Top 100 Quotes About Where You Stand
#1. You know, I've learned that sometimes you can only see what you want to see by changing where you stand. And standing somewhere unexpected can lead to unexpected discoveries.
Lisa Mangum
#2. Children are the ones that know exactly what's going on in the world, you know. They 'see' more than adults, 'believe' in more, are honest, and will always, 'always' let you know where you stand.
Cecelia Ahern
#3. Even the longest journey must begin where you stand.
Laozi
#4. There are some things you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand.
Julie Bowe
#5. In a still photograph you basically have two variables, where you stand and when you press the shutter. That's all you have.
Henry Wessel Jr.
#6. If you know where you stand, and your minus and plus points as a director or as a human being, you will never go wrong. You will always be successful.
Rohit Shetty
#7. Sometimes you just need to distance yourself from people. If they care, they'll notice. If they don't, you know where you stand.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#8. In tennis, at the end of the day you're a winner or a loser. You know exactly where you stand ... I don't need that anymore. I don't need my happiness, my well-being, to be based on winning and losing.
Chris Evert
#9. The empirical is very important, but merit is inherent and not acquired. A university is massively important because you can see where you stand naturally in the ranks, and try yourself out, but education is just reading and understanding what you read.
William Monahan
#10. I think part of running for president, people want to know who you are, what influenced you, what motivates you, not just where you stand on issues but what is in your heart and what were things in your life that led you to believe the things you believe in, and fight for.
Karen Finney
#11. It is important that you know who you are, where you stand, where you came from, what you have, what you can do, and who is with you.
J. Grant Howard
#12. I voted to repeal the individual mandate in Obamacare ... I think people appreciate the fact that they know where you stand.
David Jolly
#14. Maybe before you start flirting with boys and kissing boys and trying to date boys, you should know who you are and where you stand.
Jill Santopolo
#15. I'd rather be alone with the bills, she thought as she pushed the elevator button. At least you know where you stand.
Katherine Pancol
#16. I've always enjoyed interleague play. It gives you a chance to see different clubs, to go to different places. It gives you a good chance to see where you are, where you stand with other teams.
Jim Thome
#17. Cultivate your desire for success to be greater than the fear of failure; Failure is merely a pitstop between where you stand and success. Failure allows you to learn the fastest; Failure inspires winners and defeats losers.
Fran Tarkenton
#18. Memory is as thick as mud. It rises up, it overwhelms. It sucks you down and freezes you where you stand. Thrash and kick and gnash your teeth. There's no escaping it.
Lauren Oliver
#19. Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.
Ann Brashares
#20. Recognize that you don't know where you stand, and you will begin to watch where you put your feet. That's when a path appears.
Kay Larson
#21. You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
Napoleon Hill
#22. Do not wait: the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.
Napoleon Hill
#23. Because when a guy's a jerk or an asshole, it's easier because you know exactly where you stand.
David Levithan
#24. Tut!' I said. 'What did you say?' 'I said "Tut!"' 'Say it once again, and I'll biff you where you stand. I've enough to endure without being tutted at.
P.G. Wodehouse
#25. He knew. I could see it in his face. Look, if someone gets infected you've got between ten and twenty seconds to kill them. It might be your brother or your sister or your oldest friend. It makes no difference. And just so you know where you stand - if it happens to you, I'll do it in a heartbeat.
Selena
#26. It's so funny castle, you know, at first I loved that he was so busy. It just, it just gave me the opportunity to keep one foot out the door just on case.
But with one foot out the door, it's hard to know where you stand.
And even if I did what does it mean?
Richard Castle
#27. I think you're nice to me and that scares the fuck out of me. Because when a guy's a jerk or an asshole, it's easier because you know where you stand.
Rachel Cohn
#28. In modern times, if you're on an airplane and it's going down, that's it. You've got a couple of minutes, if that, to work out where you stand in relationship to the whole of your life.
Linus Roache
#29. There is a difference between GOLD and SILVER, know where you stand
Angel Phetheni
#30. Where you stand determines what you see and what you do not see; it determines also the angle you see it from; a change in where you stand changes everything.
Steve De Shazer
#31. Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand.
Alan Cohen
#32. Knowing where you stand in your quest to accumulate enough money for retirement is an incredibly important part of the planning process.
Jean Chatzky
#34. I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.
David Morrissey
#35. If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don't look at where you stand on slavery today. Look at where you stand on animal rights.
