Standing Quotes - Page 7

• What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage of Europeans.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Teaching, Judgement, Church

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• The main issue [of the Scientific Revolution] is that the people in the industrialised countries are getting richer, and those in the non-industrialised countries are at best standing still: so the gap between the industrialised countries and the rest is widening every day. On the world scale this is the gap between the rich and the poor.

  C.P. Snow

  Country, Issues, People

  C. P. Snow, Stefan Collini (2012). “The Two Cultures”, p.41, Cambridge University Press

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• I don't want it to appear that I'm standing up and saying I'm the expected one. That's a dangerous, ego-driven kind of thing.

  Kathleen McGowan

  Ego, Want, Kind

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• Everything is funny from some angle, I assure you it is. It's just a matter of where you're standing.

  Charlie Fletcher

  Matter, Angle

  Charlie Fletcher (2011). “Stoneheart”, p.156, Hachette UK

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• Prayer means that we have come boldly into the throne room and we are standing in God's presence.

  E. W. Kenyon

  Prayer, Mean, Thrones

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• A sign of the times: there are no longer any chairs in the bookshops along the embankments. [Noël] France was the last bookseller who provided chairs where you could sit down and chat and waste a little time between sales. Nowadays books are bought standing. A request for a book and the naming of the price: that is the sort of transaction to which the all-devouring activity of modern trade has reduced bookselling, which used to be a matter for dawdling, idling, and chatty, friendly browsing.

  Jules de Goncourt

  Book, Friendly, Littles

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• The people in your life are like the pillars on your porch.
  Sometimes they hold you up, and sometimes they lean on you.
  Sometimes it's enough to know they are standing by.

  Merle Shain

  People, Pillars, Sometimes

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• Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.

  Louis Nizer

  Reading, Book, Hands

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• Benjamin Netanyahu, understands that the standing ovation he got in Congress this year was not for his politics. That ovation was bought and paid for by the Israel lobby.

  Thomas Friedman

  Israel, Years, Ovation

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• Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong passions, or with very vigorous faculties.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Strong, Passion, Army

  Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Janet Todd (1989). “The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft”, NYU Press

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• I think when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you throw a grenade in exactly the spot you were standing in, and jump, and pray. It is the momentum of last resort.

  Renata Adler

  Life, Thinking, Long

  Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.29, New York Review of Books

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• So what does it look like to live a life worthy of the gospel of Jesus Christ? It looks like walking with, loving with, and doing life with those who are different from you. What binds you together is Christ. It looks like striving together to make Christ known. What motivates you is Christ. And it looks like standing with courage against all oppressors, natural or supernatural. What secures you is Christ.

  Matt Chandler

  Jesus, Together, Doe

  Matt Chandler, Jared C. Wilson (2013). “To Live Is Christ to Die Is Gain”, p.46, David C Cook

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• I feel that racial profiling may be a very complicated and long-standing problem. It will take a long time even to make tiny progress.

  Wen Ho Lee

  Long, Progress, May

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• I think that standing onstage on January 19th, and my father had just defied all expectations and won Iowa, was by far the most surreal moment.

  Vanessa Kerry

  Father, Thinking, Iowa

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• Patrick Rothfuss gives us a fabulous debut, standing firmly on the main stage of the fantasy genre and needing no warm-up act. Jordan and Goodkind must be looking nervously over their shoulders!

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Giving, Jordan, Fabulous

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• I told my dad 'Yeah, I’m going to be a drummer', and he said 'Well, if you can rub your stomach at the same time as you pat your head at the same time you’re standing on one leg and kicking the other one out in a circle and say the pledge of allegiance'. And I did all that just like bam, you know?

  Tre Cool

  Dad, Circles, Legs

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• Men and women of high professional standing were reduced to the status of vagrants, unable to find employment and forced to eat the bitter bread of public or private charity.

  Elmer Rice

  Men, Vagrants, Standing Alone

  "The Living Theatre".

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• It's high time that Christians made up their minds to do something . . . What are we going to show in the way of resistance-as compared to the Communists, for instance-when all this terror is over? We will be standing empty-handed. We will have no answer when we are asked: What did you do about it?

  Hans Scholl

  Christian, Mind, Answers

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• If in my lifetime the problem of non-free software is solved, I could perhaps relax and write software again. But I might instead try to help deal with the world's larger problems. Standing up to an evil system is exhilarating, and now I have a taste for it.

  Richard Stallman

  Writing, Evil, Trying

  "Thus Spake Stallman". Slashdot Interview, news.slashdot.org. May 1, 2000.

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• You can always tell a Midwestern couple in Europe because they will be standing on a traffic island in the middle of a busy intersection looking at a windblown map and arguing over which way is west. European cities, with their wandering streets and undisciplined alleys, drive Midwesterners practically insane.

  Bill Bryson

  Couple, Cities, Islands

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.15, VNR AG

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• Perfectionism is really a manifestation of the belief that one's efforts are never good enough. Imagine: How many of the obstacles standing in your way are the product of your own imagination? What have you convinced yourself that you can't do? What limitations have you come to believe in? Your mind is very powerful and effective. Is it working for you, or against you?

  Ralph Marston

  Powerful, Believe, Imagination

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• A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he, "but every goose can."

  Plutarch

  Believe, Long, Sparta

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.433

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• They miss Rachel and Lillian Rose every minute of every day. It doesn't bring them any comfort to see him standing there and know that their daughter and granddaughter are gone.

  Joe Flaherty

  Daughter, Rose, Missing

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• The delicate droop of the petals standing out in relief, is like the eyelid of a child.

  Auguste Rodin

  Children, Flower, Relief

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• If you take five white guys and put 'em with five black guys, and let 'em hang around together for about a month, and at the end of the month, you'll notice that the white guys are walking and talking and standing like the black guys do. You'll never see the black guys going, "Oh, golly! We won the big game today, yes sir!" But you'll see guys with red hair named Duffy going, "What's happenin'?"

  George Carlin

  Philosophy, White, Hair

  "Occupation: Foole". Comedy album by George Carlin, 1973.

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