Standing Quotes - Page 24

• I was in Chicago in 1994 and at this time I had no thoughts of coming back and playing the game of basketball, Bryon Russell came over to me and said, "Why'd you quit? You know I could guard you." When I did come back in 1995 and we played Utah in '96, I'm at the center circle and Bryon Russell is standing next to me. I said, "You remember what you said in 1994 about, 'I think I can guard you, I can shut you down, I would love to play against you?' Well, you're about to get your chance.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Thinking, Utah

  "Michael Jordan Offers Scalding if Not Scolding Comments at Hall Induction" by Rick Morrissey, articles.chicagotribune.com. September 12, 2009.

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• I love that as a theme for women: Stop standing by! You've got to make stuff happen! You've got to create your own world because if you let other people do it, they're going to just screw you.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  People, Stuff Happens, World

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• War is the sure result of the existence of armed men. That country which maintains a large standing army will sooner or later have a war. The man who prides himself on fisticuffs is going, some day, to meet a man who considers himself the better man, and they will test the issue.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Country, War, Pride

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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• We are standing on a whale fishing for minnows.

  Joseph Campbell

  Whales, Fishing, Minnows

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.46, Anchor

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• It is a noteworthy fact that not one of the women to whom I have spoken so far believes in abortion as a practice; but it is principle for which they are standing. They also believe that the complete abolition of the abortion law will shortly do away with abortions, as nothing else will.

  Margaret Sanger

  Believe, Law, Practice

  Margaret Sanger (2016). “The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger, Volume 4: Round the World for Birth Control, 1920-1966”, p.50, University of Illinois Press

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• I got the breaks. Starting from nowhere in the corn belt, I helped edit a country weekly, then was jack-of-all-departments on an obscure daily, so that when I arrived in a big city everything I tackled in the line of column conducting and syndicate peddling and playwriting had to bring promotion, because I had no social standing which could be endangered, no reputation to toss away and no pride which might suffer a setback. Everything I acquired had to be velvet. You cannot lose your silver spoon if you are brought up on pewter.

  George Ade

  Country, Pride, Cities

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• [O]ur War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.

  Earl Warren

  War, Army, Revolution

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• There is some schedule showing what you (need) to do to get Iraqis standing up and defending themselves which is now suddenly beginning to happen, so there are some signs of progress.

  John F. Kerry

  Progress, Needs, Schedules

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• I’m sick and tired of these despicable Republican attacks that always seem to come from those who never can be found to serve in war, but love to attack those who did. I’m not going to be lectured by a stuffed suit White House mouthpiece standing behind a podium...

  John F. Kerry

  War, Tired, White

  "Kerry’s Mangled Statement a Distraction —updated" by Taylor Marsh, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 31, 2006.

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• Standing alone,eager to just believe,it's good enough to be what you really are,but in your heart,uncertainty forever lies,and you'll always be,somewhere on the outside.

  Mariah Carey

  Lying, Believe, Heart

  Song: Outside, Album: Butterfly, 1997

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• There is but one indefectibly certain truth , and that is the truth that pyrrhonistic scepticism itself leaves standing, the truth that the present phenomenon of consciousness exists.

  William James

  Consciousness, Certain, Phenomenon

  William James (2000). “Pragmatism and Other Writings”, p.260, Penguin

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• Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.

  Joseph Addison

  Nature, Miracle, Quality

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1804). “Selections from the Spectator, Tatler, Guardian, and Freeholder: Selections from the Tatler. Selections from the Spectator [no.5-150”, p.106

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• Round-heads and Wooden-shoes are standing jokes.

  Joseph Addison

  Shoes, Jokes, Rounds

  Joseph Addison (1726). “Miscellaneous works in verse and prose [ed.] with some account of the author, by mr. Tickell”, p.174

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• England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during God save the King than of stealing from a poor box.

  George Orwell

  Country, Horse, Kings

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.275, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• At some point I started getting published, and experienced a meager knock-kneed standing in the literary world, and I started to get almost everything that many of you graduates are hoping for--except for the money. I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled--all the things that the culture tells you, from preschool on, will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you. I got some stature, the respect of other writers, even a low-grade fame. The culture says these things will save you, as long as you also manage to keep your weight down. But the culture lies.

  Anne Lamott

  Lying, Long, Anxiety

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.303, Penguin

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• All of the people of my time were bound with chains. They had forgotten the long fields and the standing corn. They had forgotten the west winds.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Wind, Long, People

  Sherwood Anderson (2006). “Mid-American Chants”, p.1, Quale Press

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• This country to-day [is] the last stronghold of freedom, standing like a rock in a tide that is threatened to submerge the world.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Country, Rocks, World

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• If we define a miracle as an effect of which the cause is unknown to us, then we make our ignorance the source of miracles! And the universe itself would be a standing miracle. A miracle might be perhaps defined more exactly as an effect which is not the consequence or effect of any known laws of nature.

  Charles Babbage

  Ignorance, Law, Miracle

  "Passages from the Life of a Philosopher". Book by Charles Babbage, 1864.

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• In the reign of the Greek Emperor Justinian , and again in the reign of Phocas , the Bishop of Rome obtained some dominion over the Greek Churches, but of no long continuance. His standing dominion was only over the nations of the Western Empire, represented by Daniel's fourth Beast.

  Isaac Newton

  Rome, Long, Greek

  Isaac Newton “Observations”, Lulu.com

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• Art respects the masses, by standing up to them for what they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.

  Theodor Adorno

  Art, States, Mass

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• This was Barrington Erle, a politician of long standing, who was still looked upon by many as a young man, because he had always been known as a young man, and because he had never done anything to compromise his position in that respect. He had not married, or settled himself down in a house of his own, or become subject to the gout, or given up being careful about the fitting of his clothes.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Clothes, Long

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “The Prime Minister: Trollope's Works”, p.89, 谷月社

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• Existential psychotherapy is the movement which, although standing on one side on the scientific analysis owed chiefly to the genius of Freud , also brings back into the picture the understanding of man on the deeper and broader level man as the being who is human. It is based on the assumption that it is possible to have a science of man which does not fragmentize man and destroy his humanity at the same moment as it studies him. It unites science and ontology .

  Rollo May

  Men, Humanity, Understanding

  Rollo May (1994). “Existence”, p.36, Jason Aronson

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• The theater's much the most difficult kind of writing for me, the most naked kind, you're so entirely restricted.... I find myself stuck with these characters who are either sitting or standing, and they've either got to walk out of a door, or come in through a door, and that's about all they can do.

  Harold Pinter

  Writing, Character, Doors

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• In conditions of private property ... "life-activity" stands in the service of property instead of property standing the service of free life-activity.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Free Life, Property, Activity

  Herbert Marcuse (2005). “Heideggerian Marxism”, p.108, U of Nebraska Press

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• If anyone ever wonders why there's nothing coming from me, it's not my fault. I'm doing the work. No, I haven't deteriorated or gone insane. Suddenly, I just can't get anything into print. And apparently I'm not alone in this. There are people of very high standing, authors who are having problems. So I have been told. In my own case, the more disturbing element is the editor-in-chief who said to me, "I think this book is terrific. It ought to be in print. I can't publish it -- I've been told I mustn't." The indication is that I'm not writing what people want to read, but I never did.

  Tanith Lee

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  "Tanith Lee : Love & Death & Publishers", www.locusmag.com. April 1998.

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