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Standing Quotes (page 41)

Maybe that’s what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit to something, someone, no matter what obstacles or temptations stand in the way. And maybe making that choice, again and again, day in and day out, year after year, says more about love than never having a choice to make at all Emily Giffin
Largeness is a lifelong matter. You grow because you are not content not to. You are like a beaver that chews constantly because if it doesn't, it's teeth grow long and lock. You grow because you are a grower; you're large because you can't stand to be small. Wallace Stegner
I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it? "Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bull-fighters. Ernest Hemingway
Words - so innocent and powerless, as they are standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Che Guevara quote: "Better to die standing, than to live on your knees."
Better to die standing, than to live on your knees. Che Guevara
William Empson quote: "The heart of standing is that you cannot fly."
The heart of standing is that you cannot fly. William Empson
Finally, I found what seemed at the time to be a lid of some sort. Presuming it was a toilet seat (but not really caring one way or the other) I lifted it up, then dropped my shorts and began to piss. Ahhh...success. Then I stumbled back to bed and passed out. It wasn't until the next morning that I realized what had actually happened. I woke to the sight of Junior standing over my bed with a look of disgust on his face. "Hey, man. Did you pee in my suitcase? Dave Mustaine
I went, and knelt, and scooped my hand. As if to drink, into the brook, And a faint figure seemed to stand. Above me, with the bygone look. Thomas Hardy
Martha Graham quote: "Don't stand when you can sit; don't sit when you can lie down."
Don't stand when you can sit; don't sit when you can lie down. Martha Graham
No enthusiasm will ever stand the strain that Jesus Christ will put upon His worker, only one thing will, and that is a personal relationship to Himself which has gone through the mill of His spring-cleaning until there is only one purpose left--I am here for God to send me where He will. Oswald Chambers
You know, I think the main purpose of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps is to get poor Americans into clean, pressed, unpatched clothes, so rich Americans can stand to look at them. Kurt Vonnegut
He smoked a cigarette, standing in the dark and listening to her undress. She made sea sounds; something flapped like a sail; there was the creak of ropes; then he heard the wave-against-a-wharf smack of rubber on flesh. Her call for him to hurry was a sea-moan, and when he lay beside her, she heaved, tidal, moon-driven. Nathanael West
Walter Savage Landor quote: "Death stands above me, Whispering low I know not what into my..."
Death stands above me, Whispering low I know not what into my ear. Walter Savage Landor
When I was little I would always stand in front of a mirror and cross my eyes. Then my mother would come in and say, "Stop that, nothing will ever come of it! Carol Burnett
Though I was standing in front of a mirror, I wasn't really seeing my reflection. I was seeing, very clearly, that—at the moment—I was all in the world that Eric could think of as his own. I had better not fail him. Charlaine Harris

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