Standing Quotes - Page 40

• It's only when movement becomes the most natural state in our lives that we can finally begin to enjoy the motion. And it's only when standing still becomes impossible that we can finally embrace the kinds of changes that are inevitable in our lives.
  We were not designed to stand still. If we were, we'd have at least three legs. We were designed to move. Our bodies are bodies that have walked across vast continents. Our bodies are bodies that have carried objects of art and war over great distances. We are no less mobile than our ancestors. We are athletes. We are warriors. We are human.

  John Bingham

  Art, War, Distance

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• As an athlete, when you least expect it, you may find yourself standing on the threshold of an accomplishment so monumental that it strikes fear into your soul. You must stand ready, at any moment, to face the unknown. You must be ready to walk boldly thru the wall of uncertainty.

  John Bingham

  Wall, Athlete, Accomplishment

  John Bingham (1999). “The Courage To Start: A Guide To Running for Your Life”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• The only thing that can possibly keep you from going after your dreams is the person standing in your shoes, wearing your clothes, and thinking your negative thoughts.

  Les Brown

  Dream, Thinking, Shoes

  Les Brown (1998). “It's Not Over Until You Win: How to Become the Person You Always Wanted to Be No Matter What the Obstacle”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes it’s just surreal out there, while you’re running a marathon. People just standing out in the cold, even the rain, cheering for you, blasting music for you. It’s an awesome show of camaraderie and community.

  John Roberts

  Running, Cheer, Rain

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• In a world gone bad, a bear - even a bear standing on its head - is a comforting, uncomplicated, dependable hunk of sanity.

  Pam Brown

  Comforting, Gone, World

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• The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall, or at least an eclipse.

  Francis Bacon

  Pain, Men, Rising

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Great Place'

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• When we win, it will tell every politician in America that if you are bold, if you do the right thing, if you tackle the tough issues, there will be people standing there right with you.

  Scott Walker

  Winning, America, Issues

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• One of the principal rules of religion is, to lose no occasion of serving God. And, since he is invisible to our eyes, we are to serve him in our neighbour; which he receives as if done to himself in person, standing visibly before us.

  John Wesley

  Eye, Done, Invisible

  John Wesley (1872). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley: With the Last Corrections of the Author”, p.440

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• Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide... and our teachers know that.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Teacher, Rehabilitation, Bullets

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• Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property, according to standing laws.

  John Adams

  Law, Liberty, Individual

  John Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.225

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• The soul of a true christian, as I then wrote my meditations, appeared like such a little white flower as we see in the spring of the year; low and humble on the ground, opening its bosom
  to receive the pleasant beams of the sun’s glory; rejoicing, as it were, in a calm rapture; diffusing around a sweet fragrancy; standing peacefully and lovingly, in the midst of other
  flowers round about; all in like manner opening their bosoms to drink in the light of the sun.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, Sweet, Spring

  Jonathan Edwards, Sereno Edwards Dwight, Edward Hickman (1835). “The works of Jonathan Edwards”, p.12

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• It's not enough to hit the notes. There is no point in the singers just standing there and sounding wonderful if they're not connecting with the characters they are portraying.

  Bruce Beresford

  Character, Singers, Wonderful

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• Many a standing ovation has been caused by someone jumping to his feet in an effort to beat the rest of the audience to the parking lot.

  Earl Wilson

  Jumping, Feet, Effort

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• In a militia, the character of the laborer, artificer, or tradesman, predominates over that of the soldier: in a standing army, that of the soldier predominates over every other character.

  Adam Smith

  Military, Character, Army

  Adam Smith (1801). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.322

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• The artist and the multitude are natural enemies. They always will be, both ways. The artist is an enemy of the multitude, and the multitude is the enemy of the artist. And when the disguise comes off and they're both standing facing one another, they're just there at odds end.

  Robert Altman

  Art, Odds, Enemy

  Robert Altman, David Sterritt (2000). “Robert Altman: Interviews”, p.71, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• This is a slow business to have success in. There are exceptions, but for the most part it's kind of like the last writer standing.... I've got gray. I've got plenty of gray. I'm creating a career slowly, like a coral reef.

  Robert Reed

  Careers, Creating, Coral Reefs

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• I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.

  Adam Johnson

  Motivational, Self, Champion

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• Life brings what it brings. I might be young but I've learnt this: prepare for each blind corner with your strongest shoulder dropped, ready to smash through whatever is thrown at you next. Once the dust clears you will be standing tall, a champion, a victor. NOTHING will be able to knock you down once you've taken the biggest hits this life has to offer, so come on life, BRING IT!

  Adam Johnson

  Motivational, Taken, Dust

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• When you're acting, everything is there around you, you just have to believe that it's real. When you're standing there with a slightly grey wig on and you have a baby in your arms screaming in your ear, you can go: "Well, I guess this is what it's like!"

  Jim Sturgess

  Baby, Real, Believe

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It's not hard to be sexy when you're standing in front of Angelina Jolie or Robin Wright Penn. They're two of the most beautiful women in the world and two of the finest actresses. I think that if you're with people who are good in your profession they become sexy because they're good at what they do. I enjoyed being 6ft 6ins, having an eight pack and a long todger, you know? If I fold mine in half it's the same length!

  Ray Winstone

  Beautiful, Sexy, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It goes back a long way. I wanted to make Tristan + Isolde as my second movie. My first movie was The Duellists. And I was standing in a very romantic part of France looking around me thinking, "My God, this would be perfect for Tristan," and to cut a long story short it never happened because I did Alien instead.

  Ridley Scott

  Cutting, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• If I'm doing some weird tick with my mouth, or not standing still or something, I'll be the first person to notice it, and then want to change that. I think it's important just to maintain trajectory, to not just use your same tricks over and over.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Thinking, Important, Use

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, tv.avclub.com. September 16, 2008.

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• The use of violence in movies is a subject that's worth addressing. I'm not standing on a soapbox or wagging a finger, but I'm interested in those subjects for sure.

  Naomi Watts

  Use, Soapbox, Violence

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. March 11, 2008.

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• Children like their mothers especially to be standing still and watching them, even if they are sleeping. At least that's how I felt. There's nothing wrong with the self-interest of children; it's just the way they are.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Children

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• You have to keep walking, no matter what. If you don't, it's a living death. You're just standing in one place dying.

  Cheryl Strayed

  What If, Dying, Matter

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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