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Standing Quotes (page 30)

You stand on dead men's legs. You've never had any of your own. You couldn't walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly Jack London
A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved? I do not expect the house to fall? but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. Abraham Lincoln
Much as I hate to stand out in a crowd, I have this terrible occasional compulsion to make myself a source of merriment for the world, and I had come close to sealing new heights with a Russian hat. Now, clearly, that would be unnecessary. Bill Bryson
I've got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me, because I don't want them to be empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones; I'd rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny? a thousand things, before 'thin'. And frankly, I'd rather they didn't give a gust of stinking chihuahua flatulence whether the woman standing next to them has fleshier knees than they do. Let my girls be Hermiones,... J. K. Rowling
Ella Wheeler Wilcox quote: "Why, even Death stands still and waits an hour for such a will."
Why, even Death stands still and waits an hour for such a will. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Nelson Mandela quote: "Where you stand depends on where you sit."
Where you stand depends on where you sit. Nelson Mandela
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest... Robert Kennedy
I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it. Arthur Schopenhauer
I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen. Elizabeth Gilbert
Why, when people are leaving their partners because they're having an affair with someone else, do they think it will seem better to pretend there is no one else involved? Do they think it will be less hurtful for their partners to think they just walked out because they couldn't stand them any more and then had the good fortune to meet some tall Omar Sharif-figure with a gentleman's handbag two weeks afterwards while the ex-partner is spending his evenings bursting into tears at the sight of... Helen Fielding
Rabindranath Tagore quote: "When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my..."
When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing. Rabindranath Tagore
I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively instead of skeptically and dictatorially. E. B. White
Come senators, congressmen. Please heed the call. Don't stand in the doorway. Don't block up the hall. For he that gets hurt. Will be he who has stalled. There's a battle outside ragin'.It'll soon shake your windows. And rattle your walls. For the times they are a-changin'. Bob Dylan
It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting "Cathy" and banging your head against a tree. Helen Fielding
George Bernard Shaw quote: "Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven."
Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven. George Bernard Shaw

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