Standing Quotes - Page 3

• The vital Christian arouses opposition because he is a standing rebuke to the selfishness and sin of those around him.

  John Hagee

  Christian, Selfishness, Sin

  John Hagee (1989). “Being Happy in an Unhappy World”

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• As great Pythagoras of yore,
  Standing beside the blacksmith's door,
  And hearing the hammers, as they smote
  The anvils with a different note,
  Stole from the varying tones, that hung
  Vibrant on every iron tongue,
  The secret of the sounding wire.
  And formed the seven-chorded lyre.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Iron, Doors, Secret

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.105

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• All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I’d be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.

  Lenny Bruce

  Despair, World, Disease

  The Essential Lenny Bruce, ed. John Cohen, epigram (1967)

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• A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rather than someone who is bashing a plank and is spitting all over a microphone.

  Graham Coxon

  Singers, Standing Alone, Microphones

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• I am delighted to be part of this Women's Aid campaign - the statistics are frightening. I've spent time with the victims of these cowardly acts, and it's heartbreaking. Everyday women and children are being abused in their own homes. I am standing up and saying that I am a Real Man, and that violence against women and children has to end.

  Gethin Jones

  Children, Real, Home

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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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• In 1951 I took my first art course. And one day I looked over my shoulder and there was this tall gentleman standing, very well-dressed and groomed, and he asked, "What is your name? I don't know you. What is your major?" I said history. And he looked at my drawing and looked at me and said, "You don't belong over there; you belong here." He was James A. Porter.

  David C. Driskell

  Art, Names, Drawing

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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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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• I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Peace, Believe, Mean

  Woodrow Wilson (1913). “Addresses, Messages and Speeches, 1897-”

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• It is very frightening to feel alone when you are standing against a rich and powerful person and all his attendant helpers.

  Gloria Allred

  Powerful, Rich, Helpers

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• In the courageous standing of uncertainty, faith shows most visibly its dynamic character.

  Paul Tillich

  Character, Courageous, Shows

  Paul Tillich, F. Forrester Church (1999). “The Essential Tillich”, p.22, University of Chicago Press

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• Thus at every step we are reminded that we by no means rule over nature like a conqueror over a foreign people, like someone standing outside nature - but that we, with flesh, blood and brain, belong to nature, and exist in its midst, and that all our mastery of it consists in the fact that we have the advantage over all other creatures of being able to learn its laws and apply them correctly.

  Friedrich Engels

  Mean, Blood, Law

  Ludwig Feuerbach, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Wolfgang Schirmacher (1997). “German socialist philosophy”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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• I am the angel of Reality, Seen for a moment standing in the door.

  Wallace Stevens

  Angel, Reality, Doors

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.437, Vintage

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• You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.

  K. D. Lang

  Singing, Standing Alone, Audience

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• Big Walter used to say, he'd get right wet in the eyes sometimes, lean his head back with the water standing in his eyes and say, 'Seem like God didn't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worth while.'

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Dream, Children, Eye

  "A Raisin in the Sun".

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• An armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics - that without standing armies their liberty can never be in danger, nor with large ones safe.

  James Madison

  Army, Patriotism, Liberty

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• The planes were hijacked, the buildings fell, and thousands of lives were lost nearly a thousand miles from here. But the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were an attack on the heart of America. And standing here in the heartland of America, we say in one voice We will not give in to terrorists; We will not rest until they are found and defeated; We will win this struggle not for glory, nor wealth, nor power, but for justice, for freedom, and for peace; So help us God.

  Tom Harkin

  Struggle, Heart, Winning

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• The defects born of habit are innumerable. I see every child occupied in some way in disarranging and disfiguring his physique; some displace the ankles through the habit they have contracted of standing on one leg only and playing, as it were, with the other; placing it in a position which though disagreeable and strained, does not fatigue them, because the softness of their tendons and muscles lend themselves to all kinds of movement.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Children, Ballet, Way

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• So I place my heart under lock and key, to take some time to look after me. But when I turn around you're standing there.

  Deborah Cox

  Heart, Keys, Self Love

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• Virtually all informed observers agree that a fair and equitable resolution of the plight of the Palestinians would considerably weaken the anger and hatred of Israel and the US in the Arab and Muslim worlds - and far beyond, as international polls reveal. Such an agreement is surely within reach, if the US and Israel depart from their long-standing rejectionism.

  Noam Chomsky

  Israel, Agreement, Long

  "Apocalypse Near (Part One)". Interview with Merav Yudilovitch, www.ynetnews.com. August 04, 2006.

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• Women should know that love doesn't abuse you. It shouldn't hurt you. Love cannot be redefined into 'He only hit me once, I'll let it slide.' Love is happiness, not being neglectful, caring, being respectful, providing, having standards, kindness, standing up for the right things.

  Jahmene Douglas

  Hurt, Kindness, Caring

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• His [Elijah] heart was beginning to give signs of alarm; he was enjoying being at this woman's side. Love could be a more frightening experience than standing before Ahab's soldier with an arrow aimed at his heart; if the arrow had struck him, he would be dead -and the rest was up to God. But if love struck him, he alone would have to take responsibility for the consequences.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Responsibility

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• Know how to get close to it: mountains are often seen from far off - beautiful, interesting, full of challenges. But what happens when we try to draw closer? Roads run all around them, flowers grow between you and your objective, what seemed so clear on the map is tough in real life. So try all the paths and all the tracks until eventually one day you're standing in front of the top that you yearn to reach.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Beautiful, Running

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• You aren’t advertising to a standing army; you are advertising to a moving parade.

  David Ogilvy

  Moving, Army, Advertising

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• The American culture ideal of the "self-made-man," of everyone "standing on his own feet" seemed as tragic a picture as the initiative-destroying dependence on a benevolent despot. He felt and perceived clearly that we all need continuous help from each other, and that this type of interdependence is the greatest challenge to maturity of individual and group functioning.

  Kurt Lewin

  Maturity, Men, Self

  "The Research Center for Group Dynamics".

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