Standing Quotes

2631 Standing quotes by 1880 unique authors

Later on, when I tried to imagine how I might have ruined things, that would occur to me - that I'd so rarely resisted, that… — Curtis Sittenfeld
To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or her… — Galway Kinnell
If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead. — Samuel Beckett
Long ago, men went to sea, and women waited for them, standing on the edge of the water, scanning the horizon for the tiny ship.… — Audrey Niffenegger
we left about midnight and walked down the hill in silence. the night was muggy, and all around me i felt the same pressure, a… — Hunter S. Thompson
It had ceased raining in the night and he walked out on the road and called for the dog. He called and called. Standing in… — Cormac McCarthy
When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies? The great armistices… — Neal A. Maxwell
I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under… — Thomas Jefferson
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is like riding a bicycle. You get nowhere standing up, so get up on that seat and go! — Lynne Ewing
What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you… — C.S. Lewis
...we both saw something we liked, a willingness to have no walls, or maybe just an unwillingness to keep them standing. — Ian Caldwell
Why does an apple fall when it is ripe? Is it brought down by the force of gravity? Is it because its stalk withers? Because… — Leo Tolstoy
She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school.… — Vladimir Nabokov
To have lost is less disturbing than to wonder if we may possibly have won; and Eustacia could now, like other people at such a… — Thomas Hardy
There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at… — Elizabeth Berg
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest… — Susan B. Anthony
Expect poison from the standing water. — William Blake
Every human being on the face of the earth has a steel plate in his head, but if you lie down now and then and… — Sue Monk Kidd
Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature. It's true: They rebut every rule all we good citizens take comfort in.… — Leif Enger
I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot… — Elizabeth Gilbert
The langour of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! The zest, the generous affections, the illusions, the despair,… — Evelyn Waugh
I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to… — Erica Jong
His name was Rambo, and he was just some nothing kid for all anybody knew, standing by the pump of a gas station at the… — David Morrell
She laughs and looks out the window and I think for a minute that she's going to start to cry. I'm standing by the door… — Bret Easton Ellis

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