Standing Quotes - Page 33

• The beliefs which we have most warrant for, have no safeguard to rest on, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded.

  John Stuart Mill

  Atheism, World, Belief

  John Stuart Mill, G. W. Smith (1998). “John Stuart Mill's Social and Political Thought: Freedom”, p.346, Taylor & Francis

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• I have a standing offer of $250,000 to anyone who can give any empirical evidence (scientific proof) for evolution. My $250,000 offer demonstrates that the hypothesis of evolution is nothing more than a religious belief.

  Kent Hovind

  Religious, Giving, Scary

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• Reelection ought not to be the primary preoccupation of any politician. It ought to be standing up for truth and justice.

  Cornel West

  Justice, Reelection, Politician

  "Dr. Cornel West’s Prognosis for the Country’s Prospects". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• That's the thing about driving: You're alone but you're everywhere. You're standing still but moving really fast. It's just like perspectives constantly changing.

  Galcher Lustwerk

  Moving, Perspective, Driving

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Standing under freezing cold showers every morning, - I did that. I got up to seven minutes most mornings, and it actually works; it immunizes your body, and your body starts getting used to the cold. It really works."

  Liam Neeson

  Morning, Body, Cold

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• When you see people that lived their purpose and sacrificed, who are everyday people - teachers, sanitation workers, and just people from all walks of life - that said, "I'm standing up for what I believe in. I'm standing up for my community." That reaffirms what you can do.

  Common

  Teacher, Believe, People

  Source: collider.com

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• They call it collective energy. It's that same feeling that you get when you meditate amongst a ton of people. What actually makes the festival feel so special is that while you're watching a band or an artist, you're standing there, kind of feeling the same feeling with so many people in such a small space and that gives you collective energy. It's that kind of strange feeling in which you almost feel people breathing.

  Chelsea Leyland

  Artist, Breathing, Space

  Source: www.elle.com

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• If we look at history, we will see that regimes which persecute [their people] do not remain standing.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  People, Looks, Regimes

  "Bashar Is Politically Dead". Interview With Lally Weymouth, www.slate.com. September 20, 2012.

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• I peed in my wife's boot once. On honeymoon, in Madrid, we were drinking absinthe and somehow made it back to our hotel. I don't remember a second of this, but my wife woke up to this noise. Two of her boots were in the corner, one had fallen down and the other was standing up and I was peeing into it! It was a hole, and it looked like a toilet. She said: "Rob, wake up, you're peeing into my shoe!"

  Rob Corddry

  Drinking, Shoes, Two

  "What Happens In Vegas - Rob Corddry and Lake Bell interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Guys can look like pigs. The girl always has to be a looker. Look at most TV shows: According To Jim - pig and a looker. Still Standing - pig and a looker. Ralph Kramden [on The Honeymooners] - pig and a looker. Family Guy - pig and a looker. It's a theme.

  Alex Borstein

  Girl, Family Guy, Pigs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The newspaper is a Bible which we read every morning and every afternoon, standing and sitting, riding and walking. It is a Biblewhich every man carries in his pocket, which lies on every table and counter, and which the mail, and thousands of missionaries, are continually dispersing. It is, in short, the only book which America has printed, and which America reads. So wide is its influence.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Bible, Morning, Lying

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• What a battle a man must fight everywhere to maintain his standing army of thoughts, and march with them in orderly array throughthe always hostile country! How many enemies there are to sane thinking! Every soldier has succumbed to them before he enlists for those other battles.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Army, Fighting

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “HENRY DAVID THOREAU – The Man, The Philosopher & The Trailblazer (Illustrated): Biographies, Memoirs, Autobiographical Books & Personal Letters (Including Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada…)”, p.1381, e-artnow

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• I had but three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship; three for society. When visitors came in larger and unexpected numbers there was but the third chair for them all, but they generally economized the room by standing up.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Two, Numbers

  Walden ch. 6 (1854)

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• The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army. Their system was to make every man a soldier, and oblige him to repair to the standard of his country whenever that was reared. This made them invincible; and the same remedy will make us so.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Death, Country, Military

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.139, Cambridge University Press

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• ... if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us to break her and bullyher, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured.

  Virginia Woolf

  Art, Criticism, And Love

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.12, Oxford University Press

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• Standing navies, as well as standing armies, serve to keep alive the spirit of war even in the meek heart of peace. In its very embers and smoulderings, they nourish that fatal fire, and half-pay officers, as the priests of Mars, yet guard the temple, though no god be there.

  Herman Melville

  War, Heart, Army

  Herman Melville (1850). “White-jacket; Or, The World in the Man-of-war”, p.247

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• The names of all fine authors are fictitious ones, far more so than that of Junius,--simply standing, as they do, for the mystical, ever-eluding Spirit of all Beauty, which ubiquitously possesses men of genius.

  Herman Melville

  Beauty, Men, Names

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.1768, e-artnow

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• A good man therefore is a standing lesson to us all.

  Henry Fielding

  Men, Good Man, Lessons

  Henry Fielding (1821). “The novels of Henry Fielding ... complete in one volume. To which is prefixed, a memoir of the life of the author [by sir W. Scott].”, p.6

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• When love ends, the beloved is no longer standing on a pedestal, but in a hole.

  Mason Cooley

  Love, Pedestal, Holes

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• What is unknown is the fulfillment of your own unique life, the likes of which has never existed on earth. And you are the only one who can do it. People can give you clues how to fall and when to stand, and when you are falling and when you are standing, this only you can know. And in the way of your own talents is the only way to do it.

  Joseph Campbell

  Fall, Unique, People

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• Swimming is great because there are levels of goals. First, when I was four, it was making it to the other end and overcoming the fear of standing up in front of everybody at a swim meet because I was such a shy kid.

  Summer Sanders

  Kids, Swimming, Goal

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• I ask a wreathwhich will not crush my head.
  And there is no hurry about it;
  I shall have, doubtless, a boom after my funeral,
  Seeing that long standing increases all things
  regardless of quality.

  Ezra Pound

  Crush, Death, Long

  Ezra Pound (2015). “Delphi Poetical Works of Ezra Pound (Illustrated)”, p.588, Delphi Classics

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• I'm not making light of prayers here, but of so-called school prayer, which bears as much resemblance to real spiritual experienceas that freeze-dried astronaut food bears to a nice standing rib roast. From what I remember of praying in school, it was almost an insult to God, a rote exercise in moving your mouth while daydreaming or checking out the cutest boy in the seventh grade that was a far, far cry from soul-searching.

  Anna Quindlen

  Spiritual, Prayer, Nice

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• You got an all-out prize fight, you wait 'til the fight's over, one guy's left standing and that's how you know who's won.

  David Mamet

  Fighting, Winning, Law

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• Fairs are good places to eat, particularly for stand-up eaters--which is one of the kinds of eaters I am, although when I eat standing up away from home I sometimes miss the familiar cool breeze coming from the open refrigerator.

  Calvin Trillin

  Home, Missing, Kind

  Calvin Trillin (1974). “American fried; adventures of a happy eater”

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