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“Being ‘pro-life’ means standing up for all life, valuing all life.”
“I’m a believer. I’m one of the few standing before you today from a large financial services company that has not given up on digital currencies.”
“Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn’t get there.”
“All’s the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.”
“Conservative Justices have a history of not standing by their professed commitment to judicial restraint.”
“I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.”
“Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.”
“There’s so much standing around and waiting with moviemaking!”
“His unit is in charge of 5,000 homes, and they’ve only been able to search about 2 percent of them. People are standing on roofs or sticking their hands out of air vents so they can get rescued.”
“I want to thank the audience of both the Telugu speaking states for standing by me throughout my journey.”
“Before ‘Last Man Standing,’ I did a lot of indies, which were raw and controversial and much darker. That is where I feel most secure as a storyteller. That is what I am drawn to the most.”
“I like playwriting because it’s rooted in a single location with actors standing talking to each other.”
“I think if there aren’t Republicans standing up to Trump and showing America that he does not represent the Republican Party, then he has the potential to ruin the brand and turn it into toxic waste for generations.”
“Standing with a united India is Canada’s gateway to unprecedented human and economic development and an essential alliance for Canada to strengthen in the face of shared threats.”
“Standing athwart ineffective, feel-good legislation shouting, ‘Stop!’ is seen as a betrayal of those struggling to get their footing on the lowest rung of the economic ladder. Yet raising the minimum wage hacks the lowest rungs off the ladder altogether. But economic logic doesn’t wash with liberals who are intent on inflaming class warfare.”
“Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown… they are so stupid and do not notice that I am standing up straighter!”
“If we were in India now, there would be servants standing in the corners of this room and I wouldn’t notice them. That is what my society is like, that is what the divide is like.”
“I try to deign golf courses that are individual in character and individual in their own standing.”
“By now, everyone knows I do not just sing standing in the middle of the stage. I also dance and get others to dance with me.”
“But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist’s chair.”
“An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.”
“Apathy in general; people who are not standing up for what they believe in because somebody’s got a louder mouth than them; it doesn’t make any sense.”
“Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and hoping to catch that tiny hint of despair, that sliver of malice, that makes them think, ‘Aha, here is the story.’”
“I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.”
“Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.”
“I love standing on the pitch too much to focus on anything else – if I want to be a coach or something.”
“All on-set kisses are weird, no matter who it is, especially with people standing around coughing and sneezing. It’s very uncomfortable!”
“Enrichment happened to be my favorite time of day in the Children’s Zoo, since it offered relief from the security-guard-esque standing around that makes up most of a zookeeper’s day.”
“We are moderate, beautiful people, and we are the only thing left standing between Italy and the real extremists.”
“I see all the musicians in Blur with equal standing, really.”
“I have got two reasons for success and I’m standing on both of them.”
“There are two reasons why I’m in show business, and I’m standing on both of them.”
“Unlike Mitt Romney, President Obama is standing up for Planned Parenthood.”
“I was in line at a store and there was a little girl, she was standing in line next to me and some other girls had come up to me and recognized me from ‘Pretty Little Liars.’ When they walked away, this girl was staring at me, and her eyes got so big, and she started crying. It was, like, the cutest thing.”
“I’ve never seen somebody get more flak than Colin Kaepernick for silently and nonviolently protesting and standing up for something he believes, and something that obviously is an actual problem.”
“Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you would be perfectly comfortable.”
“What – of all the incredible duets that I’ve been able to sing, you know, John Raitt was still the one that I just shook in my boots just standing next to him. I loved him so much.”
“Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We’re standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.”
“I intend to be the president of all citizens of Macedonia, regardless of their ethnic or religious background, regardless of their political standing. I shall not allow ethnic hatred and intolerance to undermine Macedonia’s stability.”
“When you are suddenly standing in front of a bunch of journalists being asked what it’s like being a British Olympic legend, it’s a bit much to take in.”
“When it comes to trade, when it comes to standing up to countries like North Korea, when it comes to standing up to guys like Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump is not a conservative.”
“Everything Republicans once claimed to advocate – entitlement reform, free trade, standing up to dictators, encouraging the march of freedom around the world – turns out to be negotiable and reversible, depending on Donald Trump’s whims and the furies of his base.”
“I was about to walk on stage at the Kansas Speedway – I was playing a NASCAR race – and I said to Scooter Carusoe, who was standing side stage, ‘I want to write a song called ‘Wanna Be That Song.’ Then I put my earphones back in and walked right out on stage.”
“One of my favorite things about Tom Waits is not only his songs, but when he does do live shows, it’s the theatrics involved. It’s like Kabuki theater, really old-fashioned theatrics. Like, standing on top of a piece of plywood lying on some cinderblocks and clapping his hands, banging on a bucket.”
“I’ve covered tornadoes and other natural disasters. I wasn’t on the ground for Katrina. But as our helicopter descended toward Mexico Beach, I just saw an entire town gone. Leveled, with the exception of a condo still standing here and there.”
“I like the idea of love standing the test of time and circumstances.”
