Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown. . . they are so stupid and do not notice that I am standing up straighter!
There seems to be a hypnotic quality to ambition and speed, so that you feel that you are standing still just because you want to go so fast. You might actually be getting close to your goal.
Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.
In a perfect world, I don't think it [one's sexual orientation] is anyone else's business, but I do think there is value in standing up and being counted.
I never feel I'm standing on solid ground, and I do write with a certain kind of trembling fear.
I think some musicians can almost forget that the stage is something to do something on, even if that thing is standing still.
Perfectionism is really a manifestation of the belief that one's efforts are never good enough. Imagine: How many of the obstacles standing in your way are the product of your own imagination? What have you convinced yourself that you can't do? What limitations have you come to believe in? Your mind is very powerful and effective. Is it working for you, or against you?
For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?
It was one of the most disgusting spectacles I've ever seen-- this white-haired old man, who should have been thinking of the hereafter, standing there lying like an actor.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
Those that perished in Hitler's gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
People in this world shun people for being great, for being a bright color, for standing out. But the time is now, to be OK with being the greatest you.
If a principle exists it must be immutable, for that is what a principle is - a truth standing apart from the mood of the times.
People who blame the Bible for the modern destruction of nature have failed to see its delight in the variety and individuality of creatures and its insistence upon their holiness. But that delight-in, say, the final chapters of Job or the 104th Psalm-is far more useful to the cause of conservation than the undifferentiating abstractions of science. . . Reverence gives standing to creatures, and to our perception of them, just as the law gives standing to a citizen.
Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.
I didn’t want the person standing there, beside the bed, to have the same face I’d found so attractive at the airport. But you were there all right: the blue eyes, blondish hair, and tiny scar. Only you didn’t look beautiful this time. Just evil.
The theater's much the most difficult kind of writing for me, the most naked kind, you're so entirely restricted. . . . I find myself stuck with these characters who are either sitting or standing, and they've either got to walk out of a door, or come in through a door, and that's about all they can do.
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I’d be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.
Better die standing than live kneeling.