Stand Back Quotes

#1. I've always said it takes more courage to stand back there and throw a ball knowing you're fixing to get drilled than anything I can think of in football.

Bobby Bowden

#2. In a moment of panic, he reached back and grasped the large punch bowl, still three quarters full of bright red juice and an assortment of fruit slices. He lifted it above his head and threatened the growing crowd.

"Stand back," he said. "I will splash you all.

Christopher Meades

#3. [She] had a habit of putting things in that way, as though she had accidently set your house on fire and had no choice now but to stand back and watch it burn.

Vu Tran

#4. All things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.

Elizabeth Edwards

#5. When you meditate you can stand back from your desire. When you silence the mind and there is stillness, only then can you tell if a desire is dharma.

Frederick Lenz

#6. You can stand back and look at this planet and see that we have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love, and the community to produce a kind of human paradise.

Terence McKenna

#7. He's psychologically damaged, I suppose, if you stand back and look objectively at him, but then, who isn't?

Paul Darrow

#8. Stand back! I gotta get some rocket fuel out of the fridge!

Adam Savage

#9. The physician's duty is not to stave off death or return patients to their old lives, but to take into our arms a patient and family whose lives have disintegrated and work until they can stand back up and face, and make sense of, their own existence.

Paul Kalanithi

#10. The first step away from being manipulated, and towards a more autonomous outlook, is to stand back from a set of responses and think.

Jonathan Glover

#11. I don't really analyze my stuff when I write. I write about stuff that I'm interested in, that I'm feeling at that particular time. When I stand back and look at the complete work, I might see themes that run through the whole film, but I'm not really conscious of it when I'm doing it.

Spike Lee

#12. It's easy to stand back, but to move forward and take a chance, that takes a little more guts, a little more courage.

Venus Williams

#13. Don't just stand back and play the way you're coached. A great player must rise to the occasion and turn the game around on his own.

Joe Paterno

#14. South African rugby doesn't have to stand back for anyone.

Rudolph Straeuli

#15. Life's got to be a game we are playing, so stand back and check out your moves.

Jay Woodman

#16. Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom.

L. Neil Smith

#17. Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul's freedom.

Sri Aurobindo

#18. In the frantic search for an elusive 'cure,' few researchers stand back and ask a very basic question: why does cancer exist? What is its place in the grand story of life?

Paul Davies

#19. Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to stand back up.

Jackie Chan

#20. He's gonna try and stand back, mess me about a bit, be cagey and hold on the inside and make it one of them fights that are boring. I don't wanna make a boring fight. I don't like to be involved in boring fights!

Joe Calzaghe

#21. I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it from a distance, but not too great a distance. How great? Guess.

Blaise Pascal

#22. The chances we take, knowing no better than to fall or to stand back and hold ourselves in ... protecting our hearts with the tightest of grips.

Sarah Dessen

#23. Develop the ability to stand back as a witness to your thoughts. This will make your mind strong.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#24. Blood stopped binding us the instant he came at my throat. If this thing is stalking me because of him, then I'm more than ready to slash his throat and laugh while he bleeds to death at my feet. Give me the knife and stand back. (Aiden)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#25. Little about your work, tease and titillate with alluring, even contradictory comments, then stand back and let others try to make sense of it all.

Robert Greene

#26. The media ... is like an oil painting. Close up, it looks like nothing on Earth. Stand back and you get the drift.

Bernard Ingham

#27. Sisyphus, I. I cling to my rock, you don't have to chain me. Stand back! I roll it up - up, up. And ... down we go. I knew that would happen. See, I'm on my feet again. See, I'm starting to roll it up again. Don't try to talk me out of it. Nothing, nothing could tear me away from this rock.

Susan Sontag

#28. If the day should ever come when we must go, if some day we are compelled to leave the scene of history, we will slam the door so hard that the universe will shake and mankind will stand back in stupefaction..

Joseph Goebbels

#29. The work that stirs the greatest passion is also the work that creates around it the greatest silence, the strongest imperative to stand back and admire and let others admire, without interfering.

George Saunders

#30. To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.

Og Mandino

#31. If you look at Japanese film, it is made up of collage or bricolage, it is made up of lists, and suddenly when you stand back from the lists you begin to see the pattern of a life.

Michael Ondaatje

#32. And I declare myself free
from ignorant love. You easy lovers
and forgivers of mankind, stand back!
I will love you at a distance,
and not because you deserve it.
My love must be descriminate
or fail to bear its weight.

Wendell Berry

#33. Do you think that I or anybody else who cares about the NHS would stand by and do nothing if we thought the NHS was going to be privatised in Scotland and its funds were going to be cut? Would we stand back and do nothing without a fight? Of course not.

Gordon Brown

#34. Sometimes it is best to stand back from conflict and allow other elements in someone's life to do the hard work for you.

Bryant McGill

#35. Shouldn't we stand back to back or something?" "What? Why?" "I don't know. In movies that's what they do in this kind of ... situation.

Cassandra Clare

#36. I could throw a pass to a spot as well as anyone who ever lived - But that's a God-given talent. I could never stand back and flick the ball 60 yards downfield with my wrists like Dan Marino does.

