Standing Quotes - Page 40

• It took a great deal of acceptance to come to terms with being an alcoholic, but the acceptance was key to my sobriety. If I had not gained acceptance at that time in my life, I would not be standing here today.

  Dennis Eckersley

  Acceptance, Keys, Sobriety

  "Finishing speech a great relief to Eck / Closer brings tears during emotional gathering" by John Shea, www.sfgate.com. July 26, 2004.

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• I ask a wreathwhich will not crush my head.
  And there is no hurry about it;
  I shall have, doubtless, a boom after my funeral,
  Seeing that long standing increases all things
  regardless of quality.

  Ezra Pound

  Crush, Death, Long

  Ezra Pound (2015). “Delphi Poetical Works of Ezra Pound (Illustrated)”, p.588, Delphi Classics

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• The Wall will be standing in 50 and even in 100 years, if the reasons for it are not removed.

  Erich Honecker

  Wall, Years, Reason

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• I was only seven but I remember thinking that everything in the world was standing still.

  Eva Hart

  Thinking, World, Remember

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• Self-expression is a hallmark of an artist, of art, to get something off one's chest, to sing one's song. So that element is present in all art. It is the key to even standing up and saying, "Hey, listen to me." Self-expression can be based on looking at the world and making observations about it.

  George Carlin

  Song, Art, Keys

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• My father was a simple man; my mother was a simple woman; you see the result standing in front of you, a simpleton.

  Chic Murray

  Funny, Mother, Father

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• People are too afraid of uptown. A lot of people will tell you, like, "Don't go to Harlem. You can never go there. 'Cause as soon as you get there, they kill you." That's what people think. As soon as you arrive in Harlem, someone just stabs you in the face right away. That's people's image of Harlem: just everyone standing around waiting for lost white people to kill all day. "Did you see any? I didn't either."

  Louis C. K.

  Funny, Thinking, White

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• I can't believe we got grades in gym class. I've never used anything I learned in there. "All right, I'm standing in front of a room full of strangers. Based on what I learned in gym class, I will throw a red ball at a fat guy."

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Believe, Class

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• When I'm standing in the middle of the salt flats, where you swear that the pupils of your eyes have turned white because of the searing heat that is rising from the desert, I think of my childhood, I think of my mother, my father, my grandparents; I think of the history that we hold there and it is beautiful to me. But it is both a blessing and a burden to be rooted in place. It's recognizing the pattern of things, almost feeling a place before you even see it. In Southern Utah, on the Colorado plateau where canyon walls rise upward like praying hands, that is a holy place to me.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Beautiful, Mother, Wall

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• Nothing is ever solved, or created, by standing still. Movement is the process of the Universe. So move. Do something. Anything. But do not stand still. Do not fence sit. Put your foot down on one side or the other, swing the opposite leg over and start walking. You'll know before you take ten steps if you're going in the right direction.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspiring, Moving, Swings

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Sep 23, 2012

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• If you do a fifteen hour day on a film, there's a lot of time standing around but at the end of that, you want to go home to your hotel room and have a bite to eat, watch a movie and go to bed.

  Colin Farrell

  Home, Bed, Watches

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• A 100 years from now the consequences for standing for Jesus will be greater than the consequences of not standing for Jesus today.

  Mike Huckabee

  Leadership, Christian, Jesus

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• Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Insperational, Where You Are, Position

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• Have you ever noticed a tree standing naked against the sky, How beautiful it is? All its branches are outlined, and in its nakedness There is a poem, there is a song. Every leaf is gone and it is waiting for the spring. When the spring comes, it again fills the tree with The music of many leaves, Which in due season fall and are blown away. And this is the way of life.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Beautiful, Song, Time

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “This Matter of Culture”

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• It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

  Francis Bacon

  Truth, Lying, Adventure

  Francis Bacon (2012). “Complete Essays”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• The sheer volume of evidence for survival after death is so immense that to ignore it is like standing at the foot of Mount Everest and insisting that you cannot see the mountain.

  Colin Wilson

  Science, Feet, Survival

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• I've always enjoyed sex scenes, though you're not really supposed to. The classic answer is, 'Oh, it's not sexy at all because there are so many technicians standing around.' But I've always found them extremely arousing.

  Hugh Grant

  Sexy, Answers, Classic

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• Hard work is about risk. It begins when you deal with the things that you'd rather not deal with: fear of failure, fear of standing out, fear of rejection. Hard work is about training yourself to leap over this barrier, tunnel under that barrier, drive through the other barrier. And after you've done that, to do it again the next day

  Seth

  Hard Work, Next Day, Tunnels

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• I changed my headlights the other day. I put in strobe lights instead! Now when I drive at night, it looks like everyone else is standing still.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Science, Technology

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• Standing up for what you believe in comes at a price but backing down exacts a toll that your soul never stops paying

  Lee Goldberg

  Believe, Soul, Tolls

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• If you attempt to talk with a dying man about sports or business, he is no longer interested.  He now sees other things as more important.  People who are dying recognize what we often forget, that we are standing on the brink of another world.

  William Law

  Sports, Men, People

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• It's only when movement becomes the most natural state in our lives that we can finally begin to enjoy the motion. And it's only when standing still becomes impossible that we can finally embrace the kinds of changes that are inevitable in our lives.
  We were not designed to stand still. If we were, we'd have at least three legs. We were designed to move. Our bodies are bodies that have walked across vast continents. Our bodies are bodies that have carried objects of art and war over great distances. We are no less mobile than our ancestors. We are athletes. We are warriors. We are human.

  John Bingham

  Art, War, Distance

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• The only thing that can possibly keep you from going after your dreams is the person standing in your shoes, wearing your clothes, and thinking your negative thoughts.

  Les Brown

  Dream, Thinking, Shoes

  Les Brown (1998). “It's Not Over Until You Win: How to Become the Person You Always Wanted to Be No Matter What the Obstacle”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes it’s just surreal out there, while you’re running a marathon. People just standing out in the cold, even the rain, cheering for you, blasting music for you. It’s an awesome show of camaraderie and community.

  John Roberts

  Running, Cheer, Rain

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• One of the principal rules of religion is, to lose no occasion of serving God. And, since he is invisible to our eyes, we are to serve him in our neighbour; which he receives as if done to himself in person, standing visibly before us.

  John Wesley

  Eye, Done, Invisible

  John Wesley (1872). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley: With the Last Corrections of the Author”, p.440

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