Quotes of: Stands Keyword

Do not try to understand. What I feel for you cannot be limited to words. I know that you have moved on with your life, yet I stand here, frozen in the midst of your spirit.

Shattered Illusions

Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead. Most of these people are very immature. They lead "still" lives, waiting.

Still Life

You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Sometimes it is best to stand back from conflict and allow other elements in someone's life to do the hard work for you.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Christianity also stands in opposition to intellectual, as well as physical, health. To doubt becomes sin. 'Faith means not wanting to know what it true' a description that strikes me as stunning and quite exact.

The Making of the Messiah

Though the trials of life are never easy, someone to stand with you and help you with your burdens is one of the true essences of living. It is well that two should join together to face life as friends as well as lovers.

Moonlight on the Nantahala

A grieving son was given the opportunity to write parting words on a card at his mother's funeral. He quoted the verse, "And morning came and Jesus was standing on the shore.

And Morning Came: Scriptures of the Resurrection

It is not we who seek the Way, but the Way which seeks us. That is why you are faithful to it, even while you stand waiting, so long as you are prepared, and act the moment you are confronted by its demands.

Markings

You Anglo-Saxons have largely broken away from such dependence on family. Each generation feels perfectly free to act alone and you are not afraid.

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

The human race is all the same when it comes to romantic relations,' said the Major. 'A startling absence of impulse control combined with complete myopia.

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour themselves against reprimand. It is a word intended to stand in place of ethics, denying all moral context.

Midnight Tides

On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apartment, combining Rice Krispies and Planters peanuts and chopped red onion in bowl.

The Namesake

Is something art just because a museum hangs it on their wall? Are you networking just because you’re standing in a crowded room? 

#Networking is people looking for people looking for people

I swoon into a standing eight count. Goddamn, I actually feel my consciousness want to detach and hide like a turtle retreating into a hopelessly soft shell that won't save anyone.

No Sleep Till Wonderland

Don’t just stand there with your Eiffel Tower smile. Tell me you love me, and tell me in French. 

Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

Love is like a chess match, where the queen wins the game and the king just sort of stands around.

Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.

Another fact that allowed Fascism to gain power over men was their blindness. A man cannot believe that he is about to be destroyed. The optimism of people standing on the edge of the grave is astounding.

Life and Fate

Every family has one living patriarch or matriarch, the final arbiter and repository of ancient family history, and Nicole's Aunt Patti was the last woman standing.

The Laws of Gravity

On one side of his brain, logic was standing on a chair, waving its arms to get his attention. On the other side, lust and yearning rubbed their hands together in unholy anticipation.

The Lady Hellion

The only way to get what you're worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.

Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?