“It’s not enough to hit the notes. There is no point in the singers just standing there and sounding wonderful if they’re not connecting with the characters they are portraying.”
“If bin Laden is in fact publicly killed, then the US military will find itself standing around with its hands in its pockets, wondering what’s supposed to come next.”
“I was blown away by the standing ovation. I’ve had tributes before, sure, but I don’t retain that feeling, and I wasn’t prepared for it on Tuesday. But maybe you shouldn’t retain these things or you’d be on a permanent high.”
“Quite frankly, I don’t miss standing in the box or standing on the field playing.”
“The president has been more than willing to challenge the National Rifle Association, but that is like a Republican president standing up to labor unions – not a move that risks anything with his core supporters. Mr. Obama could show some real bravery by taking on Hollywood.”
“It’s mainly a few elite women who benefit greatly from standing with the forces that keep women down.”
“A double leg in MMA is completely different than what you would do in wrestling because the posture’s different. You’re standing upright as opposed to bent over; you’re slipping a punch as a opposed to grabbing a guy’s elbow and doing a traditional elbow pull or slide-by in wrestling.”
“I would largely attribute my identity – as it relates to music labels and corporate music giants – to Dave Chappelle and his relationship to and firm standing in Hollywood.”
“Standing up and teaching is grueling, but grueling fun.”
“When I started knocking on Highland doors in May 1983, two things struck me more than any other. First was the sheer depth of hostility towards the Tories in general. Second was the particular hostility towards Margaret Thatcher and her local ministerial spear-carrier, energy minister and incumbent MP of 13 years’ standing, Hamish Gray.”
“Luckily, I’m not a stand-up comedian, so I don’t get the fear of standing on stage in front of a dead audience: my humorous pieces have to make it past an editor before they get exposed to the public.”
“I can’t imagine voluntarily standing beside an F1 track in the rain, watching motorised wedges plastered in corporate decals zooming past at 500mph.”
“I’ve always had this thing where I can’t stop. I hate standing still.”
“In my case, vertical food was less about standing things up than layering things: more an attempt to gain texture by weaving things together.”
“I could do a standing back flip at 13.”
“I’ve yet to see an example of somebody standing up to Donald Trump and suggesting policy initiatives and him embracing them yet. It’s not happening at scale.”
“My standing gig in college was playing the El Chico patio on Murfreesboro Road. I got $100, tips, and free quesadillas.”
“Being an activist is about getting things done. It’s not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.”
“Thanos is an amoral philosopher. He’s not the Devil – although he does sometimes have the Devil standing next to him.”
“Radiative transfer calculations I can do standing on my head.”
“I’ve sort of made a reputation by high-stepping my way out of genre. As soon as somebody says, ‘He does this,’ I’m not standing there anymore.”
“On foreign policy, President Obama has kept our nation safe from terrorism and restored our standing in the world. When it comes to one of our closest allies – Israel – President Obama has been resolute.”
“The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.”
“You don’t break ground by doing the same thing over and over and over. That’s like standing in place. You have to risk to gain it all.”
“We have Donald Trump standing up as one of the greatest fear-mongers in this nation’s history. He’s trying to make us afraid of each other.”
“Ronald Reagan succeeded in bringing down the Iron Curtain by showing strength and resolutely standing up to the Soviet Union. President Trump needs to be similarly resolute towards Putin.”
“I’m not nervous standing with anyone.”
“Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.”
“When I was living on the street I would be standing out in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, leaning against my car and signing autographs and nobody had any idea that I was living in it.”
“This big part flies off on the floor. The other part goes like this and lands in my foot! Standing up! It’s standing in my foot! Right in the side of my foot. The flute glass. I think I’m like in one of my own pictures.”
“We need to start standing up for freedom and liberty.”
“I’m standing up for the American people.”
“I have a track record of going out and talking to my constituents and then standing up and representing them. That’s what people want.”
“Standing out as a writer today requires more than a bright idea and limpid prose. Authors need to become businesspeople as well.”
“Repenting and coming unto Christ through the covenants and ordinances of salvation are prerequisite to and a preparation for being sanctified by the reception of the Holy Ghost and standing spotless before God at the last day.”
“The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally during the past year that the crop has acquired a commercial standing far in excess of its previous status.”
“Bob Gates has unusual standing in the debate about the Obama administration’s foreign policy: He was defense secretary for both a hawkish President George W. Bush and a wary President Obama. He understood Bush’s desire to project power and Obama’s skepticism.”
“We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.”
“Billboard called my solo album, ‘Standing In The Spotlight,’ a great party album and even said that my raps put the Beastie Boys to shame.”
“And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing.”
“The thrill of standing on the stage and hearing the crowd, it’s the greatest feeling in the world. It’s a blessed feeling.”
“Standing up Global Services will accelerate our capabilities across all Boeing services and support areas – from our traditional parts, modifications, and upgrades business to strengthening our data analytics and information-based offerings.”
“I feel like I have been portrayed as if I was standing outside Cipriani hoping someone picks me as their plus-one.”
