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We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
— David Sarnoff
In order to understand the impact you can have on another's life by listening you need to first be intimate with the experience of being heard.
— Madelaine Standing
In my case, vertical food was less about standing things up than layering things: more an attempt to gain texture by weaving things together.
— Charlie Trotter
Standing in the small space, Holly was overwhelmed by memories and a strange protective feeling for the child she'd been
— Beth Harbison
I'm officially middle-aged. I don't need drugs anymore, thank God. I can get the same effect just by standing up real fast.
— Jonathan Katz
Let us help build the kingdom of God by standing up boldly and being defenders of marriage, parenthood, and the home.
— Bonnie L. Oscarson
Local councils are hostile to large developers and think that, by doing this, they are standing up for the community. But they're wrong.
— Harry Triguboff
The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
— Dallas Willard
A man's social rank is determined by the amount of bread he eats in a sandwich.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
— Rabindranath Tagore
I think that standing onstage on January 19th, and my father had just defied all expectations and won Iowa, was by far the most surreal moment.
— Vanessa Kerry
Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts; things she could have said.
— Kristin Hannah
And I said, yes, if you think that I avoid bloodshed by standing aside, then I will stand aside.
— Kamisese Mara
Hurtling back to town, in a red Porsche driven by a beautiful woman, with the song playing, I had the sense of standing on the brink of another world.
— Graeme Simsion
It has its perks, being Mrs. Chancellor, and if I have to use it, by golly, I'll use it. I'm through standing in lines at my age.
— Jeanne Cooper
Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
She was secretly amused by the man who managed to give the impression of moving in all directions while standing still.
— Peggy Darty
You don't have anything to lose by standing up for yourself,' Nando said. 'But you can lose yourself by trying to please everyone.
— Sydney Salter
What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage of Europeans.
— Timothy Radcliffe
Many a false step was made by standing still.
— Timothy Ferriss
Whenever she felt besieged by doubts, she would think of herself as standing valiantly alone, as almost heroic, so as to squash her uncertainty.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
You were brought to where you are standing now because the decisions you took some time back have held you by your hands and dragged you this far.
— Israelmore Ayivor
We tend to like each other better when walking, sitting or standing side by side or at right angles from each other.
— Kare Anderson
Cicero's words also increased my personal satisfaction by supporting my long-standing rejection of a conventional point of view.
— Charlie Munger
This man could sell boats to desert dwellers just by standing there, looking pretty.
— Kristen Callihan
I walked towards my fate with my destiny standing solidly by my side
— Stephenie Meyer
Loyalty isn't standing by someone when he's right - that's good judgment. Loyalty is standing by someone when he's wrong.
— Susan Estrich
You cannot win a game of tug-o-war by merely standing firm.
— Randall Dale Adams
Travis' expression was a mixture of surprise and gratitude. "Now I've seen it all. I was just defended by a girl," he said, standing up.
— Jamie McGuire
If there is a showdown, two enormous nations, Russia and China, standing side-by-side, will defeat fascism!
— Andre Vltchek
She was standing by the barometer, which, if it had had an ounce of sense in its head, would have been pointing to 'Stormy' instead of 'Set Fair
— P.G. Wodehouse
The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Come Darcy,' said he. 'I must have you dance. I hate to see you standing around by yourself in this stupid manner.
— Jane Austen
You know a whole lot about romance for a guy who spent the night standing alone by the trash.
— Anthony Breznican
I'd give you some pants, but I don't wear any," a mage standing by a bookshelf remarked sympathetically.
— Andrey Vasilyev
A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
— Randall Jarrell
Sometimes I find myself standing on the edge of a pool of despair, filled by my tears...but not today.
— Judith Sanders
To prevent the workers from going to their work by standing in front of them is pure violence and must be given up.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I've sort of made a reputation by high-stepping my way out of genre. As soon as somebody says, 'He does this,' I'm not standing there anymore.
— Christopher Moore
But now it's officially a sitting room, because that's what is done in it, by some. For others there's standing room only.
— Margaret Atwood
Sometimes you have the feeling that some little imp is standing behind you and dictating to you, but he gives it to you slowly, drop by drop.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
I did learn that standing by your principles is always the right call, even when dealing with people in positions of power.
— Megyn Kelly
You are designed by God not to blend in, but to stand out
— Myles Munroe
You don't break ground by doing the same thing over and over and over. That's like standing in place. You have to risk to gain it all.
— Corey Taylor
I know of no case where a man added to his dignity by standing on it.
— Winston Churchill
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher
— Marci Shimoff
Oh! the suspense, the fearful, acute suspense, of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the balance!
— Charles Dickens
I was static, standing on the platform, watching train after train go by, wishing I knew which one to be on.
— Renee Carlino
I don't know what's worse by number in America, the vacant houses standing, or the homeless people falling into them.
— Anthony Liccione
Mates such as they must stand by one another
— Mary Grant Bruce
Their greatest fear is you may step forward without fear. Because your courage may become contagious. — Tom Althouse
I don't like too much by-standing, on-looking, and spectator-behavior in people's lives.
— Ralph Nader
A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
— Leonard Cohen
I was suddenly overwhelmed by what an incredible person this boy was, standing in front of me, and by the fact that he was mine and I was his.
— Maggie Stiefvater
He began his new life standing up, surrounded by cold darkness and stale, dusty air.
— James Dashner
I have changed my mind. You can help cook by standing in a corner and not touching anything. Do it carefully.-Nick to Jamie — Sarah Rees Brennan
Republicans are good at standing by their candidate.
— George Clooney
Grisha, a fat, solemn little person of seven, was standing by the kitchen door listening and peeping through the keyhole.
— Anton Chekhov
You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
— Shirley Chisholm
A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
I was a halfway-decent-looking English boy who looked nice in a drawing-room standing by a piano.
— Peter Lawford
Standing by and doing nothing while a sin is committed is as bad as committing the sin itself
— Amish Tripathi
Seeing me before him, / The adversary attacks, / But by that time / I am already standing / Safely behind him.
— Morihei Ueshiba
You don't get a standing ovation and get boos, by the way. They don't go hand in hand.
— Donald Trump
Of the 28 people killed by lightning in the US in 2012, 13 were standing under or near trees.
— Randall Munroe
Red Five standing by, Luke said when it was his turn.
— Alexandra Bracken
Jody noticed that the kid was focused on the breasts, which were defying gravity, and apparently death itself, by standing there at complete attention
— Christopher Moore
It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.
— Desmond Tutu
If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.
— Harry Stack Sullivan
For obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.
— Aeschylus
It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.
— Grover Cleveland
You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.
— George Bernard Shaw
Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.
— Abraham Lincoln
