Standing Quotes - page 6

These terrorists aren't trying to kill us because we offended them. They attack us because they want to impose their view of the world on as many people as they can, and America is standing in their way. (Marco Rubio)
There are good men and bad men of all nationalities, creeds and colors; and if this world of ours is ever to become what we hope some day it may become, it must be by the general recognition that the man's heart and soul, the man's worth and actions, determine his standing. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Courage is standing up for what you believe in. There are so many people who aren't willing to stand up. You've got to fight. View quote
Howard Stern
Nintendo DS is not standing still. As a tenth serious competitor decides to make a run at Game Boy, DS raises the bar on portable gaming, before they even get started. View quote
Reggie Fils-Aimé
Well, I'm a standing on a corner In Winslow, Arizona And such a fine sight to see, It's a girl, my lord, in a flatbed Ford Slowin' down to have a look at me. View quote
Jackson Browne
There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms, she was always Lolita. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
In general, fakirs, like scribes and potters, are sitting down, when he's standing up, a fakir is just like an other man, and sitting down, he'll be smaller than the others. View quote
José Saramago
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God to the temporal interest of the clergy. View quote
David Hume
How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof! In such places standing alone on the mountain-top it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make - leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents or piled stone - we all dwell in a house of one room - the world with the firmament for its roof - and are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving any track. View quote
John Muir
You will start out standing, proud to steal her anything she sees, but you will wind up peeking through her keyhole down upon your knees. (Bob Dylan)
Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow. View quote
Woody Guthrie
The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five. View quote
Carl Sagan
Standing alone, eager to just believe, it's good enough to be what you really are, but in your heart, uncertainty forever lies, and you'll always be, somewhere on the outside. View quote
Mariah Carey
I was in Chicago in 1994 and at this time I had no thoughts of coming back and playing the game of basketball, Bryon Russell came over to me and said, "Why'd you quit? You know I could guard you." When I did come back in 1995 and we played Utah in '96, I'm at the center circle and Bryon Russell is standing next to me. I said, "You remember what you said in 1994 about, 'I think I can guard you, I can shut you down, I would love to play against you?' View quote
Michael Jordan
Because we are denied knowledge of our history, we are deprived of standing upon each other's shoulders and building upon each other's hard earned accomplishments. Instead we are condemned to repeat what others have done before us and thus we continually reinvent the wheel. The goal of The Dinner Party is to break this cycle. View quote
Judy Chicago
You know how we built the pyramids? You gotta ask yourself a question always flip the script. What if up was down and down was up? What if you looked down into space standing up on Earth? This is how we built the pyramids. View quote
Eddie Griffin
When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Shadwell hated all southerners and, by inference, was standing at the North Pole. View quote
Terry Pratchett
If we define a miracle as an effect of which the cause is unknown to us, then we make our ignorance the source of miracles! And the universe itself would be a standing miracle. A miracle might be perhaps defined more exactly as an effect which is not the consequence or effect of any known laws of nature. View quote
Charles Babbage
I said, yes, if you think I will avoid bloodshed by standing aside I will stand aside ... but I will never ever again come back. (Kamisese Mara)
Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms. View quote
Alan Coren
Let us worship the spirit in spirit, standing on spirit. Let the foundation be spirit, the middle spirit, the culmination spirit. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
He was gentle, like a man mindful of his own strength. In my dreams I beheld the kings of the earth standing in awe in His presence. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson