Life Standing Quotes

#1. It had to be the most surreal, embarrassing, awkward moment of his life, standing petrified in his mother's backyard in front of a broken lawn mower, sporting a woody and discussing sex for sale with the landlady.

Linda Kage

#2. It occurred to Rosie that she couldn't hide either, even though the truth had been hidden from her. Now she was out from the shadows, out in the open for the first time in her life, standing in the harsh light.

Denny Taylor

#3. Men's legs have a terribly lonely life - standing in the dark in your trousers all day.

Ken Dodd

#4. I have spent the better part of my adult life standing up and fighting for working families.

Bernie Sanders

#5. And yet he kept sticking to her life like gum on the sole of her shoe, either on the Net or in real life. On the Net was OK. There he was no more than electrons and words. In real life, standing on her doorstep, he was still fucking attractive. And he knew her secrets just as she knew all of his.

Stieg Larsson

#6. I've spent my whole working life standing up for workers. Didn't matter if it was the two trapped miners at Beaconsfield or professional netballers or indeed factory workers or construction workers.

Bill Shorten

#7. I can say I made a lot of mistakes, but I don't regret things. Because at least I didn't spend a life standing outside, wondering what living would be like.

Sarah Dessen

#8. Not being changed by prayer is sort of life standing in the middle of a spring rain without getting wet. It's hard to stand in the center of God's acceptance and love without getting it all over you.

Steve Brown

#9. This is the story of my life: standing on the edges of things and worrying, when I'm supposed to just walk through them.

Alexis Hall

#10. He began his new life standing up, surrounded by cold darkness and stale, dusty air.

James Dashner

#11. Life is made of peaks & troughs. If you don't like going up and down then you must live your life standing in one spot.

Alex Zar

#12. Life - standing under the high heat of the desert sun, without a cloud in the bright

Lauren Blakely

#13. The mountains are so beautiful they make me ache inside because the moment I look away I know I shall need to see them again. And I cannot spend the rest of my life standing on the spot starting at shifting sunlight and mist and shadows across the sea.

Anne Perry

#14. That was the one thing she knew now. Some chances came and went, and if you missed them, you could spend the rest of your life standing alone, waiting for an opportunity that had already passed you by.

Kristin Hannah

#15. If you're going to spend your life standing on principle, you want to be sure everyone understands what the principle is.

Elmore Leonard

#16. You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of life. either you wade in and risk everything you have to play the game or you don't play at all. and if u don't play u can't win.

Judith McNaught

#17. Do you know what the Spirit-filled life is? It is living every moment as though you are standing in the presence of Jesus Christ!

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#18. She had kept well behind the safety barrier her entire life, but now she was standing there at the edge of the precipice for the very first time, fumbling blindly with the realization that there were other ways to live, at how intense and rich life could be.

Katarina Bivald

#19. They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.

Black Elk

#20. If you are standing in one place waiting for something to change, you may be there for a while. You've got to move. Step up and take a swing. Make something happen

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#21. You cannot life another soul until you are standing on higher ground than he is.

Harold B. Lee

#22. Put less respectfully, these men and women, standing before the mirror of their life, spit every day in the face of what they were with the sputum of what they are.

Jose Saramago

#23. My experiences with violence in schools still echo throughout my life but standing to face the problem has helped me in immeasurable ways,

Shane Koyczan

#24. I'm standing behind a wall of jokes. You don't know about my personal life, my girlfriends, or what I do when I'm not on the road. There's this guy, this comedian, and this is how he thinks, but people really don't know anything about me.

Steven Wright

#25. Throwing out the first pitch at the Cubs game and having 40,000 people give me a standing ovation was probably one of the highlights of my life. You could see what a great sports town Chicago is.

Patrick Kane

#26. He palmed up the life Alert. Death Alert was more like it: Help, I haven't fallen and I'm standing up-can you come and rectify this problem? - Isaac

J.R. Ward

#27. The treble parade would have been the most perfect moment of my footballing life, but for the two people standing behind me, clearly already plotting their next move.

Robbie Fowler

#28. If you are moving, even fire will not hurt you. If you are standing still near the fire, even though you are not in the fire, the heat will eventually get to you.

Robert Kiyosaki

#29. I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. -Loving Frank

Nancy Horan

#30. Dream is nothing but lust
Gain is nothing but dust
Strong is standing to fall
Iron is waiting to rust

Nadeem Fraz

#31. What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.

Terence McKenna

#32. Be careful of living your life based only on faith and signs, or you might find yourself standing in a South American jungle holding a glass of Kool-aid. Commonsense is the foundation of any good testimony.

Shannon L. Alder

#33. I do this 'Walker shake.' You got to get knocked down many times, shake it off. Life is about ups and downs, and you got to keep standing up.

Herschel Walker

#34. The mature and well-balanced man, standing firmly with both feet on the earth, who has never been lamed and broken an half-blinded by the scandal of life, is as such the existentially godless man.

Karl Barth

#35. Colin had always preferred baths; one of his general policies in life was never to do anything standing up that could just as easily be done lying down

John Green

#36. When you are searching for love, love is standing just outside the door. Just open the door and welcome the love.

