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Where You Stand Quotes (page 3)

Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care. Paul Farmer
Stephen King quote: "The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that..."
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet. Stephen King
Morihei Ueshiba quote: "Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place..."
Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train. Morihei Ueshiba
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
Terry Prachett quote: "Good and bad is tricky," she said. "I ain't too certain about..."
Good and bad is tricky," she said. "I ain't too certain about where people stand. P'raps what matters is which way you face. Terry Prachett
America truly is the best idea for a country that anyone has ever come up with so far. Not only because we value democracy and the rights of the individual, but because we are always our own most effective voice of descent....We must never mistake disagreement between Americans on political or moral issues to be an indication of their level of patriotism. If you don't like what I say or don't agree with where I stand on certain issues, then good. I'm glad we're in America, and don't have to... Craig Ferguson
Graham Greene quote: "Rooms don't change, ornaments stand where you place them: only..."
Rooms don't change, ornaments stand where you place them: only the heart decays. Graham Greene
The strength I'm looking for isn't the type where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming from outside. What I want us the kind of strength to be able to absorb that kind of power, to stand up to it. The strength to quietly endure things - unfairness, misfortunes, sadness, mistakes, misunderstandings. Haruki Murakami
Neil Gaiman quote: "The view changes from where you are standing. Words can wound,..."
The view changes from where you are standing. Words can wound, and wounds can heal. All of these things are true. Neil Gaiman
Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands. This can only be by his preferring truth to his past apprehension of truth; and his alert acceptance of it, from whatever quarter; the intrepid conviction that his laws, his relations to society, his Christianity, his world may at any time be superseded and decease. Ralph Waldo Emerson
J. M. Coetzee quote: "There is no position outside of reason where you can stand and..."
There is no position outside of reason where you can stand and lecture about reason and pass judgment on reason. J. M. Coetzee
One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train. Morihei Ueshiba
You know what 'FEAR' stands for? It stands for 'False Evidence Appearing Real.' It's the darkroom where Satan develops his negatives. Gary Busey
Where is the line? We're taught to stand up for ourselves; we're taught to stand up for others we care about. But all of a sudden, there's a new line drawn by the law. You sit back, it says, and let us deal with this. Jodi Picoult
You guys just wait and see. We'll stand taller than these mountains. We'll bare open our hearts for the world to grab. We'll see lights where there was dimness. We'll testify together to what we have seen and felt. Life will go on--all of us--crawling; stumbling, falling perhaps. But we will be the strong ones. Our hearts will shine brightly. Doug Coupland

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