Standing Quotes

To remain standing one often has to fall.

— Ashwin Sanghi

We are standing on a whale fishing for minnows.

— Joseph Campbell

It's hard to keep your balance standing tip-toe.

— Laozi

Eternity: a moment standing still for ever.

— James Montgomery

My moral standing is lying down.

— Trent Reznor

“You never jump far when you are standing still.”

— Yuri van der Sluis

Only to the white man was nature a 'wilderness'.

— Luther Standing Bear

standing in line is a form of oppression

— John Green

It's really amazing what a money reputation will do for your social standing.

— Sue Sanders

Let no woman be left standing, without understanding

— Maajk Starr

I very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision

— William Hurt

Failure in life does not matter; the greatest misfortune is standing still.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

“God might not care about financial standing, but He was the only one.”

— James S.A. Corey

You guys are just standing up because I fell, and it's so embarrassing.

— Jennifer Lawrence

Architecture, by definition, is always standing still.

— Elizabeth Diller

“A boy standing in the rain, and what is he thinking?”

— Joe Sacco

Of course, stuff happens off the ball in any football match. Standing on people's toes, pinching, hair pulling, punching in the back.

— Jermaine Jenas

To be honest, my goal is very clear. It's to have many people listen to my music. I want to confirm my…

— Kim Nam-joon

Most millennials have no problem standing their ground when asked to do something that conflicts with their personal values.

— Punit Renjen

Ed?" Ritchie says later. We're still standing in the water. "There's only one thing I want." "What's that, Ritchie?" His answer is…

— Markus Zusak

The view changes from where you are standing. Words can wound, and wounds can heal. All of these things are true.

— Neil Gaiman

I think that as Christians we need to walk the delicate balance between standing in opposition to same-sex marriages and yet showing…

— Erwin W. Lutzer

One day I'll be standing at the river looking out across tomorrow, and the bridge I need to get there will be…

— Garth Brooks

The Alexander Technique helped a long-standing back problem and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning.

— Paul Newman

I'll see you later Roza." "At our next practice?" I asked. "We are starting those up again, right? I mean you still…

— Richelle Mead

Some people are happy when they are at the sea; I'm happy when I'm standing in front of a shelf of books.…

— Jeanette Winterson

My father respected and admired my mother and was a person who was always standing by my side, encouraging me to do…

— Michelle Bachelet

The internet might be a convenience, but it hasn't yet, for me, been a fundamental reordering. These things are supposed to be…

— Joe Bradley

People ask what those women saw in me. Let's face it, I wasn't a bad-looking stud. But that's not it. It's the…

— Artie Shaw

I'm interested in smokers standing on ledges, and big box stores, the rise of the suburbs, and the hollowing out of small…

— Sam Abell

John Cusack is standing over there.” I followed his incredulous gaze to where a man very like Mr. Cusack did indeed stand,…

— Richelle Mead

Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been…

— Bobby Orr

Round and round the questions flew, until finally I found myself standing at the open door of a bookshop. It’s natural in…

— Kate Morton

Because Ajamu Baraka speaks in the language of his community, and makes no bones about it, he really invites in a whole…

— Jill Stein

One evening, when we were already resting on the floor of our hut, dead tired, soup bowls in hand, a fellow prisoner…

— Viktor E. Frankl

However much an ideologue tries to bury [Lenin] beneath a proof by historical analysis, there is always this one man standing their…

— Louis Althusser

I was in Chicago in 1994 and at this time I had no thoughts of coming back and playing the game of…

— Michael Jordan

The question we must ask ourselves as a culture is whether we want to embrace the change that must come, or resist…

— Howard Lyman

I envy the music lovers hear. I see them walking hand in hand, standing close to each other in a queue at…

— Charles de Lint

Every living thing, animal or human, or tree experiences that which is called death, with no exception. You've all accepted that one…

— Esther Hicks