Debasish Mridha

#37. 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

#38. P.E. was my life in school. Without it, I wouldn't be standing here. It gave me confidence when I was an overweight kid with a speech impediment.

Herschel Walker

#39. The reason evolution bestows all intelligent life with a desire to climb higher is far more profound than more base needs, even though we still do not understand its real purpose. Mountains are universal and we are all standing at the feet of mountains.

Liu Cixin

#40. All you have to do in life is go out with your friends, party hard, and look twice as good as the bitch standing next to you.

Paris Hilton

#41. I had never been interested in boys and had no notion that I ever would, seeing being in love and loving as a great tangle in which you could lose your head as well as your heart. Yet standing there that afternoon looking at the young man. I could well see how such knots in life were made.

Sally Gardner

#42. Every governmental institution has been a standing testimony to the harmonic destiny of society, a standing proof that the life of man is destined for peace and amity, instead of disorder and contention.

Henry James

#43. Standing is harder than moving.

Moshe Feldenkrais

#44. They DO live more in earnest, more in themselves, and less in surface, change, and frivolous external things. I could fancy a love for life here almost possible; and I was a fixed unbeliever in any love of a year's standing.

Emily Bronte

#45. I believe that You Reap What You Sow. I believe that we don't meet people by accident; everything happens for a reason. I believe that standing for what you believe in isn't an easy thing but it's the right thing to do; be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.

Roy Bennett

#46. Standing beside Gray in the Fellowship Hall, we watched Grandma Miriam do her socializing exactly like she did last Sunday (and I enjoyed watching it). This proved what Gray had told me that she was born in Mustang and lived her whole life there seeing as she knew every single person in that church.

Kristen Ashley

#47. Having been in football all my life as a player and a coach and having been on the sideline, I think the closer we can get to bringing people what it's like standing and watching the game on the sideline, with a better view, would be the perfect situation for television football.

John Madden

#48. It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of writers, as if we needed rescue. And the first person I had to rescue was myself.

John Leonard

#49. Without people coming in to our lives we never evolve, we just remain stagnant. Surely there is more to life than standing still whilst letting it pass you by. What's even worse, is living a life pretending to be someone, or something that you believe others want you to be.

Skye High

#50. Maybe we're standing like coins on the edge?"
Allie considered this. "Meaning?"
"Meaning, we might be able to shake things up a little, and find a way to come up heads."
"Or tails," suggested Allie.
"What are you talking about?" said Lief.
"Life and death.

Neal Shusterman

#51. This moment right here, standing in front of 1010, nestled in the mountains that called to her heart, safe and warm and whole in the arms of the man she adored, she, Annalise, Almost Alpha of the Red Havoc Crew, had found the life she wanted.

T.S. Joyce

#52. Summoning gratitude is a sure way to get our life back on track. Opening our eyes to affirm gratitude grows the garden of our inner abundance, just as standing close to a fire eventually warms our heart.

Alexandra Katehakis

#53. Suddenly she was standing at Tara again with the world about her ears, desolate with the knowledge that she could not face life without the terrible strength of the weak, the gentle, the tender-hearted.

Margaret Mitchell

#54. It was like standing outside of life, stuck in a too still world that scared her more than she would ever admit.

V.E Schwab

#55. I feel sad for the people who I hear always plan, plan, plan the next day's event to occur. Life only stands still for them.

Ingrid Nkenlifack

#56. Don't clock off from life, you are still standing and that is testament there is more to live. Embrace life.

Tony Curl

#57. Damn. I'm getting fucked while practically standing on my head, and it's pretty superb.
I should be willing to walk away from my life just so I can have this done to me every day. It's definitely something to consider.

Georgia Cates

#58. Remember, as a believer, you are already in God's kingdom, even if you are still standing on this earth.

Van Harden

#59. Right now, I'm standing behind the glass, and I guess that's a metaphor for how my life will be going forward.

Angela Ruggiero

#60. God always drops love like rainfall and if you walk in it, you shall always be refreshed by it in so far as it continues to shower. Note however that you may never be able to quench your test no matter how long you shall keep standing in the rains whilst you keep your lips closed.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#61. I am happy for the first in my life, I can report that I am standing on an incline instead of an edge.

Erica Goros

#62. CUSTOMER: If I were to, say ... meet the love of my life in this bookshop, what section do you think they would be standing in?

Jen Campbell

#63. Alexey Alexandrovitch was standing face to face with life, with the possibility of his wife's loving someone other than himself, and this seemed to him very irrational and incomprehensible because it was life itself.

Leo Tolstoy

#64. But that morning, standing at the window of my dorm roomas I buttoned my shirt, I felt like an entirely different person. It was as though someone had taken an eraser to my life and, instead of getting rid of the mess, had rubbed away all the parts that I'd wanted to keep.

Robyn Schneider

#65. A little knee time first thing in the day keeps u standing all day!

Evinda Lepins

#66. Those of us who decided to work for democracy in Burma made our choice in the conviction that the danger of standing up for basic human rights in a repressive society was preferable to the safety of a quiescent life in servitude

Aung San

#67. And I am standing in front of my mother, and my whole life I have wanted to make my mother proud. And now I'm going to make my daughter proud.

