Standing Quotes - page 2

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas. (Shirley Chisholm)
I say with Didacus Stella, a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself. View quote
Robert Burton
The Wall will be standing in 50 and even in 100 years, if the reasons for it are not removed. View quote
Erich Honecker
America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still. View quote
E. E. Cummings
If we spend all our time gazing at the wonders ahead without remembering where we're standing right now, we're going to trip and fall flat on our face, over and over agaain. View quote
Greg Egan
While standing on top of Everest, I looked across the valley, towards the other great peak, Makalu, and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed... it showed me that, even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything for me, by any means. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges. View quote
Edmund Hillary
The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions. View quote
James A. Garfield
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth. View quote
Francis Bacon
'T is as cheap sitting as standing. View quote
Jonathan Swift
A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, 'I do not believe you can do as much.' 'True,' said he, 'but every goose can.' View quote
Plutarch
Great God I 'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn, So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea, Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. (William Wordsworth)
The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character. View quote
Margaret Chase Smith
Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up... View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn. View quote
Irvin S. Cobb
In conditions of private property ... "life-activity” stands in the service of property instead of property standing the service of free life-activity. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression. There comes a time, my friends, when people get tired of being plunged across the abyss of humiliation, where they experience the bleakness of nagging despair. There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
America's downgrade may serve as a wakeup call for its policymakers. It is an unambiguous and loud signal of the country's eroding economic strength and global standing. It renders urgent the need to regain the initiative through better economic policymaking and more coherent governance. View quote
Mohamed El-Erian
But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
When I was standing there on top of the world, you become so humble, you do not think about breaking records anymore, you do not think about gaining scientific data. The only thing you want is to come back alive. View quote
Felix Baumgartner
My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially my father, who saw destitution in his Brooklyn, New York neighborhood; adults standing in so called 'bread lines,' children begging in the streets. (Bill O'Reilly)
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... We may only go in circles... View quote
Jon Kabat-Zinn
To someone standing in the nave, looking down the length of the church toward the east, the round window would seem like a huge sun exploding into innumerable shards of gorgeous color. View quote
Ken Follett
I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas. View quote
Laura Hillenbrand
I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, you know, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there's no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that's standing ten feet to eleven feet tall! Can you imagine? But it was fascinating to work that close to that kind of animal. View quote
Leslie Nielsen