Standing Quotes - Page 17

• At 7:45 p.m. I was shot in the left arm by a friend. The bullet was a copper jacket 22 long rifle. My friend was standing about fifteen feet from me.

  Chris Burden

  Feet, Long, Rifles

  Chris Burden, Anne Ayres, Paul Schimmel, Newport Harbor Art Museum (1988). “Chris Burden: a twenty-year survey”

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• When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment.

  Terry Pratchett

  Kings, Speech, Kind

  "The Carpet People". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1971.

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• I remembered standing in the middle of the street in front of The Crooked Bookshelf, filled with the certainty of a future. I had heard the wolves howling behind the house and remembered how glad I had been to be human.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  House, Middle, Certainty

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.567, Scholastic Inc.

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• For over two weeks, the defenders of Wake Island held off a vastly superior force of Japanese ships and troops, inspiring the whole nation with their plucky spirit and sacrifice. Unfortunately, Navy leaders at Pearl Harbor, struggling to protect what was left of the shattered Pacific Fleet, canceled a relief mission, allowing the island and its defenders to fall without support. Wake damaged the long-standing trust between the Corps and the Navy, a memory that still rankles Marines and shames sailors.

  Tom Clancy

  Memories, Struggle, Fall

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• Real knowing comes up when we stand in the appropriate place. But usually we don’t. First we want to understand something according to individual knowledge, prejudice, customs and habits. This means we are standing up in our individual place, not the universal perspective. This egoistic behavior makes it very difficult to see the overall picture. But buddhas and ancestors recommend that we first stand up in the appropriate place. Just stand up, be present in the Universe itself.

  Dainin Katagiri

  Real, Mean, Knowing

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• If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also standing with his people in the trenches at the most difficult of times, then the company loses something.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Men, People, Risk

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• Ecstatic over the total annihilation of the Earth, Dr. Strangelove "resurrects" himself, miraculously regaining his ability to walk. His mechanical, robot-like body rises out of his wheelchair, crying exultantly: "Sir! I have a plan. Heh." (He realizes he is standing up.) "Mein Fuehrer, I can walk!"

  Peter Sellers

  Robots, Drs, Body

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• There, standing at the piano, was the original good time who had been had by all.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Fear, Piano, Good Times

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• Any person who has spent time outdoors actually doing something, such as hunting and fishing as opposed to standing there with a doobie in his mouth, knows nature is not intrinsically healthy.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Hunting, Fishing, Healthy

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.438, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Sometimes standing up for what you believe means standing down and allowing the universe to do its work.

  Gregor Collins

  Believe, Mean, Standing Down

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The First Lady and I both spotted the President standing under the mistletoe and she moved in to grab a kiss from him following a dinner for Combatant Commanders and military leadership at Blair House in Washington, D.C.

  Pete Souza

  Military, Kissing, House

  "20 of the Best White House Photographs of 2014" by Pete Souza, abcnews.go.com. December 29, 2014.

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• The strengths of America's international standing continue to be innovation, opportunities and vibrancy.

  Simon Anholt

  Opportunity, America, Innovation

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• Revenge is like a ghost... It takes over every man it touches... Its thirst cannot be quenched... Until the last man standing has fallen.

  Vladimir Makarov

  Revenge, Men, Lasts

  "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2". Video Game, www.imdb.com. November 10, 2009.

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• You haven't broken me Taker, you haven't broken me, I'm still standing.

  Jeff Hardy

  Wwe, Broken, Stills

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• We boast of our system of education, but why stop at schoolmasters and schoolhouses? We are all schoolmasters, and our schoolhouse is the universe. To attend chiefly to the desk or schoolhouse while we neglect the scenery in which it is placed is absurd. If we do not look out we shall find our find schoolhouse standing in a cow-yard at last.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Education, Yards, Looks

  Henry David Thoreau, Joseph O. Valentine, Thoreau Society (2001). “Thoreau on Land: Nature's Canvas”, p.88, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• School is a building that has four walls-with tomorrow inside. Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. There are many ways of going forward, but there is only one way of standing still. A lot of us would like to move mountains, but few of us are willing to practice on small hills. Doing your best is more important than being the best. Giant oak trees started out as little nuts. The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Motivational, Wall, Powerful

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• Standing up for what's right is a huge burden to bear. It's normal to have some doubt.

  Daisy Whitney

  Doubt, Bears, Normal

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• My Dad was such an incredible person, and you have the option of just curling up in a dark corner and letting it all go or you have the option of standing strong, sticking together and carrying on what he lived and died for. And I think that's what's so important - to be able to carry on where he left off.

  Bindi Irwin

  Strong, Dad, Dark

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• While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

  Edmund Hillary

  Interesting, Challenges, Valleys

  Foreword to "Peak Performance: Business Lessons from the World's Top Sports Organizations" by Clive Gibson, Mike Pratt, Kevin Roberts and Ed Weymes, 2000.

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• I'm never standing still and that makes my life pretty exciting.

  Maria Sharapova

  Exciting, Standing Still, Stills

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• P.E. was my life in school. Without it, I wouldn't be standing here. It gave me confidence when I was an overweight kid with a speech impediment.

  Herschel Walker

  School, Kids, Speech

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• Not so deep down, we all know that safety is an illusion, that only character melds us together. That’s why most of us do everything we can (healthy and unhealthy) to ward off that real feeling of standing alone so close to the edge of the world.

  Kiese Laymon

  Real, Character, Safety

  Kiese Laymon (2016). “How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America”, p.72, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• You know you've reached middle age when your weightlifting consists merely of standing up.

  Bob Hope

  Age, Middle, Weightlifting

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• Those who are well assured of their own standing are least apt to trespass on that of others, whereas nothing is so offensive as the aspirings of vulgarity which thinks to elevate itself by humiliating its neighbor.

  Washington Irving

  Reputation, Wells, Assured

  "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book".

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• It is obvious that the best qualities in man must atrophy in a standing-room-only environment.

  Stewart Udall

  Men, Quality, Population

  Stewart L. Udall (1963). “The Quiet Crisis”

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