Quotes of: Standing-up Keyword

Formal education teaches how to stand, but to see the rainbow you must come out and walk many steps on your own.

Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

For Trisha The truth's in myth not fact, a story fragment or an act that lasts and stands for all: how bees made honey in a skull.

New and Selected Poems

Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers, things standing shall fall, but the moving ever shall stay.

The Lord of the Meeting Rivers: Devotional Poems of Basavanna

When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, what's the rest of it?

Of Love and Other Demons

These cords that God makes, Reverend Bauxite thought, we stand holding one end while they run taut into the darkness.

Lost Everything

It was strange, this toxic little vein, strange to stand above it, looking down at night, in a dangerous neighborhood, as if they were in love and entitled to such adventures.

Like Life

The night was starless and very dark. Without doubt, in the gloom some mighty angel was standing, with outstretched wings, awaiting the soul.

Les Misérables

Treating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of pleasure, will always stand in the way of love.

Love and Responsibility

There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence.

And the Land Lay Still

Am I really standing here, conversing with a bloody unicorn?" Tiffy was certain her mind had finally left the building.

Lucky Number Six

Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

I suppose that the human mind can only stand so much grief and anguish. After that the fuses blow.

Mister God, This is Anna

What I read told me that the Mankindman was a strange creature which stand on to legs. It seems to be a man from both sides; maybe all sides are man!

Math City

Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.

Still Life

What if the only thing that's standing between us right now is our fear?

The Summer I Wasn't Me

[Iris] squeezed his hand. "Don't lose hope, Frank. Rainbows always stand for hope.

The Son of Neptune

It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man of character.

The Setting Sun

Stand strong in your worth and don't let anyone talk you out of it.

The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

Every rock-thrower needs something to stand on to have any accuracy or do any damage with the rocks.

Seeing Through Cynicism: A Reconsideration of the Power of Suspicion

Enthusiasm is that certain something that makes us stand out, pulls us out of the mediocre common places, and turns us into powerful influencers.

Selling Simplified

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

The Stand