Standing Quotes

2631 Standing quotes by 1880 unique authors

Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or… — Anne Tyler
I think when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you throw a grenade in exactly… — Renata Adler
So what does it look like to live a life worthy of the gospel of Jesus Christ? It looks like walking with, loving with, and… — Matt Chandler
I feel that racial profiling may be a very complicated and long-standing problem. It will take a long time even to make tiny progress. — Wen Ho Lee
I think that standing onstage on January 19th, and my father had just defied all expectations and won Iowa, was by far the most surreal… — Vanessa Kerry
Patrick Rothfuss gives us a fabulous debut, standing firmly on the main stage of the fantasy genre and needing no warm-up act. Jordan and Goodkind… — Kevin J. Anderson
Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room. — Alan Coren
I told my dad 'Yeah, I’m going to be a drummer', and he said 'Well, if you can rub your stomach at the same time… — Tre Cool
Men and women of high professional standing have been reduced to the status of vagrants. — Elmer Rice
It's high time that Christians made up their minds to do something . . . What are we going to show in the way of… — Hans Scholl
If in my lifetime the problem of non-free software is solved, I could perhaps relax and write software again. But I might instead try to… — Richard Stallman
You can always tell a Midwestern couple in Europe because they will be standing on a traffic island in the middle of a busy intersection… — Bill Bryson
Perfectionism is really a manifestation of the belief that one's efforts are never good enough. Imagine: How many of the obstacles standing in your way… — Ralph Marston
A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he,… — Plutarch
They miss Rachel and Lillian Rose every minute of every day. It doesn't bring them any comfort to see him standing there and know that… — Joe Flaherty
The delicate droop of the petals standing out in relief, is like the eyelid of a child. — Auguste Rodin
If you take five white guys and put 'em with five black guys, and let 'em hang around together for about a month, and at… — George Carlin
You and I are standing this very second at the meeting place of two eternities: the vast past that has endured forever, and the future… — Dale Carnegie
"It astonishes me to find... [that so many] of our countrymen... should be contented to live under a system which leaves to their governors the… — Thomas Jefferson
Europe by the end of this century will be a continent after the neutron bomb. The grand buildings will still be standing, but the people… — Mark Steyn
What I do know about physics is that to a man standing on the shore, time passes quicker than to a man on a boat… — Woody Allen
Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country. — Bill Moyers
I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America. — Cindy Sheehan
I mean, in a way, Obama's standing above the country, above — above the world, he's sort of God. — Evan Thomas

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