Top 1200 Standing Down Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

It's about time trees were good for something, instead of just standing there like jerks!

The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.

I'm not a natural leader. If you see me in a room, I'm the guy standing in a corner hiding. I'm not an alpha male.

I have changed my mind. You can help cook by standing in a corner and not touching anything. Do it carefully. -Nick to Jamie

Anyone who writes anything on any subject is standing on the shoulders of 900 people who've come before you.

I believe I am standing firm as a black woman in this industry in a time that it is hard as an artist period.

Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.

Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.

I think we have to show respect for the nation and standing up for the anthem should not cause discomfort to citizens.

I can jump on to a kitchen worktop from standing, like Tigger. It was something my dad could do, and I copied it from him.

I hope the feeling of standing up on the podium winning gold will never get old.

A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.

I think one of the reasons I'm standing here instead of other people is that, frankly, I talked about it, we have to have a strong military.

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 don't want it to appear that I'm standing up and saying I'm the expected one. That's a dangerous, ego-driven kind of thing.

Taking steps is easy Standing still is hard... Everything is different The second time around.

I was suddenly overwhelmed by what an incredible person this boy was, standing in front of me, and by the fact that he was mine and I was his.

The most enjoyable things are the old eighteenth-century terraces that are still standing, that domestic architecture.

Scientists do not join hands every Sunday and sing "Yes gravity is real! I know gravity is real! I will have faith! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down, down. Amen!" If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about the concept.

The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.

It was really strange to see all these apes standing around eating popcorn, smoking, wearing sunglasses.

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

I'm on Twitter every single week. It's sort of like being a playwright standing in the back of the theater.

Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.

If it seems like you can see farther than most people, it is because you're standing on shoulders of giants.

Standing still is never an option so long as inequities remain embedded in the very fabric of the culture.

I was not a tribalist when I had a long-standing and intimate relationship with Miss Bianca Onoh, an Igbo lady.

It's not a good idea to conceptualize a static relationship with long-standing policies, like health care.

But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.

My grandmother is the type of person, I'd be down playing cards in the park, and she'd take the dog and walk down to the park, like 10:30 or 11 at night. I was 12 years old. She'd come down yelling for me. I'd be embarrassed in front of my friends. She'd grab me by the hair on my head.

Local councils are hostile to large developers and think that, by doing this, they are standing up for the community. But they're wrong.

Experience has shown me that standing by oneself reading from one's book isn't especially compelling - unless you're David Sedaris.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

I sing the National Anthem, while I'm standing, over your body, hold you like a python.

I am very practical. It's not like I will fall in love with someone standing far away.

Nothing is as uplifting as standing before a great painting whether it was painted in 1505 or last Tuesday.

I feel like I've passed through a certain door in my life and that I'm standing in a different room now.

I'm standing here, holding a half a lemon in my hand. I'm speechless, I'm excited . . . I'm a wreck. Caleb wants to be where I am.

I was a maid, so cleaning toilets wasn't my favorite thing, but honestly, standing outside all day in the cold was worse.

I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.

I'm a big believer in the negligee, that nearly invisible screen standing between you and the object of your desire.

I respond, thoughts dropping away, like pebbles plopping one by one in water, sinking down, down into dark oblivion.

I want to thank the audience of both the Telugu speaking states for standing by me throughout my journey.

Wenger has won three Premier League titles, which is proof enough of his standing as a manager.

But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

I was a halfway-decent-looking English boy who looked nice in a drawing-room standing by a piano.

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

The Pakistan Cricket Board is a long-standing joke, its chairmen replaced with every change of government.

The standing ovation threw me. ... To be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.

Standing in support of children is something we should all be able to get behind, regardless of party affiliation.

We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still.

So, while fitting in, she was like a wicked detail standing out against a placid background.

It's great to see women standing up in their own line of work and fighting for fair value.

Conor McGregor is a tough competitor. He proved throughout the years in the UFC that he can fight standing up.

A homeless man standing at the off-ramp: the question in these moments isn't whether Jesus is in Him, but in me.

Being your own person and standing for what you believe is a critical aspect of a good professional life.

The people we keep standing in the anteroom of our favor either start fermenting or turn sour.

I like playwriting because it's rooted in a single location with actors standing talking to each other.

The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.

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.