Standing Quotes

2631 quotes by 1996 authors

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. — Matthew Arnold
Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending their land courageously. — Bashar al-Assad
These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking… — Ansel Adams
I've always said that one night, I'm going to find myself in some field somewhere, I'm standing on grass, and it's raining, and I'm with… — Drew Barrymore
There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself… — Jean Baudrillard
For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing… — Robert Benchley
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out. — Warren G. Bennis
Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we… — Joe Biden
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. — William Blake
Passion and standing up for things can help create a sense of unity. But you still have to act a certain way. — Arthur Blank
But make no mistake, the President will find in our new majority the voice of the American people as they've expressed it tonight: standing on… — John Boehner
Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to… — Bono
I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the… — Ray Bradbury
I don't like doing stand-up, because I don't like standing up. — Jo Brand
Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved… — William Jennings Bryan
A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!' — William F. Buckley, Jr.
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being… — Edmund Burke
A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering. — William S. Burroughs
A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself. — Robert Burton
The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something. — Michael Caine

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