Quotes of: Standing-up Keyword

I wrote the song 'Angels Standing By'... to try and soothe myself - rock myself to sleep, basically - because I was so scared and stressed.

Jewel

The old laws do not stand. Everything can be remade. Marriage does not mean marriage now

Philippa Gregory

There must be a reason why "stand" and "tall" are used together to indicate bravery: champions don't live in hiding.

Peter Ojo Opatewa

The outdoors, the beautiful environment, both in fresh and salt water. And the thing that concerns me is the amount of kids that stand on street corners, or go into pinball parlours, and call it recreation.

Rex Hunt

said, 'If I have seen further than others, it is because I've stood on the shoulders of giants.' These days we stand on each other's feet!

Richard Hamming

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

Randall Jarrell

I wanted to be that cranky old guy that stands on his porch and yells at the neighborhood kids.

Robert Lansing

Let’s form a committee tasked with exploring why committees are so ineffective. Then we’ll stand-back and watch it argue and self-destruct.

Ryan Lilly

You don't live in the past; you take a sledgehammer to it to see what stands so that you can build on it.

Samuel L. Drew

Even when we're standing at the scariest precipice ever, our soul still cries out for joy.

Sue Fitzmaurice

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

Stephen King

Define what your brand stands for, its core values and tone of voice, and then communicate consistently in those terms.

Simon Mainwaring

I guess the majority of people who want to ban certain musicians are the ones who are so proud of everything America stands for.

Stephen Malkmus

If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves.

Sugata Mitra

I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.

Salman Rushdie

If my clothing does stand out, then I guess it's a compliment, but I just wear whatever feels comfortable.

Shania Twain

I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.

Ty Cobb

I'm basically a know-it-all, and I'm writing a book about it. I want it to be called 'Danson on Water' and have me on the cover in this Christlike pose, standing on the water.

Ted Danson

...there was alienation in the standing consciousness that his squareness would not fit the round hole that had been prepared for him.

Thomas Hardy

I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.

Terry McMillan

My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity.

Tony Parsons