Standing Quotes

2631 Standing quotes by 1880 unique authors

Standing alone among great democratic nations in imposing the death penalty is another moral decision that Americansare being forced to confront. — Jimmy Carter
At the heart of the WTO is an assault on everything left standing in the commons, in the public realm. Everything is now for sale.… — Maude Barlow
There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in his… — Gordon Brown
You can say I'm a hater. But I would argue I'm a lover. I'm a lover of traditional families and of the right of children… — Rick Santorum
If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing. — Mary Frances Berry
Those who say that we want nationality, they are standing against Islam....We have no use for the nationalists. Moslems are useful for us. Islam is… — Ruhollah Khomeini
The United States was founded on the idea that all people are endowed with inalienable rights, and that principle has allowed us to work to… — Barack Obama
He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back — A. A. Gill
The purpose of affirmative action is to give our nation a way to finally address the systemic exclusion of individuals of talent on the basis… — William J. Clinton
It is a rude feeling, because it is natural only to people standing on the lowest level of morality, and expecting from other nations such… — Leo Tolstoy
Instead of standing on the shore and proving to ourselves that the ocean cannot carry us, let us venture on its waters just to see. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
That the people have a Right to mass and to bear arms; that a well regulated militia composed of the Body of the people, trained… — George Mason
Citizenship means standing up for the lives that gun violence steals from us each day. I have seen the courage of parents, students, pastors, and… — Barack Obama
No matter what. Wherever your mind wanders, it seems to turn up at the same Field of Dreams. It's the vision you wake up with… — James C. Collins
Standing facing the door in an elevator and pretending you're the only person there, no matter how crowded it is. — Paulo Coelho
The only person standing in your way is staring back at you in the mirror. — Wes Fesler
The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for "List Processing"), which was invented by John McCarthy around the… — Douglas Hofstadter
Professor Focke and his technicians standing below grew ever smaller as I continued to rise straight up, 50 metres, 75 metres, 100 metres. Then I… — Hanna Reitsch
We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots, who, for a… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Nothing beats standing in the middle of the action, with all the data I need at my fingertips — Betty Liu
More than illness or death, the American journalist fears standing alone against the whim of his owners or the prejudices of his audience. Deprive William… — Lewis H. Lapham
Standing before a camera isn't intimidating. It's more comfortable for me. I enjoy it now. I'm more aware of what to do. — Unknown Author
When a child speaks of a past life memory, the effects ripple far. At the center is the child, who is directly healed and changed.… — Carol Bowman
Without him (Jean-Christophe) I would never have understood the splendour of taking free andindependent action as an individual. Up until this stolen encounter with brains… — Sijie Dai

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