Standing Quotes
2631 quotes by 1996 authors
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Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
— Matthew Arnold
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
— Warren G. Bennis
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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
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The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
— William Blake
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Passion and standing up for things can help create a sense of unity. But you still have to act a certain way.
— Arthur Blank
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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
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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
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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
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I don't like doing stand-up, because I don't like standing up.
— Jo Brand
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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
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A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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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
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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
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A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
— Robert Burton
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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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