“We’re Americans. We shape our own future. Let’s start by standing up for President Barack Obama.”
“I always had a trunk full of good reviews. I’d get magnificent reviews, and I’d be standing out on the unemployment line!”
“My son now is 22 months old, he’s been playing since he was 12 months old and he gets standing ovations on the drums. He’s been with us since he was 10 weeks old, he’s been on the drums. He’s got blisters on his fingers before he can even talk.”
“Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country.”
“I am a celebrity, but I don’t want people standing outside my wedding venue.”
“Standing on the podium at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and receiving a gold medal was the crowning jewel in a successful gymnastics career and, most certainly, the confirmation that my parents’ sacrifices were not in vain.”
“Standing there and throwing, that’s what everyone likes to see.”
“You don’t get a standing ovation and get boos, by the way. They don’t go hand in hand.”
“Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.”
“I’m on stage where Rivers Cuomo from Weezer was standing? It’s kind of a mind trip.”
“I was just standing around and suddenly I was cast as an extra. I hated it because I was so shy.”
“You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own ‘acres of diamonds.’”
“That’s when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.”
“When armed people from Hamas and armed people from Fatah are standing opposite each other, there is more likely to be a confrontation amongst them.”
“The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.”
“When someone throws up while watching one of your movies, it’s like a standing ovation.”
“I’m no expert standing at a podium giving speeches. I share heartbeats. Compassion.”
“Architecture, by definition, is always standing still.”
“Men and women of high professional standing have been reduced to the status of vagrants.”
“I think my worst nightmare is standing up in front of a group of people.”
“Everyone messes up in relationships and has peaks and valleys in their personal lives. When I realized it wasn’t the end of the world and I would keep on standing, I knew it was going to be OK.”
“Standing up for what you believe in and being honest, telling the truth are all very liberating things.”
“It’s very strange – several years ago, I was in the running for the ‘Young Frankenstein’ musical. Kristin Chenoweth was going to do it, but then she backed out because she got ‘Pushing Daisies’ on TV, and then, the next day, I went in for my final-final audition, and I saw Megan Mullally standing there.”
“The Wall will be standing in 50 and even in 100 years, if the reasons for it are not removed.”
“The later it gets the more disturbed the city becomes. I go with Albert through the streets. Men are standing in groups at every corner. Rumours are flying. It is said that the military have already fired on a procession of demonstrating workers.”
“There is something about the name Berlin that evokes an image of men in hats and long coats standing under streetlamps on rainy nights.”
“Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.”
“The noise resembles the roar of heavy, distant surf. Standing on the stirring ice one can imagine it is disturbed by the breathing and tossing of a mighty giant below.”
“Pope Francis has aimed a blow at what the whole hierarchical system is built on: a graded system with the higher clergy in the skyboxes, the devoted religious in festival seating, as they say of the crowds at rock concerts, and, on the bottom, the laity in standing room only.”
“I’m one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. I’m just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play.”
“I’ve had all that you could ask for. The fat lady has sung, and there’s a standing ovation.”
“Conor McGregor is a tough competitor. He proved throughout the years in the UFC that he can fight standing up.”
“Thankfully, I have other skills than just standing there and looking cute.”
“I have no desire to be 60 years old and standing on the side of the pitch.”
“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”
“Britain can get far better results if it engages with Europe than standing on the sidelines and saying that Europe should change.”
“Everyone knows deep in their hearts that the drums are the coolest instrument, and that a band is only as good as its drummer. So I’m all for drum solos. I’m all for drummers hamming it up. I’m all for drummers standing up and kicking over the kit.”
“It’s our approach to treat each show like an arena show. We over-invest in production to make the stage look bigger, turning the show into an experience and not just somebody standing around with a microphone rapping.”
“Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy – in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it’s not government’s role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.”
“A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.”
“It matters whether women sit at the table. No one speaks up for you when you are standing outside with your nose pressed up against the glass. You cannot window-shop for power.”
“Somehow I’ve been able to keep standing and stay in my little corner and do my little stuff and I’m not particularly affected by trends or I’m not dying to make a 3D movie or anything like that. I’m just sort of happy to still be around.”
“Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.”
“Republicans are good at standing by their candidate.”
“The sport needs a personality, not a fighter. We’ve got plenty of great fighters in the sport, but no personalities. No one is standing for anything. The last personality we had was Mike Tyson. He stood for something. It wasn’t much, but he stood for something.”
“It’s an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing ‘art’ to defend their collapsing culture.”
“Rather than standing back and being left behind, we must make the most of the opportunities that a growing China presents to us here in Britain.”
“Blacks gave me a standing ovation when they put the cap and gown on me, and that was the proudest I’ve ever been.”
“Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside works by authors such as Joseph Conrad, Joyce Cary and Graham Greene as influences.”
“A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rather than someone who is bashing a plank and is spitting all over a microphone.”
“Youthful impatience obscures the endless potential for joy that’s standing right in front of you.”
“There is no standing still because time is moving forward.”
“Most of my career has been about standing on a stage performing music to an audience, and once the show is over, they go home and I go on to the next show.”
