Standing Quotes (page 33)

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• fighting
• soldier
• them

While soldiers can stand and fight. I can fight and feed them Clara Barton

• losing
• lose
• wanted

The more you want, the more you stand to lose Aesop

• queen
• thinking
• world

I must passed the crest a while ago. And now I am going down. Strange to have crossed the crest and not to know, But the brambles were always catching the hem of my gown. And the morning I thought how proud I should be. To stand there straight as a queen, Wrapped in the wind and the sun with the world under me. But the air was dull; there was little I could have seen. It was nearly level along the beaten track. And the brambles caught in my gown. But it's no use now to think of turning back,... Sara Teasdale

• believe
• humiliation
• believed

I stand up for what I believe. I don't know if it's always paid off for me, because I've been ridiculed and humiliated. Kevin Costner

• believe
• fall
• manly

Imagine a man who stands before a mirror; a stone strikes it, and it falls to ruin all in an instant. And the man learns that he is himself, and not the mirrored man he had believed himself to be. Gene Wolfe

• manly
• throws
• who

1a) Never throw shit at an armed man.1b) Never stand next to someone who is throwing shit at an armed man. Larry Niven

• common
• common sense
• game

Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. Common sense is the little man in a grey suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always someone else's money he's adding up. Raymond Chandler

• communication
• justice
• different

If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice, have recognition for difference without attaching difference to privilege. Bell Hooks

• growing up
• girls
• country

Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't stand still, not even in the quietest of country towns; and they have to grow up, whether they will or no. That is what their elders are always forgetting. Willa Cather

• night
• sleep
• men

We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us. Winston Churchill

• moving
• giving
• world

Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world. Archimedes

• time
• french
• angel

To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French. Mark Twain

• water
• end
• feeling

Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does. Margaret Atwood

• personality
• book
• personal

Will there ever be an encyclopedia? Possibly. I would say two things about the encyclopedia: firstly, I’ve always said and I stand by it, whenever I do do a printed encyclopedia I would like all the proceeds to go to charity. Back in 1998 I never dreamt I personally I would be in the position that I could set up a large charitable foundation and personally do things for charity, and I’ve done other charity books already. J. K. Rowling

• life
• die
• castes

I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die. William Shakespeare