Standing Quotes - Page 21

• I can sleep anywhere. I can fall asleep standing up, literally anywhere.

  Jenna Ushkowitz

  Fall, Sleep, I Can

  "Glee’s Jenna Ushkowitz Knows Exactly What Billy Joel Was Talking About". Interview with Vanita Salisbury, nymag.com. February 18, 2011.

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• We have a long-standing tradition in this country to follow the advice of Senator Vandenberg, which is that politics ends at the water's edge.

  Mitt Romney

  Country, Long, Water

  "Face the Nation" with Jan Crawford, www.cbsnews.com. July 29, 2012,.

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• The word of God is definitely above culture, in terms of what or who should have authority in our lives. However, we must remember that we are within culture, and our calling in Christ is to play our part in the redemption and transformation of individuals and cultures. I believe the recent history of the religious subculture teaches all too clearly that unless we are moving forward in seeking the genuine transformation of culture, then we are standing still and it is transforming us.

  Steve Scott

  Religious, Moving Forward, Believe

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• Innovations, free thinking is blowing like a storm; those that stand in front of it, ignorant scholars like you, false scientists, perverse conservatives, obstinate goats, resisting mules are being crushed under the weight of these innovations. You are nothing but ants standing in front of the giants; nothing but chicks trying to challenge roaring volcanoes!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ignorance, Science, Thinking

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• Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.

  Criss Jami

  Sympathy, Needs, Helping

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.95, Criss Jami

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• Tie me up, please... Chantal said. They looked above at some vines and roots hanging down from the grassy area above the depression in the canal they were standing in. She was in his hands-he had to comply. A little bit of kink was one of the most delicious of erotic pleasures. Catholic school girls were often the horniest-Brett could hardly contain his elation.

  Jess C Scott

  Girl, School, Roots

  Jess C. Scott (2011). “Catholic School Girls Rule”, p.25, jessINK

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• The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I was standing in the crib singing God Bless America.

  Linda Lavin

  America, Parent, Singing

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• I'm still standing up there tall and strong every night that I perform.

  Patti LaBelle

  Strong, Night, Stills

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• It's mainly a few elite women who benefit greatly from standing with the forces that keep women down.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Benefits, Force, Elites

  "Are women human?" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2006.

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• It hadn't really percolated through my brain that I was going to see real, live TV from the surface of the Moon, and boy, oh, boy, had that Saturn V launch been exciting! And then, there it was - late at night, sitting up, watching, and there was Neil Armstrong actually standing on the surface of the Moon.

  David Weber

  Real, Boys, Moon

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• Standing behind a kitchen counter telling people about what ingredients to put in a pot didn't feel right.

  Trisha Yearwood

  People, Kitchen, Ingredients

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• Watching nonprogrammers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesn’t know how to surf trying to surf. Even if he has great advisers standing on the shore telling him what to do, he still falls off the board again and again.

  Joel Spolsky

  Running, Fall, Trying

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• A standing army, however necessary it may be at some times, is always dangerous to the liberties of the people. Such power should be watched with a jealous eye.

  Samuel Adams

  Jealous, Eye, Army

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• Better die standing than live kneeling.

  Pericles

  Kneeling, Dies

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• Sculptured figures which appear in motion, will, in their standing position, actually look as if they were falling forward.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Fall, Looks, Figures

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.261, GENERAL PRESS

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• However appalling to consider, however tedious to enact, every novel requires furniture, whether it is to be named or unnamed, for the characters will be unable to remain in standing position for the duration of the story.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Character, Stories, Duration

  "Furniture" by Johnathan Lethem, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2008.

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• You described the feeling you’d always had of being misplaced, of always standing to one side of yourself, of watching yourself in the world even as you were being in the world, and wondering if this was how everyone felt. That you always believed that other people had a clearer idea of what they were doing, and didn’t worry quite so much about why.

  Jay McInerney

  Ideas, Worry, People

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• Bieber has 10 million fans - most are in middle schools, or standing at least 500 feet away from one.

  Kevin Hart

  School, Feet, Fans

  "Justin Bieber's roasting: The best jokes from his Comedy Central "a**-whuppin'" from A-list line-up" by Katy Forrester, www.mirror.co.uk. March 15, 2015.

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• I hit some great shots in my lifetime; now I hit a decent shot and I get a standing ovation.

  Martina Navratilova

  Ovation, Lifetime, Shots

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• Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cognisance of the slippery ground in which they are standing, which could lead to their downfall.

  Michael Bassey

  Negative, Praying, Downfall

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• It's responsible for the sloppiness and imprecision of the War on Terror, for example. It's responsible for taking people's tax dollars and spending the country into debt on useless wars and pointless pork projects to buy votes. It's responsible for bailing out the banks instead of standing up for the people the banks cheated. It's responsible for plenty.

  Timothy Hallinan

  Country, War, People

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• It don't matter what you tried to do, you couldn't destroy me! I'm still standing! I'm still strong! And I always will be.

  Antwone Fisher

  Strong, Matter, Stills

  "Antwone Fisher". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die....So just standing still isn't really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Moving, Challenges, Disturbance

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

  Carson McCullers

  Falling In Love, Love Is, Matter

  Carson McCullers (1961). “Clock without hands”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The whole body reacts to color. If you were to walk into an all-neon-pink room, it would be difficult not to react. I think it is a unified, human thing to feel color with everything. It is like standing next to a bass speaker plugged into your eyeballs.

  Jim Drain

  Thinking, Color, Would Be

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