Top 1200 Standing Down Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

[O]ur War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.

I hate it. It looks like a stickup at 7-Eleven. Five guys standing there with their hands in the air.

Standing up for what you believe in and being honest, telling the truth are all very liberating things.

There weren't paparazzi standing outside. There weren't all these photographers. People really didn't know what fashion was and what was happening in the tents.

Being a celebrity made me so uncomfortable that I would have preferred standing behind the amplifiers.

I mean business about standing with President Trump to make America great again.

Maybe it's just the morning light, but he looks pretty cool standing there with his sword.

I never feel I'm standing on solid ground, and I do write with a certain kind of trembling fear.

If we look at history, we will see that regimes which persecute [their people] do not remain standing.

Each culture has its own characteristic manner of locomotion, sitting, standing, reclining, and gesturing.

you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece

The best thrill is standing on stage and playing - other than being married to my wife.

I firmly believe in standing by what you are. I was never taught to dim my light to pacify other people.

Peace is not weak. Standing up to a tank is harder than dropping a suicide bomb

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

I love standing under a steaming shower when I'm tired in the morning. I don't really get a chance for baths.

Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.

With the nation standing tall with the LGBT community, there is definitely a wave of change that we are finally witnessing.

For me, [John Wheeler] was the last Titan, the only physics superhero still standing.

Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.

Id be happiest standing at the back, strumming my little banjo where no one could see me.

But that is the only thing that slows me down is the system. No one, two or three was big enough to slow me down, only the system. It was the system that slowed me down to make my numbers fall. Not because I am older.

I poured out the torrent of my long-standing discontent and I challenged them to do and dare anything.

I'm very big on being an example for my peers when it comes to standing tall in your own light.

There was that feeling of standing on the podium and listening to someone else's national anthem that really sucked.

There are so many things that interest me more than standing on the stage of my own obsessions.

Spike Lee's been doing it for a long time now. We're all standing on his shoulders.

Standing facing the door in an elevator and pretending you're the only person there, no matter how crowded it is.

It is obvious that the best qualities in man must atrophy in a standing-room-only environment.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

Standing with the poor means walking away from unethical leaders, even when their companies are 'succeeding.'

When it comes to standing up for veterans, we cannot be the Republicans and Democrats, we have to be the red, white, and blue party.

It's entirely possible that there won't be a standing ovation at the end of your journey. That's okay. At least you lived.

It's reassuring to realize that everybody is as stupid as you are and that all we are doing when we are standing in the kitchen wondering what we came in here for is "woking.

You know you've reached middle age when your weightlifting consists merely of standing up.

Better to be the architect of something you can endorse than the placard waving protagonist standing in the rain.

I have spent the better part of my adult life standing up and fighting for working families.

Most men are petrified of standing out in any way or being thought superficial.

Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.

Every team is trying to be the last one standing and we've got goals and things we talk about.

You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.

At the age of two-and-a-half, I was run down by a truck. I had gone rogue in the house while my mother was bathing my sister. I went outside and met a friend who promised me candy. Afterward, I walked back by myself across the road where I fell down in the street. A 15-year-old boy delivering bread struck me down.

I'm nervous performing because it's such a weird thing to do, standing on stage demanding people's attention.

Standing out for being short is not actually a good thing as a model and it hasn't been a help.

Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.

Standing still is never a good option. Not in the ring, and not in life... When you stop moving, you're done.

I think everything that happens to you becomes a part of what you end up doing and being and standing for.

I'm just a simple man standing alone with my old brushes, asking God for inspiration.

I had always believed that standing with Ethiopia's most vulnerable was simply the right thing to do.

If crowds give you abuse, there's no point standing there and giving it them back; you just move on.

It becomes an emperor to die standing (i.e., "in harness"). [Lat., Decet imperatorem statem mori.]

I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world. May God have mercy on my soul.

A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

There's been a long-standing relationship between me and individual members of the Green Party.

I can think of a lot of things to do," he said, "and none of them involve standing up. - Al

When someone throws up while watching one of your movies, it's like a standing ovation.

Standing on a ledge again. Everyone laughs at dancing monkey with the typewriter. Not for long, though.

Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.

We can be walking witnesses and standing sermons to which objective onlookers can say a quiet amen.