Standing Quotes

2631 Standing quotes by 1880 unique authors

When you're standing in front of an audience like this that is so enthusiastic and so much behind you, it is very hard to give… — Susan Estrich
When you're caught up in the storm or, you know, just the turmoil of everything that there is another side and you do get through… — Scott Peterson
I'm very surprised - midway through my second glass of red wine last night, I really didn't think I'd be standing here with a trophy… — Graeme McDowell
The turn I made was not the one I planned. And I watched my social standing slip away from me, while I watched the bottle… — Merle Haggard
Brother, you can't go to jail for what you're thinking, or that look in your eye, just standing on the corner watching all the girls… — Dean Martin
Each culture has its own characteristic manner of locomotion, sitting, standing, reclining, and gesturing. — Edward T. Hall
The human organism is thus still developing biologically while already standing in a relationship to its environmont. In other words, the process of becoming man… — Peter L. Berger
I'm standing naked before you. Don't you want more than sex? — Tori Amos
Like a rock, standing arrow straight. Like a rock, charging from the gate. — Bob Seger
And you, Ringbearer' she said, turning to Frodo. 'I come to you last who are not last in my thoughts. For you I have prepared… — J.R.R. Tolkien
That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If… — Zach Galifianakis
The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which… — Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
It's good to go out and entertain these people, and you've got them on the edge of their seat, they're standing up. Then you know… — Owen Hart
Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and… — Robert Jordan
I don't stand in anybody else's way of accomplishing their dreams, and I don't like people standing in my way, either. That seems like a… — Jamey Johnson
It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening. — Rachel Johnson
The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and… — Jayne Ann Krentz
One day I'll be standing at the river looking out across tomorrow, and the bridge I need to get there will be a bridge that… — Garth Brooks
I'm a dweller of the threshold and I'm waiting at the door, and I'm standing in the darkness, I don't want to wait no more. — Van Morrison
Standing in the middle of nowhere, wondering how to begin. Lost between tomorrow and yesterday, between now and then. — Ray Davies
I think it's particularly fun not being a full-time showbiz reporter because you still have the 'Oh, wow!' factor when you go out on the… — Daryn Kagan
I think credibility is one of those things that, if you work hard and you get it by standing in the trenches and traveling the… — Hoda Kotb
Watching nonprogrammers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesn’t know how to surf trying to surf. Even if he has great… — Joel Spolsky
A standing army, however necessary it may be at some times, is always dangerous to the liberties of the people. Such power should be watched… — Samuel Adams
Better die standing than live kneeling. — Pericles

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