Standing Quotes
2631 Standing quotes by 1880 unique authors
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So I place my heart under lock and key, to take some time to look after me. But when I turn around you're standing there...
— Deborah Cox
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Virtually all informed observers agree that a fair and equitable resolution of the plight of the Palestinians would considerably weaken the anger and hatred of…
— Noam Chomsky
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Women should know that love doesn't abuse you. It shouldn't hurt you. Love cannot be redefined into 'He only hit me once, I'll let it…
— Unknown Author
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I am delighted to be part of this Women's Aid campaign - the statistics are frightening. I've spent time with the victims of these cowardly…
— Unknown Author
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A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rather than someone who is bashing a…
— Graham Coxon
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It is very frightening to feel alone when you are standing against a rich and powerful person and all his attendant helpers.
— Gloria Allred
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His [Elijah] heart was beginning to give signs of alarm; he was enjoying being at this woman's side. Love could be a more frightening experience…
— Paulo Coelho
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Know how to get close to it: mountains are often seen from far off - beautiful, interesting, full of challenges. But what happens when we…
— Paulo Coelho
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You aren’t advertising to a standing army; you are advertising to a moving parade.
— David Ogilvy
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The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those…
— Muhammad Ali
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The American cultural ideal of the self-made man, of everyone standing on his own feet, is as tragic a picture as the initiative – destroying…
— Kurt Lewin
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Dressing well is a kind of good manners, if you ask me. When you're standing in a room, your effect is the same as a…
— Tom Ford
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But you know what? There's far more pain involved in rolling over, far more pain in hiding in the shadows, far more pain in not…
— Ted Cruz
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I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a…
— Woodrow Wilson
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The vital Christian arouses opposition because he is a standing rebuke to the selfishness and sin of those around him.
— John Hagee
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Thus at every step we are reminded that we by no means rule over nature like a conqueror over a foreign people, like someone standing…
— Friedrich Engels
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In the courageous standing of uncertainty, faith shows most visibly its dynamic character.
— Paul Tillich
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All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I’d be standing on the breadline…
— Lenny Bruce
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Big Walter used to say, he'd get right wet in the eyes sometimes, lean his head back with the water standing in his eyes and…
— Lorraine Hansberry
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The question we must ask ourselves as a culture is whether we want to embrace the change that must come, or resist it. Are we…
— Howard Lyman
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Sex as desired by the class that dominates women is held by that class to be elemental, urgent, necessary, even if or even though it…
— Andrea Dworkin
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Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the…
— Gary Bauer
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Thanks to the high standing which science has for so long attain and to the impartiality of the Nobel Prize Committee, the Nobel Prize for…
— Guglielmo Marconi
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From the cab stepped a tall old man. Black raincoat and hat and a battered valise. He paid the driver, then turned and stood motionless,…
— William Peter Blatty
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Threats to our standing in the eyes of others are remarkably potent biologically, almost as powerful as those to our very survival.
— Daniel Goleman
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