Standing Quotes
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It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
Miles Davis
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We are committed not only to stand beside Pakistan at this time of tragedy, but we're committed to working with and standing with Pakistan in the long run.
Anthony Wayne
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These people looked Japanese, were originally Japanese, were numerous. We had no way of knowing to what extent they had been infiltrated. To their great credit, it seems not to have been very much at all. But I can understand why. And I rather respect Eleanor for standing out against the tide at that point. But it certainly was a tide. And I'm not going to say it was unjustified.
William A. Rusher
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Some people achieve the top of the ladder and only then realise it was standing against the wrong wall.
Stephen Covey
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On their side more men are standing, on ours more will fight!
Alexander the Great
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I don't want it to appear that I'm standing up and saying I'm the expected one. That's a dangerous, ego-driven kind of thing.
Kathleen McGowan
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If you plan your work, you will not find yourself standing on the corner wondering where to go next.
John Henry Patterson
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He had the vague sense of standing on a threshold, the crossing of which would change everything.
Kate Morton
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...we both saw something we liked, a willingness to have no walls, or maybe just an unwillingness to keep them standing.
Ian Caldwell
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The places where water comes together with other water. Those places stand out in my mind like holy places.
Raymond Carver
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You don't put out music unless you have a sense that people will maybe like what you're doing or you're standing for something artistically.
Aaron Bruno
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A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rather than someone who is bashing a plank and is spitting all over a microphone.
Graham Coxon Blur
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Trees have judicial standing, and probably grass too.
William O. Douglas
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After that we tried thirty-nine times to stand together on the tube until we finally did. It was fun. I liked the falling part, and holding hangs. Relationships were so easy when all you had to work on was standing up together.
Miriam Toews
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I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. -Loving Frank
Nancy Horan
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The heart of standing is that you cannot fly.
William Empson
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The decent docent doesn't doze; He teaches standing on his toes. His students dassn't doze and does, And that's what teaching is and was.
David McCord
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Standing knee deep in a river and dying of thirst.
Kathy Mattea
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I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.
William McKinley
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Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill.
William Cowper
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Few sights in science are sadder than astronomers standing in the rain.
Dennis Overbye
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Standing outside the cultural hysteria the trend is fairly clear. It is a trend toward temporal compression and the emergence of ambiguity.
Terence McKenna
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The standing ovation threw me. ... To be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.
Michael Caine
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Guys don't go for me. Period. I don't distract them. They don't sneak glances in my direction. They don't think of me when I'm not standing right in front of them. I'm scenery. I'm background.
Dana Reinhardt