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
All Standing Quotes
It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture.
George Grosz 
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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 
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I very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision.
William Hurt 
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On February 7, 2.2 million Haitians went to the polls and exercised their constitutional right to select a leader. They went by foot, by tap tap and other forms of transportation, traveling hours and standing in line for almost a day to get to their polling places.
Mark Foley 
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But what I'd really like to tell you is I never dreamed of being in the Hall of Fame. Standing here with all these great players was beyond any of my dreams.
Robin Yount 
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I have got two reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.
Betty Grable 
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None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.
Thomas Jefferson 
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It's become like an urban myth. I don't know her. I don't know anybody she knows. I was standing there at the party by myself for an hour and then I left. Once I got those auditions, I worked really hard. Nobody did me any favors.
Shannyn Sossamon 
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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
Mitch HedbergMargaret ThatcherGeorge CarlinBen KingsleyJohn Stuart MillLaurence J. PeterAnne TylerHenry RollinsSarah PalinRobert WyattKevin CostnerOgden NashCharles KetteringWilliam S. BurroughsLawrence Welk
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