“It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.”
“What an elder sees sitting; the young can’t see standing.”
“The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.”
“Once I was standing in line to buy a telephone and Senator Wirth was in line with me. The next day the New York Times reported that we’d both purchased telephones and what price we’d paid!”
“There is no such thing as standing still.”
“I get standing ovations at meetings when I say Britain should be involved in human spaceflight. Unfortunately, that goal has been blocked by a handful of people in high office.”
“I was in Independence, Missouri when Johnson signed the Medicare bill, with Truman standing there. Truman had first proposed Medicare, but couldn’t get it through.”
“So many times I’ve wanted to crack up, standing there stiff while seven women are crawling round my toes fixing hems and the designer’s having a freak-out because the denim cuffs are crooked. I’m on the verge of hysteria.”
“To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature.”
“There are three fundamental poses of the human figure. One is standing. The other is seated, and the third is lying down… Of the three poses, the reclining figure gives the most freedom, compositionally and spatially.”
“If I’m jetlagging, and I’ve missed some meals, and it gets to that point in a movie that you’re supposed to cry, I’ll let my defences down from around my inherent standing level of cynicism, and I’ll cry.”
“The curious defiled past him, after squeezing the Presidential fingers into the room, and settled either on the sofa or chairs or remained standing for protracted observations.”
“Women standing up for each other is critically important.”
“The imperialists see extremists everywhere. It’s not that we are extremists. It’s that the world is waking up. It’s waking up all over, and people are standing up.”
“Some of my earliest memories are dancing in the kitchen, standing on my mom’s toes.”
“As the president of Kosovo, I am more concerned about the current situation with the employment standing at around 70 % of the population, which is young, with great potential, speaking many foreign languages and having wide expertise.”
“I have been parts of some films in the South where I didn’t expect certain shots to be shot in a certain way. I wasn’t experienced enough; I was very naive. I didn’t have the standing of an actor to say that I don’t want to do this shot.”
“I will never apologize for standing up against oppression and injustice in Israel or anywhere else.”
“I didn’t get an agent until after ‘Last Comic Standing’ – of course, getting on a show like that will get you attention.”
“There’s too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering.”
“We’re standing on the shoulders of so many people who have already broken down so many barriers.”
“Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.”
“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.”
“I say that I played a doorstop in Dune because I remember standing around a lot. I was down there for months.”
“Standing with the poor means walking away from unethical leaders, even when their companies are ‘succeeding.’”
“By facilitating a peace agreement and leading the reinvestment and reconstruction in Yemen, Saudi Arabia can turn around a failed state and bolster its standing as a global and regional leader.”
“Eternity: a moment standing still for ever.”
“I will never apologize for standing up for my fellow Teamsters and all American workers.”
“If you were the only suspect in a senseless bloodbath, would you be standing the the horror section?”
“I do know that I have always been one of life’s observers, always standing slightly on the outside, watching.”
“TV, it’s a director’s medium, and they wanna make it look interesting. To be rehearsing mostly for the sake of where you’re standing so they can do the lighting, that’s what I don’t like.”
“I don’t mind standing up for what I believe in.”
“When you sit there, and you sing the chorus – and then you look at each other, and everybody has the hair standing up on their arms – then everybody knows you’ve stumbled onto something.”
“By standing still, we’re making the things we don’t like about Obamacare even worse, forcing Missourians to bear all the costs of this law – and reap none of the benefits.”
“No matter what team you’re playing for, the ultimate goal is to be the last team standing.”
“It has its perks, being Mrs. Chancellor, and if I have to use it, by golly, I’ll use it. I’m through standing in lines at my age.”
“I can sleep anywhere. I can fall asleep standing up, literally anywhere.”
“If intelligent robots are our competitors and, to some extent, cerebrally alike – enough for us to discuss their ethical standing – why would they be above the law? Should they not contribute to our societies, too? And why would they be exempt from taxes?”
“No, the people standing before Christ and Pilate during the judgment scene do not condemn an entire race for the death of Christ anymore than the actions of Mussolini condemn all Italians, or the heinous crimes of Stalin condemn all Russians.”
“So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out.”
“For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?”
“Once all the power goes out, there will still be human beings standing together around a campfire, playing acoustic guitars.”
“Every time my name is called, I get so many cheers, standing ovations, and a lot of hands are being clapped.”
“I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia. But it’s not. It’s airplanes, hotel rooms, limousines, and armed guards standing outside rooms. I don’t get off on that part of it at all.”
“I don’t like doing stand-up, because I don’t like standing up.”
“I rage when Boris Johnson is more interested in sucking up to Donald Trump than standing up for British values of decency, equality and respect.”
“If crowds give you abuse, there’s no point standing there and giving it them back; you just move on.”
“I love that moment just before the curtain goes up, whether I’m sitting in the audience or standing backstage. It’s full of expectation. It’s a thrill that’s unequaled anywhere.”
“The crowd loves a record, and if they’re gonna be standing out there in crazy, blistering heat on the 4th of July, I mean, if they’re doing it, I may as well try and give them a record.”
