Standing Quotes - Page 20

• America's downgrade may serve as a wakeup call for its policymakers. It is an unambiguous and loud signal of the country's eroding economic strength and global standing. It renders urgent the need to regain the initiative through better economic policymaking and more coherent governance.

  Mohamed El-Erian

  Country, America, Needs

  "U.S. Downgrade Heralds a New Financial Era" by Mohamed A. El-Erian, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 6, 2011.

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• When you're standing in front of an audience like this that is so enthusiastic and so much behind you, it is very hard to give a bad speech. Even a bad speech sounds good in a convention hall like this.

  Susan Estrich

  Giving, Sound, Speech

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• When you're caught up in the storm or, you know, just the turmoil of everything that there is another side and you do get through it. And you know, just standing by the truth and doing the right thing.

  Scott Peterson

  Storm, Sides, Caught

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• I'm very surprised - midway through my second glass of red wine last night, I really didn't think I'd be standing here with a trophy in my hands.

  Graeme McDowell

  Wine, Golf, Thinking

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• The turn I made was not the one I planned. And I watched my social standing slip away from me, while I watched the bottle slowly take command.

  Merle Haggard

  Alcohol, Drug, Bottles

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• Brother, you can't go to jail for what you're thinking, or that look in your eye, just standing on the corner watching all the girls go by.

  Dean Martin

  Girl, Brother, Eye

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• Each culture has its own characteristic manner of locomotion, sitting, standing, reclining, and gesturing.

  Edward T. Hall

  Culture, Sitting, Characteristics

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• The human organism is thus still developing biologically while already standing in a relationship to its environmont. In other words, the process of becoming man takes place in an interrelationship with an environment. (...) From the moment of birth, man's organismic development, and indeed a large part of his biological being as such, are subjected to continuing socially determined interference.

  Peter L. Berger

  Men, Body, Becoming

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• I'm standing naked before you. Don't you want more than sex?

  Tori Amos

  Sex, Naked, Want

  Song: Leather

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• Like a rock, standing arrow straight. Like a rock, charging from the gate.

  Bob Seger

  Rocks, Arrows, Charging

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• And you, Ringbearer' she said, turning to Frodo. 'I come to you last who are not last in my thoughts. For you I have prepared this.' She held up a small crystal phial: it glittered as she moved it and rays of white light sprang from her hand. 'In this phial,' she said,' is caught the light of Earendil's star, set amid the waters of my fountain. It will shine still brighter when night is about you. May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out. Frodo took the phial, and for a moment as it shone between them, he saw her again standing like a queen, great and beautiful.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Beautiful, Stars, Queens

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.266, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Yelling, People, Limits

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• The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.

  Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

  War, Ideas, Waiting

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• It's good to go out and entertain these people, and you've got them on the edge of their seat, they're standing up. Then you know that you've done your job, you've entertained them. My way of entertaining them is going out and wrestling. Everyone's got their different ways.

  Owen Hart

  Jobs, Wrestling, People

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• Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.

  Robert Jordan

  Two Sides, Evil, Fiction

  "Robert Jordan chats about his 'Wheel of Time' series". Live chat, www.cnn.com. December 12, 2000.

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• I don't stand in anybody else's way of accomplishing their dreams, and I don't like people standing in my way, either. That seems like a hostile thing to do.

  Jamey Johnson

  Dream, People, Way

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• It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.

  Rachel Johnson

  Self, Over You, Snarling

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• The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and modern theories of psychology and sociology.

  Jayne Ann Krentz

  Attitude, Philosophy, Long

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• One day I'll be standing at the river looking out across tomorrow, and the bridge I need to get there will be a bridge that I have burned.

  Garth Brooks

  Revenge, Rivers, Bridges

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• I'm a dweller of the threshold and I'm waiting at the door, and I'm standing in the darkness, I don't want to wait no more.

  Van Morrison

  Philosophy, Doors, Waiting

  Song: Dweller on the Threshold, Album: Beautiful Vision

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• Standing in the middle of nowhere, wondering how to begin. Lost between tomorrow and yesterday, between now and then.

  Ray Davies

  Philosophy, Yesterday, Middle Of Nowhere

  Song: Do It Again

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• My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.

  Gary Snyder

  Grandmother, Garden, Hands

  Gary Snyder (1992). “No nature: new and selected poems”, Pantheon

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• I was afraid to board a streetcar because of the conductor; I was afraid to enter the Kabuki Theater for fear of the usherettes standing along the sides of the red-carpeted staircase at the main entrance; I was afraid to go into a restaurant because I was intimidated by the waiters furtively hovering behind me waiting for my plate to be emptied.

  Osamu Dazai

  Waiting, Awkward, Boards

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

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• When you get people standing up saying, 'I'm going to just tell the truth; what do we have to fear?,' it encourages others, and it creates a counterresponse.

  Ron Suskind

  People, Telling The Truth

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• I look forward to standing shoulder to shoulder with Speaker Boehner, Leader Cantor, Whip McCarthy and the entire republican conference as we repeal Obamacare, fight rampant job killing regulations, cut spending and help put folks back to work.

  Fred Upton

  Jobs, Fighting, Cutting

  "Upton wins House energy gavel" by Darren Samuelsohn, www.politico.com. December 07, 2010.

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