Standing Quotes

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. (Ogden Nash)

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Isaac Newton

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Expect poison from the standing water.

William Blake

I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

Audrey Hepburn

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

Thomas Jefferson

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

Edmund Burke

There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.

Steven Wright

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

Ernest Hemingway

You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you. (Ken Kesey)

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

William Blake

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

Edward Everett

I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man - public opinion.

Clarence Darrow

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

Rabindranath Tagore

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

Winston Churchill

Leadership is standing with your people. People say you have to live to fight another day, but sometimes you have to show you are a true leader.

Leymah Gbowee

The most violent revolutions in an individual's beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and one's own biography remain untouched. New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions. It marries old opinion to new fact so as ever to show a minimum of jolt, a maximum of continuity.

William James

Standing with reluctant feet Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train. (Morihei Ueshiba)

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'

Gertrude Stein

You dont learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

Round-heads and wooden-shoes are standing jokes.

Joseph Addison

Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.

Rosalind Russell

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