“To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying ‘This is who I am’.”
“Without the Sisters of St. Joseph, I might not be standing here.”
“We need the quarterbacks. It’s a passing league and a quarterback-driven league. We need the Peyton Mannings in football uniforms out there playing – the Tom Bradys, the Drew Breeses, the Philip Riverses – we need those guys instead of them standing on the sideline.”
“I know many people within Anonymous; I was the keynote speaker at Defcon in Las Vegas and got a standing ovation.”
“The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.”
“The best thrill is standing on stage and playing – other than being married to my wife.”
“The commercial flight thing, it just gets a little weird when you’re standing in line and suddenly you’re not just a guy standing in line anymore – you become sort of ‘novelty boy.’”
“I’m so uncoordinated, I can’t really do that much, so my specialty is standing in one spot or holding on to something, like an exploding rocket or a jetski.”
“For me, a circuit might involve a warm-up, then one minute on the treadmill or the indoor bike followed by a series of 20-second efforts with burpees, tuck jumps, press-ups and standing rows. I might repeat that 3-4 times.”
“Standing around the grill is fine, but I like to have my friends come in and out of the house. Movement makes the party more exciting.”
“I think – I’m always interested in reaching people in different ways, not by – not by just standing on a – randomly on a subway platform.”
“Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery.”
“Acting is the most insecure profession in the world – you’re insecure if you’re successful, you’re insecure if you’re not. A tightrope walk without a net. It’s a miracle I’m still standing!”
“I was on Kanye’s Yeezus tour as a dancer, but really, I was a Vanessa Beecroft model. I was one of the three ‘dancers’ who couldn’t dance and was more of an accessory than an individual. Vanessa was pretty involved. Her style is about a lot of standing. It’s very simple but haunting.”
“I was standing on a ladder outside the Homestead juvenile immigrant detention center outside Miami, looking over the fence, and I saw children lined up like prisoners. They had been separated from their families and put in this private detention facility. It was horrible.”
“I’m good everywhere. I can defend the takedowns. I can get a guy down if I want them. I can keep it standing and strike. I can do it all.”
“Wherever you go at SXSW, there you are standing in line. Or watching other people stand in line.”
“You know, I was a community activist, so I’m used to standing out in front of an elected official’s office and protesting.”
“I knew I had more in me than just standing up and having my picture taken… Being in the studio, I have to have an opinion.”
“You have a choice: Support the woman standing next to you, or compete with her. But if you compete, you’re going to be miserable.”
“There is no such thing as ‘separation of church and state.’ Reporters continue to promote this fallacy and scare Christians out of standing up for their beliefs.”
“The Blair government has lowered the standing of politics and politicians in our country.”
“I was standing onstage last year, and I felt like I wanted to be somewhere else. No matter how many people were out there, it all just felt like a blank sheet of paper.”
“I used to go to the Hollywood YMCA when I first came here, and I was standing in front of the mirror doing curls, and I noticed this guy next to me also doing curls. He was grimacing a lot, and I noticed he had an underbite. I looked more closely and realized it was Bruce Springsteen.”
“There’s nothing like standing in a place and wanting nothing so much as to change but simply not being able to.”
“What we need is more money back in the hands of Americans of any economic standing and so raising taxes right now doesn’t make sense.”
“I’ve got to thank the city of El Paso for standing behind me.”
“I was bullied a lot, being a kid, so I feel like I’m standing out because I realize who I really am.”
“I’m very big on being an example for my peers when it comes to standing tall in your own light.”
“I am not going to say much about the film ‘Maidentrip,’ but I won’t be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.”
“I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It’s like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.”
“The Bible is full of dubious scientific impossibilities, from Jonah living inside a whale, to the sun standing still in the sky for Joshua.”
“Everybody has his place; everybody is equal. Treated equally, equal standing, equal rights and status.”
“I urge everyone – men, boys, women and girls – to join me in standing up for girls’ rights with Plan U.K.”
“I don’t like beating people on the head with the message. I don’t like standing on the soapbox.”
“One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. ‘Away with you’, I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot.”
“The curtains would open and it would be just her standing in some ludicrous pose, like Aphrodite.”
“When I heard I had gotten ‘Downton Abbey,’ I remember I was standing on a freezing cold street in Manchester where we were shooting the Manchester part of ‘West is West.’”
“I just keep fighting and try to be the last one standing.”
“I’ll stand for the anthem, I don’t have a problem standing for it.”
“I used to watch ‘Last Comic Standing’ with my mom before she passed. So when I got that red envelope, I was extremely emotional.”
“If you are gonna participate in a band, you’ve got to be a band member in good standing, and you’ve got to think about the needs of the whole.”
“We cannot afford to have a president who thinks he’s some sort of global community organizer standing over America on one side and our adversaries on the other. America must have a Commander in Chief. Not a global community organizer.”
“Bundesliga matches are always exciting – with low ticket prices, standing terraces means all matches are played before the highest average attendances of any professional football league and creates a thrilling and breathtaking atmosphere.”
“Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.”
