Best 179 quotes in «standing quotes» category

The more you try to be like someone else, the more you find yourself standing in the way.

The only thing standing between me and greatness is me.

The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.

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.

The poet is like the wise fool or like a version of the stand-up, because we're standing, we're doing stand-up. That's exactly what we're doing.

There is but one indefectibly certain truth , and that is the truth that pyrrhonistic scepticism itself leaves standing, the truth that the present phenomenon of consciousness exists.

There is no greater thing than standing victorious in the arena.

There's almost no gravity at the surface. If you were standing on [the surface], you could jump into orbit.

There, standing at the piano, was the original good time who had been had by all.

The Wall will be standing in 50 and even in 100 years, if the reasons for it are not removed.

The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.

The view changes from where you are standing. Words can wound, and wounds can heal. All of these things are true.

...we both saw something we liked, a willingness to have no walls, or maybe just an unwillingness to keep them standing.

Those who are well assured of their own standing are least apt to trespass on that of others, whereas nothing is so offensive as the aspirings of vulgarity which thinks to elevate itself by humiliating its neighbor.

To secure your historical standing, be sure you are the first to write about it.

True knowledge gives a moral standing and moral strength.

Trump's inability to control his own emotions is standing between himself and the presidency.

Untouchability is an error of long standing.

They'd been standing like that for thirty seconds of forever.

This thing I am feeling, I’m almost certain, is the closest I’ll ever come to standing somewhere in between truth and reconciliation.

To prevent the workers from going to their work by standing in front of them is pure violence and must be given up.

Trees have judicial standing, and probably grass too.

Unlike Mitt Romney, President Obama is standing up for Planned Parenthood.

We are standing on a whale fishing for minnows.

Wendy: Why are you staring at me? Finn: Because you're standing in front of me.

When people are standing up for our present rotten system, they are being worse than Communists, it seems to me.

When God says go forward, don't even think about standing still.

We're standing on the edge of a new frontier.

When I'm meant to be standing in the wings, the only way to go is the ladies' toilets. It's the only time I've ever acted in the toilets.

When soulmates come and go, you're never alone, even when you're standing just you and your shoes, because you carry them with you.

When you get people standing up saying, 'I'm going to just tell the truth; what do we have to fear?,' it encourages others, and it creates a counterresponse.

You can dance in a hurricane, but only if you're standing in the eye.

When you stand up for yourself, you are standing up for everyone who will follow your positive example!

Why had I wasted all my time pretending to be someone I wasn't? I was tired, so very, very tired of standing on my own brakes. I felt...right. I felt free.

Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.

You can never evaluate anything standing from outside; you have to evaluate yourself first.

You have to keep walking, no matter what. If you don't, it's a living death. You're just standing in one place dying.

You haven't broken me Taker, you haven't broken me, I'm still standing.

You don't break ground by doing the same thing over and over and over. That's like standing in place. You have to risk to gain it all.

You don't really know either of us," Cam said, standing and stepping away, "but you're prepared to choose right now, huh?

You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.

A question is a door and an unopened door is just part of the wall and as long as it's standing it's doing its job.

You know you've reached middle age when your weightlifting consists merely of standing up.

As long as you are stronger than the burden you carry, you will remain standing!

Christians need to be free in standing for their rights

Beauty... Is what you are after a lifetime of struggle in the face of hostility, surviving, and standing scarred and unafraid, triumphant before your enemies.

Easy does it, boys. I just need help standing, not flying.

Do not allow your happiness to be controlled by the thoughts of others. People are happy for you one minute and then the next they are looking down their noses at you. You have to find within yourself the kind of happiness that withstands the ups and downs of life. No one should have the power to limit or repress your happiness.

I know you not quite well Yet I foolishly surrender my mind to you. Slowly and carefully you have cast a spell Now my virgin heart only longs for you. There is no need to push, I am already falling. Once proudly tall, I’m no longer standing. Knowing well that I am doomed to misery, I will roll the dice and take delight in my suffering.

fear of change is like standing under a hot shower and knowing the moment you'll turn it off you'll be freezing cold