Quotes About Standing

Evie is standing halfway down the big staircase in the manor house foyer, naked inside what's left of her wedding dress, still holding her rifle.

Pete Corley stood up—which was like watching a closet full of broomsticks animating all at once under a sorcerer's spell.

the twelve basic sub positions that are used at the Masters Club. Wait and wait up are two basic standing poses. Wait means you stand with legs slightly apart, arms in box position behind your back. Wait up is similar, except you cross your wrists above your head so he has easier access to your body.

heard some shouting behind him. He turned to see Moro standing in front of his tent wearing his holster. For a moment

There is a sadness at the back of life which some people do not attempt to mitigate. Entirely aware of their own standing in the shadow, and yet alive to every tremor and gleam of existence, there they endure.

standing, as now, lean as a knife

meant us," she whispered. "I destroyed us." His fingers tightened against her cheek. "I'm not destroyed." Her breath stopped. "I'm scarred." He withdrew his hand and closed it carefully into a fist at his side. Again it slid in search of a pocket, but found none in which to bury itself. "I'm battered. But I'm still standing, Kai.

Whatever happens, I will stand beside her. ~Lucius

With credibility comes influence.

The minister pitied his new friend from the bottom of his heart, and yet there was a humorous side to the situation. To think of a man of this one's attainments and standing being afraid of a mere girl, afraid of two girls! His own children!

Always take a stand for what is right. And If you end up standing alone, then dammit, stand alone.

There is nothing intelligent about not standing up for yourself. "Staying silent is a trait of a true coward. You may not win every battle... However, everyone will at least know what you stood for—YOU.

We Canadians are standing for freedom. Knowing our best friend, the

So "I'm standing in Wal mart, I hear something inside my body. The noise is coming up, coming out, of the broken place, in my face. If I let the noise get out into the air, it will be laughter, too loud, too much of it, someone is bound to hear.

Tarkin had lost all sense of how long he had been standing in the viewport bay when Vader's fury brought him back to the moment. "This freighter is to be tractored aboard the Executrix for a thorough inspection. The crew is to be kept in detention until I'm through interrogating them.

we have a Gene-IE to grant us wishes," he said. Darlene brushed past in her white coat. To my surprise, Eliza was at the computer desk behind the lab door and looked up at me. "You took your time," she said with a glint in her green eyes. "Leaving us to do all the work." I had an overwhelming urge to hug her, which I didn't fight. She responded very tightly, then slowly broke away. "What are you doing standing

I think, as time passes, people will come to see that the United States' credit standing is really not quite the same level as the ones that we rate AAA.

Passion and standing up for things can help create a sense of unity. But you still have to act a certain way.

There is a great need to rally the women of the Church to stand with and for the Brethren in stemming the tide of evil that surrounds us.

Men and women of high professional standing have been reduced to the status of vagrants.

The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally during the past year that the crop has acquired a commercial standing far in excess of its previous status.

Stay strong. Stand up. Have a voice.

How much do you wanna bet the last man standing in a battle is usually the biggest fool of all?" Absorbing his words was like taking a drink of hot tea. They burned on the way down, but soothed my insides once they had time to cool off. We

Literature keeps presenting the most vicious things to us an entertainment, but what it appeals to is not any pleasure of these things, but the exhilaration of standing apart from them and being able to see them for what they are because they aren't really happening. The more exposed we are to this, the less likely we are to find an unthinking pleasure in cruel or evil things. As the eighteenth century said in a fine mouth-filling phrase, literature refines our sensibilities.