Quotes of: Standing-up Keyword

Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.

Fahrenheit 451

Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?

The Fountainhead

Sam and Caine were left standing side by side, bruised and battered, to stare over Penny's sickening corpse, at the face of their mother.

Fear

Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy

The real question is why you still believe in that invisible god when a true one stands before you?

Gods on the Mountain

Clones fit in. Freaks stand out. Ask me which one I prefer.

The Girl with No Shadow

A question is a door and an unopened door is just part of the wall and as long as it's standing it's doing its job.

Hemlock Grove

I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence.

The Hunger Games

There was nothing wrong with fire … as long as you didn’t stand too close. Something to keep in mind.

Hush, Hush

Were we women always destined to appear as we were not, as long as we were standing next to our husbands?

The Aviator's Wife

In life, if you stand for nothing...you will fall for anything! @BullyingBen @NMEACS

Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying

You stand for what is right, Lina, without the expectation of gratitude or reward.

Between Shades of Gray

Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man's highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.

The Blinding Knife

It's tricky. I've never been standing at the top of the tree with tons of money thrown at me. I've never really had a profile. So in a way I have this 'nothing to lose' attitude.

Joel Edgerton

I've spent a lot of time in L.A. and I love it. A lot of Brits can't stand the place, but I like the West Coast attitude and the way people celebrate success.

Sophia Myles

Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you're the one in the green dress.

Lois Wyse

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

T. S. Eliot

Well, I don't know. Home Alone, I was a lot younger and I was in every shot and it was a lot colder, so Home Alone was physically demanding but more like being able to stand for a long time.

Alex D. Linz

Home Alone was a lot and a lot and a lot of standing and sitting and walking and running and it was physically demanding but in this, I'm doing back flips and riding ostriches. It's physically demanding in a new way, so it's fun.

Alex D. Linz

'The Polar Express' began with the idea of a train standing alone in the woods. I asked myself, 'What if a boy gets on that train? Where does he go?'

Chris Van Allsburg

Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I'm a regular talking machine. It's all or nothing for me.

Celine Dion