Standing Quotes · Page 20

“The beauty of standing up for your rights is others will see you standing and stand up as well.”

— Cassandra Duffy

“I wasn't planning to lead, I was standing in the back and then everyone turned around.”

— Avery Hiebert

Somtimes you have to stand up for yourself even if it means standing alone.

— Anonymous

They kept me in a cage for too long because now every room I am standing in is just another cell.

— Raegan Butcher

“[T]hose who insist they've got their 'shit together' are usually standing in it at the time. (16)”

— Stephen Levine

All dancing is now is standing in place and letting the devil of the music enter you.

— John Updike

Wherever you go at SXSW, there you are standing in line. Or watching other people stand in line.

— Kara Swisher

The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line.

— Orlando Aloysius Battista

When you stand up for yourself, you are standing up for everyone who will follow your positive example!

— Doreen Virtue

I'm so uncoordinated, I can't really do that much, so my specialty is standing in one spot or holding on to something,…

— Johnny Knoxville

I'm not a natural leader. If you see me in a room, I'm the guy standing in a corner hiding. I'm not…

— Pilou Asbaek

Do you think I am standing here, making this up as I go? I am sorry to disillusion you. I am not…

— Mitch Hedberg

There are two types of panicking: standing still and not saying a word, and leaping all over the place babbling anything that…

— Anonymous

I'm a lone survivor. I've been going through all this stuff and I'm still here standing up with my chin up, all…

— Juan Soto

I look forward to standing up and holding George Bush accountable for pushing seniors off of Medicare into HMOs.

— John F. Kerry

Lord Jesus, receive my spirit . . . I see the heavens open and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.

— Thomas Cranmer

When you're acting and directing, you're standing there acting with another actor, and you're trying to do your performance, and at the…

— Kevin Heffernan

I've been a fan of The Rock ever since he first came to wrestling. Every time I went to school, I talked…

— Khleo

I think one of the reasons I'm successful as a musician is that the first like 30 shows I played, I played…

— Grimes

Summer, and he watches his children's heart break. Autumn again and Boo's children needed him. Atticus was right. One time he said…

— Harper Lee

I don't mean to harp on this, but it's like the networks are a how-to manual for terrorists. You see them on…

— Jay Leno

After that we tried thirty-nine times to stand together on the tube until we finally did. It was fun. I liked the…

— Miriam Toews

But make no mistake, the President will find in our new majority the voice of the American people as they've expressed it…

— John Boehner

This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you…

— John Knowles

From the cab stepped a tall old man. Black raincoat and hat and a battered valise. He paid the driver, then turned…

— William Peter Blatty

There was a period of time between 2005 and 2008 that was pretty challenging. I had taken a leap of faith and…

— Erica Tazel

Every artist, every scientist, must decide now where he stands. He has no alternative. There is no standing above the conflict on…

— Paul Robeson

Think of two people, living together day after day, year after year, in this small space, standing elbow to elbow cooking at…

— Christopher Isherwood

My discovery of Tarkovsky's first film was like a miracle. Suddenly, I found myself standing at the door of a room the…

— Ingmar Bergman

Alec," Magnus said. He put a hand on his boyfriend’s shoulder; Alec was standing still, staring angrily at the floor. "Are you…

— Cassandra Clare

Me and a mate picked up two darling birds and they took us back to their flat. I went into the bedroom…

— George Best

The realization that my problem was one that concerned all men, a problem of living and thinking, suddenly swept over me and…

— Hermann Hesse

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

— Ralph Nader

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.

— John Stuart Mill

“After a long moment, Laurent said, “I’m going to need some help standing up.”

— C.S. Pacat

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

— Ken Dodd

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

— Mata Amritanandamayi

“Standing in a two-hour line makes people worry that they're not living in a democratic nation.”

— David Sedaris

“Stand up for what is right even if it means standing alone.”

— Suzy Kassem

You know you've reached middle age when your weightlifting consists merely of standing up.

— Bob Hope