Standing Quotes

• If I fall, look out for the crash. There won't be anyone left standing.

  

  Evita Peron
  • Fall
  • Anyone
  • Crash

• Loyalty isn't standing by someone when he's right - that's good judgment. Loyalty is standing by someone when he's wrong.

  

  Susan Estrich
  • Judgment
  • Loyalty
  • Standing

• Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

  

  Woody Guthrie
  • Trying
  • Change
  • Habit

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

  

  Carson McCullers
  • World
  • Love
  • Matter

• I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

  

  Westbrook Pegler
  • Members
  • Standing

• I would much rather not be the center of attention, and I'd much rather travel and be writing my novel, rather than standing on a stage and trying to get people to understand something.

  

  Willis Earl Beal
  • People
  • Writing
  • Trying

• A man don't always have to eat what he's standing life. If he wants, a man can fix a meal of his own choosing.

  

  Nathan McCall
  • Men
  • Standing
  • Meals

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

  

  Scott Snyder
  • Always
  • Standing

• Do you think I am standing here, making this up as I go? I am sorry to disillusion you. I am not Robin Williams. I am the king of the pen.

  

  Mitch Hedberg
  • Sorry
  • Making
  • Standing

• I love metaphors. I've never been on this train. ... If I'm standing on the middle of a track, I'm definitely going to get derailed. I have to make sure that I'm on the train and not in front of it.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Train
  • Middle
  • Metaphor

• Taking steps is easy Standing still is hard... Everything is different The second time around.

  

  Regina Spektor
  • Time
  • Different
  • Steps

• 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

• In Hong Kong, in our generation that started out in the 1970s, being a director wasn't a big deal. We didn't even have director's chairs. We weren't particularly well paid. The social standing of a film director wasn't that high. It was a sort of a plebeian job, a second or third grade one. And the studio heads are always practical, there's never any fawning because someone is a director. There's very little snobbery about one's position as a director. The only ones people treated differently were those that were also stars; or the directors who also owned their companies.

  

  Ann Hui
  • Generation
  • Director
  • Standing

• People always ask me what the trends are, but I’m not a believer in trends. Individuality is more important to me, to stand out and have the confidence to wear something you’re comfortable in - it just happens I’m comfortable wearing a suit!

  

  David Gandy
  • People
  • Important
  • Individuality

• One of the greatest gifts we’ve been given out of this administrative nightmare is that marginalized communities are coming together and standing up for each other.

  

  Sarah Kate Ellis
  • Gifts
  • Communities
  • Standing

• I believe in the critical importance of participating in the political system - from voting to standing for election. It's both rewarding and necessary that men and women of good will and clear thinking engage in honest, open debate.

  

  Michael Nutter
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Political

• Fundamentally, I believe that the U.S. can improve its international standing and its national security by expanding trade and strengthening its relationships with moderate Muslim countries.

  

  Richard Neal
  • Country
  • Security
  • International

• Look who's standing if you please, 'though you tried to bring me to my knees.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Standing
  • Knees

• There is no standing still because time is moving forward.

  

  Greg Lake
  • Moving
  • Forward
  • Standing

• Sometimes you have to bend a little in order to keep standing.

  

  Katrina Mayer
  • Sometimes
  • Keep
  • To Bend

• The Dharma Path is to keep walking forward. But the true Dharma has no going forward, no going backward, and no standing still.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Practice
  • Path
  • Walking

• You've got a lot of very, very smart people standing by waiting for somebody else to do the work. Not a recipe for long-term solvency in my opinion.

  

  Mike Rowe
  • Long
  • Waiting
  • Smart

• Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Moral
  • Intellectual
  • Justify

• By the end of the Twentieth Century, taxation will be reduced to a minimum, the entire world will be open to trade, and there will be no need of a standing army.

  

  Erastus Wiman
  • World
  • Army
  • Trade

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