Top Standing Quotes
I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.
Max Baer
We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
David Sarnoff
You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
Shirley Chisholm
Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.
Bobby Orr
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton
Betty Hill 
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Michael Newdow 
Morihei Ueshiba 
Marvin Minsky 
Marco Rubio 
Black Elk 
Irvin S. Cobb 
Robin Yount 
Robert Benchley All Standing Quotes
Once when I was standing at the base, they started rotating the set and a big, heavy wrench fell down from the 12 o'clock position of the set, and got buried in the ground a few feet from me. I could have been killed!
Marvin Minsky 
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It's like the code of living by yourself. People who are single know what I'm talking about. You eat standing up, reading the paper. Or you say to yourself, this isn't even cutting it, I'm taking a TV dinner and I'm getting in bed here.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
59% of people like this quote
Fathering makes a man, whatever his standing in the eyes of the world, feel strong and good and important, just as he makes his child feel loved and valued.
Frank Pittman
59% of people like this quote
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.
Laurence J. Peter
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There are two reasons why I'm in show business, and I'm standing on both of them.
Betty Grable
59% of people like this quote
Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.
Louis Nizer
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Fundamentally, I believe that the U.S. can improve its international standing and its national security by expanding trade and strengthening its relationships with moderate Muslim countries.
Richard Neal
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If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing.
Mary Frances Berry
58% of people like this quote
I very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision.
William Hurt
58% of people like this quote
It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture.
George Grosz
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Popular Standing Authors
Marcus Tullius CiceroThomas JeffersonH. L. MenckenJohn F. KennedyBarack ObamaGertrude SteinEdmund BurkeSteven WrightArthur SchopenhauerErnest HemingwayFranklin D. RooseveltWilliam BlakeEleanor RooseveltGustave FlaubertJim Carrey
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