Standing Quotes - Page 14

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Europe by the end of this century will be a continent after the neutron bomb. The grand buildings will still be standing, but the people who built them will be gone.

  Mark Steyn

  Europe, People, Liberty

  Mark Steyn (2006). “America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It”, p.3, Regnery Publishing

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• Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.

  Bill Moyers

  Country, Mean, Government

  Bill Moyers (2013). “Moyers on America: A Journalist and His Times”, p.71, The New Press

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• I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Government, America, President

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• Am I in the picture? Am I getting in or out of it? I could be a ghost, an animal or a dead body, not just this girl standing on the corner?

  Francesca Woodman

  Girl, Animal, Body

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• What we need is more money back in the hands of Americans of any economic standing and so raising taxes right now doesnt make sense.

  Kevin Yoder

  Hands, Needs, Economic

  " Erin Burnett Outfront", www.cnn.com. December 9, 2011.

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• Provide of thine own, to have all things at hand;
  Less work and the workman, unoccupied, stand.
  Make dry over-head both hovel and shack.
  Wash sheep (for the better) where water doth run;
  Let him go cleanly, and dry in the sun.
  Thy houses and and barns would be looked upon;
  And all things a[...]ed, ere harvest come on.
  At midsummer, down with the brambles and brakes;
  And after, abroad, with thy forks and thy rakes;
  Set movers a mowing, where meadow is grown;
  The longer now standing, the worse to be mown.

  Thomas Tusser

  Running, Hands, June

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• Your Marines having been under my command for nearly six months, I feel that I can give you a discriminating report as to their excellent standing with their brothers of the army and their general good conduct.

  John J. Pershing

  Brother, Marine, Army

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• This all came of a conversation I had with [John] Steinbeck once when we were standing in a men's room somewhere. Steinbeck asked me why I didn't play the banjo any more and I told him that went out with the high-button shoes.

  Eddie Condon

  Men, Play, Shoes

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• What can be more soul shaking than peering through a 100-inch telescope at a distant galaxy, holding a 100-million-year-old fossil or a 500,000-year-old stone tool in one's hand, standing before the immense chasm of space and time that is the Grand Canyon, or listening to a scientist who gazed upon the face of the universe's creation and did not blink?

  Michael Shermer

  Spring, Space, Hands

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• Away back in that time-in 1492 - there was a man by the name of Columbus came from across the great ocean, and he discovered the country for the white man. . . . What did he find when he first arrived here? Did he find a white man standing on the continent then? . . . I stood here first, and Columbus first discovered me.

  Chitto Harjo

  Country, Time, Ocean

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• Standing in the park, I was wondering why a frisbee looks larger the closer it gets...then it hit me

  Stewart Francis

  Looks, Parks, Wonder

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• There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women. These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion, give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves; it will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint, and it will fire them the more, and cause them to work for us with zeal, without knowing that they do so; for they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Mean, Men, Knowing

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• The exile is a singular, whereas refugees tend to be thought of in the mass ... What is implied in these nuances of social standing is the respect we pay to choice. The exile appears to have made a decision, while the refugee is the very image of helplessness.

  Mary McCarthy

  Choices, Decision, Pay

  Mary McCarthy (1985). “Occasional prose”, Harcourt

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• Fathering makes a man, whatever his standing in the eyes of the world, feel strong and good and important, just as he makes his child feel loved and valued.

  Frank Pittman

  Strength, Strong, Children

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• I have reached a point in my life where I understand the pain and the challenges; and my attitude is one of standing up with open arms to meet them all.

  Myrlie Evers-Williams

  Inspirational, Life, Courage

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• In order to hit a good golf shot at that moment in time when you're standing over the ball, you must believe that golf shot is the most important things in your life.

  Tiger Woods

  Success, Believe, Golf

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• It's terrifying. It's so scary, because you get used to being around the crew and being friendly with everyone and then suddenly, at a certain point, everything switches and you're the one standing behind the lights and nobody's going to help you. And that can be really difficult sometimes.

  Liv Tyler

  Light, Scary, Friendly

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• I am thrilled to be working with Lane Bryant on this collaboration. Designing apparel women can feel confident and beautiful in has been a long-standing pillar of the Lela Rose brand, and we are looking forward to bringing our designs to Lane Bryant's inspiring base of customers.

  Lela Rose

  Beautiful, Long, Rose

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