Paul Watson
#36. Friends can betray you, but with an old enemy, you always know where you stand.
Raymond E. Feist
#37. If you cannot find peace where you stand you shall not find it where you land.
T.F. Hodge
#38. You can't fall away from something if you were never there in the first place. It's the difference between jumping off a cliff and passing out where you stand.
Sloane Crosley
#39. 5Then He said, "Do not draw near this place. Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.
Anonymous
#40. We all got our reasons ... good men and bad men. It's all a matter of where you stand.
Joe Abercrombie
#41. I love you " she whispered raising her face for his kiss "but if you touch me today I will kill you where you stand.
Gia Dawn
#42. I am sometimes visited by the heretical thought that there is no such thing as good and bad architecture, any more than there is good and bad nature. It is all in where you stand at the time.
John Updike
#44. Wearing a monkey suit really lets you know where you stand as an actor.
Kelly Stables
#45. You have to realize where you stand, the ground underneath you, that's your battleground.
Shamita Das Dasgupta
#46. Home is, in the end, not just the place where you sleep, but the place where you stand.
Pico Iyer
#47. If you cannot point to a particular actual or imagined room, among the billions of rooms in the world, and state truthfully, Inside that room I will find joy - well, then you have found a useful measure of where you stand in the matter of joy. And in the matter of rooms, too.
Joseph O'Neill
#48. For people that are degenerates, if you've spent so much time feeling a certain way, it's actually uncomfortable to feel like a winner. The familiarity of losing is, in an inverse way, comforting. At least you know where you stand.
Jason Gedrick
#49. What I learned from Rockefeller that's off-the-hook important is: You need to know exactly where you stand in a business at all times. Measure everything, because everything that is measured and watched improves.
Bob Parsons
#50. Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand
Hayley Williams
#51. Lift that scimitar against me, you Hyrkanian pig and I'll gut you where you stand!
Robert E. Howard
#52. Here where you stand, a young Etruscan woman stood in just the same way three thousand years ago - and the wind came in just this way from Africa and chased the light across the ocean.
Erich Maria Remarque
#53. I think that most writers who are trying to write important and difficult books are in many ways putting their own humanity into question. Sometimes the journey is finding out where you stand in relationship to your own humanity and to the humanity of others.
Chris Abani
#54. You never have to guess where you stand with me.
Courteney Cox
#55. No matter where you stand politically - even if you're unsure of what your political ideology is - it is important to take part in the process of shaping our government.
Brad Henry
#56. No matter where life takes you,' she said, 'the place where you stand at any moment is holy ground.
Susan Vreeland
#57. Predator is not property," Grimm said in a calm, level tone. "She is not my possession. She is my home. Her crew are not my employees. They are my family. And if you threaten to take my home and destroy the livelihood of my family again, Commodore, I will be inclined to kill you where you stand.
Jim Butcher
#58. Each of you must decide where you stand. All we ask is that you refuse to kneel. You are the people. You have the power. Open your eyes. Open your minds. Then close the fingers on your hand.
Jay Kristoff
#59. Try looking in the mirror and determining where you stand in the attractiveness-hierarchy with anything like the objective ease you can determine whether just about anyone else you know is good-looking or not - but
David Foster Wallace
#60. To take a journey of a thousand miles, you have to begin with the first step from the place where you stand; the romantic description of the journey and the things the body sees on the way and the description of the scenery are of no use unless you lift your foot and take the first step.
Vimala Thakar
#61. You will not really know where you stand until you have been tested.
Sandra M. Michelle
#62. You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
Robert Louis Stevenson
#63. Where you stand today does not matter; it is the direction in which your are moving, and the rate at which you travel, that count.
Emmet Fox
#64. It's safe to assume that no matter where you stand, someone would be happy to be in your shoes, just as you'd be happy to be in someone else's.
Scott Berkun
#65. Say thank you to her, Dolophonos. She just kept you from getting your ass handed to you. (Jericho)
Stop it! One more round of Grand Testosterone and I swear I'll geld you both where you stand. (Delphine)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#66. Ellison's Theorem: the further right your position, the less telling your satire. A corollary of which is that you can't lampoon anywhere near where you stand, because you'd annihilate your own troops.
Harlan Ellison
#67. The thing about life, is that you never know where you stand. It's almost impossible to place yourself in a position of superiority- not against other people, not against yourself.
