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Quotes About Standing

My reputation precedes me now.
~ Dwayne Johnson
Partly, I like a bad reputation. But I also want a reputation of being a good person.
~ Joan Jett
Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.
~ Mason Cooley
Let's face it: I've got a bit of a reputation.
~ Boy George
I don't think I'll ever get away from my reputation.
~ Craig Bellamy
I kind of have a bad-guy reputation.
~ Matt Barnes
In the hierarchy, the artist faces outward. Meeting someone new he asks himself, What can this person do for me? How can this person advance my standing?   In the hierarchy, the artist looks up and looks down. The one place he can't look is that place he must: within.
~ Steven Pressfield
must have looked forsaken standing there because she clucked her tongue against the roof of her mouth and said, "Poor Miss Sarah." I did so despise the attachment of Poor to my name. Binah had been muttering Poor Miss Sarah like an incantation since I was four.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
They say in extreme moments time will slow, returning to its unmoving core, and standing there, it seemed as if everything stopped.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences...
~ Susan B. Anthony
We die when we refuse to stand up for justice.
~ Susan Wiggs
It is by miracles we have lived to see this day, — any of us standing here.
~ Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Sophia, sandals off, was standing at the water's edge. -Disappearing Earth
~ Julia Phillips
Maurice Richard c'est tout le Québec qui est debout. Qui fait peur et qui vit.
~ Félix Leclerc
As men and women seek to find independence from God, they have lost a sense of purpose in life. The worth of human personality is often equated with what we do for a living. However, a person's occupation, community standing, or bank account is not what is important in God's eyes.
~ Billy Graham
And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.
~ Bob Dylan
A gentleman, I hope it will become clear, is not simply a man who stands apart. He is a man who stands up for others—sometimes even for his enemies—often when those others have no clue that he is there for them.
~ Brad Miner
Myron?" He turned back to Clip. The old man was standing now. His eyes looked moist. "Have a good game tonight," he said softly. "It's only a game, after all. Remember that." Myron nodded, discomfited yet again by Clip's demeanor. He jogged ahead and caught up with Win.
~ Harlan Coben
Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.
~ Harper Lee
Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.
~ Harper Lee
Still, when you get to a certain age, and have created your own lifestyle and social standing, and only then start having grave doubts about your value as a human being
~ Haruki Murakami
Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg.
~ Haruki Murakami
I can't find the image, I said to myself. I'm thirty, I'm standing still, and I can't find the image.
~ Haruki Murakami
It's an honor to stand for God, and if we want to know where we should be standing, the red letters in the Bible will never steer us wrong.
~ Monica Johnson