“Women are standing up and leaning forward and asserting their power.”
“Chris Weidman is a tough guy; he’s well rounded. He’s known for being a wrestler. He’s very good on the ground. He can knock people out standing up.”
“I’d much rather be liked because people realize that I’m standing up for myself.”
“You can totally have a great little yoga routine in 20 minutes: 10 sun salutations and five or six standing poses and five minutes of stretching.”
“There is a standing joke in my family that I was born with a ladle in my hand.”
“Standing near the door, we dipped our fingers in the holy water, crossed and blessed ourselves, and proceeded up to the sleeping-room, in the usual order, two by two.”
“I’m never standing still and that makes my life pretty exciting.”
“We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.”
“On February 7, 2.2 million Haitians went to the polls and exercised their constitutional right to select a leader. They went by foot, by tap tap and other forms of transportation, traveling hours and standing in line for almost a day to get to their polling places.”
“I never eat standing up, I never eat in front of the refrigerator. I treat myself very formally with meals. I don’t watch TV or read. It’s a little bit of a ritual, and it’s more enjoyable.”
“I did a picture called ‘Lovely, Still’ with Ellen Burstyn, We screened it to the AARP people in Las Vegas, 2000 of them. We got a standing ovation from people who couldn’t stand.”
“Any actress will tell you, when you’ve been given a starring role in the initial run of a show, you want to be getting the standing ovations every night, not just on review night.”
“Once when I was standing at the base, they started rotating the set and a big, heavy wrench fell down from the 12 o’clock position of the set, and got buried in the ground a few feet from me. I could have been killed!”
“If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she’d still be standing.”
“Seven thirty in the morning is too early for a man of my standing.”
“I mean business about standing with President Trump to make America great again.”
“Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.”
“I walk into rooms and I don’t know why I’m there. I’m like, ‘Why am I standing in front of the toilet now?’”
“I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.”
“When judging a horoscope, it is of prime importance that we take into consideration the social and racial standing of the individual, for configurations which are of great significance in the horoscope of an educated Caucasian may mean little or nothing in the figure of a Chinese Coolie and vice versa.”
“I like parties, but I’m shy, and I often find myself standing around, feeling awkward.”
“Anyone who writes anything on any subject is standing on the shoulders of 900 people who’ve come before you.”
“The standing ovation threw me… to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.”
“Nothing ever sounds quite the way it does when you’re standing right in the middle of it.”
“We looked at each other standing on the podium, and I think we all were tearing up. But we had to keep it cool. I think we did. Then we let out a breath.”
“Years of standing in the limelight portraying other people for large amounts of money does not usually lead to a high degree of self-examination, let alone self-criticism.”
“My number one objective continues to be to defund or delay the implementation of Obamacare. But as long as any piece of this law is standing, it needs to apply to all Americans equally, and that includes members of Congress and our staff.”
“The Justice Department needs to investigate how Goldman Sachs was able to steer things in such a manner through their former employees in the Bush administration, so that in the end Goldman’s competitors have disappeared and Goldman is left standing.”
“My daughter is in the lawsuit because you need that for standing.”
“Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior standing.”
“You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.”
“My mother cooked her last Christmas standing rib roast in 1987 and died a few weeks afterward.”
“I think the thing that I admire about Rick Santorum is that he hasn’t backed down or apologized one bit for his personal religious views, for standing up for social conservative values.”
“I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.”
“Just standing around looking beautiful is so boring.”
“I don’t mind getting punched in the nose by a guy standing in front of me. It’s getting stabbed in the back that I can’t handle.”
“Unfortunately, instead of standing up to Iran, the Obama administration is giving in to the Iranians’ bizarre tantrums and illogical arguments.”
“For a variety of reasons, I believe, the time is right to resolve many of the long standing and thorny land use, recreation, and wilderness designation issues in Central Idaho.”
“I was genuinely frightened when I saw the Daleks. These ridiculous-looking things absolutely get to the core of you when you’re standing in front of one.”
“The fun part of being an entertainer is that you call up Six Flags, and you say, ‘I’m coming,’ and you get to get on all the rides before everyone. I hate standing in line.”
“I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to do as a writer, I suppose.”
“If you’re going to do Chuck Berry, you got to, you know, go all out, and the duck walk is just kind of you know, cursory. That’s like standing.”
“I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.”
“It was a wonderful experience working with Nagarjuna sir. I mean, I never expected this to happen. For me, who watched his films standing in a queue at theatres, and now sharing the screen with him is a huge thing.”
“I miss a lot of things; that’s the price one pays for stardom. I miss standing in queues, buying tickets, and watching films first day first show. It isn’t the same going to preview theatres or multiplexes and trying to stay incognito.”
“The use of violence in movies is a subject that’s worth addressing. I’m not standing on a soapbox or wagging a finger, but I’m interested in those subjects for sure.”
“Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it’s time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.”
“It is a standing source of astonishment and amusement to visitors that the British Museum has so few British things in it: that it is a museum about the world as seen from Britain rather than a history focused on these islands.”