Otto Graham

#37. If so, then it was also here where I came to know I can survive what hurts. I believed in my capacity to stand back up and run into the waves again and again, no matter the risk.

Terry Tempest Williams

#38. But she was already in. Gareth couldn't help but stand back in admiration. Hyacinth Bridgerton was clearly a natural born athlete.
Either that or a cat burglar.

Julia Quinn

#39. Let's form a committee tasked with exploring why committees are so ineffective. Then we'll stand-back and watch it argue and self-destruct.

Ryan Lilly

#40. Give your oppressed masses a sense of virtue accumulated through suffering, and stand back and marvel as they censor themselves and act in a decent, God-fearing, law-abiding and - best of all - long-suffering manner, in order to feel ethically superior to you. I've

Cintra Wilson

#41. It's very rare to see an undisturbed birth in a modern U.S. teaching hospital, but when you see a woman who isn't frightened, who's giving birth without interference, you stand back in awe and realize how little needed you are except in the rare circumstance.

Ina May Gaskin

#42. I remember being fascinated by ants and wasps and other bugs when I was a kid. I'd set out a Coke can and stand back 20 feet and use my telescope to watch wasps land on it.

Paul McEuen

#43. I'm ambitious for is to not get caught 'acting'. I want to really feel the role and not let people see the process, or to let them stand back and admire it, because I think that does finally get in the way.

Harrison Ford

#44. All the conductor has to do is stand back and try not to get in the way. Mozart is doing all the work.

Colin R. Davis

#45. When life throws you down, have the courage to stand back up and dust yourself off.

Aaron Morgan

#46. The poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be ...

Bruce Springsteen

#47. Okay, stand outa the way. Sometimes when I go to exertin' myself I use up all the air nearby and grown men faint from suffocation. Stand back. There's liable to be crackin' cement and flying steel. Get the women and kids someplace safe. Stand back ...

Ken Kesey

#48. There is a place in you that you don't even know exists, where you can simply stand back and watch without feeling any pain.

Jodi Picoult

#49. Now, you just stand back and let me give you a lesson in how to be a passive aggressive Southern bitch."

Lila Bruce

#50. I don't like my men to be too ornate. I like them to stand back and let their women shine, and they should really wear the pants in the relationship.

Eva Mendes

#51. are we willing to demonize a population, declare a war against them, and then stand back and heap shame and contempt upon them for failing to behave like model citizens while under attack?

Michelle Alexander

#52. This was exactly why holidays were so valuable, he told himself: they allowed you to stand back a bit, and see where you were going rusty.

Colin Dexter

#53. Never let anyone belittle your efforts to better yourself. Let them stand back or stand aside, but you move forward no matter who tries to stop you.

Toni Sorenson

#54. We must, like a painter, take time to stand back from our work, to be still, and thus see what's what ... True repose is standing back to survey the activities that fill our days.

William McNamara

#55. God doesn't tell you to do hard things so He can stand back and laugh and watch you struggle. He tells you to do things the things that He knows are gonna work out to your good in the end.

Joyce Meyer

#56. If you stand back and analyze the best way to do something, you'll be standing there forever. Follow your gut and jump right in!

Barbara Corcoran

#57. I needed time to stand back and go through a lot more experience in life. Then I have something to write about, joke or to animate.

Howie Mandel

#58. I try not to identify too strongly with any of my characters. I like to stand back and see them objectively. I think this is why I often use boys instead of girls, just in case I get too close and lose the overall picture.

Jenny Nimmo

#59. Sometimes we have to fall to know how to stand back up. Sometimes we have to hurt people to recognize our flaws and to see that we need to better ourselves.

E.K. Blair

#60. Even for the very clever it can be like breaking bones to stand back from something that's been in front of you all your life.

Paul Hoffman

#61. Skewer is just too vague. I think if you say, 'Stand back or I'll stab him in the stomach,' then I have an idea about how serious you are. After all, Leif's stomach is his favorite body part so that's a decent threat.

Maria V. Snyder

#62. We need to be critical of the police and power structure, we need to stand back and solve these problems, and films need to point to that. There are too many stories that end happily and say very little about life.

Charles Burnett

#63. In many ways, home is an image for the power of stories. With both, we need to live in them if they are to take hold, and we need to stand back from them if we are to understand their power

J. Edward Chamberlin

#64. How easy it was to capitalize on a person's own bent for self-destruction; how simple to nudge them into non-being, then to stand back and shrug and agree that it had been the inevitable result of a chaotic, catastrophic life.

Robert Galbraith

#65. The present is always unsettled, no one has had time to contemplate it in tranquillity . I was a painter before I was a writer and a painter never wants the subject right under his nose; he wants to stand back and study a landscape with half-closed eyes.

Isak Dinesen

#66. We are in a tech-heavy society, plunging headlong into an unknown future. Science fiction is what allows you to stand back and analyze the impact of that and put it in context of how it affects people.

