Stood Up Quotes - Page 7

• We sat like that for a long while, and when we stood up, all my sad things were in boxes, and Beck was my father.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Father, Long, Boxes

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.75, Scholastic UK

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• Phury knelt beside him and stroked his face. "I've only ever had you to live for. If you die I have nothing. I'm utterly lost. And you are needed here." Zsadist tried to reach out, but couldn't lift his arms as Phury stood up. "God, Z, I keep thinking this tragedy of ours is going to be over. But it just keeps going, doesn't it?" Zsadist blacked out to the sound of his twin's boots heading from the room.

  J.R. Ward

  Thinking, Zsadist, Tragedy

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• Patrick started driving really fast, and just before we got to the tunnel. Sam stood up, and the wind turned her dress into ocean waves. When we hit the tunnel, all the sound got scooped up into a vacuum, and it was replaced by a song on the tape player. A beautiful song called “Landslide.” When we got out of the tunnel, Sam screamed this really fun scream, and there it was. Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. Sam sat down and started laughing. Patrick started laughing. I started laughing. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Beautiful, Song, Fun

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• She had died peacefully, in her sleep, after an evening of listening to all of her favorite Fred Astaire songs, one crackling record after another. Once the last chord of the last piece had died out, she had stood up and opened the French doors to the garden outside, perhaps waiting to breathe in the honeysuckle one more time.

  Anne Fortier

  Song, Sleep, Garden

  Anne Fortier (2010). “Juliet: A Novel”, p.7, Ballantine Books

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• He let Shane drop back down in his chair, and walked out, back stiff. Furious. Shane sat with his hands clutching at the armrests. He exchanged a stunned look with Eve, and they both stood up at once. "No," Shane said. "I did it. Let me fix it." He went off after Michael. Eve chewed her lip and said, "Well, we're either going to see half the house destroyed, or their bromance is going to go all the way.

  Rachel Caine

  Hands, House, Looks

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• Even so, I was proud of myself for taking action at all. I didn't hide or run away or pretend the ugliness didn't happen. I stood up and said something that was true. I said it out loud, and by doing so, I was standing up for lots of people, not just me.

  Lauren Myracle

  Running, People, Proud

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• I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game.

  Ed Bradley

  Inspirational, Basketball, Summer

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• When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.

  Ruth Brown

  Dukes, Applause

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• Whatever we say here today is not against any party or person. We are not here to do politics. I have not stood up here to save a government... we want swaraaj, the people's rule, in Delhi.

  Arvind Kejriwal

  Party, Government, People

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• The night was clear and frosty, all ebony of shadow and silver of snowy slope; big stars were shining over the silent fields; here and there the dark pointed firs stood up with snow powdering their branches and the wind whistling through them.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Stars, Dark, Night

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “The Collected Works of Lucy Maud Montgomery: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poems, Letters and Memoirs (Including The Complete Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Avonlea & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of Windy Poplars, Rainbow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, The Story Girl, The Golden Road, Pat of Silver Bush, The Blue Castle & many more”, p.123, e-artnow

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• What has been the most rewarding moment in your decades of entrepreneurship? Our last annual managers meeting. I gave my motivational talk and then I asked, How many people here started as a forklift operator, a warehouse person, a roof loader, or a truck driver? We had 600 people and almost half of them stood up.

  Ken Hendricks

  Business, People, Half

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• I wish I could go back and rewrite my first book, You Bright and Risen Angels; I could do a better job. But in the meantime, nobody knows as much about my books as I do. Nobody has the right but me to say which words go into my books or get deleted or edited. When I'm dying, I'll smile, knowing I stood up for my books. If I die with more money, that wouldn't bring a smile to my face. Unless I got better drugs or more delicious-looking nurses.

  William T. Vollmann

  Jobs, Book, Angel

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• Celibacy is one of the most unnatural things. It has destroyed so many human beings - millions - Catholic monks, Hindu monks, Buddhist monks, Jaina monks, nuns. For centuries they have been teaching celibacy; and the most amazing thing is, even in the twentieth century, not a single medical expert, physiologist, has stood up and said that celibacy is impossible, that in the very nature of things, it cannot happen.

  Rajneesh

  Buddhist, Teaching, Catholic

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• Just because you have a group of scientists who stood up and said here is the fact. Galileo got outvoted for a spell.

  Rick Perry

  Groups, Facts, Scientist

  "Is Rick Perry a 21st-century Galileo?" by Martin Robbins, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2011.

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• I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self.

  George Grosz

  Fighting, Games, Self

  George Grosz (1982). “The autobiography of George Grosz: a small yes and a big no”

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• The only time I had any butterflies was when I stood up and backed toward the open door and looked down.

  George H. W. Bush

  Time, Butterfly, Doors

  "The Presidency: Bush's Final Salute". www.cnn.com. April 7, 1997.

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• The lie was dead And damned, and truth stood up instead.

  Robert Browning

  Lying

  Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.24, Wildside Press LLC

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• And barely ten minutes later the soft sound of wingbeats came to their ears, and Balthamos stood up eagerly. The next moment, the two angels were embracing, and Will, gazing into the flames, saw their mutual affection. More than affection: they loved each other with a passion.

  Philip Pullman

  Love, Angel, Passion

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• To begin with, I wanted that truth to life to possess a concrete reliability, and rejoiced most when the poem seemed most direct, an upfront representation of the world it stood in for or stood up for or stood its ground against.

  Seamus Heaney

  Reliability, World, Concrete

  Seamus Heaney (2014). “Crediting Poetry: The Nobel Lecture”, p.10, Macmillan

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• I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things

  Clifford Geertz

  People, Soul, Literature

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• For many years now, I have been an outspoken supporter of civil and human rights for gay and lesbian people. Gays and lesbians stood up for civil rights in Montgomery, Selma, in Albany, Ga. and St. Augustine, Fla., and many other campaigns of the Civil Rights Movement. Many of these courageous men and women were fighting for my freedom at a time when they could find few voices for their own, and I salute their contributions.

  Coretta Scott King

  Fighting, Gay, Men

  Chicago Tribune, April 01, 1998.

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• The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.

  Robert Frost

  Garden, Snakes, Evil

  Robert Frost (2012). “Frost: Poems”, p.246, Everyman's Library

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• Throughout his life, General Wesley Clark has stood up to some tough opponents. He battled the Viet Cong, and went toe-to-toe with Slobodan Milosevic. But today the retired four-star general capitulated to the fiercest enemy he's ever confronted: the American voter.

  Jon Stewart

  Stars, Enemy, American Voters

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• Beyond the fence the forest stood up spectrally in the moonlight, and through the dim stir, through the faint sounds of that lamentable courtyard, the silence of the land went home to one's very heart - its mystery, its greatness, the amazing reality of its concealed life.

  Joseph Conrad

  Home, Heart, Reality

  Joseph Conrad, Robert Kimbrough (1963). “Heart of darkness: an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, ess ays in criticism”

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• The larger point is this: We've invested over half a billion dollars in New York since this department was stood up. We've given New York more money, by more than double, than any other city in the country.

  Michael Chertoff

  Country, New York, Cities

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