Leigh Hershkovich
#68. No matter where life takes you ... the place where you stand at any moment is holy ground. Love hard and love wide and love long, and you will find goodness in it.
Susan Vreeland
#69. My views on equality are pretty obvious. I mean, I did play a highly complex lesbian techno DJ on TV, but I know it's not always easy to come out and tell the world where you stand.
Sarah Shahi
#70. If you knew the mercy I am showing by not dismembering you where you stand for getting in my way, you would not stop thanking me.
Thomm Quackenbush
#71. I only like luxury fashion. You have to decide where you stand. I like well-made, authentic clothes, well-crafted tailoring. I also like the dream and fantasy of luxury, the exception and rarity of it. I have no interest at all in fast retail. It is ambiguous.
Hedi Slimane
#72. Ask me if I sparkle and I'll kill you where you stand. (Bones)
Jeaniene Frost
#73. Tough management is a way to approach work. It is a practical, reasonable, and organized way to get to decisions more easily, make the numbers on a consistent basis, have those around you understand where you stand, and increase the business.
Chuck Martin
#74. So how was it?" she asked. "Kissing Curran?"
"I can't let him kiss me again, because if he does, I'll sleep with him."
Andrea blinked. "Well," she said finally, "At least you know where you stand.
Ilona Andrews
#75. Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you are
Flannery O'Connor
#76. He said you must always step forward from where you stand.
Eliot Pattison
#77. You never know where you stand - and I like that. I like to be on edge.
Danny Dyer
#78. What is design? It's where you stand with a foot in two worlds - the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes - and you try to bring the two together.
Mitchell Kapor
#79. I believe when you're stuck in one spot for too long it's best to throw a grenade where you stand, and jump ... and pray.
Robyn Davidson
#80. Where you stand on issues, how you live your life, and how much good you can do in the world are greater challenges than a lunar mission.
Al Worden
#82. The insensitivity comes with self-excuses, such as: "I am an upfront person who speaks my mind," or "I am the frank type; you always know where you stand with me." These comments are a cover-up for insensitivity, which might be better described as gauche.
David R. Hawkins
#83. Opportunity will always meet you exactly where you stand.
Bryant McGill
#84. A battle cry" Mr. Bennet said "is a warrior's calling card. Only it does not say 'Good afternoon. I have come for tea and crumpets.' It says 'Death has come for you! Flee or be killed where you stand!
Steve Hockensmith
#85. If you are ever going to move beyond where you stand at that moment you have to conjure a picture in your head of where you want to go.
Deval Patrick
#86. With dogs you just go up and smell their asses and you know where you stand. It's so much easier. Why can't humans do that?
Kevin Hearne
#87. Hide your feelings, hide you thoughts, hide your self from the world but dont hide you from you cause only you know where you stand & the world's knows nothing
Shujoy Chowdhury
#89. Where you stand, where you are, that's what your life is right there, regardless of how painful it is or how enjoyable it is. That's what it is.
Taizan Maezumi
#90. When we honestly take stock of our ability, we are then granted the opportunity to improve our circumstance. Accessing where you stand is the only way to stand somewhere else.
Chris Matakas
#91. Class is more than income - it has to do with knowing where you stand in a web of social relationships.
Neal Stephenson
#92. With boys, you always know where you stand. Right in the path of a hurricane.
Erma Bombeck
#93. Before we go, I gotta know: If mind-reading abilities are real, there's something else I wondered if fiction got right about vampires-"
"Ask me if I sparkle and I'll kill you where you stand," Bones cut him off with utmost seriousness.
Jeaniene Frost
#94. The place where you are now is vital. The path toward victory opens from where you stand.
Daisaku Ikeda
#95. Before you can really start setting financial goals, you need to determine where you stand financially.
David Bach
#96. Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand.
Meryl Streep
#97. Take courage, man, be brave and drive ahead, start where you stand.
Berton Braley
#98. Where were the peacekeepers? Where was the UN? Why was the entire world ignoring Saddam's attack upon his own people? Were we Kurds considered so unworthy, so disposable? I longed to stand at the top of the mountain and shout out, Where are you, world? Where are you ?
Jean Sasson
#99. I can't stand these damn shows on museum walls with neat little frames, where you look at the images as if they were pieces of art. I want them to be pieces of life!
W. Eugene Smith
#100. I would like to see the lack of demonization for those of us who stand on sincerely held religious beliefs. It's overdue. That's where you see the demonization of people who stand on their beliefs.
Michele Bachmann
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