Standing Quotes - Page 20

• Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth.

  Richard Rohr

  Jesus, Revealing, Concrete

  "Creation as the Body of God" by Fr. Richard Rohr, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2011.

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• The only things standing between you and the compassionate, wise, and creative person you want to be are matters of choice. Your choice. No one can occupy your generosity except you.

  Gary Zukav

  Wise, Generosity, Choices

  "Occupy Your Heart" by Gary Zukav, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2012.

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• When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.

  Asvaghosa

  Character, Mean, Practice

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• I know how important it is to have your quarterback standing upright. Matter of fact, I know how important it is not to allow someone hit on him period because I want him to think that this pocket is completely safe, no one is going to get to me and I got all the time in the world to make whatever decisions I need to make.

  Emmitt Smith

  Thinking, Decision, Important

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• The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John Brown was buried down the road from my house and that he had lived there longer than anywhere else and his house was still standing.

  Russell Banks

  New York, House, John Brown

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• I'm standing for real freedom.

  Todd Akin

  Real, Real Freedom

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• I auditioned for a solo in church and got it. I was about seven and I sang a song called, 'Jesus, I Heard You Had a Big House' and I remember people standing up at the end and me thinking, 'Oh, I think I'm going to like this.' That's how it all began. Sounds funny to say you got your start in church, but I did.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Song, Jesus, Thinking

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• When people say 'What are underground comics?' I think the best way you can define them is just the absolute freedom involved... we didn't have anyone standing over us.

  Robert Crumb

  Thinking, People, Way

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• My son now is 22 months old, he's been playing since he was 12 months old and he gets standing ovations on the drums. He's been with us since he was 10 weeks old, he's been on the drums. He's got blisters on his fingers before he can even talk.

  Dick Dale

  Son, Ovation, Months

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• I always step on the plane with my right foot and touch the outside of the plane with my left hand. Sometimes you know there's someone standing there to welcome you to the plane and I have to kind of get them to move a little bit so I can put my hand on the outside of the plane. It's not a natural thing to be up in the sky in a little metal tube.

  Hope Davis

  Moving, Hands, Sky

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• One of the things about being raised British in Africa is that you get this double whammy of toughness. The continent in place itself made you quite tough. And then you've got this British mother whose entire being rejects 'coddling' in case it makes you too soft. So there's absolutely nothing standing between you and a fairly rough experience.

  Alexandra Fuller

  Mother, Tough, Self Made

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• The treble parade would have been the most perfect moment of my footballing life, but for the two people standing behind me, clearly already plotting their next move.

  Robbie Fowler

  Moving, Two, Next Move

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• At school, there was an annual school disco and I'd be standing in my bedroom wondering what to wear for hours on end. Eventually I'd arrive at a decision that was just the most ridiculous costume you could have ever devised - I think it was probably knitted Christmas jumpers on top of buttoned-up white shirts.

  Guy Berryman

  School, Thinking, White

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• I can remember standing in a W.P.A. line with a gunny sack, and I remember having to buy chocolate milk instead of white because it was one cent cheaper.

  Jerry Buss

  White, Chocolate, Lines

  "Jerry Buss, Lakers Owner and Innovator, Dies at 80" by Richard Goldstein, www.nytimes.com. February 18, 2013.

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• When you're standing in front of an audience like this that is so enthusiastic and so much behind you, it is very hard to give a bad speech. Even a bad speech sounds good in a convention hall like this.

  Susan Estrich

  Giving, Sound, Speech

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• When you're caught up in the storm or, you know, just the turmoil of everything that there is another side and you do get through it. And you know, just standing by the truth and doing the right thing.

  Scott Peterson

  Storm, Sides, Caught

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• Brother, you can't go to jail for what you're thinking, or that look in your eye, just standing on the corner watching all the girls go by.

  Dean Martin

  Girl, Brother, Eye

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• Each culture has its own characteristic manner of locomotion, sitting, standing, reclining, and gesturing.

  Edward T. Hall

  Culture, Sitting, Characteristics

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• I'm standing naked before you. Don't you want more than sex?

  Tori Amos

  Sex, Naked, Want

  Song: Leather

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• Like a rock, standing arrow straight. Like a rock, charging from the gate.

  Bob Seger

  Rocks, Arrows, Charging

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• Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.

  Robert Jordan

  Two Sides, Evil, Fiction

  "Robert Jordan chats about his 'Wheel of Time' series". Live chat, www.cnn.com. December 12, 2000.

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• I don't stand in anybody else's way of accomplishing their dreams, and I don't like people standing in my way, either. That seems like a hostile thing to do.

  Jamey Johnson

  Dream, People, Way

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• The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and modern theories of psychology and sociology.

  Jayne Ann Krentz

  Attitude, Philosophy, Long

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• One day I'll be standing at the river looking out across tomorrow, and the bridge I need to get there will be a bridge that I have burned.

  Garth Brooks

  Revenge, Rivers, Bridges

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• My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.

  Gary Snyder

  Grandmother, Garden, Hands

  Gary Snyder (1992). “No nature: new and selected poems”, Pantheon

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