Nicole Kidman

#68. Even a good place gets to be a rut, especially if you're standing in it alone ... Alone and lonely have the same root.

Nora Roberts

#69. People meet in the course of life, they talk together, they discuss, they quarrel, without realizing that they're talking to one another across a distance, each from an observation post standing in a different place in time.

Milan Kundera

#70. But sometimes one person can hold you up in life, keep you standing, and without that hand to hold, you can find yourself free-falling no matter how strong you used to be, no matter how hard you try to remain steady.

Kristin Hannah

#71. Life is a million different dots making one gigantic picture. And maybe the big picture is nice, maybe it's amazing, but if you're standing with your face pressed up against a bunch of black dots, it's really hard to tell.

Rebecca Stead

#72. I want to run. To do what I always do, have always done, for the last five years of my life. Escape, flee into the shadows. But this time, I stand my ground. I'm tired of running.

Marie Lu

#73. I knew nothing of the real life of a musician, but I seemed to see myself standing in front of great crowds of people, playing my accordion.

Lawrence Welk

#74. I wondered to myself why no one else had seen him standing so far away, before he was suddenly, impossibly saving my life. With chagrin, I realized the probable cause - no one else was as aware of Edward as I always was. No one else watched him the way I did. How pitiful.

Stephenie Meyer

#75. I still believe that standing up for the truth of God is the greatest thing in the world. This is the end (purpose) of life. The end of life is not to be happy. The end of life is not to achieve pleasure and avoid pain. The end of life is to do the will of God, come what may.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#76. I am at your service, my lady, I said, standing and releasing her hand. For the first time in my life I understood the true purpose of this sort of formal greeting. It gives you a script to follow when you have absolutely no idea what to say.

Patrick Rothfuss

#77. Liam learned that it was possible to appear to move forward when you were really standing still.

Kristin Hannah

#78. The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.

Dallas Willard

#79. In addition to all that, a man may have any opinions he likes without that being any of the sovereign's business. Having no standing in the other world, the sovereign has no concern with what may lie in wait for its subjects in the life to come, provided they are good citizens in this life.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#80. If you truly want the universe to support you in becoming all you can be; be prepared for having any false supports removed from your life; leaving you standing as the warrior that you are.

Renae A. Sauter

#81. Watching somebody else fail definitely makes you feel better with what you've accomplished and where your standing is in life.

Shiri Appleby

#82. That quotation about not having time to stand and stare has never applied to me. I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much - in just standing and staring and I was at it again this morning.

James Herriot

#83. Life changed all the time. Sometimes it was for the better and sometimes for the worst, but no matter what, it was important to remain standing.

Melody Anne

#84. When you are standing at a crossroads in your life, realize
that the greatest block that you can put in front of your Self is the idea
that there is a 'right' choice.

Story Waters

#85. I had never been in love before Abby, and no one had even piqued my interest since. My life was the woman standing before me, and the family we'd made together.

Jamie McGuire

#86. I always thought that life was about standing your ground, no matter how strong the current was. But going with the flow isn't so bad after all. As long as it takes you forward.

Ai Yazawa

#87. All you have to do in life is hang out with your friends, party hard and look twice as good as the chick standing next to you

Paris Hilton

#88. On a personal level, as a Christian, it will not be Barbra Streisand I'm standing in front of when I have to make an accounting of my life.

Patricia Heaton

#89. He said that life boils down to standing in line to get shit dropped on your head. Everyone's got a place in the queue, you can't get out of it, and just when you start to congratulate yourself on surviving your dose of shit, you discover that the line is actually circular.

Scott Lynch

#90. In my dreams you are standing right beside me, two hearts finally colliding, then i wake up and realise, realise, this is real life

Demi Lovato

#91. The man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of all creatures and acknowledging unity with the universe of things, was infusing into his being the true essence of civilization.

Luther Standing Bear

#92. Whatever your standing in life, the most important thing is behaving in ways that help other people. It's the same with music. I am a servant of the music ... and if I get caught up in ego, I'll lose everything .. it'll burn and that's a guarantee ...

Eric Clapton

#93. Everybody's life looks better when you're standing outside it, looking in, but that's never how it really is. We all got good things and bad things...

Torey L. Hayden

#94. The reason everything falls apart around me, but I don't is because my angels keep me standing up.

Shannon L. Alder

#95. By standing alone,
you prove your courage.
By standing with others,
you prove your love.
By standing with truth,
you prove your virtue.
By standing with God,
you prove your faith.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#96. Life happened. You are mostly the guy who left. I'm not the same girl you left standing here.

Marilyn Grey

#97. I was there laughing and joking with everyone else, but it's like there was some part of me
standing back, watching, thinking, Is this as good as it gets?

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#98. I would rather die standing up to live life on my knees.

Ernesto Che Guevara

#99. If you treat life well, life is usually good to you. And I love life. There's a long-standing affair between us.

Francoise Sagan

#100. Your art is part of the big painting of your life. You are on your own, standing by yourself in the middle of creation. In the beauty of that aloneness, and in how you respond to it, you will find your passion.

Michele Cassou