J. Michael Straczynski

#67. It's OK to stand back. But it's also good to demonstrate that it's fun to be involved. As long as you are willing to say, 'This looks fun. I'd like to try this, too,' your child will mimic your example of openness, playfulness and optimism.

Julia Cameron

#68. Adversity is a good test of our resiliency, our ability to cope, to stand back up, to recover from misfortune. Adversity is a painful pedagogue.

Charles R. Swindoll

#69. I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.

Park Geun-hye

#70. When Life throws you down, stand back up once again.

Aaron Morgan

#71. I stand back from him. I don't understand. You've seen parts of me that are not perfect, and you still love me?

Liza Palmer

#72. My father was a public figure all my life, and so the presidency was an extension of that. I guess you get used to it, though you can stand back occasionally and think, 'Boy, this is really weird!'

Ron Reagan

#73. If you stand back and look at it in a global sense you'll find this [Irish people in music] was happening everywhere. Which is just another example of a wave of artistic endeavour that changes. It reaches a certain point, learn from what its done and move on. We seemed to have picked up on that.

John Kinsella

#74. To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back.

Robert Henri

#75. People who have "their own issues" often don't stand back and look at the big picture- they're too busy orchestrating their own issues.

Laura Schlessinger

#76. It's a conversation that nobody really likes to have, and it seems that we never can get to a solution with it and something horrific happens. We all stand back and say, "How could we let that happen?" and then it goes away and we move on.

Katey Sagal

#77. When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#78. You have to teach 'em not to mess with you. You gotta be the big guy don't let him hurt you. If he hits you stand back up and beat the shit out of him.

Skye Perez

#79. Stop repeating what never worked in the first place. Stand back and ask for a new solution.

Deepak Chopra

#80. GENTRY: ......I can load up your groceries for you."
BLAIRE: Maybe I don't need the help.
GENTRY: ....Fine, I'll stand back and stare at your ass while you unload the groceries into your car. Better?

T.S. Joyce

#81. If [the devil has] brought you down, make sure that with Christ's enabling you stand back up.

Alistair Begg

#82. If life hands you lemons turn around and make grape juice then stand back and watch while everyone try's to figure out how the fuck you did it.

Emma O'Connor

#83. I guess a drag queen's like an oil painting: You gotta stand back from it to get the full effect.

Harvey Fierstein

#84. The door swooshed open. A tiny woman in a purple miniskirt, red boots, and a black T-shirt that read STAND BACK - I'M GOING TO TRY SCIENCE walked through. Miriam Shephard had arrived.

Deborah Harkness

#85. In my mind, the men and women of NASA are history's modern pioneers. They attempt the impossible, accept failure, and then back to the drawing board while the rest of us stand back and criticize.

Dan Brown

#86. I'm a bowling pin, even when I fall I'll always stand back up.

Jay Park

#87. You have to be prepared to think outside the box ... Stand back and think about what we could do creativity. We've got to do that to push the field forward.

Geoffrey Canada

#88. The success that Americans are said to worship is success of a specific sort: accomplished not through hard work, primarily, but through the ingenious angle, the big break. Sit down at a lunch counter, stand back up a star. Invest in a new issue and watch it soar. Split a single atom, win a war.

Walter Kirn

#89. We all are bound to those around us by glue, and to our pasts, and sometimes we need to dissolve it... They say you need to pull all the pieces apart and stand back to see how they fit together. Deconstruction. But what if then they can't be put back together?

Amanda Green

#90. Somehow I have been stunned. Stand back!
Give me a little time beyond my cuffed head and slumbers
and dreams and gaping,
I discover myself on the verge of the usual mistake.

Walt Whitman

#91. Hold these tears inside
Don't have the energy to cry
Stand back and breathe
Ice freezes in your veins

Alysha Speer

#92. I don't stand back and judge - I do.

John Lennon

#93. There is always a harmonious solution ... If you stand back and give yourself time to find it.

David Robertson

#94. Rather than the strength it takes to not lose, it's the strength to stand back up after a loss that is sometimes more valuable.

Kyo Shirodaira

#95. You are going to experience hurt, fear, pain, and possibly even heartache, but that's life. You stand back up, and you begin again. It's not easy. It sucks. And it might damage you, but that's how you build a thick skin. You take what life hands you , and you do your damn best to survive.

Brooke Cumberland

#96. How intense could you be? Can you be intense enough to pick this 500Lbs off the floor? Are you intense enough to pick this 700Lbs up? Squat down to the floor and stand back up? So what if your eyes are bloodshot! So what if your bones feel like snapping! WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO!

Kai Greene

#97. Only in our darkest hour do we find the light. Humans are destructive by nature. The world is lacking balance. Terrors are beginning to triumph over the simple joys. Stand back and watch, because you're going to be here when we fall.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

#98. The Art Snob will stand back from a picture at some distance, his head cocked slightly to one side

Russell Lynes

#99. The butterfly needs the hardship to make it strong enough to fly. The struggle pumps fluid to its wings and gives it the strength to survive. If I were to help it by cutting away the chrysalis, it would die. So all we can do is stand back and observe its own efforts to free itself.

Colleen Coble

#100. I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice ... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind.

Frank McCourt