Best 179 quotes in «standing quotes» category

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.

Standing in our power requires us to let go of the need to make others like us & instead stand committed to honoring ourselves.

Social standing and reptuation has always mattered, but now it 's happening on a global basis.

Sometimes just getting up in the morning and standing at the gate can bring the gate down.

Standing before a camera isn't intimidating. It's more comfortable for me. I enjoy it now. I'm more aware of what to do.

Standing here, staying here, permanent here, eternal here, and we have one goal, one, one: to be.

Standing between these two guys you'd have to be me to know how I'm feelin'!

Standing for truth is everything. Truth is power. Don't ever forget that.

Standing near someone you love in a time of trouble is its own reward.

So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.

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.

Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.

That quotation about not having time to stand and stare has never applied to me. I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much - in just standing and staring and I was at it again this morning.

That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins.

The only thing standing between me and greatness is me.

So to be standing here, this was really, truly, honestly never part of anything we even imagined in our wildest dreams.

The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.

The 90's are the 60's standing on their head.

The best part about getting knocked down is standing back up knowing what you didn't before.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Trees have judicial standing, and probably grass too.

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

True knowledge gives a moral standing and moral strength.

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

Untouchability is an error of long standing.

We are standing on a whale fishing for minnows.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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