Standing Quotes - Page 6

• I have always avoided photographing in the studio. A woman does not spend her life sitting or standing in front of a seamless white paper background. Although it makes my life more complicated, I prefer to take my camera out into the street... and places that are out of bounds for photographers have always had a special attraction for me.

  Helmut Newton

  White, Special, Cameras

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

  Tina Brown

  Track, Tvs, Feels

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• Life is not tried
  it is merely survived
  if you're standing outside the fire.

  Garth Brooks

  Fire, Life Is, Standing Out

  Song: Standing Outside The Fire, Album: In Pieces, 1993

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• God, it's like reality's completely shifted on me. I used to think I was standing on such solid ground. If I wanted something badly enough, I just worked like hell for it. Now I can't decide what to do, which move to make. All the things I counted on aren't there for me anymore.

  Tess Gerritsen

  Moving, Reality, Thinking

  Tess Gerritsen (2010). “Harvest”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

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• It took a great deal of acceptance to come to terms with being an alcoholic, but the acceptance was key to my sobriety. If I had not gained acceptance at that time in my life, I would not be standing here today.

  Dennis Eckersley

  Acceptance, Keys, Sobriety

  "Finishing speech a great relief to Eck / Closer brings tears during emotional gathering" by John Shea, www.sfgate.com. July 26, 2004.

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

  Erich Honecker

  Wall, Years, Reason

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• I was only seven but I remember thinking that everything in the world was standing still.

  Eva Hart

  Thinking, World, Remember

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• By long-standing tradition, I take this opportunity to savage other
  designers in the thin disguise of good, clean fun.

  P. J. Plauger

  Fun, Opportunity, Long

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• I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

  Westbrook Pegler

  Members

  "Rabble-rouser" by William F. Buckley, Jr., www.newyorker.com. March 1, 2004.

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• No one remembers you for standing in the crowd . But they do remember you for standing out of it.

  Eddie Harris

  Remember You, Remembers You, Crowds

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• Gravity is measured by the bottom of the foot; we trace the density and texture of the ground through our soles. Standing barefoot on a smooth glacial rock by the sea at sunset, and sensing the warmth of the sun-heated stone through one's soles, is an extraordinarily healing experience, making one part of the eternal cycle of nature. One senses the slow breathing of the earth.

  Juhani Pallasmaa

  Healing, Sunset, Rocks

  Juhani Pallasmaa (2012). “The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses”, p.62, John Wiley & Sons

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• As [Gershom] Scholem explains, this [Shabbetaian] doctrine is connected to the idea that 'the elect are fundamentally different from the crowd and not to be judged by its standards. Standing under a new spiritual law and representing as it were a new kind of reality, they are beyond good and evil'. Strauss's philosopher-prophet is a secularized version of the same conceit.

  Shadia Drury

  Spiritual, Reality, Law

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• When less than four years old I was standing with my nurse, Mary Ward, watching the shadows on the wall from branches of an elm behind which the moon had risen. I have never forgot those shadows and am often trying to paint them.

  Samuel Palmer

  Wall, Moon, Years

  "The Life and Letters of Samuel Palmer, Painter and Etcher". Book by Alfred H. Palmer, London, 1892.

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

  Raquel Cepeda

  Feelings, Certain, Closest

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.269, Simon and Schuster

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• The past is buried deep within the ground in Rabat, although the ancient walls in the old city are still standing, painted in electrifying variations of royal blue that make the winding roads look like streamlets or shallow ocean water

  Raquel Cepeda

  Travel, Wall, Ocean

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

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• I like parties, but I'm shy, and I often find myself standing around, feeling awkward.

  Michael Bergin

  Party, Awkward, Feelings

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• ...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic, especially in its early stages, is in danger of evaporating into airy nothingness, degenerating, as the Germans say, into an arachnoid film, spun from the stuff that dreams are made of. There is no such danger for pure mathematics; for that is precisely what mathematics ought to be.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Dream, Math, Science

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1931). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”

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• The need to become a separate self is as urgent as the yearning to merge forever. And as long as we, not our mother, initiate parting, and as long as our mother remains reliably there, it seems possible to risk, and even to revel in, standing alone.

  Judith Viorst

  Mother, Self, Long

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm standing here saying that those who miss the boat now, will miss it forever. So if you want to be in Africa, think about investing.

  Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

  Thinking, Forever, Missing

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

  Evita Peron

  Fall, Looks, Crash

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• 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

  Thinking, Bloodshed, Said

  Interview conducted in 2001, broadcast on Fijian television, April 29, 2004.

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• It's always strange to read the things you've hoped for in the past because by now those hopes may be spoken for or gone, transformed or altogether forgotten. Like time, hope can be so senseless. It can carry us up mountains or lie us in the quicksand. But like time, hope is unstoppable, inevitable, and blind. Sometimes we travel fast, hurdling towards the unknown, sometimes the unknown comes hurdling towards us while we watch time standing still.

  Andrew McMahon

  Lying, Past, Mountain

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• I am completely honest and truthful when I say I don’t want a gold for myself. I want a gold for the team. You go up there and do it as a collective group and it’s so much more satisfying, I mean you look around and you see the faces and just wow, this was a team effort and we did this together. It’s incredible and that’s my dream. I wanna win a gold medal and see the flag go up, hear the national anthem and just know that I did it with my brothers standing next to me.

  Jonathan Horton

  Dream, Brother, Team

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• How do you plan a rebirth? I'm not sure you do. You just stand in the darkness until you can't endure it any long, and then you move forward until you're standing in the light.

  Questlove

  Moving, Light, Long

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

  Angela Ruggiero

  Glasses, Metaphor, Behinds

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