Quotes About Still Standing

#1. You make it a production. Slam doors. Knock things over. Scream. But I just leave. Even if I'm still standing there, I leave. I am refusing you. I am denying you. I am an adjective that is quickly turning into a noun.

David Levithan

#2. The only thing you can be sure of, Herr March, is that - whoever wins - still standing when the smoke of battle clears will be the banks of the cantons of Switzerland.

Robert Harris

#3. Breaking News: I am still standing!

Milan Jed

#4. As far as my planting program goes, I simply broadcast rye and barley seed on separate fields in the fall ... while the rice in those areas is still standing. A few weeks after that I harvest the rice, and then spread its straw back over the fields as mulch.

Masanobu Fukuoka

#5. I can suck the chrome off a bumper and leave the car still standing. In other words, I am sexually gifted, a hero among gay men.

J.P. Barnaby

#6. The houses where we lived were still standing, all of them. The sole difference, which is the difference between a child's reality and an adult's, was that they were no longer laden with meaning.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#7. And that, ... is the story of our country, one invasion after another ... Macedonians. Saddanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we're like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing.

Khaled Hosseini

#8. Aren't I supposed to be brave, fearless? Isn't that what the world expects?"
"Screw what the world expects. Think about all the things you've faced. You cracked, but you didn't break. You're still standing. I'd call that fearless. You've already conquered so much.

Myra McEntire

#9. Screw what the world expects. Think about all the things you've faced. You cracked, but you didn't break. You're still standing. I'd call that fearless.

Myra McEntire

#10. The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#11. So it's still standing?" he managed to get out between his snickers. "I would've thought you two had knocked it to rubble by now. What were you doing last night? Discussing the national debt?" Emmett howled with laughter.

Stephenie Meyer

#12. Great leaders have an air of confidence," he replied. "Subordinates need to look up to somebody who is still standing strong, like an oak, regardless of events around them.

Carmine Gallo

#13. I've told you before, Daniel: roach isn't an insult. We're the ones still standing after the mammals build their nukes, we're the ones with the stripped-down OS's so damned simple they work under almost any circumstances. We're the goddamned Kalashnikovs of thinking meat.

Peter Watts

#14. There were no police, there was no ambulance, Tanya and Nivea were still going at it, and Tyrell was still standing. Jah had never crossed the yard. The good of him danced victoriously on his shoulder.

Ivy Symone

#15. I'm responsible for what i did. I'm not responible for what every black male did. Yes! I call myself a THUG, because i grew up in the ghetto. And im still standing.

Tupac Shakur

#16. I remember my first year, I hit him with three good punches and couldn't believe he was still standing. He hit me with one and cracked my helmet. My head hurt for a week.

Georges Laraque

#17. How are you still standing?" "Because we're not yet done.

Pierce Brown

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

Tony Curl

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

Van Harden

#20. The Eurythmics were back on the charts. Dirty Dancing was at the box office. The Iron curtain was still standing. Margaret Thatcher had been re-elected for a third term. There we were, back in 1987.

Nicola Lagioia

#21. And then one day the walls of your house finally collapse. If the door is still standing, however, all you have to do is walk through it,and you are back inside. It's pleasant sleeping out under the stars. Never mind the rain. It can't last very long.

Paul Auster

#22. Mourn. Get it out of your system. Because what you can do for the dead is exactly nothing. But what you can do for those still standing with you is lead.

Robert J. Crane

#23. So far I'm still standing on 'Sons of Anarchy' but all the rest of the people on the show have me in their crosshairs so I'm waiting for the bullet in the head.

Mitch Pileggi

#24. If you run into a brick wall, don't become discouraged. A brick wall is only held together by cement, but you are held together by God. The right tool and the use of force can tear down its wall, while you are still standing.

Bianca McCormick-Johnson

#25. Don't you know Im still standing better than I ever did. Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid. I'm still standing after all this time.

Elton John

#26. Because you're still standing here. And I couldn't walk away from you if I tried." Stewart let out a breath. He held Doug's eyes. "So stop trying." The

Darien Cox

#27. Whenever I see John Lewis, I invariably say, 'Thank you.' And I will never stop. I don't know how he's still standing, because what he endured took courage and strength that I don't know that I have.

Don Lemon

#28. The house was on fire," i greeted them tersely. "In case you're interested."
they both glanced up overhead as if to make sure the house was still standing. Fang sniffed, smelling the smoke.
It's out, right?" he said

James Patterson

#29. I'd been knocked down. Again and again. I just kept getting up. And I was still standing, in platforms, with great hair.

Kristen Ashley

#30. They were one flame made out of two people, with a love that had endured all the challenges and tragedies of life. But they were still standing, still alive, and still whole.

Danielle Steel

#31. I'm still standing here. Okay, it's a crummy front porch I stand on, cracked to shithouse, and who am I to say that the world isn't the same?

Markus Zusak

#32. It don't matter what you tried to do, you couldn't destroy me! I'm still standing! I'm still strong! And I always will be.

Antwone Fisher

#33. When you finally understand who you are, ages 6 through 60 will understand who you are. Because when they see a person that's come through all that I've come through, still standing, it's amazing.

