Standing Quotes - Page 28

• A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Men, Views, Court

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.91

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• From a Buddhist point of view, this is standing the truth on its head by considering goods as more important than people and consumption as more important than creative activity. It means shifting the emphasis from the worker to the product of work, that is, from the human to the sub-human, surrender to the forces of evil.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Buddhist, Mean, Views

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• A government, founded on impartial liberty, where all have a voice and a vote, irrespective of color or of sex--what is there to hinder such a government from standing firm.

  Frederick Douglass

  Sex, Voice, Government

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• Everywhere bees go racing with the hours, / For every bee becomes a drunken lover, / Standing upon his head to sup the flowers.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Flower, Racing, Bees

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• My favorite piece of information is that Branwell Brontë, brother of Emily and Charlotte, died standing up leaning against a mantelpiece, in order to prove it could be done. This is not quite true, in fact. My absolute favorite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.

  Douglas Adams

  Brother, Fall, Order

  Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.110, Del Rey

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• You know, almost everyone is an irritant to me. I think people have forgotten what the word 'public' means. 'Public' means you're going to be irritated. It's a natural consequence of leaving one's home. You go outside, and there are people who are irritating. I'll be standing on the sidewalk, and someone berates me for smoking. I look at the person and think, but what about your shoes? How can you wear shoes like that and have the confidence to accost someone like me?

  Fran Lebowitz

  Home, Mean, Thinking

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• Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Learning, Men, Age

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• A pygmy standing on the outward crust of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward to the infinite, and there alone finds rest.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Spirit, Infinite, Reaching

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• Try making a poem as if it were a table, clear and solid, standing there outside you.

  May Sarton

  Trying, Tables, Clear

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.21, Open Road Media

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• You cannot build up a standing army and then throw it back into a box like tin soldiers. Armies equipped to the teeth with weapons, with highly developed instruments of murder and backed by their military interests, have their own dynamic functions.

  Emma Goldman

  Military, Army, Soldier

  Emma Goldman (1917*). “Preparedness, the road to universal slaughter”

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• somehow at parties at which one stays standing up one seems to require to be more concentratedly intelligent than one does at those at which one can sit down.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Party, Intelligent, Doe

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• It's a mystery to me how anyone ever gets any nourishment in this place. They must eat their meals standing up by the window so as to be sure of not missing anything.

  Agatha Christie

  Missing, Meals, Mystery

  Agatha Christie (2010). “Miss Marple 3-Book Collection 1: The Murder at the Vicarage, The Body in the Library, The Moving Finger”, p.43, HarperCollins UK

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• I do wear wigs. ... I sometimes make the joke about me standing on a hilltop with my hair blowing in the wind - and me too proud to run after it.

  Dolly Parton

  Running, Hair, Wind

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• He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior standing he unites with.

  Edmund Burke

  Advice, Understanding, Levels

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• Well, Buttermere, this is a day that is good to live and breathe in, that makes a man feel in his prime. Standing here in front of my house, I feel as young as when I moved into it thirty years ago, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-nine. What aged man would you take me to be, as I step as it were casually into your view?

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Book, Men, Views

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “Men and Wives”, p.2, A&C Black

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• Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any. Nothing is visible but the merest outline of dusky shapes. Standing within all is clear and defined; every ray of light reveals an army of unspeakable splendors.

  John Ruskin

  Christian, Army, Light

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 134, 1895.

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• When we let go of wanting something else to happen in this moment, we are taking a profound step toward being able to encounter what is here now. If we hope to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only step from where we are standing. If we don't really know where we are standing—a knowing that comes directly from the cultivation of mindfulness—we may only go in circles, for all our efforts and expectations. So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Letting Go, Hope, Circles

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• If you treat life well, life is usually good to you. And I love life. There's a long-standing affair between us.

  Francoise Sagan

  Love Life, Long, Life Is

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• The one who cares the most wins. ... That's how I knew I'd end up with everyone else waving the white flags and not me. That's how I knew I'd be the last person standing when it was all over. ... I cared the most.

  Roseanne Barr

  Success, Winning, White

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• Cats - a standing rebuke to behavioural scientists . . . least human of all creatures.

  Lewis Thomas

  Cat, Scientist, Rebuke

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• The French are not rude. They just happen to hate you. But that is no reason to bypass this beautiful country, whose master chefs have a well-deserved worldwide reputation for trying to trick people into eating snails. Nobody is sure how this got started. Probably a couple of French master chefs were standing around one day, and they found a snail, and one of them said: 'I bet that if we called this something like `escargot,' tourists would eat it.' Then they had hearty laugh, because 'escargot' is the French word for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm.'

  Dave Barry

  Beautiful, Country, Couple

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.127, Ballantine Books

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• Anything television trivia I'm good at. But when you're on your couch, you're really good at it, but when you're standing there, it's probably scary.

  Sarah Silverman

  Scary, Television, Trivia

  "Sarah Silverman talks boobs, and answers our 11 questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. September 23, 2014.

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• Writers feel like a middleman, standing with pen in hand over the page. A force greater than me stands above telling me what to write. That may sound romantic, but that's how it feels.

  Neil Simon

  Writing, Hands, May

  Interview with Charles Flowers, bookpage.com. October 1999.

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• Back when I was in high school, I came out onstage with my guitar and had four guys playing behind me. We were just playing a dance, but I was standing in front of an audience rocking out. I'm still rocking out like when I was a kid. I haven't changed.

  Dion DiMucci

  Kids, School, Guitar

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• A lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing.

  Barbara Johnson

  Prayer, Kneeling

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.172, Zondervan

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