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Standing Quotes (page 72)

Jodi Picoult quote: "Once the world was pulled out from beneath your feet, did you..."
Once the world was pulled out from beneath your feet, did you ever get to stand on firm ground again? Jodi Picoult
You have a life and there are these volumes on either side that go unvisited; some day soon as the world winds he will lie beneath what he now stands on, dead as those insects whose sound he no longer hears, and the grass will go on growing, wild and blind. John Updike
Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency? Marquis de Sade
... then I wanted to sick up the gluey pie I'd had before the start of the evening, But I couldn't stand the sort of veshch, sicking all over the floor, so I held it back. Anthony Burgess
Let me tell you something, Mari. The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from under you. And once that happens, you've had it: things'll never be the same. All you can do is go on, living alone down there in the darkness... Haruki Murakami
The note, which had been written on one of the pads I kept around for grocery lists, said, "My lover, I came in too close to dawn to wake you, though I was tempted. Your house is full of strange men. A fairy upstairs and a little child downstairs- but as long as there's not one in my lady's chamber, I can stand it". Charlaine Harris
John Keats quote: "--then on the shore. Of the wide world I stand alone, and..."
--then on the shore. Of the wide world I stand alone, and think. Till love and fame to nothingness do sink. John Keats
I'm so burned out, the only person I can stand is myself. I'm the only one I would put through this. Wheels and wings, The ride is everything. I'm all I've got. I'm all I can take. Another day has destroyed a part of me. So far so good. Henry Rollins
Margaret Atwood quote: "I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree."
I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree. Margaret Atwood
And you said we wouldn't make it. But look how far we've come. For so long my heart was breaking. But now we're standing strong. The things you say. They me fall harder each day. You're a trainwreck But I wouldn't love you if you changed Demi Lovato
There I go being critical again. Does a man have to stand on one foot and juggle for me to consider him entertaining? What am I looking for? A knight?...No, knights are all polished and shiny. I think my taste runs to something with a bit of tarnish and maybe a few scratches. Someone who can make me laugh and cry and make me angry and make my knees tremble when he touches me. Nora Roberts
Whenever a day comes when I can stand and preach God's Word without an agony of anxiety lest the people will not accept Christ; whenever a day comes when I can see men and women coming down the aisles without joy in my heart, I'll quit preaching. Billy Sunday
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn quote: "To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in..."
To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Gordon B. Hinckley quote: "A marvelous thing it would be to stand with confidence,..."
A marvelous thing it would be to stand with confidence, unafraid, unashamed, and unembarrassed in the presence of God. Gordon B. Hinckley
she makes me wash, they make me comb all to thunder; she won't let me sleep in the woodshed... the widder [widow] eats by a bell; she goes to bed by a bell; she wakes up by a bell-everything's so awful reg'lar a body can't stand it Mark Twain

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