Standing Quotes - Page 11

• We live with the decisions we makeThat’s what bravery is. Standing by the consequences of your mistakes.

  M. L. Stedman

  Mistake, Bravery, Decision

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• Cell phones have changed us from a nation of self-reliant pioneer types into a bunch of men standing alone in supermarkets saying, ‘Okay, I’m in the tampon aisle, but I don’t see it.'

  John Gierach

  Men, Phones, Self

  John Gierach (2008). “Fool's Paradise”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• The end of the ridge and the end of the world... then nothing but that clear, empty air. There was nowhere else to climb. I was standing on the top of the world.

  Stacy Allison

  Nature, Travel, Climbing

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• Let me explain something to you - you have not been standing in front of thirty thousand decibals for thirty-five years - write me a note!

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Writing, Years, Thirty

  "The Osbournes". Comedy, Music, Reality-TV, 2002–2005.

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• I don't think our death ray is working. I'm standing right in it, and I'm not dead yet.

  Jamie Hyneman

  Thinking, Rays

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• Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view.

  Jacques Lipchitz

  Views, Mountain, Different

  "Jacques Lipchitz: The Artist at Work". Book by Bert Van Bork, p. 199, 1966.

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• Well, I think if more people had more applause, it would make them feel better. I often give my wife a round of applause. If the meal is very good I give her a standing ovation.

  Tom Baker

  Feel Better, Thinking, People

  "Interview: Doctor Who star Tom Baker". Interview with Paul Whitelaw, www.scotsman.com. August 20, 2009.

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• I believe in the complexity of the human story, and that there's no way you can tell that story in one way and say, 'this is it.' Always there will be someone who can tell it differently depending on where they are standing ... this is the way I think the world's stories should be told: from many different perspectives.

  Chinua Achebe

  Believe, Thinking, Perspective

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• Peace is not weak. Standing up to a tank is harder than dropping a suicide bomb

  Matthieu Ricard

  Suicide, Tanks, Bombs

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• When soulmates come and go, you're never alone, even when you're standing just you and your shoes, because you carry them with you.

  Tori Amos

  Soulmate, Shoes, Comes And Goes

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• Give voice to what you know to be true, and do not be afraid of being disliked or exiled. I think that's the hard work of standing up for what you see.

  Eve Ensler

  Strong Women, Hard Work, Thinking

  "Feminism: A Moral Compass for Change?" by Barbara Hannah Grufferman, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2010.

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• Each of us face a moment in our lives called 'the breakdown moment.' This is the time when you must stand toe to toe, eyeball to eyeball, with the very thing you have tried desperately to avoid. In that moment, when there is nothing standing between you and the thing you fear the most, you will be forced to step into your greatness, because that is what life is demanding of you.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Greatness, Faces, Toes

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Feb 08, 2014

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• Today women have the rights and equality our Victorian sisters could only dream of, and with those privileges comes the responsibility of standing up and being counted.

  Sara Sheridan

  Dream, Responsibility, Rights

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• The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in one’s hand.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Horse, Hands, Breathing

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.12, Rodale

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• Calming the mind is yoga, not just standing on the head

  Swami Satchidananda

  Yoga, Mind, Calming

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• And to have spent the night sleeping and awoken regretful, is better than to have spent the night standing (in prayer) and awaken impressed with oneself!

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Prayer, Sleep, Night

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• A slave stands infront of Allah on two occasions. The first during salah, and secondly on the Day of Judgment. Whoseover stands correctly in the first, the second standing will be made easier for him. And whosoever, disregards the first standing, the second standing will be extremely difficult.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Two, Firsts, Judgment

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• Baptists never make love standing up. They're afraid someone might see them and think they're dancing.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Thinking, Dancing, Making Love

  Lewis Grizzard (1995). “Life Is Like a Dogsled Team . . . If You're Not the Lead Dog, the Scenery Never Changes: The Wit and Wisdom of Lewis Grizzard”, Longstreet Press

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• I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to do as a writer, I suppose.

  Monica Ali

  Trying, Needs, Outsiders

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• I think that every artist dreams of renewing the forms which came before, but I think very few can be considered to have achieved that. We are all dwarves standing upon the shoulders of the giants who preceded us, and I think we must never forget that. After all, even iconoclasts only exist with respect to that which they destroy.

  Peter Green

  Dream, Artist, Thinking

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• Individuals have little opportunity to get elected to Parliament under the label of the government party... unless they are in good standing with the Prime Minister and pledged to be cooperative.

  Stockwell Day

  Party, Opportunity, Government

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• 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

  Strong, Mean, Law

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• It's all very well having a great pianist playing but it's no good if you haven't got anyone to get the piano on the stage in the first place, otherwise the pianist would be standing there with no bloody piano to play.

  Ian Holloway

  Football, Play, Piano

  "'If I Fell in a Barrel of Boobs, I'd Come Out Sucking My Thumb!' - the Wisdom of Ian Holloway". www.standard.co.uk. May 24, 2010.

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• Spirituality brings a class of men who lay exclusive claim to the special powers of the world. The immediate effect of this is a reaction towards materialism, which opens the door to scores of exclusive claims, until the time comes when not only all the spiritual powers of the race, but all its material powers and privileges are centred in the hands of a very few; and these few, standing on the necks of the masses of the people, want to rule them. Then society has to help itself, and materialism comes to the rescue.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Men, Race

  Swami Vivekananda (1932). “The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited”

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• I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.

  Adam Carolla

  Art, Reality, Thinking

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