Standing Quotes

2631 Standing quotes by 1880 unique authors

You want to make me the best soldier possible. Go down and look at the standings. Look at the all-time standings. So far you're doing… — Orson Scott Card
I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world. May God have mercy on my soul. — Bobby Sands
With all the injury problems we have in men's tennis at the moment, I'm happy to still be standing. — Roger Federer
The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or… — Ida B. Wells
The third error leading to the assumption that there is nothing to be learned about love lies in the confusion between the initial experience of… — Erich Fromm
The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and… — William James
Standing armies shall in time be totally abolished. — Immanuel Kant
However much an ideologue tries to bury [Lenin] beneath a proof by historical analysis, there is always this one man standing their on the plain… — Louis Althusser
It's about time trees were good for something, instead of just standing there like jerks! — Homer
The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing… — Arthur Miller
If you look at how the federal government spends our money, it’s an insurance conglomerate protected by a large, standing army. — Ezra Klein
If somebody'd said before the flight, 'Are you going to get carried away looking at the Earth from the Moon?' I would have say, 'No,… — Alan Shepard
When I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon I cried — Alan Shepard
Tolkien can say that Aragorn became king and reigned for a hundred years, and he was wise and good. But Tolkien doesn’t ask the question:… — George R. R. Martin
When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they're standing, and what it feels… — Meg Rosoff
If there is a heaven, Jane Austen is sitting in a small room with Mother Teresa and Princess Diana, listening to Duran Duran, forever. If… — Roddy Doyle
A poem, as a manifestation of language and thus essentially dialogue, can be a message in a bottle, sent out in the –not always greatly… — Paul Celan
It's the loneliest feeling in the world-to find yourself standing up when everybody else is sitting down. To have everybody look at you and say,… — Robert E. Lee
I fell so many times and got back up. I been through the toughest times with my family, but I’m still standing. — Kevin Durant
Trees Trees, proud standing people stretching fingertips to the sky, reaching, praying glorious attention, breathing light. strength shelter timeless confidence bending and firm comforting rooted… — Wallace Stevens
My tribute to mystical, magical trees that the Cherokee called "standing people. . . ." — Wallace Stevens
The United States have developed a new weapon that destroys people but it leaves buildings standing. It's called the stock market. — Jay Leno
I never really worried about those hurdles. They were just standing there, and I was always zooming past them just to get back on the… — Rod Milburn
He leaned forward and opened his door, politely standing aside to let me by before following me in. There are some advantages to dating a… — Amy Plum
Women should have labels on their foreheads saying, 'Government Health Warning: women can seriously damage your brains, genitals, current account, confidence, razor blades, and good… — Jeffrey Bernard

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