Top 1200 Standing Up Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I'm alive and I'm going to keep standing up for what I believe in. Once you get to that point, boy you are dangerous.

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

Everything in life is about standing up and making the most of your opportunities.

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

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

My family are so proud of me for standing up for marginalised people in nerd communities.

If you are going to be a leader, you must have a record where people saw you are standing up against injustice at a risk. Then that builds up your stock of credibility so that, when you speak on another occasion about a different thing, people will pay attention.

I prefer to leave standing up, like a well-mannered guest at a party.

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

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

That happy sense of purpose people have when standing up for a principle they haven't really been knocked down for yet.

She says you're not awake until you're actually out of bed and standing up.

I have grown up using Colgate; my long-standing association with the brand has been very warm.

Nothing is worse for me, as an actor, than when I walk on a set and the director goes, "Okay, you're going to be standing here, the other person is going to be standing here, and you're going to move to there and then do the scene." That doesn't help actors.

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

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.

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!

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

Don't you know I”m still standing better than I ever did. Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid. I'm still standing after all this time.

I am committed to standing up for the LGBTQ community and being a strong voice.

I have this very abstract idea in my head. I wouldn't even want to call it stand-up, because stand-up conjures in one's mind a comedian with a microphone standing onstage under a spotlight telling jokes to an audience. The direction I'm going in is eventually, you won't know if it's a joke or not.

There are few things in politics more annoying than the Right's utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word 'freedom' that when its leaders stand up for the rights of banks to be unregulated or capital gains to be untaxed, that it is actually and obviously standing up for human liberty, the noblest cause of them all.

You could say that by standing up to Russia, the U.S. is finally getting some balls.

Standing up for what's right is a huge burden to bear. It's normal to have some doubt.

I'd much rather be liked because people realize that I'm standing up for myself.

Here is something that Peach, one of the Casserole Queens, says about men and women and love. You know that scene in Romeo and Juliet, where Romeo is standing on the ground looking longingly at Juliet on the balcony above him? One of the most romantic moments in all of literary history? Peach says there's no way that Romeo was standing down there to profess his undying devotion. The truth, Peach says, is that Romeo was just trying to look up Juliet's skirt.

Standing on the apex of our planet is humbling. I'm starved of oxygen, depleted of reserves, unable to eat, and bound by anxiety. This is a dangerous place. Yet the symbolism of standing on top of the world gives me a chance to experience time on a cosmic scale.

Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without, you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any; standing within, every ray of light reveals a harmony of unspeakable splendors.

I dreamed you were standing in this dark place and you touched these dead flowers and they lit up like they were electric or something. Electric lilies. Lighting up the Valley.

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.'

Even so, I was proud of myself for taking action at all. I didn't hide or run away or pretend the ugliness didn't happen. I stood up and said something that was true. I said it out loud, and by doing so, I was standing up for lots of people, not just me.

I'm standing on a field full of landmines doing the moonwalk hoping i blow up in time

I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go.

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.

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

When I get up there, maybe I'm nervous for the first song, but then I get into it. It's a lot of fun to stand up there. I always enjoy the moment when I'm actually standing on stage. When I'm done, I'm like, 'Oh, I want to play one more song.'

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.

The best part about getting knocked down is standing back up knowing what you didn't before.

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

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.

Morality is standing by your friends, standing by people when it's not popular. It's sacrificing things on a big international stage, and sometimes it's sacrificing your basic comforts.

I'm onstage for an hour.I do an hour of stand-up. Actually, I do 10 minutes standing up and 50 minutes sitting in a chair. Oh, occasionally, I stand up again to do a dance or put over a song. But mostly I sit down. A great invention, sitting down.

If we hope to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only step from where we are standing. If we don't really know where we are standing... We may only go in circles.

Since I was a teenager I have been standing up to antisemitism, racism and discrimination in all its forms.

I'm a child of the '60s, so I love the fact that we are returning to a time when artists are standing up.

I will never apologize for standing up for my fellow Teamsters and all American workers.

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

We're Americans. We shape our own future. Let's start by standing up for President Barack Obama.

Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign are standing up and fighting the important fights that have to be fought.

Unlike Mitt Romney, President Obama is standing up for Planned Parenthood.

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

I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.

You know how we built the pyramids? You gotta ask yourself a question always flip the script. What if up was down and down was up? What if you looked down into space standing up on Earth? This is how we built the pyramids.

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

I will never apologize for standing up against oppression and injustice in Israel or anywhere else.

My older sister was into grime, so she got me into it. When I was ten, I begged her to take me to my first house party, where there were decks and a mic. I ended up falling asleep standing up in the corner.

My audience is often hands-up, standing and cheering and on tables and all of that kind of things.

That brick that you're standing on, that foundation that you're standing on, there's a brick in there that was placed by someone you never knew, sort of a faceless possibility, but you're there now. You have an opportunity to put your own brick in there. That's what it feels like we're doing with 'Hamilton'

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

Most of the day I work standing up, as I once read somewhere that it's the best position for the back.