Standing Quotes
2631 Standing quotes by 1880 unique authors
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I'm not supposed to be playing, the music is supposed to be playing me. I'm just supposed to be standing there with the horn, moving…
— Sonny Rollins
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Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Fly-fishing is the most fun you can have standing up.
— Arnold Gingrich
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Lord Jesus, receive my spirit . . . I see the heavens open and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.
— Thomas Cranmer
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Sometimes when you are standing still and it’s snowing, you think that you hear music. You can’t tell where it’s coming from either. I wondered…
— Heather O'Neill
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I hope that I'm not the type of person who, standing at the doorway to hell, strikes a heroic pose and then starts frowning with…
— Liu Xiaobo
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I won’t stop fighting to give Nevadans access to affordable health care just because my husband is a doctor, just like I won’t stop standing…
— Shelley Berkley
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I've got to worry about Alonzo Mourning, because a year or two ago there was a chance that Alonzo Mourning wouldn't be standing here talking…
— Alonzo Mourning
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If you are a gay couple living in Alabama, you know one thing: your family has no standing under the law; and it can and…
— Andrew Sullivan
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So to be standing here, this was really, truly, honestly never part of anything we even imagined in our wildest dreams.
— Mark Boal
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Life doesn't actually knock you down. It does, however, provide you with many opportunities to evaluate your standing in life: what you stand on, what…
— Iyanla Vanzant
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Standing up here 10 in a row, you know, like a bunch of seals waiting for somebody to throw you the next fish, is not…
— Fred Thompson
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Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get…
— Robert Wyatt
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If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.
— Harry Stack Sullivan
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I have always avoided photographing in the studio. A woman does not spend her life sitting or standing in front of a seamless white paper…
— Helmut Newton
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In TV, you always feel you are standing on the tracks of an oncoming train
— Tina Brown
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God, it's like reality's completely shifted on me. I used to think I was standing on such solid ground. If I wanted something badly enough,…
— Tess Gerritsen
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It took a great deal of acceptance to come to terms with being an alcoholic but acceptance was the key to my sobriety... If I…
— Dennis Eckersley
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Perhaps it's just me, but I am wary of any persons whose belief system is the only thing standing between them and repulsive behavior.
— Frans de Waal
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The Wall will be standing in 50 and even in 100 years, if the reasons for it are not removed.
— Erich Honecker
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I was only seven but I remember thinking that everything in the world was standing still.
— Eva Hart
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Remember then that there is only one important time, and that time is now. The most important one is always the one you are with.…
— Jon J Muth
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I am a member of the rabble in good standing.
— Westbrook Pegler
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No one remembers you for standing in the crowd . But they do remember you for standing out of it.
— Eddie Harris
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Gravity is measured by the bottom of the foot; we trace the density and texture of the ground through our soles. Standing barefoot on a…
— Juhani Pallasmaa
Who Wrote These Standing Quotes
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