Standing Quotes

2631 Standing quotes by 1880 unique authors

We are all the time, from our childhood, trying to lay the blame upon something outside ourselves. We are always standing up to set right… — Swami Vivekananda
That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and… — Ed Bradley
Standing near the door, we dipped our fingers in the holy water, crossed and blessed ourselves, and proceeded up to the sleeping-room, in the usual… — Maria Monk
Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they… — Rose Schneiderman
To be still standing 20 years in this business is a great feeling, I can't even tell you. — Blair Underwood
But what I'd really like to tell you is I never dreamed of being in the Hall of Fame. Standing here with all these great… — Robin Yount
But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith. — Polly Toynbee
It is time... to end the long-standing and unproductive methodological debate over 'originalism' versus 'dynamism' or 'evolution' and focus instead on how, as a substantive… — Diane Wood
I am really tired of looking at my hips. I'm seriously really tired of standing naked in the mirror and staring at my hips for… — Louis C. K.
For a variety of reasons, I believe, the time is right to resolve many of the long standing and thorny land use, recreation, and wilderness… — Michael K. Simpson
I was born with the devil in me. I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can… — H. H. Holmes
There are moments when Nature reveals the passion hidden beneath the careless calm of her ordinary moods-violent spring flashing white on almond-blossom through the purple… — John Galsworthy
A mature person does not fall in love, he or she rises in love. Only immature people fall; they stumble and fall down in love.… — Rajneesh
If it is true that strength is the child of effort and pain, then most of us will have the opportunity to learn strength. .… — Joseph M. Marshall III
Our ties are deep and long-standing. We are dependent on each other. And no matter what the issue of the day, whether it be softwood… — Paul Cellucci
I remember standing on a street corner with the black painter Beauford Delaney down in the Village, waiting for the light to change, and he… — James A. Baldwin
Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops… — Richard Ford
Without armed struggle neither the proletariat, nor the people, nor the Communist Party would have any standing at all in China and it would be… — Mao Zedong
You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression. There comes a time… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
That which the people called Quakers lay down as a main fundamental in religion is this- That God, through Christ, hath placed a principle in… — William Penn
This was a land of lost souls. Human beings who had weathered great storms in life, had suffered unspeakable loss, had been put to painful… — Clare Vanderpool
But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care. — Jon Krakauer
The shots had dispersed the birds; there remained only two marabous, standing between ten and twenty paces away and plunged in reverie. They were like… — Henryk Sienkiewicz
A few birds flew out from the mountains and glided for a while without sound. Standing out against the sky on high slopes beyond a… — Cesar Aira
Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. — Charles Sanders Peirce

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