Standing Quotes - Page 6

• By long-standing tradition, I take this opportunity to savage other
  designers in the thin disguise of good, clean fun.

  P. J. Plauger

  Fun, Opportunity, Long

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• When less than four years old I was standing with my nurse, Mary Ward, watching the shadows on the wall from branches of an elm behind which the moon had risen. I have never forgot those shadows and am often trying to paint them.

  Samuel Palmer

  Wall, Moon, Years

  "The Life and Letters of Samuel Palmer, Painter and Etcher". Book by Alfred H. Palmer, London, 1892.

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• This thing I am feeling, I’m almost certain, is the closest I’ll ever come to standing somewhere in between truth and reconciliation.

  Raquel Cepeda

  Feelings, Certain, Closest

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.269, Simon and Schuster

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• I like parties, but I'm shy, and I often find myself standing around, feeling awkward.

  Michael Bergin

  Party, Awkward, Feelings

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• ...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic, especially in its early stages, is in danger of evaporating into airy nothingness, degenerating, as the Germans say, into an arachnoid film, spun from the stuff that dreams are made of. There is no such danger for pure mathematics; for that is precisely what mathematics ought to be.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Dream, Math, Science

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1931). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”

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• If I fall, look out for the crash. There won't be anyone left standing.

  Evita Peron

  Fall, Looks, Crash

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• I said, yes, if you think I will avoid bloodshed by standing aside I will stand aside … but I will never ever again come back.

  Kamisese Mara

  Thinking, Bloodshed, Said

  Interview conducted in 2001, broadcast on Fijian television, April 29, 2004.

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• I am completely honest and truthful when I say I don’t want a gold for myself. I want a gold for the team. You go up there and do it as a collective group and it’s so much more satisfying, I mean you look around and you see the faces and just wow, this was a team effort and we did this together. It’s incredible and that’s my dream. I wanna win a gold medal and see the flag go up, hear the national anthem and just know that I did it with my brothers standing next to me.

  Jonathan Horton

  Dream, Brother, Team

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• How do you plan a rebirth? I'm not sure you do. You just stand in the darkness until you can't endure it any long, and then you move forward until you're standing in the light.

  Questlove

  Moving, Light, Long

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• I don't want it to appear that I'm standing up and saying I'm the expected one. That's a dangerous, ego-driven kind of thing.

  Kathleen McGowan

  Ego, Want, Kind

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• Everything is funny from some angle, I assure you it is. It's just a matter of where you're standing.

  Charlie Fletcher

  Matter, Angle

  Charlie Fletcher (2011). “Stoneheart”, p.156, Hachette UK

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• A sign of the times: there are no longer any chairs in the bookshops along the embankments. [Noël] France was the last bookseller who provided chairs where you could sit down and chat and waste a little time between sales. Nowadays books are bought standing. A request for a book and the naming of the price: that is the sort of transaction to which the all-devouring activity of modern trade has reduced bookselling, which used to be a matter for dawdling, idling, and chatty, friendly browsing.

  Jules de Goncourt

  Book, Friendly, Littles

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• The people in your life are like the pillars on your porch.
  Sometimes they hold you up, and sometimes they lean on you.
  Sometimes it's enough to know they are standing by.

  Merle Shain

  People, Pillars, Sometimes

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• Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong passions, or with very vigorous faculties.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Strong, Passion, Army

  Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Janet Todd (1989). “The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft”, NYU Press

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• I think when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you throw a grenade in exactly the spot you were standing in, and jump, and pray. It is the momentum of last resort.

  Renata Adler

  Life, Thinking, Long

  Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.29, New York Review of Books

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• I feel that racial profiling may be a very complicated and long-standing problem. It will take a long time even to make tiny progress.

  Wen Ho Lee

  Long, Progress, May

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• An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.

  Austin O'Malley

  Thinking, Pacing, Englishmen

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• I didn't go to bookshops to buy. That's a little bourgeois. I went because they were civilized places. It made me happy there were people who sat down and wrote and wrote and wrote and there were other people who devoted their lives to making those words into books. It was lovely. Like standing in the middle of civilization.

  Jerry Pinto

  Book, Civilization, People

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• All I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Presidential, Today, Given

  Address before Joint Session of Congress, 27 Nov. 1963

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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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• I just remember standing there, singing with the headphones on and the strings playing, just how wonderful that felt. But we so rarely got to go out and do it. Obviously, we don't carry a 70-80-piece orchestra with us when we do shows.

  Ricky Skaggs

  Singing, Pieces, Orchestra

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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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• 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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