Standing Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• 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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• You guys are just standing up because I fell, and it's so embarrassing.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Life, Guy, Embarrassing

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Threats to our standing in the eyes of others are remarkably potent biologically, almost as powerful as those to our very survival.

  Daniel Goleman

  Powerful, Eye, Survival

  "Powering Employees With More Than a Paycheck" by Tony Schwartz, www.businessinsider.com. November 11, 2013.

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• It takes a lot of weapons to do good works (as Richard the Lionhearted could have told us). And this is not just a Somali problem. We have poverty and deprivation in our own country. Try standing unarmed on a street corner in Compton handing out twenty-dollar bills and see how long you last.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Country, Long, Trying

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.86, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I received the most fantastic welcome to the Broadway Theatre community. I walked on stage to tremendous applause and a long standing ovation, wondering when I was ever going to be able to say my first line!

  Elaine Paige

  Broadway Theatre, Long, Community

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• Now, we are seeing many of these same companies face the truth about their financial standing. Congress is faced with the challenge of reforming our accounting industry and holding corporate executives responsible for their actions.

  Bennie Thompson

  Business, Challenges, Faces

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• I was the greenest rookie that ever was. One evening I was standing out on the sidewalk when a stranger approached and said, 'You're famous already kid. See, they've named a hotel for you.' I looked across the street and sure enough, there was a big illuminated sign that read 'Johnson Hotel.' Well, do you know that I was so green that I actually believed the man!

  Walter Johnson

  Kids, Men, Rookies

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• It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns, standing as they do on the vantage ground of former discoveries and uniting all the fruits of the experience of their forefathers, with their own actual observation, may be admitted to enjoy a more enlarged and comprehensive view of things than the ancients themselves.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Knowledge, Dwarves, Discovery

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.203

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• A tidal wave of support for medicinal marijuana has begun in the western United States; the future of many federal officials depends, in large part, on whether they ride that wave into the future or, standing in the way, are rendered irrelevant by the voters.

  John Vasconcellos

  Marijuana, Support, United States

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• As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a den; and I laid me down in that place to sleep: and as I slept I dreamed a dream. I dreamed, and behold I saw a man clothed with rags, standing in a certain place, with his face from his own house, a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back. I looked, and saw him open the book, and read therein; and as he read, he wept and trembled: and not being able longer to contain, he brake out with a lamentable cry; saying, 'What shall I do?'

  John Bunyan

  Dream, Book, Sleep

  John Bunyan (1813). “The Pilgrim's Progress, from this World, to that which is to Come ... with Notes, Interesting Memoirs of the Author, Character of the Pilgrim's Progress, and a Key to the Whole Work ... by Various Eminent Men”, p.1

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• In the spiritual world there are no time divisions such as the past, present and future; for they have contracted themselves into a single moment of the present where life quivers in its true sense. The past and the future are both rolled up in this present moment of illumination, and this present moment is not something standing still with all its contents, for it ceaselessly moves on.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Spiritual, Single Mom, Moving

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• But the safety of the world, in some sense, depends on your saying no to inhumane ideas. Standing up for one's own integrity makes you no friends. It is costly. Yet defiance of the mob, in the service of that which is right, is one of the highest expressions of courage I know.

  Gabrielle Giffords

  Integrity, Expression, Ideas

  Commencement address at Scripps College, Claremont, California, 2009.

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• Since coming back from Iraq, there's been so many triumphs and obstacles standing in my way, so whenever I set my mind to something, I definitely just go full blast at it.

  Jessica Lynch

  Iraq, Mind, Triumph

  "Jessica Lynch: One Iraq war veteran's unique perspective" by Susan Candiotti, Ross Levitt, www.cnn.com. December 19, 2011.

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• Unless you see yourself standing there with the shrieking crowd, full of hostility and hatred for the holy and innocent Lamb of God, you don’t really understand the nature and depth of your sin or the necessity of the cross.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Hatred, Depth, Lambs

  C.J. Mahaney (2011). “Christ Our Mediator: Finding Passion at the Cross”, p.66, Multnomah

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• To be honest with you, I walked into media day (in February at Daytona), and there were two people standing in line to conduct interviews, so from day one of this year, everybody’s kind of written us off.

  Kevin Harvick

  Media, Years, Two

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