Standing Quotes - Page 27

• ...a young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.

  Leonard Cohen

  Nurse, Charity, Wonder

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “Beautiful Losers”, p.196, Vintage

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• In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary things and events are regarded as particular illustrations of words.

  Aldous Huxley

  Illustration, Events, Religion And Politics

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• I used to think that real love involved falling for someone; but now I think it usually involves standing for someone.

  Bob Goff

  Real, Fall, Thinking

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• I work in waves, because I'm impatient. Because of a certain physicality, of lack of breath from standing. It has to be done and I do take liberties I wouldn't have taken before.

  Cy Twombly

  Taken, Liberty, Done

  "I work in waves". Interview with Nicholas Serota, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2008.

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• It may look like I'm moving but I'm standing still.

  Bob Dylan

  Moving, Looks, May

  Bob Dylan (2016). “The Lyrics: 1961-2012”, p.764, Gyldendal A/S

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• A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in a mighty public way.

  Thornton Wilder

  Men, Good Woman, Way

  Thornton Wilder (1965). “Our town: a play in three acts”

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• It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship. But get real, when everyone is bailing out, you don't want to be the last man standing.

  Robbie Fowler

  Real, Men, Leaving

  Robbie Fowler (2009). “Fowler: My Autobiography”, p.337, Pan Macmillan

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• Mindfulness is loving all the details of our lives, and awareness is the natural thing that happens: life begins to open up, and you realize that you're always standing at the center of the world.

  Pema Chodron

  Details, Mindfulness, World

  Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.35, Shambhala Publications

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• During my years of being close to people engaged in changing the world I have seen fear turn into courage. Sorrow into joy. Funerals into celebration. Because whatever the consequences, people, standing side by side, have expressed who they really are, and that ultimately they believe in the love of the world and each other enough to be that.

  Alice Walker

  Believe, Years, People

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• No matter who or what we are, God restores us to right standing with Himself only by means of the death of Jesus Christ.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Mean, Matter

  Oswald Chambers (2006). “My Utmost Fhh Grad Updated/E”, Barbour Publishing

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• The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!

  Ben Kingsley

  Acting, Cameras, Doe

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• None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army

  Thomas Jefferson

  Army, Gun Rights, Nations

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.166, Algora Publishing

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• The cross is the standing statement of what we do to one another and to ourselves. The resurrection is the standing statement of what God does to us in return.

  Richard Rohr

  Doe, Return, Resurrection

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• In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.

  Elie Wiesel

  Giving Up, Order, Giving

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• The only reward the musician receives is music: the privilege of standing in the presence of music when it leans over and takes us into its confidence. As it is for the audience. In this moment everything else is irrelevant and without power. For those in music, this is the moment when life becomes real.

  Robert Fripp

  Musician, Rewards, Privilege

  "Business Aims" by Robert Fripp, www.laweekly.com. March 24, 1999.

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• Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth.

  Diane Ackerman

  Stars, Thinking, Clouds

  Diane Ackerman, Dave Thurlow, C. Ralph Adler (1999). “Soul of the Sky: Exploring the Human Side of Weather”

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• As soon as I observed myself from outside myself, I recognized and understood that I had a long-standing habit of keeping an eye on myself. That's how I managed to pull myself together, over the years, checking myself from the outside.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Eye, Years, Long

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• How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of standing still. Forget your mistakes, but remember what they taught you. So how do you become better tomorrow? By becoming better today.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Mistake, Becoming Better, World

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• Nothing is as uncomfortable, dangerous and hurtful as believing that I'm standing on the outside of my life looking in and wondering what it would be like if I had the courage to show up and let myself be seen.

  Brené Brown

  Believe, Hurtful, Would Be

  Brené Brown (2013). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.149, Penguin UK

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• True power comes from standing in your own truth and walking your own path.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  True Power, Path, Walking

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• Nothing can duplicate the sheer power and feeling you get from standing in front of your amp and bashing on your guitar.

  James Hetfield

  Funny, Guitar, Feelings

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• They'll be days like this" my momma said.
  When you open your hands to catch, and wind up with only blisters and bruises.
  When you try to step out of the phone booth and try to fly , and the very people you want to save, are the ones standing on your cape.
  When your boots will fill with rain, and you'll be up to your knees with disappointment
  And those are the very days you have all the more reason to say "Thank you".

  Sarah Kay

  Disappointment, Rain, Phones

  Sarah Kay, “If I should have a daughter”

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• We must "Bring Back Our Girls" and support Nigerians working every day to create change. Please donate now to support Nigerian organizations educating and standing up for girls

  Malala Yousafzai

  Girl, Organization, Support

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• Now that you're Secretary of War, what kind of an army do you think we ought to have?

  Groucho Marx

  Money, War, Firefly

  "Fictional character: Rufus T. Firefly". "Duck Soup", www.imdb.com. 1933.

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• The Dharma Path is to keep walking forward. But the true Dharma has no going forward, no going backward, and no standing still.

  Ajahn Chah

  Walking Forward, Practice, Path

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