Standing Quotes - Page 31

• The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.

  Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

  War, Ideas, Waiting

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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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• Standing in the middle of nowhere, wondering how to begin. Lost between tomorrow and yesterday, between now and then.

  Ray Davies

  Philosophy, Yesterday, Middle Of Nowhere

  Song: Do It Again

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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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• When you get people standing up saying, 'I'm going to just tell the truth; what do we have to fear?,' it encourages others, and it creates a counterresponse.

  Ron Suskind

  People, Telling The Truth

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• 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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• The word of God is definitely above culture, in terms of what or who should have authority in our lives. However, we must remember that we are within culture, and our calling in Christ is to play our part in the redemption and transformation of individuals and cultures. I believe the recent history of the religious subculture teaches all too clearly that unless we are moving forward in seeking the genuine transformation of culture, then we are standing still and it is transforming us.

  Steve Scott

  Religious, Moving Forward, Believe

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• Innovations, free thinking is blowing like a storm; those that stand in front of it, ignorant scholars like you, false scientists, perverse conservatives, obstinate goats, resisting mules are being crushed under the weight of these innovations. You are nothing but ants standing in front of the giants; nothing but chicks trying to challenge roaring volcanoes!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ignorance, Science, Thinking

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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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• The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I was standing in the crib singing God Bless America.

  Linda Lavin

  America, Parent, Singing

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• Standing behind a kitchen counter telling people about what ingredients to put in a pot didn't feel right.

  Trisha Yearwood

  People, Kitchen, Ingredients

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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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• Better die standing than live kneeling.

  Pericles

  Kneeling, Dies

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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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• Bieber has 10 million fans - most are in middle schools, or standing at least 500 feet away from one.

  Kevin Hart

  School, Feet, Fans

  "Justin Bieber's roasting: The best jokes from his Comedy Central "a**-whuppin'" from A-list line-up" by Katy Forrester, www.mirror.co.uk. March 15, 2015.

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• I hit some great shots in my lifetime; now I hit a decent shot and I get a standing ovation.

  Martina Navratilova

  Ovation, Lifetime, Shots

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• It don't matter what you tried to do, you couldn't destroy me! I'm still standing! I'm still strong! And I always will be.

  Antwone Fisher

  Strong, Matter, Stills

  "Antwone Fisher". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• I don't particularly enjoy standing alone and recording my own voice or my own stuff. It's sometimes fun to do for demos and stuff, but I really enjoy the social act of recording records, because writing it is so lonely. And it has to be.

  Sondre Lerche

  Lonely, Fun, Writing

  "Sondre Lerche’s Barn Identity". Interview with Chloe Eichler, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 2, 2011.

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• Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.

  Iris DeMent

  Believe, Fighting, Guy

  Song: Wasteland of the Free, Album: The Way I Should

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• For the first time I saw a medley of haphazard facts fall into line and order. All the jumbles and recipes and hotchpotch of the inorganic chemistry of my boyhood seemed to fit into the scheme before my eyes-as though one were standing beside a jungle and it suddenly transformed itself into a Dutch garden.

  C.P. Snow

  Fall, Eye, Science

  C.P. Snow (2010). “The Search”, p.30, House of Stratus

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• Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha.... Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

  Bodhidharma

  Lying, Reality, Thinking

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.49, Macmillan

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• It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life standing deep in his own excrement in a feedlot, helping to pollute the local streams. Or that the calf that yielded the veal cutlet on her plate spent its life in a box in which it did not have room to turn around. Wendell Berry, "The Pleasures of Eating," What Are People For?, 1989 Jesus pioneered a relationship ethic based on compassion. Being a disciple means building relationships - with the Creator and with all creation and creatures.

  Leonard Sweet

  Jesus, Mean, Animal

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• To me, an economy that sees the life of a community or a place as expendable, and reckons its value only in terms of money, is not acceptable because it is not realistic. I am thinking as I believe we must think if we wish to discuss the best uses of people, places, and things, and if we wish to give affection some standing in our thoughts.

  Wendell Berry

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth”, p.80, Counterpoint Press

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• I am standing on the seashore. A ship spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the ocean. I stand watching her until she fades on the horizon, and someone at my side says, She is gone. Gone where? The loss of sight is in me, not in her. Just at the moment when someone says, She is gone, there are others who are watching her coming. Other voices take up the glad shout, Here she comes! That is dying.

  Henry Scott Holland

  Morning, Ocean, Loss

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