“I’m not running after glamorous roles, honestly. I’m a performer and want to perform instead of standing like a mannequin wearing a lot of makeup.”
“The caricature of Islam as a violent and intolerant religion is horrendously incomplete. Remember that those standing up to Muslim fanatics are mostly Muslims.”
“I get criticized for a lot of what I write about, but as far as I’m concerned I’m actually standing up and having a look at what goes on in the minds of men, and I have the authority to talk about it because I’m a man.”
“I find standing and posing for photos very awkward.”
“The one certainly for anyone in the path of an avalanche is this: standing still is not an option.”
“Winners of wars get a standing start in the post-war stakes of remembrance.”
“Elizabeth Moss may very well be one of the best actresses I’ve had the privilege of standing opposite and sharing lines with.”
“Regarding the Panama Canal Treaty negotiations, they will find us standing up or dead, but never on our knees; NEVER!”
“The fellow who says he’ll meet you halfway usually thinks he’s standing on the dividing line.”
“I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith.”
“I think I felt pretty alienated, being bigger, being mixed race, being of lower socioeconomic standing.”
“Much of the hostility toward Putin stems from the fact that he not only defies the West when standing up for Russia’s interests, he often succeeds in his defiance and goes unpunished and unrepentant.”
“I’m still standing up there tall and strong every night that I perform.”
“I went to private school in Manhattan, and at a young age, they made us do public speaking. For some reason, I was good at standing in front of the class and speaking.”
“Aren’t we supposed to be standing for something instead of falling for everything?”
“There’s a difference between standing up and telling people what you’re planning to do and standing up and going and accomplishing something.”
“No human being is justified before God or has a right standing before God based upon his own virtue and merit. It is only by faith in the virtue and merit of Christ.”
“I quite like to, y’know, chill and catch a vibe where you can actually talk, as opposed to standing on the floor in the club.”
“I don’t expect to get a standing ovation from businessmen when I call for higher wages.”
“I was a halfway-decent-looking English boy who looked nice in a drawing-room standing by a piano.”
“Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Department is the last borrower left standing.”
“I’m on Twitter every single week. It’s sort of like being a playwright standing in the back of the theater.”
“When you get older, unless you’re a huge star, the parts become less and the competition becomes greater. Because the guys left standing are the best.”
“Sometimes you need to speak up about what you’re standing for.”
“Most millennials have no problem standing their ground when asked to do something that conflicts with their personal values.”
“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
“I was always drawn to standing up in front of people.”
“Standing up on the right to trial by jury is something that, really, a lot of people should agree with, you know, both on the Right and the Left.”
“A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.”
“President Obama believes getting along is more valuable than standing firm for U.S. interests.”
“Fundamentally, I believe that the U.S. can improve its international standing and its national security by expanding trade and strengthening its relationships with moderate Muslim countries.”
“Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth.”
“A lot of people don’t like to eat on camera, but I eat on camera all the time. I’m standing in for the viewer.”
“Isn’t that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?”
“I don’t think the Internet should be immune to the standing laws of countries.”
“A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.”
“Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors that they are ready to repeat their lessons as often as we please.”
“Palms are like cockroaches. They were here long before us, and they’ll be here long after us. They’re the only things standing after a hurricane.”
“Standing up to bullies is the hallmark of a civilized society.”
“There are a lot of westerns that deal with people standing up for their principles, and that is the predominant theme that has been in my films.”
“Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land.”
“There is technique to it-he is just standing there flexing his arm, and I am standing there making faces as if I am being choked. You keep your head in a certain angle for the camera.”
“By virtue of the standing and prestige of President Ben-Zvi, some 3,000 manuscripts originating from Arab lands, some of them of major significance, have been deposited at the Ben-Zvi Institute. In contrast to the Aleppo Codex, most of these documents were donated willingly, in the confidence that the institute would protect and preserve them.”
“Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.”
“Well, I wasn’t just kind of standing in a queue at McDonald’s and someone sat down and said, ‘You’re the director of a $100 million Hollywood movie.’ I’ve been working in commercials for ten years.”
“Obama hasn’t lost his standing because of tricks played by the Republicans. He hasn’t lost his standing because the media’s not fair to him. He hasn’t lost his standing or his approval number because the media spent four years attacking him like they did George W. Bush. This is all on him.”
“Most men are petrified of standing out in any way or being thought superficial.”
“The reality is that SXSW is packed with brilliant entrepreneurs, investors and partners. They’re everywhere, zipping back and forth like thousands of atoms. Your chances of colliding with one actually improve just by standing still.”
“On the House side, when Donald Trump came, he received multiple standing ovations.”
“I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.”
“Being an occupier is not good for anybody’s global standing. It is a catalyst for terrorist recruitment.”
“I don’t think there’s anything that defines WrestleMania more than Hulk Hogan and The Rock standing across from each other and the crowd going ballistic.”
“Standing up for national anthem doesn’t make you an Indian. Posting flags on social networks doesn’t make you an Indian.”
