Standing Quotes
2631 quotes by 1880 authors
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The atmosphere was even greater than in Winnipeg last year. The place was almost packed for warm-ups, which was fun for us. You look at…
— Jennifer Botterill
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I remember my first year, I hit him with three good punches and couldn't believe he was still standing. He hit me with one and…
— Georges Laraque
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[Chuck's wife] was standing behind me at the time and she said, 'Chuck hasn't fed himself in 19 years. So, you've got a choice: We…
— Dean Kamen
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Thoughts can create such a barrier that even if you are standing before a beautiful flower, you will not be able to see it. Your…
— Rajneesh
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He who is silent is forgotten; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed; out distanced, crushed; he who ceases t…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and brother…
— Alexander the Great
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I intend to set up a thousand-year Reich and anyone who supports me in this battle is a fellow-fighter for a unique spiritual-I would say…
— Adolf Hitler
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Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with…
— Henry David Thoreau
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A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen.
— James Madison
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Wherever man exists, he finds the need to redesign, to recreate the world. A more beautiful world, purer, sweeter smelling and more colorful. A garden…
— Gary Snyder
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The only way you can check Gretzky is to hit him when he is standing still singing the national anthem.
— Harry Sinden
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Is hockey hard? I don't know, you tell me. We need to have the strength and power of a football player, the stamina of a…
— Brendan Shanahan
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I don't see the point in apologizing to someone who remains angry enough to throw me off a cliff...unless we are standing by a cliff.
— Wes Fesler
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And in that moment I possessed and lost the whole world and everything in it and was left with the feeling and the knowledge, which…
— Ann Rinaldi
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The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.
— Jean Rhys
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I still believe that standing up for the truth of God is the greatest thing in the world. This is the end (purpose) of life.…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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If American workers are being denied their right to organize and collectively bargain when I'm in the White House, I will put on a comfortable…
— Barack Obama
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I love drinking now and then. It defecates the standing pool of thought. A man perpetually in the paroxysm and fears of inebriety is like…
— Robert Burns
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(Whispered to a novice while standing in front of the convent library) Oh! I would have been sorry to have read all those books...If I…
— Therese of Lisieux
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So the British, of all ages, still walk the course. On trips to Florida or the American desert, they still marvel, or shudder, at the…
— Alistair Cooke
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