Quotes of Standing - somelinesforyou

“ I see my reputation is at stake:My fame is shewdly gor'd. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are. ”

- John Wooden

“ You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. ”

- Henry Ford

“ Which of you by being anxious can add one cubit unto his stature? ”

- Bible

“ A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it. ”

- Thomas Paine

“ To throw a blot on a man's reputation by praising him. ”

- George Chapman

“ What we might call, by way of Eminence, the Dismal Science. ”

- Thomas Campbell

“ You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men. ”

- Max Beerbohm

“ Greatness is not standing above our fellows and ordering them around — it is standing with them and helping them to be all they can be. ”

- Arthur G. Keough

“ People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. ”

- Ogden Nash

“ There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. ”

- Steven Wright

“ If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. ”

- Isaac Newton

“ Words — so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. ”

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

“ There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. ”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

“ The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. ”

- Sir William Blake

“ Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly. ”

- Rosalind Russell

“ And if California slides into the ocean, as the mystics and statistics say it will, I predict this hotel will be standing until I've paid my bill. ”

- Warren Zevon

“ Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms. ”

- Alan Corenk

“ Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Nixon and the White House. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ Look who's standing if you please, ?hough you tried to bring me to my knees. ”

- Michael Jackson

“ It is better to die standing on your feet, than live the rest of your life on your knees. ”

- Emiliano Zapata

“ Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us. ”

- Oprah Winfrey

“ There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world. ”

- Arthur Conan Doyle

“ We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves. ”

- Marilyn Manson

“ Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. ”

- Edward Everett

“ I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake his neighbours up. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Evil is relativeYou can't hang a sign on it. You can't touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger. ”

- Glen Cook

“ You can stand tall, without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims. ”

- Harriet Woods

“ Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car. ”

- Anonymous

“ People who work sitting down are paid more than people who work standing up. ”

- Ray Prince
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