to get rich, I’d do it, even if it meant being a stooge standing around with a whip. But there isn’t an honorable way, so I just do what I like.
The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line.
I used to think that real love involved falling for someone; but now I think it usually involves standing for someone.