Standing Quotes - Page 8

• Europe by the end of this century will be a continent after the neutron bomb. The grand buildings will still be standing, but the people who built them will be gone.

  Mark Steyn

  Europe, People, Liberty

  Mark Steyn (2006). “America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It”, p.3, Regnery Publishing

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• What I do know about physics is that to a man standing on the shore, time passes quicker than to a man on a boat - especially if the man on the boat is with his wife.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Time, Men

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• Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.

  Bill Moyers

  Country, Mean, Government

  Bill Moyers (2013). “Moyers on America: A Journalist and His Times”, p.71, The New Press

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• I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Government, America, President

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• I mean, in a way, Obama's standing above the country, above — above the world, he's sort of God.

  Evan Thomas

  Country, Mean, World

  "Newsweek's Evan Thomas: Obama Is 'Sort of God'". "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.newsbusters.org. June 5, 2009.

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• Am I in the picture? Am I getting in or out of it? I could be a ghost, an animal or a dead body, not just this girl standing on the corner?

  Francesca Woodman

  Girl, Animal, Body

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• What we need is more money back in the hands of Americans of any economic standing and so raising taxes right now doesnt make sense.

  Kevin Yoder

  Hands, Needs, Economic

  " Erin Burnett Outfront", www.cnn.com. December 9, 2011.

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• There was a man that hated his footprints and his shadow, so one day he thought that if he ran fast enough, his footprints and shadow would not be able to follow him and then he never ever had to look at them again. He ran and he ran as fast as he could, but the shadow and the footprints had no problems keeping up to him. And he ran even faster and all of a sudden he fell dead to the ground. But if he been standing still there hadn't been any footprints and if he had been resting under a tree his shadow had been swallowed of the trees shadow.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Men, Tree, Shadow

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• The aim was simple: to deprive Karpov of his favourite occupation - standing at the board, staring straight at his opponent. While I was wearing these glasses, all he could admire was his own reflection.

  Viktor Korchnoi

  Reflection, Simple, Glasses

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• There should be a new way to record standings in this league; one column for wins, one for losses and one for gifts.

  Gene Mauch

  Sports, Loss, Winning

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• Provide of thine own, to have all things at hand;
  Less work and the workman, unoccupied, stand.
  Make dry over-head both hovel and shack.
  Wash sheep (for the better) where water doth run;
  Let him go cleanly, and dry in the sun.
  Thy houses and and barns would be looked upon;
  And all things a[...]ed, ere harvest come on.
  At midsummer, down with the brambles and brakes;
  And after, abroad, with thy forks and thy rakes;
  Set movers a mowing, where meadow is grown;
  The longer now standing, the worse to be mown.

  Thomas Tusser

  Running, Hands, June

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• Your Marines having been under my command for nearly six months, I feel that I can give you a discriminating report as to their excellent standing with their brothers of the army and their general good conduct.

  John J. Pershing

  Brother, Marine, Army

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• But always and sometimes questioning the old modes
  And the new wondering, the poem, growing up through the floor,
  Standing tall in tubers, invading and smashing the ritual
  Parlor, demands to be met on its own terms now,
  Now that the preliminary negotiations are at last over.

  John Ashbery

  Life, Growing Up, Demand

  John Ashbery (1985). “A Wave: Poems”, p.79, Ardent Media

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• This all came of a conversation I had with [John] Steinbeck once when we were standing in a men's room somewhere. Steinbeck asked me why I didn't play the banjo any more and I told him that went out with the high-button shoes.

  Eddie Condon

  Men, Play, Shoes

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• You can call it nostalgia, I don't mind Standing on that windswept hillside Listening to the church bells chime Listen to the church bells chime In that magic time.

  Van Morrison

  Time, Church Bells, Magic

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• Climbing up on Solsbury Hill
  I could see the city light
  Wind was blowing, time stood still
  Eagle flew out of the night
  He was something to observe
  Came in close, I heard a voice
  Standing stretching every nerve
  I had to listen, had no choice

  Peter Gabriel

  Time, Night, Light

  Song: Solsbury Hill

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• What can be more soul shaking than peering through a 100-inch telescope at a distant galaxy, holding a 100-million-year-old fossil or a 500,000-year-old stone tool in one's hand, standing before the immense chasm of space and time that is the Grand Canyon, or listening to a scientist who gazed upon the face of the universe's creation and did not blink?

  Michael Shermer

  Spring, Space, Hands

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• Away back in that time-in 1492 - there was a man by the name of Columbus came from across the great ocean, and he discovered the country for the white man. . . . What did he find when he first arrived here? Did he find a white man standing on the continent then? . . . I stood here first, and Columbus first discovered me.

  Chitto Harjo

  Country, Time, Ocean

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• For some people, history is simply what your wife looks good standing in front of. It’s what’s cast in bronze, or framed in sepia tones, or acted out with wax dummies and period furniture. It takes place in glass bubbles filled with water and chunks of plastic snow; it’s stamped on souvenir pencils and summarized in reprint newspapers. History nowadays is recorded in memorabilia. If you can’t purchase a shopping bag that alludes to something, people won’t believe it ever happened.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Believe, Shopping, Glasses

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• Standing in the park, I was wondering why a frisbee looks larger the closer it gets...then it hit me

  Stewart Francis

  Looks, Parks, Wonder

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• There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women. These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion, give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves; it will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint, and it will fire them the more, and cause them to work for us with zeal, without knowing that they do so; for they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Mean, Men, Knowing

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• Confidence is the foundation for all business relations. The degree of confidence a man has in others, and the degree of confidence others have in him, determines a man's standing in the commercial and industrial world.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Confidence, Men, Foundation

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• We should lay aside every hindrance and endeavour by uniting the whole force and spirit of our people to raise again a great British nation standing up before all the world; for such a nation, rising in its ancient vigour, can even at this hour save civilization.

  Winston Churchill

  Civilization, People, Rising

  Anthony Eden, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill (1938*). “The Austrian Crisis and British Foreign Policy: Speeches by Anthony Eden, Neville Chamberlain, and Winston Churchill”

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• In the last 200 years the population of our planet has grown exponentially, at a rate of 1.9% per year. If it continued at this rate, with the population doubling every 40 years, by 2600 we would all be standing literally shoulder to shoulder.

  Stephen Hawking

  Years, Population, Lasts

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• The exile is a singular, whereas refugees tend to be thought of in the mass ... What is implied in these nuances of social standing is the respect we pay to choice. The exile appears to have made a decision, while the refugee is the very image of helplessness.

  Mary McCarthy

  Choices, Decision, Pay

  Mary McCarthy (1985). “Occasional prose”, Harcourt

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