Mary J. Blige

#34. Something inside me burned bright when he said that. A hell of a lot of people had seen me last night, but only one person had noticed the tiny details. Only one person has been close enough to see what really mattered. And that person was still standing with me now.

Robin Benway

#35. I can't claim that I came out of it the winner. But I felt a lot like a kid who has finally found the guts to stand up to the schoolyard bully and tell him to take his best shot: bruised and bloody and thinking maybe that it hadn't been such a hot idea, but - what do you know? - still standing.

Aaron Elkins

#36. We now have the advantage of a few years more of life, but death is still standing at the end of the road.

Billy Graham

#37. Guys can look like pigs. The girl always has to be a looker. Look at most TV shows: According To Jim - pig and a looker. Still Standing - pig and a looker. Ralph Kramden [on The Honeymooners] - pig and a looker. Family Guy - pig and a looker. It's a theme.

Alex Borstein

#38. Deified and demonized. Prized and pummeled. Loved and loathed. Mostly, she's still standing.

Mimi Wolverton

#39. Even when they have been felled, let alone when they are still standing and fighting, they never disgrace themselves,

Tom Holland

#40. I have gotten into a lot of trouble in my life for being brutally honest. Sometimes I put both my feet in my mouth. But like Elton John, I'm still standing.

Cristina Saralegui

#41. A lot of the players I'm with, thank God, we're all still vertical. We've lost so many great players through the years, and we're still standing, as Elton John says.

Ringo Starr

#42. Small towns blossomed by elevators and the trains
Once every 14 miles along the prairie veins
We were born of progress, now progress will decree
That we're no longer viable, and should no long be ...
Still Standing about Canada's Prairie Elevators (The First Song album)

Phyllis Wheaton

#43. A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.

Gary Cole

#44. He drives off into the night and I'm still standing there with my fingers to my lips. Peter Kavinsky just kissed me.

Jenny Han

#45. I began to recognize that there was a part of me that was stronger than I ever could have imagined. I didn't know how I was still standing. I surprised myself. I was waking up to the fact that I was in charge of my own life and it was my choice whether to sink or float.

Elizabeth Berrien

#46. The true sign of a robust and mature life rests in how many times that life has been knocked down, for to be incessantly knocked down and yet find oneself still standing means that someone had the resolve to get up that many times plus one.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#47. Is there super-glue on my floor? Is that why you're still standing there?

Whitney Gracia Williams

#48. You are stuck with me till the world falls to pieces, and if we're not still standing even then we'll still find a way to be together ...

Ottilie Weber

#49. I will never give up ... I will never give up! As long I'm still breathing in this world ... As long I'm still standing, I will never give up!!!

Hiro Mashima

#50. You know you've done enough
When every bone is sore,
You know you've prayed enough
When you don't ask any more,
You know you're coming to some kind of understanding
When every dream you've dreamed has passed
And your still standing.

Patty Griffin

#51. For me, [John Wheeler] was the last Titan, the only physics superhero still standing.

Max Tegmark

#52. The past is buried deep within the ground in Rabat, although the ancient walls in the old city are still standing, painted in electrifying variations of royal blue that make the winding roads look like streamlets or shallow ocean water

Raquel Cepeda

#53. To be still standing 20 years in this business is a great feeling, I can't even tell you.

Blair Underwood

#54. If the forest has a day of fire and the heat of the flames does not consume a special tree, it will still be changed; charred, but still standing.

Dan Groat

#55. If you're still standing, and able to string two words together, that wasn't and orgasm."
She frowns. "What was it then?"
"A rehearsal.

Roxy Sloane

#56. Time after time, on matters great and small, we are still standing on the sidelines, mutely accepting what is decided elsewhere instead of raising our voices and making our own choices. Scotland's much vaunted partnership of Jonah and the whale.

Winnie Ewing

#57. You haven't broken me Taker, you haven't broken me, I'm still standing.

Jeff Hardy

#58. She should say something since the man was still standing there holding her like she was his virgin bride or something. Virgin. She wasn't. Unless it grew back after too many years of vaginal disuse.

Lexi Blake

#59. Bush, it will go down in history, it's unbelievable that guy was president. Unbelievable. I'm sure, I'm 100 percent sure, in one hundred years, in one thousand years if society's still standing, they're going to say, "That guy was president? Like, what?" I know that to be a fact. RORY

Chris Smith

#60. Sometimes I can't look you in the eye; you're like a building that's burned out inside, with the outer wall still standing.

Anne Michaels

#61. I even move out onto the front porch and see my own limited view of the world. I want to take that world, and for the first time ever, I feel like I can do it. I've survived everything I've had to so far. I'm still standing here.

Markus Zusak

#62. The thought sent chills running down her spine.
Or, Cameron supposed, maybe the chill had something to do with the fact that she was still standing in the air-conditioned hallway wearing nothing but her T-shirt and underwear.
Classy.

Julie James

#63. I'm still standing up there tall and strong every night that I perform.

