Standing Quotes

• Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.

  

  Carson McCullers
  • World
  • Love
  • Matter

• They held firm, their courage bolstered by the powerful mage standing with them, pulsating with magick.

  

  Ben Galley
  • Firm
  • Magick
  • Pulsating

• We must, like a painter, take time to stand back from our work, to be still, and thus see what's what. . . True repose is standing back to survey the activities that fill our days.

  

  William McNamara
  • Time
  • Reflection
  • Painter

• The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John Brown was buried down the road from my house and that he had lived there longer than anywhere else and his house was still standing.

  

  Russell Banks
  • House
  • Stills
  • Grew

• Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Earth
  • Sky
  • Stars

• A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Political
  • Politics
  • Conservative

• I wanted to show young people that taking a stand can be done by simply standing firm in your convictions.

  

  Andrea Davis Pinkney
  • Young
  • Standing
  • Convictions

• So far I'm still standing on 'Sons of Anarchy' but all the rest of the people on the show have me in their crosshairs so I'm waiting for the bullet in the head.

  

  Mitch Pileggi
  • People
  • Standing
  • Anarchy

• It don't matter what you tried to do, you couldn't destroy me! I'm still standing! I'm still strong! And I always will be.

  

  Antwone Fisher
  • Strong
  • Destroy
  • Standing

• I'm happy that I'm at a moment where I'm not standing here going what do I do next?

  

  Billy Gilman
  • Happy
  • Moment
  • Standing

• It's mainly a few elite women who benefit greatly from standing with the forces that keep women down.

  

  Catharine MacKinnon
  • Force
  • Benefits
  • Elites

• Don't go telling yourself you're in love with the man he could be; you gotta love the man standing in front of you right now. Simply put, love the person not the potential! Otherwise, he will always be disappointing to you. And whose fault is that?

  

  Niecy Nash
  • Persons
  • Faults
  • Fronts

• I have always loved sneakers and sweaters, and I wear a lot of them. And a good t-shirt or a pair of jeans can make you feel so good. And then I love great coats, and I pay a lot of attention to them and own a lot of them. I think a great piece of outerwear can really make you stand out.

  

  Garance Dore
  • Thinking
  • Attention
  • Shirts

• We live in a supermarket of ideas, faiths, practices, theories, ideologies, and much else besides. Never in human history have there been so many movements and ideas struggling to attract our attention. Added to this, the Western world is swamped by material goods and the Western mind is dominated by the goal of material success. In all this confusion, Zen stands out as a voice of sanity. It represents a different way of seeing the world, one based upon the rediscovery of who we really are and have always been, through revealing to us our true nature.

  

  David Fontana
  • Different
  • Struggle
  • Goal

• Republicans are good at standing by their candidate.

  

  George Clooney
  • Republican
  • Standing
  • Candidates

• Actually, my ideal life would be to have an evergreen tree farm and, every December, I'd load them up and just stand out on the street and sell Christmas trees.

  

  Willis Earl Beal
  • Christmas
  • December
  • Standing

• It's entirely possible that there won't be a standing ovation at the end of your journey. That's okay. At least you lived.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Journey
  • Standing
  • Ovation

• I am standing for NSW Super 12 coaching position. NSW great. Queensland bad.

  

  Damir Dokic
  • Position
  • Standing
  • Queensland

• It hit me that the students were talking about me, not God. I was standing before a holy God and robbing Him of the glory that was rightfully His.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Students
  • Glory
  • Holy

• Our emancipation means standing up for strong families, our emancipation means standing against the homosexuality agenda, emancipation for us means standing up against the repealing of the buggery law.

  

  Alvin Bailey
  • Law
  • Standing
  • Emancipation

• I always, always got to be the last man standing.

  

  Scott Snyder
  • Always
  • Standing

• You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

  

  Shirley Chisholm
  • Ideas
  • Progress
  • Complaining

• I can remember standing in the middle of the field after the race and seeing the American flag raised and hearing 'The Star Spangled Banner' and all the people singing it. Then I walked off the field and just kind of enjoyed the feeling.

  

  Elizabeth Robinson Schwartz
  • Remember
  • Singing
  • Race

• It's a long haul bringing up our children to be good; you have to keep doing that — bring them up — and that means bringing things up with them: Asking, telling, sounding them out, sounding off yourself — finding, through experience, your own words, your own way of putting them together. You have to learn where you stand, and make sure your kids learn [where you stand], understand why, and soon, you hope, they'll be standing there beside you, with you.

  

  Erik Erikson
  • Together
  • Findings
  • Parenting

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