Standing Quotes - Page 13

• ...a young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.

  Leonard Cohen

  Nurse, Charity, Wonder

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “Beautiful Losers”, p.196, Vintage

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• 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

  Life, Work, Journey

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• Children never lie...I remember my daughter standing in her crib the first time I gave her caviar. I put it on bread. She ate it and said, "Encore, Papa."

  Jacques Pepin

  Daughter, Children, Lying

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• In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary things and events are regarded as particular illustrations of words.

  Aldous Huxley

  Illustration, Events, Religion And Politics

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• I used to think that real love involved falling for someone; but now I think it usually involves standing for someone.

  Bob Goff

  Real, Fall, Thinking

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• I have always been very open and honest about this part of my life with my friends, my family, and my colleagues. In a perfect world, I don't think it's anyone else's business, but I do think there is value in standing up and being counted. I’m not an activist, but I am a human being and I don't give that up by being a journalist.

  Anderson Cooper

  Thinking, Giving, Perfect

  "Anderson Cooper's 'I'm Gay' Announcement Draws Mixed Reactions on Twitter" by Erin Carlson, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 02, 2012.

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• I work in waves, because I'm impatient. Because of a certain physicality, of lack of breath from standing. It has to be done and I do take liberties I wouldn't have taken before.

  Cy Twombly

  Taken, Liberty, Done

  "I work in waves". Interview with Nicholas Serota, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2008.

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• It may look like I'm moving but I'm standing still.

  Bob Dylan

  Moving, Looks, May

  Bob Dylan (2016). “The Lyrics: 1961-2012”, p.764, Gyldendal A/S

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• You have to go out there and give a piece of yourself -- your life, your soul. And you better give the audience everything you can -- physically, emotionally, musically. Then maybe they'll accept you and give you a standing ovation at the end.

  Neil Diamond

  Giving, Soul, Ovation

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• Keep your foot on the devil's neck by standing on the Word of God, and you will see tremendous results!

  Jesse Duplantis

  Feet, Devil, Necks

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• ...a condemned man who, at the hour of death, says or thinks that if the alternative were offered him of existing somewhere, on a height of rock or some narrow elevation, where only his two feet could stand, and round about him the ocean, perpetual gloom, perpetual solitude, perpetual storm, to remain there standing on a yard of surface for a lifetime, a thousand years, eternity! - rather would he live thus than die at once? Only live, live, live! - no matter how, only live!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Ocean, Men, Thinking

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• ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage. A man in bed or a cabbage in the pot is not considered as having a zenith, though Horizontalists hold that the posture of the body was immaterial.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Men, Heaven, Growing

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.241, 谷月社

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• A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in a mighty public way.

  Thornton Wilder

  Men, Good Woman, Way

  Thornton Wilder (1965). “Our town: a play in three acts”

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• It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship. But get real, when everyone is bailing out, you don't want to be the last man standing.

  Robbie Fowler

  Real, Men, Leaving

  Robbie Fowler (2009). “Fowler: My Autobiography”, p.337, Pan Macmillan

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• Who are we, as we stand before the child Jesus? Who are we, standing as we stand before today's children? Are we like Mary and Joseph, who welcomed Jesus and cared for him with the love of a father and a mother? Or are we like Herod, who wanted to eliminate him? Are we like the shepherds, who went in haste to kneel before him in worship and offer him their humble gifts? Or are we indifferent?

  Pope Francis

  Mother, Jesus, Children

  Pope Francis (2016). “I Believe: The Promise of the Creed”, p.49, Orbis Books

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• Mindfulness is loving all the details of our lives, and awareness is the natural thing that happens: life begins to open up, and you realize that you're always standing at the center of the world.

  Pema Chodron

  Details, Mindfulness, World

  Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.35, Shambhala Publications

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• During my years of being close to people engaged in changing the world I have seen fear turn into courage. Sorrow into joy. Funerals into celebration. Because whatever the consequences, people, standing side by side, have expressed who they really are, and that ultimately they believe in the love of the world and each other enough to be that.

  Alice Walker

  Believe, Years, People

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• Next time I'll be braver, I'll be my own savior, Standing on my own two feet.

  Adele

  Two, Feet, Next

  Song: Turning Tables, Album: 21, 2011

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

  Regina Spektor

  Different, Steps, Easy

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• No matter who or what we are, God restores us to right standing with Himself only by means of the death of Jesus Christ.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Mean, Matter

  Oswald Chambers (2006). “My Utmost Fhh Grad Updated/E”, Barbour Publishing

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• The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!

  Ben Kingsley

  Acting, Cameras, Doe

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• A private central bank issuing the public currency is a greater menace to the liberties of the people than a standing army. We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Army, People, Liberty

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• None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army

  Thomas Jefferson

  Army, Gun Rights, Nations

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.166, Algora Publishing

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• The cross is the standing statement of what we do to one another and to ourselves. The resurrection is the standing statement of what God does to us in return.

  Richard Rohr

  Doe, Return, Resurrection

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• Life is not about gutting out every situation. It's about identifying opportunity or the lack thereof. If your pride is all that is standing in the way of quitting, quit. The right people won't care and the wrong people don't matter. If you know you're on the right path, persevere though the pain. It will be worth it.

  Seth Godin

  Pain, Pride, Opportunity

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