Standing Quotes - Page 38

• Iraq and Afghanistan have exacted a toll on America - in lives, treasure and standing - that it will take a generation to work through.

  Roger Cohen

  America, Iraq, Generations

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• For me, [John Wheeler] was the last Titan, the only physics superhero still standing.

  Max Tegmark

  Superhero, Lasts, Physics

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• If you're playing a fictional character, you can create a character, you can sort of take certain liberties. And when you're playing a real person who's actually standing there watching you, you know, it's - you do feel a weight. You know, you feel an obligation to not only be - to give the best performance that you can, but to make sure that you represent this person.

  Donnie Wahlberg

  Real, Character, Giving

  Source: movieweb.com

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• The United States has faced threats from criminal groups, from terrorists, from spies throughout our history, and we have limited our responses. We haven't resorted to total war every time we have a conflict around the world, because that restraint is what defines us. That restraint is what gives us the moral standing to lead the world.

  Edward Snowden

  War, Giving, Spy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It hit me that the students were talking about me, not God. I was standing before a holy God and robbing Him of the glory that was rightfully His.

  Francis Chan

  Talking, Students, Glory

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.135, David C Cook

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• I am standing for NSW Super 12 coaching position. NSW great. Queensland bad.

  Damir Dokic

  Coaching, Queensland, Position

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• A person who can look inside into his soul sees then with his vision one and all standing outside around in support to him that they are only as truthful and trustworthy to him as he to all others.

  Anuj

  Support, Soul, Vision

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• When we stand the truth on its head we generally fail to notice that our head is not standing where it should be standing either.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Failing, Should

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• The people we keep standing in the anteroom of our favor either start fermenting or turn sour.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Waiting, Favors

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• You can dance in a hurricane, but only if you're standing in the eye.

  Brandi Carlile

  Eye, Hurricanes, Ifs

  Song: The Eye, Album: The Firewatcher's Daughter, 2015

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• So many times I've wanted to crack up, standing there stiff while seven women are crawling round my toes fixing hems and the designer's having a freak-out because the denim cuffs are crooked. I'm on the verge of hysteria.

  Helena Christensen

  Hysteria, Fixing, Toes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Simple, Light, Mind

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.354, Simon and Schuster

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• Truth, I have learned, differs for everybody. Just as no two people ever see a rainbow in exactly the same place - and yet both most certainly see it, while the person seemingly standing right underneath it does not see it at all - so truth is a question of where one stands, and the direction one is looking in at the time.

  Iain Banks

  Truth, Two, People

  Iain M. Banks (2007). “Inversions”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Historical fiction is not only a respectable literary form; it is a standing reminder of the fact that history is about human beings.

  Helen Cam

  Historical, Fiction, Facts

  Helen Maud Cam, Historical Association (Great Britain) (1968). “Historical Novels”

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• I find myself now preaching about the golden age of manned spaceflight, because something went on there, within us, that we’re missing. When we went to the Moon, it was not only just standing on a new plateau for all mankind. We changed the way everybody in the world thought of themselves, you know. It was a change that went on inside of us. And we’re losing that.

  Walter Cunningham

  Change, Moon, Missing

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• There is a story in Zen circles about a man and a horse. The horse is galloping quickly, and it appears that the man on the horse is going somewhere important. Another man standing alongside the road, shouts, «Where are you going?» and the first man replies, «I don't know! Ask the horse!» This is also our story. We are riding a horse, and we don't know where we are going and we can't stop. The horse is our habit energy pulling us along, and we are powerless.

  Nhat Hanh

  Horse, Men, Circles

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.24, Harmony

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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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• Sex as desired by the class that dominates women is held by that class to be elemental, urgent, necessary, even if or even though it appears to require the repudiation of any claim women might have to full human standing. In the subordination of women, inequality itself is sexualized, made into the experience of sexual pleasure, essential to sexual desire.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Sex, Class, Feminist

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• Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.

  Gary Bauer

  Believe, Government, Empathy

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• The question we must ask ourselves as a culture is whether we want to embrace the change that must come, or resist it. Are we so attached to the dietary fallacies with which we were raised, so afraid to counter the arbitrary laws of eating taught to us in childhood by our misinformed parents, that we cannot alter the course they set us on, even if it leads to our own ruin? Does the prospect of standing apart or encounttering ridicule scare us even from saving ourselves?

  Howard Lyman

  Law, Childhood, Parent

  "Mad Cowboy: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat". Book by Howard Lyman and Glen Merzer, 1998.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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