Best 179 quotes in «standing quotes» category

I learned by standing in the wings and watching established acts on stage.

I love metaphors. I've never been on this train. ... If I'm standing on the middle of a track, I'm definitely going to get derailed. I have to make sure that I'm on the train and not in front of it.

I'm not supposed to know what's going on. But I can tell you this, I won't be standing around scratching my head like Coach Johnson in that Denorex commercial.

I'm a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.

I'm always standing on the edge of something bad.

I'm liking the idea more and more of just standing up with a microphone and talking.

I'm never standing still and that makes my life pretty exciting.

I'm standing for real freedom.

In conditions of private property ... "life-activity" stands in the service of property instead of property standing the service of free life-activity.

I'm standing in the desert, waiting for my ship to come in.

In all relationships, regardless of their nature, there comes that moment when you understand that there are some things you will never understand. When you are standing in that moment, just be right with it.

I never really liked Italy. 'Lots of cement' is my long-standing quote.

I prefer to die standing than to live on my knees.

Instead of last man standing, it'll be last man smiling.

In TV, you always feel you are standing on the tracks of an oncoming train

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.

I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much – in just standing and staring.

It's about time trees were good for something, instead of just standing there like jerks!

Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?

It becomes an emperor to die standing.

I think as a scout you have to pick. It is harder. You have to talk and explain that this is not just about standing one-dimensionally in front of a camera.

I suppose I'm like most coaches now, standing on the sideline hoping somebody asks them a question.

It becomes an emperor to die standing (i.e., "in harness"). [Lat., Decet imperatorem statem mori.]

I won the Olympic gold medal in Rome, Italy. Olympic champion. The Russian standing right here, and the Pole right here.

It's mainly a few elite women who benefit greatly from standing with the forces that keep women down.

It will in the end, be admitted that everything, in effect is an image and that the least object which has no symbolic role assigned to it is capable of standing for absolutely anything.

I've always been better moving than I am standing still.

It's hard to get lost in a scene, to get into a character when everyone's standing around you on the set.

It's hard to keep your balance standing tip-toe.

It's like a kid standing at the window watching the rain.

I will never apologize for standing up for my fellow Teamsters and all American workers.

I woke up and all I could see was Iraqis standing all around me, looking down upon me. I knew at that moment something terrible had happened and I wasn't in the right place.

My moral standing is lying down.

Just standing around looking beautiful is so boring.

Life is like riding a bicycle. You get nowhere standing up, so get up on that seat and go!

Me imperturbe, standing at ease in nature.

Just be wrong. Just stand there in your wrongness and be wrong, and get used to it.

Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam.

Life doesn't actually knock you down. It does, however, provide you with many opportunities to evaluate your standing in life: what you stand on, what you stand for, how you stand within yourself and for yourself.

Living the gospel and standing in holy places is not always easy, but I testify that it is worth it.

Loyalty isn't standing by someone when he's right - that's good judgment. Loyalty is standing by someone when he's wrong.

Marriage is two people in love standing in the same bathroom

Nothing can duplicate the sheer power and feeling you get from standing in front of your amp and bashing on your guitar.

Never leave an enemy standing.

Never shoot up in the air when you're standing under it.

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army

Right now, I'm standing behind the glass, and I guess that's a metaphor for how my life will be going forward.

Seeing me before him, / The adversary attacks, / But by that time / I am already standing / Safely behind him.

Round-heads and Wooden-shoes are standing jokes.

somehow at parties at which one stays standing up one seems to require to be more concentratedly intelligent than one does at those at which one can sit down.