quotes about Standing
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Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown... they are so stupid and do not notice that I am standing up straighter!
-- Anna Freud -
We're standing on the edge of a new frontier.
-- Anthony Griffin -
You can never evaluate anything standing from outside; you have to evaluate yourself first.
-- Aruna Roy -
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I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
A lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing.
-- Barbara Johnson -
If you're standing in the manure pile, it's somebody's job to mention the stink.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
I have spent the better part of my adult life standing up and fighting for working families.
-- Bernie Sanders -
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Why wait any longer for the one you love When he’s standing in front of you
-- Bob Dylan -
I suppose I'm like most coaches now, standing on the sideline hoping somebody asks them a question.
-- Bobby Bowden -
Living the gospel and standing in holy places is not always easy, but I testify that it is worth it.
-- Bonnie L. Oscarson -
It's mainly a few elite women who benefit greatly from standing with the forces that keep women down.
-- Catharine MacKinnonSource : "Are women human?" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2006.
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Everything is funny from some angle, I assure you it is. It's just a matter of where you're standing.
-- Charlie FletcherSource : Charlie Fletcher (2011). “Stoneheart”, p.156, Hachette UK
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Better to die standing, than to live on your knees.
-- Che Guevara -
I would rather die standing up to live life on my knees.
-- Che Guevara -
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Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
Every man's death is standing in for every other. And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the fear of it except to love the man who stands for us.
-- Cormac McCarthy -
My point is this: the more you have to lose, the braver you are for standing up.
-- Craig Silvey -
There is no greater thing than standing victorious in the arena.
-- Crixus -
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If you're considered a beauty, it's hard to be accepted doing anything but standing around.
-- Cybill Shepherd -
People don't know what it's like standing up there onstage, when you have a wall of people smiling at you.
-- Dave Chappelle -
Success is a pile of failure that you are standing on.
-- Dave Ramsey -
Well I am still not drunk" I straightened up against the pillows as best I could. "You told me once that if you could still stand up, you weren't drunk." You aren't standing up." he point out. You are.
-- Diana Gabaldon -
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Working with Jack [Nicholson] is sort of like standing in front of the Grand Canyon.
-- Diane Keaton -
I stand for 8-10 hours a day. Why is standing limited to four hours?
-- Donald Rumsfeld -
When you stand up for yourself, you are standing up for everyone who will follow your positive example!
-- Doreen Virtue -
My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
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You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily see it, and people only get it when they're ready to get it.
-- George HarrisonSource : "The Beatles Anthology". Book by The Beatles (p. 267), September 2000.
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If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.
-- Harry Stack SullivanSource : Harry Stack Sullivan (2003). “The Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry”, p.242, Psychology Press
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...we both saw something we liked, a willingness to have no walls, or maybe just an unwillingness to keep them standing.
-- Ian CaldwellSource : Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason (2005). “The rule of four”, Egully.com
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Life doesn't actually knock you down. It does, however, provide you with many opportunities to evaluate your standing in life: what you stand on, what you stand for, how you stand within yourself and for yourself.
-- Iyanla VanzantSource : FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Mar 16, 2016
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I say that I played a doorstop in Dune because I remember standing around a lot. I was down there for months.
-- Jack Nance -
I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much – in just standing and staring.
-- James Herriot -
Nothing can duplicate the sheer power and feeling you get from standing in front of your amp and bashing on your guitar.
-- James Hetfield -
I will never apologize for standing up for my fellow Teamsters and all American workers.
-- James P. HoffaSource : "Hoffa's Tea Party Rhetoric Too Violent?". "Special Report" with Bret Baier, www.foxnews.com. September 6, 2011.
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I don't think our death ray is working. I'm standing right in it, and I'm not dead yet.
-- Jamie Hyneman -
Charlie Sheen is to stand-up what Larry Flynt is to standing up.
-- Jeff RossSource : "Charlie Sheen's Naughty, Bawdy Joke Man Reveals Surprising Secrets of the Tour (Exclusive Q&A)". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 2, 2011.
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I can sleep anywhere. I can fall asleep standing up, literally anywhere.
-- Jenna Ushkowitz -
For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?
-- Jim Hodges -
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Stand-up for me is just my opinions on things, so it wouldnt be as fun translated into a sketch. Nor would a sketch be as fun if it were me standing there saying it.
-- John Mulaney -
There is not one obstacle standing in the way of your success anymore.
-- Jon Taffer -
Round-heads and Wooden-shoes are standing jokes.
-- Joseph Addison -
I have always believed in standing up for what I believe in and I believe that everyone deserves the right to love whoever they love no matter who they are.
-- Josh Hutcherson -
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I am the presence standing here at this juncture of Time & Space- who else?
-- Joyce Carol Oates -
Basically it's just a whole bunch of blokes standing around scratching themselves
-- Kathy Lette -
The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.
-- Kirby LarsonSource : Kirby Larson (2007). “Hattie Big Sky”, p.164, Yearling
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If you don't have any shadows, you're not standing in the light.
-- Lady Gaga -
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The best part about getting knocked down is standing back up knowing what you didn't before.
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Life is like riding a bicycle. You get nowhere standing up, so get up on that seat and go!
-- Lynne Ewing -
Standing here, staying here, permanent here, eternal here, and we have one goal, one, one: to be.
-- Mahmoud Darwish -
If you live, live free or die like the trees, standing up.
-- Mahmoud Darwish -
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I had to decide what I was going to do, and what I was going to be. I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something , till I realised the person I was waiting for was myself.
-- Markus Zusak -
We looked at each other standing on the podium, and I think we all were tearing up. But we had to keep it cool. I think we did. Then we let out a breath.
-- Michael Irvin -
Just standing around looking beautiful is so boring.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer -
I was always wanting to learn and be one of those actresses who can actually hold a conversation as opposed to standing there looking pretty.
-- Michelle TrachtenbergSource : Interview with Nicki Gostin, MSNBC, March 11, 2005.
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We were the ones on scene when everything went down. We weren't better. We weren't worse. We were just the ones standing in the blast radius.
-- Mira Grant -
Blood is one thing, but that’s not all that goes into family. The family you choose is the family that really matters. They’re the ones who’ll keep you standing.
-- Mira Grant -
The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
-- Nadine Gordimer -
The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.
-- Nikos Kazantzakis -
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This thing I am feeling, I’m almost certain, is the closest I’ll ever come to standing somewhere in between truth and reconciliation.
-- Raquel Cepeda -
Being an occupier is not good for anybody's global standing. It is a catalyst for terrorist recruitment.
-- Samantha PowerSource : "Ambassador Nominee Samantha Power On The Role Of The United Nations". Interview with Tom Jacobs, psmag.com. June 5, 2013.
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If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.
-- Samuel Beckett -
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Make good thy standing place, and move the world.
-- Samuel Smiles -
I'd rather die standing than live on my knees.
-- Shania Twain -
I learned by standing in the wings and watching established acts on stage.
-- Shirley Bassey -
Stand up for what you believe in even if you are standing alone
-- Sophie Scholl -
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Loyalty isn't standing by someone when he's right - that's good judgment. Loyalty is standing by someone when he's wrong.
-- Susan Estrich -
Standing for truth is everything. Truth is power. Don't ever forget that.
-- Terry Goodkind -
None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army
-- Thomas Jefferson -
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The only person standing in your way is you.
-- Vincent Cassel -
I am a member of the rabble in good standing.
-- Westbrook PeglerSource : "Rabble-rouser" by William F. Buckley, Jr., www.newyorker.com. March 1, 2004.
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The heart of standing is that you cannot fly.
-- William Empson -
Never shoot up in the air when you're standing under it.
-- Woody Allen -
It's not whether you fall or make a mistake, it's what you do when you fall. And I say you stand up. You keep standing up. It's not how many times you fall, it's how many times you stand up.
-- Cary-Hiroyuki TagawaSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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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.
-- John Avery -
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Social standing and reptuation has always mattered, but now it 's happening on a global basis.
-- Kabir Sehgal -
I'm standing up for the U.S. But it's hard when Russians don't have any respect for the current leadership.
-- Michael T. Flynn -
I'm happy that I'm at a moment where I'm not standing here going what do I do next?
-- Billy Gilman -
You don't put out music unless you have a sense that people will maybe like what you're doing or you're standing for something artistically.
-- Aaron BrunoSource : "Interview: AWOLNATION Musician: Aaron Bruno". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
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It's fun to be liked, but when standing up for what you believe in, it's also very fun not to be liked.
-- Andrew BreitbartSource : Source: www.newsbusters.org
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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.
-- Ron Suskind -
I never really liked Italy. 'Lots of cement' is my long-standing quote.
-- Louise Wilson