Standing Quotes - Page 21

• I look forward to standing shoulder to shoulder with Speaker Boehner, Leader Cantor, Whip McCarthy and the entire republican conference as we repeal Obamacare, fight rampant job killing regulations, cut spending and help put folks back to work.

  Fred Upton

  Jobs, Fighting, Cutting

  "Upton wins House energy gavel" by Darren Samuelsohn, www.politico.com. December 07, 2010.

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• Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.

  Criss Jami

  Sympathy, Needs, Helping

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.95, Criss Jami

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• Tie me up, please... Chantal said. They looked above at some vines and roots hanging down from the grassy area above the depression in the canal they were standing in. She was in his hands-he had to comply. A little bit of kink was one of the most delicious of erotic pleasures. Catholic school girls were often the horniest-Brett could hardly contain his elation.

  Jess C Scott

  Girl, School, Roots

  Jess C. Scott (2011). “Catholic School Girls Rule”, p.25, jessINK

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• I'm still standing up there tall and strong every night that I perform.

  Patti LaBelle

  Strong, Night, Stills

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• It's mainly a few elite women who benefit greatly from standing with the forces that keep women down.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Benefits, Force, Elites

  "Are women human?" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2006.

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• Watching nonprogrammers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesn’t know how to surf trying to surf. Even if he has great advisers standing on the shore telling him what to do, he still falls off the board again and again.

  Joel Spolsky

  Running, Fall, Trying

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• A standing army, however necessary it may be at some times, is always dangerous to the liberties of the people. Such power should be watched with a jealous eye.

  Samuel Adams

  Jealous, Eye, Army

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• Sculptured figures which appear in motion, will, in their standing position, actually look as if they were falling forward.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Fall, Looks, Figures

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.261, GENERAL PRESS

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• However appalling to consider, however tedious to enact, every novel requires furniture, whether it is to be named or unnamed, for the characters will be unable to remain in standing position for the duration of the story.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Character, Stories, Duration

  "Furniture" by Johnathan Lethem, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2008.

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• Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cognisance of the slippery ground in which they are standing, which could lead to their downfall.

  Michael Bassey

  Negative, Praying, Downfall

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• It's responsible for the sloppiness and imprecision of the War on Terror, for example. It's responsible for taking people's tax dollars and spending the country into debt on useless wars and pointless pork projects to buy votes. It's responsible for bailing out the banks instead of standing up for the people the banks cheated. It's responsible for plenty.

  Timothy Hallinan

  Country, War, People

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• We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die....So just standing still isn't really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Moving, Challenges, Disturbance

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• Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.

  Carson McCullers

  Falling In Love, Love Is, Matter

  Carson McCullers (1961). “Clock without hands”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One often forgets that even if art is a very successful field in contemporary culture, there are still a lot of people alienated by it. Even if people don't fully understand where my work is coming from, at least there's somebody who looks kind of sane standing in front of you and politely engaging with you. People react.

  Tino Sehgal

  Art, Successful, People

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• I prefer to die standing than to live on my knees.

  Charb

  Knees, Dies

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• It becomes an emperor to die standing.

  Vespasian

  Emperor, Dies

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• More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation of evil and then having those two run at each other full-speed, like a couple of PeeWee football players, to see what happens. Who stays standing? Whose helmet goes flying off?

  George Saunders

  Football, Running, Couple

  "George Saunders's Wild Ride". Interview with Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. December 12, 2010.

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• God is the one who saved me. He who believes in God, in His cause and His truth is capable of standing up to the greatest power.

  King Hussein I

  God, Believe, Causes

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• I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Sex, Rain, Apples

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• Just as a mother would protect with her life her own son, her only son, so one should cultivate an unbounded mind towards all beings, and loving-kindness towards all the world. One should cultivate an unbounded mind, above and below and across, without obstruction, without enmity, without rivalry. Standing, or going, or seated, or lying down, as long as one is free from drowsiness, one should practice this mindfulness. This, they say, is the holy state here.

  Gautama Buddha

  Mother, Buddhist, Kindness

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• An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.

  Austin O'Malley

  Thinking, Pacing, Englishmen

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• Infrareds on little people standing with some big heads,
  I was Captain Kirk, walkin' with a black t-shirt.
  LAPD, the nurse asked did my knee hurt?
  I was in pain, little Martians tryin' ta take my brain,
  Hospitals came, detectives wrote down my name.
  I was to blame, my life never been the same.
  A true story; I tell ya, it'll never bore me.
  My classmate died, my other friend named Cory
  Drinkin' 40s, he jumped out the project window,
  Stabbed himself with a yellow number 2 pencil.

  Kool Keith

  Hurt, Pain, Rap

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• Think about it, if you was there standing looking at me.
  What would you do, if I hit your face with dog doo-doo?

  Kool Keith

  Dog, Rap, Thinking

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• The framers of our Constitution understood the dangers of unbridled government surveillance. They knew that democracy could flourish only in spaces free from government snooping and interference, and they put restraints on government overreaching in the Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights. . . . These protections require, at a minimum, a neutral arbiter - a magistrate - standing between the government's endless desire for information and the citizens' desires for privacy.

  Elizabeth Holtzman

  Government, Space, Rights

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• One day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters, they were in reality standing up for what is best in the American dream and for the most sacred values in our Judaeo-Christian heritage, thereby bringing our nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers in their formulation of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Dream, Children

  "Why we can't wait".

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