Patti LaBelle

#64. Any ending where you're still standing on your own feet is a happy one.

Seanan McGuire

#65. Was Tara still standing? Or was Tara also gone with the wind which had swept through Georgia?

Margaret Mitchell

#66. Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.

Matthew Arnold

#67. But I'm still standing. I'm still breathing. And somehow, I'm okay.

Gayle Forman

#68. I fell so many times and got back up. I been through the toughest times with my family, but I'm still standing.

Kevin Durant

#69. The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John Brown was buried down the road from my house and that he had lived there longer than anywhere else and his house was still standing.

Russell Banks

#70. Ed?" Ritchie says later. We're still standing in the water. "There's only one thing I want."
"What's that, Ritchie?"
His answer is simple.
"To want.

Markus Zusak

#71. Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!

Kabir Bedi

#72. Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what may seem a word or idea, but is really some stronger material source.

George Santayana

#73. Human beings don't show, any more than cities at dusk, their real necessities! And yet if you looked
past the circle of outside lights, through the street walls still standing
into the want and emptiness within!

Phyllis Bottome

#74. still standing in the waist-deep pond I was relieved to see he was safe. I felt that the previous night he had started something with the blue-eyed creature

MineCrafTales

#75. The halfling was still standing, trying to straighten his dishevelled hat and fix the broken orange feather. "You know," he said nonchalantly, "sometimes is not so bad to be short." Luthien

R.A. Salvatore

#76. 12And this shall be e the plague with which the LORD will strike all the peoples that wage war against Jerusalem: their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.

Anonymous

#77. Scars show toughness: that you've been through it, and you're still standing.

Theo Rossi

#78. Life throws punches. It's not about punching back ... It's about taking 'em, and still standing.

Vaughn Ripley

#79. As the smoke clears,
I awaken,
And untangle you from me.
Would it make you feel better
To watch me, while I bleed?
All my windows still are broken,
But I'm standing on my feet.

Demi Lovato

#80. She sounded like she really meant it, and I wondered if I actually was standing here on the sidewalk with her, and not still asleep in my room.

Claudette Melanson

#81. Nothing on this earth is standing still. It's either growing or it's dying. No matter if it's a tree or a human being.

Lou Holtz

#82. Did you see her?" the Marid said nervously, looking at her with great dark eyes. "Our daughter. Standing on the Gear. Dis you see her?"
"What?" said September - and then she winked out, like someone blowing out a candle, and all the field was still.

Catherynne M Valente

#83. I think people forgot that there are still ways you can get the ball inside rather than just standing there and throwing the ball in. You have to have a system that makes all things work.

Phil Jackson

#84. In some ways any film that you do has an artificiality about it. Even when you're doing the most kitchen-sinky, gritty, realistic scene you've still got 50 people standing around watching you with cameras and lights and things.

Michael Sheen

#85. I'll see you later Roza."
"At our next practice?" I asked. "We are starting those up again, right? I mean you still have things to teach me."
Standing in the doorway, he looked over at me and smiled. "Yes. Lots of things.

Richelle Mead

#86. 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

#87. And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing.

Dennis Banks

#88. hand gripped his aspirator, but, oddly, his asthma had not closed down as it had on the day he fled from the hobo with the rotted nose. There was only that sense of standing still and watching the house slide stealthily

Stephen King

#89. 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

#90. Time is standing still like the sun. We are the ones moving around time like planets orbiting the sun.

Debasish Mridha

#91. Many a false step is made standing still.

Patti LaBelle

#92. I've always been better moving than I am standing still.

Neil Young

#93. Then he noticed her boys. They were standing side by side at the edge of the driveway, their plastic guns still in their hands and their faces pale and forlorn beneath the toy helmets, his own Tony, God bless him, with a comforting arm around each.

Alice McDermott

#94. I can still smell you on my pillow. I can still see you standing in my room, the light caressing your smooth legs, your dark hair cascading over your shoulders, and your gorgeous mouth smiling so effortlessly. I miss you. I ache for you, and I'm bordering on crazy without you. Come back to me.

Renee Carlino

#95. Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.

Woodrow Wilson

#96. After all the great religions have been preached and expounded, man is still confronted with the Great Mystery.

Luther Standing Bear

#97. Boredom will eventually set in ... and one day you'll be standing still on an island, with no idea where to go, because all your bridges will have been burned ... The smaller you are, the larger and more terrifying the world. You should not be trying to reduce yourself so thoroughly.

Kristina Meister

#98. What is a fine person or a beauteous face,
Unless deportment give them decent grace;
Blessed with all other requisites to please,
To want the striking elegance of ease;
Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, without the skill
Of moving gracefully, or standing still.

Winston Churchill

#99. The right place at the right time never comes to people standing still. - CHLOE TODD, A.K.A. BABY T-REX, OLYMPIC HOPEFUL, UNWITTING IMMORTAL

Kresley Cole

#100. You still think like a child, don't you? Clay figurines sunk to their ankles in the sand, one here, one there, standing just so. One says this, the other says that, then you reach down and rearrange them accordingly. Scenes, vistas, stark with certainty.

Steven Erikson