“When I started my program… there was a big clock in the corner and I looked and it said nine o’clock exactly. And it was funny, because when I was standing on the podium, it said exactly 10 p.m., and this whole hour had changed my life.”
“To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.”
“As CEO, I had a standing 30-minute meeting every Monday to greet and connect with new hires.”
“In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.”
“I feel like I’m on top of the world. Honestly, I feel like I’ve climbed a very giant mountain, and I’m just standing right on top with my arms wide open and breathing rarified air.”
“I’m nervous performing because it’s such a weird thing to do, standing on stage demanding people’s attention.”
“I’m pretty infamous for opening my garage and standing in the middle of it and sneering.”
“While the world goes against me, I do find some standing by my side always.”
“I learned by standing in the wings and watching established acts on stage.”
“Being part of a crowd and not standing out is way more frightening than being the person that stands out.”
“I had not yet gotten into the world of light. But I felt as one who, standing outside, could knock against the wall and hear an answering knock from within.”
“There’s no such thing as ‘facts of life’. Only standing theories that haven’t been disproved as of yet.”
“I watched ‘Holiday’ in college, and that was when I had my first fantasy of being Katharine Hepburn, standing at the top of the staircase in a huge Hollywood mansion.”
“When we first started playing shows, we were all 17. Everybody started somewhere. There were guys throwing shows in condemned houses and backyards just for the love of music and for the love of what bands were standing for.”
“Everything in life is about standing up and making the most of your opportunities.”
“Driver Shepherd and I had been detailed to drive Lt. Budden in the Wireless Truck. We had been standing by vehicles for an hour, and nothing had happened, but it happened frequently.”
“Sometimes standing up for things that are right makes things tougher.”
“I think being gay has resulted in gay characters standing front and center in all of my work.”
“My advice to actors? To successful actors, it’s, ‘sock it away,’ and unsuccessful actors, it’s just, ‘Just keep at it. Don’t do it unless you have to do it, and if you have to do it, keep – you’ve got to keep your instrument in shape.’ You just got to keep on getting better. If you’re not getting better, you’re standing still.”
“I don’t want to be 60 years old standing on stage telling some jokes. I want my life to mean something.”
“Anyone who thinks they stand apart from society and defies all which govern its existence has less in common with the lone wolf patriot standing up to dystopic forces of oppression – a myth – and more in common with the disease known as cancer – a harsh reality.”
“There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.”
“I’m not scared to go to the ground. I’ve been wrestling my whole life. I’ve done a lot of jiu jitsu, but I like standing up, and every fight starts there.”
“If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves.”
“Sometimes you pay a price for standing up.”
“As a woman standing up here, we have to fight for the rights of women.”
“Standing up to Ahmadinejad is not a partisan issue and should never be one.”
“The auto industry is standing today. The middle class is standing today. Ohio is standing today. America is standing strong today.”
“I had always believed that standing with Ethiopia’s most vulnerable was simply the right thing to do.”
“Living with Steve was like standing in a cyclone. Then we lost him. It was like the wind stopped.”
“Scars show toughness: that you’ve been through it, and you’re still standing.”
“Standing up for Israel at home validates those fundamental principles of freedom enshrined in our Constitution.”
“I sincerely believe… that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.”
“None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.”
“What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage of Europeans.”
“In TV, you always feel you are standing on the tracks of an oncoming train.”
“It becomes an emperor to die standing.”
“I don’t want to do Ghost as a normal, unmasked band standing around in, like, denim jackets. That was never the plan, regardless of whether people knew who I was or what size shoe I wear.”
“I’m standing for real freedom.”
“During World War II, law-abiding Japanese-American citizens were herded into remote internment camps, losing their jobs, businesses and social standing, while an all-Japanese-American division fought heroically in Europe.”
“When I was younger, I was emulating David Letterman. David Letterman would yell out of his office window with a megaphone, and the next thing I’m doing is standing on the roof of a parking garage with a megaphone.”
“Most stuff you can do standing on your head.”
“You got to be willing to be knocked out to win a fight. You got to be willing to get booed off the stage to get a standing ovation.”
“It’s embarrassing standing in front of the camera and getting your picture taken.”
“I get up in the morning. I usually do a radio interview early in the morning. I usually do a book signing, because I’m also a cookbook author, so I’m at some store, at a Walmart or a Williams Sonoma, for three hours, standing up, signing autographs, and taking pictures for three hours.”
“If I walk up to a bar, they wont see that I’m standing there.”
“Reforming PERA will strengthen and improve Colorado’s all-important long term standing with credit rating agencies.”
“I do believe in standing for something more than just a product.”
“People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.”
“The 90’s are the 60’s standing on their head.”
“A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.”
“I am a member of the rabble in good standing.”
“The heart of standing is you cannot fly.”
“A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling ‘Stop!’”
“There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.”
“I very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision.”
“Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments – a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.”
“I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.”
“The people standing up most strongly for our democracies should be celebrated, not prosecuted – be it those countless human rights defenders who defend all our rights or the brave whistle-blowers who expose tax dodging.”
“I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.”
“I don’t like standing and talking in front of lots of people.”
