Best 179 quotes in «standing quotes» category

I don't think our death ray is working. I'm standing right in it, and I'm not dead yet.

I'd rather die standing than live on my knees.

If I fall, look out for the crash. There won't be anyone left standing.

If you already know what recursion is, just remember the answer. Otherwise, find someone who is standing closer to Douglas Hofstadter than you are; then ask him or her what recursion is.

If it weren't for people like the people in Berkeley, standing up for what they believe, we'd be living under Hitler.

If you don't have any shadows, you're not standing in the light.

If you're standing in the manure pile, it's somebody's job to mention the stink.

If you spend any time on the shooting of a drama, for television or movies, it's very slow and there's a lot of standing around.

I have spent the better part of my adult life standing up and fighting for working families.

If we look at history, we will see that regimes which persecute [their people] do not remain standing.

If you ain't nothing when you get money and fame, you're just going to be more nothing. If you don't stand for nothing, when you get money and fame, you ain't suddenly fin to stand for nothing! You're just fin to be richer and more famous - standing for nothing!

If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.

I get a standing ovation just standing

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.]

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

Just standing around looking beautiful is so boring.

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.

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

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

Marriage is two people in love standing in the same bathroom

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

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