Top 1200 Standing Down Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The most enduring legacy of President Barack Obama is going to be a new generation of leaders standing up for liberty.

When I went to Standing Rock, it opened my mind, as did going to Indian reservations and speaking to kids about music and arts.

If you want to raise a man from mud and filth, do not think it is enough to stay on top and reach a helping hand down to him. You must go all the way down yourself, down into mud and filth. Then take hold of him with strong hands and pull him and yourself out into the light.

Standing up for yourself doesn't always involve verbal confrontation. Sometimes it's about not wasting energy on people who are negative.

Elizabeth Moss may very well be one of the best actresses I've had the privilege of standing opposite and sharing lines with.

Think of it like running down a slope. If you attempt to slow down and choose your steps, you’re bound to trip up and stumble.

I don't think I could keep my position as a well-standing man in the world if I thought there were roles for men and women.

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?

So I place my heart under lock and key, to take some time to look after me. But when I turn around you're standing there.

I am my parents' daughter, and I always want to be. But I first wanted to make sure that I was standing on my own two feet.

Anyone who assumes that this country is standing still is not a good American, or rather, he is an apathetic and dead one and makes no contribution to the society.

You do not need to let anything get you down, but if you are down you certainly need not let anything keep you down.

If you are a gay couple living in Alabama, you know one thing: your family has no standing under the law; and it can and will be violated by strangers.

Baptists never make love standing up. They're afraid someone might see them and think they're dancing.

I played Winnie the Pooh in first grade. I was an early adopter of standing in front of people and looking like an idiot.

Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property, according to standing laws.

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.

I have reached a point in my life where I understand the pain and the challenges; and my attitude is one of standing up with open arms to meet them all.

When I got my knee replacement and I opened my eyes straight outta surgery, the first person standing there was Guru's son.

My thing is just cut down the easy baskets. Cut down the easy baskets, and cut down the other guys that are going to score.

Innovation is very important to me, especially professionally. The alternative, standing pat, leads to complacency, rigidity and eventually failure.

Brother, do you know a nicer occupation, Matter of fact, neither do I, Than standing on the corner Watching all the girls go by?

Old New York City is a friendly old town From Washington Heights to Harlem on down There's a-mighty many people all millin' all around They'll kick you when you're up and knock you when you're down It's hard times in the city Livin' down in New York town

He'd been let down so often His brow was on the floor But then they found A small hole in the ground And let him down some more

I've done a lot of fighting in my time, and I'm down to do some more. I don't want to, but you know, there's just certain things that you can't sit down and take.

I'm not trying to take New York by storm. I just want to sneak in there, keep my head down, batten down the hatches and cook.

The beliefs which we have most warrant for, have no safeguard to rest on, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded.

I'm not supposed to know what's going on. But I can tell you this, I won't be standing around scratching my head like Coach Johnson in that Denorex commercial.

I hope that I'm not the type of person who, standing at the doorway to hell, strikes a heroic pose and then starts frowning with indecision.

I look forward to standing up and holding George Bush accountable for pushing seniors off of Medicare into HMOs.

You need to have good people: honourable, capable, committed in politics, standing in public office. It's not a guarantee, but it's the ideal we have to aim for.

Let everyone who makes garden plans frequently insert the letters C.P. in them as a reminder, the same standing for climate permitting.

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.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

It's just a dream come true. I can't believe I'm standing here with a Miami Heat hat on, walking across the stage. It's a blessing.

You don't put out music unless you have a sense that people will maybe like what you're doing or you're standing for something artistically.

We have a long-standing tradition in this country to follow the advice of Senator Vandenberg, which is that politics ends at the water's edge.

Self-discipline leads to higher spiritual states only if practiced with under- standing. The clearer the goal, the greater the result.

Sculptured figures which appear in motion, will, in their standing position, actually look as if they were falling forward.

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.

A thunderous boo is one thousand times stronger, nobler, and more powerful than a standing ovation. Admiration corrupts.

One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus a standing rebuke to them.

You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.

Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid.

I try to build up people, not break them down, and in politics, it seems now the game is breaking down your opponents.

The main thing I look at is: Is it from the heart? If I know that you down with me, then we always gonna be down through whatever the thick and thin.

I'm very upset that the Supreme Court ruled that citizens don't have standing to challenge the faith based initiatives on constitutional grounds.

And even though I'm standing in the middle of the biggest crowd I've ever seen in my life, I suddenly feel very alone.

The good news is we have the technology and the tools to alleviate poverty on a global scale. All that is standing in our way is education and will.

Marriage is a unique cultural relationship that has a long-standing tradition and societal meaning, which should not be redefined by the courts.

Some people have come to admire Stephen Harper's style because he's standing at the top of the pyramid - that's not leadership to me.

Cicero's words also increased my personal satisfaction by supporting my long-standing rejection of a conventional point of view.

I thought, I fanced, that in a moment, I would be standing on nothing at all, and for the first time in my life, I needed the wings none of us has.

By long-standing tradition, I take this opportunity to savage other designers in the thin disguise of good, clean fun.

When soulmates come and go, you're never alone, even when you're standing just you and your shoes, because you carry them with you.

I want to go down as a champion who redeemed himself, made up for letting everyone down and regained his self-respect.

I can draw pencil lines to show something is moving, but if I'm writing, I struggle with how to write it. The boy ran down the hallway? The boy ran quickly down the hallway? The boy ran down the marble hallway? I agonize over the words. So my editor works very hard. I'm lucky to have her.

The same president who has insisted that core moralism drives him has brought America to its lowest moral standing in history.

Historical fiction is not only a respectable literary form; it is a standing reminder of the fact that history is about human beings.

Columbus was the first to come to the east. Vikings don't count, and neither do all the people who were standing on the beaches and waving when he got here.