Standing Quotes

2631 Standing quotes by 1880 unique authors

I still believe that standing up for the truth of God is the greatest thing in the world. This is the end (purpose) of life.… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
If American workers are being denied their right to organize and collectively bargain when I'm in the White House, I will put on a comfortable… — Barack Obama
I love drinking now and then. It defecates the standing pool of thought. A man perpetually in the paroxysm and fears of inebriety is like… — Robert Burns
(Whispered to a novice while standing in front of the convent library) Oh! I would have been sorry to have read all those books...If I… — Therese of Lisieux
So the British, of all ages, still walk the course. On trips to Florida or the American desert, they still marvel, or shudder, at the… — Alistair Cooke
I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up... — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results. — Seth Godin
The good news is we have the technology and the tools to alleviate poverty on a global scale. All that is standing in our way… — Natalie Portman
Open your heart - open it wide; someone is standing outside. — Mary Engelbreit
Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what may seem a… — George Santayana
Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world. — Lauren Bacall
Lotto fever hit New York again this week, and like the old saying goes, 'You gotta be in it to win it'... but first, you… — Dennis Miller
I hate it. It looks like a stickup at 7-Eleven. Five guys standing there with their hands in the air. — Norm Sloan
Standing on the court and holding up that trophy - it's so great you want to keep doing it over and over again. — Tim Duncan
Standing on that platform, I said a silent prayer. I thanked God for giving me the strength and the opportunity to come back, to play… — Magic Johnson
In my heart, I know that marriage equality for every human being isn't a question of if, but only a matter of when. I ask… — Russell Simmons
We have far too many kids. At one time in the playpen there was standing-room only. It looked like a bus stop for midgets. It… — Phyllis Diller
Cats are a standing rebuke to behavioral scientists wanting to know how the minds of animals work. The mind of a cat is an unscrutable… — Lewis Thomas
The world in which we live would benefit greatly if men and women everywhere would exercise the pure love of Christ, which is kind, meek,… — Howard W. Hunter
The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his… — Elbert Hubbard
If you are moving, even fire will not hurt you. If you are standing still near the fire, even though you are not in the… — Robert Kiyosaki
I'm standing on a field full of landmines doing the moonwalk hoping i blow up in time — Kendrick Lamar
And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or… — Samuel Adams
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set… — Thomas Jefferson
The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming proportion of our factual beliefs… — Michael Polanyi

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