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Stands Quotes (page 92)

Haruki Murakami quote: "The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something..."
The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from under you. Haruki Murakami
This layers, like some kind of transparent sponge kind of thing, stands there between Eri Asai and me, and the words that come out of my mouth have to pass through it, and when that happens, the sponge sucks almost all the nutrients right out of them. Haruki Murakami
Jane Austen quote: "Come Darcy,' said he. 'I must have you dance. I hate to see..."
Come Darcy,' said he. 'I must have you dance. I hate to see you standing around by yourself in this stupid manner. Jane Austen
I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the... Ernest Hemingway
When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, I reach my end, for artless I surrendered to one who is my undoing and my end. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps..."
The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen. Fyodor Dostoevsky
When I ate vanilla frosting straight from the can, I could feel God standing right nest to me like a real best friend, watching, and smiling, and wishing he had a mouth. Augusten Burroughs
The culture doesn't encourage you to think about such things until you're about to die. We're so wrapped up with egostical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks. We're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going . So we don't get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing? Morrie Schwartz
It was Begbie who ensured he could never return. He had done what he wanted to do. He could now never go back to Leith, to Edinburgh, even to Scotland, ever again. There, he could not be anything other than he was. Now, free from them all, for good, he could be what he wanted to be. He'd stand or fall alone. This thought both terrified and excited him as he contemplated life in Amsterdam. Irvine Welsh
George S. Patton quote: "A man is not measured by how much he can take and stand but by..."
A man is not measured by how much he can take and stand but by how fast he regains once fallen. George S. Patton
We have hands; we can stand on them if we want to. That's our privilege. That's the joy of a mortal body. And that's why God needs us. Because God loves to feel things through our hands. Elizabeth Gilbert
Tush! Fear not, my lord, we will not stand to prate; Talkers are no good doers: be assured. We come to use our hands and not our tongues. William Shakespeare
If I have seen far less than others," Galileo complained, "it is because I was standing on the shoulders of dwarves." (from Galileo's Dream) Kim Stanley Robinson
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word crisis. One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity. Richard M. Nixon
Esther Forbes quote: "We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skill...we..."
We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skill...we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up. Esther Forbes

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