Standing Quotes - Page 28

• The revolution is an amalgam of former Party functionaries, quasi- democrats, KGB officers, and black-market wheeler-dealers, who are standing in power now and have represented a dirty hybrid unseen in world history

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Party, Dirty, Kgb

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• We have tendency to define ourselves in opposition to stuff. But try to also express your passion for things you love. Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire. Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.

  Tim Minchin

  Passion, Love Is, Giving

  Tim Minchin's Commencement Address at The University of Western in Perth, Western Australia, www.timminchin.com. September 25, 2013.

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• We still need to have one beautiful lady standing there.

  Joel Plaskett

  Beautiful, Needs, Standing There

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• I'm right now standing inside Hamilton-Selway Fine Art as an artist, as a philanthropist, as a child of God, and more importantly as a human being.

  Steven Jackson

  Art, Children, Hamilton

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• I think if Jesus had one shot at fixing us, He’d tell us how much He loves us. Jesus loves us right now, just as we are. He isn’t standing aloof, yelling at us to climb out of our pits and clean ourselves up so we can be worthy of Him. He is wading waist-deep into the muck of life, weeping with the broken, rescuing the lost, and healing the sick.

  Judah Smith

  Jesus, Healing, Thinking

  Judah Smith (2013). “Jesus is: Find a New Way to be Human”, p.26, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We looked at each other standing on the podium, and I think we all were tearing up. But we had to keep it cool. I think we did. Then we let out a breath.

  Michael Irvin

  Sports, Thinking, Standing Alone

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• I had not yet gotten into the world of light. But I felt as one who, standing outside, could knock against the wall and hear an answering knock from within.

  Simon Newcomb

  Wall, Light, World

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

  William Gaddis

  Reading, Standing Alone, Audience

  William Gaddis (2002). “The Rush for Second Place: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.89, Penguin

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• One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. "Away with you," I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot.

  Leonid Brezhnev

  Food, Cooking, Doe

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• It was mind-blowing. It was a small place with 2,000 standing-up tickets. It's great to have your band back and working and playing again, people have been so generous.

  Andrew Taylor

  People, Mind Blowing, Band

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• But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Sitting, Lines

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• Today you are standing in a position that would please the friend and would anger the enemy and all the infidels. You will be victorious against the enemies and you are causing them to suffer.

  Saddam Hussein

  Iraq, Enemy, Suffering

  "Saddam goes on TV to rally troops", www.cnn.com. March 24, 2003.

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• We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace.

  Abdallah II

  Men, Israel, Asking Why

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• That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.

  Ed Bradley

  Air, Hands, Guy

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• Standing near the door, we dipped our fingers in the holy water, crossed and blessed ourselves, and proceeded up to the sleeping-room, in the usual order, two by two.

  Maria Monk

  Blessed, Sleep, Doors

  Maria MONK, William MONK (pseud?.), Rev. J. J. SLOCUM (1837). “Awful Disclosures ... Second edition, revised by the Rev. J. J. Slocum”, p.60

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• To be still standing 20 years in this business is a great feeling, I can't even tell you.

  Blair Underwood

  Business, Years, Feelings

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• But what I'd really like to tell you is I never dreamed of being in the Hall of Fame. Standing here with all these great players was beyond any of my dreams.

  Robin Yount

  Sports, Dream, Player

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• I am really tired of looking at my hips. I'm seriously really tired of standing naked in the mirror and staring at my hips for hours and hours while muttering, "You hips. You hips need to get it together."

  Louis C. K.

  Tired, Thinking, Mirrors

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• For a variety of reasons, I believe, the time is right to resolve many of the long standing and thorny land use, recreation, and wilderness designation issues in Central Idaho.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Believe, Idaho, Land

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• A mature person does not fall in love, he or she rises in love. Only immature people fall; they stumble and fall down in love. Somehow they were managing and standing. Now they cannot manage and they cannot stand. They were always ready to fall on the ground and to creep. They don't have the backbone, the spine; they don't have the integrity to stand alone.

  Rajneesh

  Falling In Love, Freedom, Integrity

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• If it is true that strength is the child of effort and pain, then most of us will have the opportunity to learn strength. . . . Effort is standing up to the storm. Pain comes from enduring the worst the storm can throw at us. But then so does strength.

  Joseph M. Marshall III

  Children, Pain, Adversity

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• You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression. There comes a time, my friends, when people get tired of being plunged across the abyss of humiliation, where they experience the bleakness of nagging despair. There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspiring, Tired, July

  Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Speech at MIA Mass Meeting at Holt Street Baptist Church, kinginstitute.stanford.edu. December 5, 1955.

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• This was a land of lost souls. Human beings who had weathered great storms in life, had suffered unspeakable loss, had been put to painful tests of existence, and still remained standing-but just barely.

  Clare Vanderpool

  Loss, Land, Soul

  Clare Vanderpool (2013). “Navigating Early”, p.141, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care.

  Jon Krakauer

  Nature, Travel, Energy

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into Thin Air: A personal account of the Everest disaster”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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• A few birds flew out from the mountains and glided for a while without sound. Standing out against the sky on high slopes beyond a range of low hills, they saw an endless herd of deer, rendered mute by distance. The landscape was reminiscent of a cardboard cutout, but on a huge scale, which gave the impression they were the ones who had become miniatures...All three of them were equally lost.

  Cesar Aira

  Distance, Sky, Bird

  César Aira (2013). “The Hare”, p.239, New Directions Publishing

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