Standing Quotes - page 5

There is some schedule showing what you (need) to do to get Iraqis standing up and defending themselves which is now suddenly beginning to happen, so there are some signs of progress. (John Kerry)
My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I was always wanting to learn and be one of those actresses who can actually hold a conversation as opposed to standing there looking pretty. View quote
Michelle Trachtenberg
I always feel I have to take a stand, And there's always someone on hand To hate me for standing there. I always feel I have to open my mouth, And every time I do, I offend someone, somewhere. View quote
Ani DiFranco
Is standing by the window muttering about blood something he does all the time?" "No, sometimes he sits on the couch and does it. View quote
Cassandra Clare
I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing? View quote
Anne Tyler
They have all been very kind to me here. But this I would say, standing as I do in view of God and eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. View quote
Edith Cavell
So I'm at the wailing wall, standing there like a moron, with my harpoon. View quote
Emo Philips
To a man standing on the shore, time passes quicker than to a man on a boat - especially if the man on the boat is with his wife. View quote
Woody Allen
I've often said, the only thing standing between me and greatness is me. View quote
Woody Allen
You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily see it, and people only get it when they're ready to get it. (George Harrison)
It's weird to think the place where we're standing will only be a point in the sky. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. View quote
Matthew Arnold
The greatest, strongest, mightiest plea for the church of God in the world is the existence of the Spirit of God in its midst, and the works of the Spirit of God are the true evidences of Christianity. They say miracles are withdrawn, but the Holy Spirit is the standing miracle of the church of God to-day. View quote
Charles Spurgeon
It is a noteworthy fact that not one of the women to whom I have spoken so far believes in abortion as a practice; but it is principle for which they are standing. They also believe that the complete abolition of the abortion law will shortly do away with abortions, as nothing else will. View quote
Margaret Sanger
Sexism in politics is nothing new when you're standing for election. But don't stand for election and it's almost as bad. Shockingly, David Cameron thought it acceptable to claim this week that my decision not to run for the Labour leadership was because my husband, Ed Balls, "stopped [me] from standing." View quote
Yvette Cooper
We are standing on a whale fishing for minnows. View quote
Joseph Campbell
I would not be standing here today if my skin were white or my religion were Presbyterian. I am here today only because my skin is yellow and my religion is Unification Church. The ugliest things in this beautiful country of America are religious bigotry and racism. View quote
Sun Myung Moon
Let the business of the world take care of itself ... My business is to get the world saved; if this involves the standing still of the looms and the shutting up of the factories, and the staying of the sailing of the ships, let them all stand still. When we have got everybody converted they can go on again, and we shall be able to keep things going then by working half time and have the rest to spend in loving one another and worshipping God. View quote
William Booth
Truth, I have learned, differs for everybody. Just as no two people ever see a rainbow in exactly the same place-and yet both most certainly see it, while the person seemingly standing right underneath it does not see it at all-so truth is a question of where one stands, and the direction one is looking in at the time. View quote
Iain Banks
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 (theologian))
It was nice standing out in the darkness, in the damp grass, with spring coming on and a feeling in my heart of imminent disaster. View quote
Michael Chabon
To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about. If someone vomits while watching one of my films, it's like getting a standing ovation. But one must remember that there is such a thing as good bad taste and bad bad taste. View quote
John Waters
This was Barrington Erle, a politician of long standing, who was still looked upon by many as a young man, because he had always been known as a young man, and because he had never done anything to compromise his position in that respect. He had not married, or settled himself down in a house of his own, or become subject to the gout, or given up being careful about the fitting of his clothes. View quote
Anthony Trollope
In point of fact there are a certain number of values and of forces which are of decisive importance in our world civilization: the primacy of production, the continual growth of the power of the State and the formation of the National State, the autonomous development of technics, etc. These, among others - far more than the ownership of the means of production or any totalitarian doctrine - are the constitutive elements of the modern world. So long as these elements continue to be taken for granted, the world is standing still. View quote
Jacques Ellul