Standing
The Bishop was aghast, and my father chuckled. “Yes, pig-ethics,” Ernest went on remorselessly. “That is the meaning of the capitalist system. And that is what your church is standing for, what you are preaching for every time you get up in the pulpit. Pig-ethics! There is no other name for it.” Bishop.
Author: Jack LondonTopics: Meaning, Preaching, Standing, System
Then he laughed, his typical laugh. Making me wish i had ten more such anectodes stashed away to keep him standing there, holding onto me and laughing.
Author: Gail GodwinTopics: Famous, Holding, Laughed, Laughing, Making, Standing, Wish
And if the world does turn, and if London burns, I’ll be standing on the beach with my guitar. I want to be in a band, when I get to Heaven. Anyone can play guitar, and they won’t be a nothing anymore..
Author: Thom YorkeTopics: Band, Burns, Famous, Feelings, Guitar, Heaven, Meaningful, Standing, World
I’ve been told I couldn’t do it a billion times in the past few weeks but I’m so happy I’ve done the two-sport thing and proved you can do amazing things. I’m glad I’m standing here as a role model showing people you can achieve these things if you put the hard work in.
Author: Kadeena CoxTopics: Achieve, Amazing, Billion, Dedication, Demotivating response, Famous, Fulfillment, Happy, Hard Work, People, Proved, Role Model, Self Belief, Self-Confidence, Self-Determination, Sports, Standing, Things, Times, True strength, True test
Acting is the most insecure profession in the world – you’re insecure if you’re successful, you’re insecure if you’re not. A tightrope walk without a net. It’s a miracle I’m still standing!
Author: Kabir BediTopics: Career Anxiety, Facing Fear, Failures, Famous, Insecure, Job Uncertainty, Miracles, Profession, Professional Risk, Rollercoaster, Standing, Successful, Unstable Employment
You have to respect your audience. Without them, you’re essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
Author: K. D. LangTopics: Alone, Audience, Famous, Impactful Roles, Importance, Singing, Standing
We have so many people who can’t see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one
Author: H. W. BrandsTopics: Advantages, Conclusions, Famous, Fat, Man, People, Standing
For a long time he stood at the window looking at the shining rails. They had always fascinated him. Squinting a little he saw them stretch away to infinity, carrying him off to his rediscovered youth.
Author: Gabrielle RoyTopics: Carrying, Famous, Fascinations, Infinity, Standing, Time, Window, Youth
I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Acceptance, Armies, Banking, Believe, Dangerous, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Funding, Futurity, Large scale, Meaningful, More, Name, Paid, Posterity, Principles, Sincerely, Spending, Standing, Swindling, Under
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Acceptance, Armies, Banking risk, Belief, Believe, Dangerous, Feelings, Inequality, Influence, Institutions, Liberties, Meaningful, More, Political, Power, Standing, Threat
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
Author: Franklin D. RooseveltTopics: Famous, Feelings, Forward, Forward-looking, Inspirational, Meaningful, Standing, Standing Here
By now, you’ve probably caught on to something: my mother is always standing by with just the right Scripture or inspirational saying to get me through any tough situation.
Author: Gabby DouglasTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Mother, Motivating, Saying, Scripture, Standing, Supporting, Throughout, Tough times
Education is what allows you to stand out
Author: Ellen Ochoa
Topics: Allowed, Almighty, Education, Education system, Educational Progress, Famous, Feelings, Lesson, Letting go, Life, Meaningful, Stand for, Standing, Standing Out
I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.
Author: Ellen Ochoa
Topics: Bachelor, Backed up, Background, Desire, Desire for Goodness, Desire for Peace, Education, Education system, Goodness, Stand Up, Standing, Struggling, Students, Studied
Standing at this liquor store Whiskey coming through my pores Feeling like I run this whole block
Author: Bruno MarsTopics: Drunk, Drunk man, Famous, Feelings, Life, Lightning, Like, Like me, Liquidating, Liquids, Listen, Meaningful, Standing, Standing Here, Suffer, Whisper
I’m standing in the ashes of who I used to be.
Author: HalseyTopics: Ashes, Famous, Meaningful, Standing
Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous
Author: Coco ChanelTopics: Fashion, Fashion Choices, Fashion Designers, Little Things, Live, Lived, Looking, Looking forward, Something, Something for nothing, Standing, Standing Here, Standing up, Women
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
Author: Ralph Waldo EmersonTopics: Famous, Life, Meaningful, Shadows, Standing, Sunshine
Instead of standing on the shore and proving to ourselves that the ocean cannot carry us, let us venture on its waters just to see.
Author: Pierre Teilhard de ChardinTopics: Famous, Meaningful, Ourselves, Standing, Ventured, Waters
Paradox has been defined as Truth standing on her head to get attention.
Author: Gilbert K. ChestertonTopics: Attentions, Famous, Head, Paradox, Standing, Truths
The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.
Author: Chinua Achebe
Topics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Shine, Shine Like, Standing, Standing Here, Understands, Undervalued, Will, Will power
The impatient idealist says: ‘Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.’ But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.
Author: Chinua Achebe
Topics: Earth, Fulfillment, Full understanding, Great peace, Impactful, Impatience, Lesson, Letting go, Stand, Standing
I would rather die standing up to live life on my knees.
Author: Che GuevaraTopics: Die, Die Empty, Live, Living Fully, Stand Up, Standing, Standing Here
The nights I don’t sleep it’s because there’s a higher calling telling me to stand guard.
Author: Charlie Sheen
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Guards, Life, Meaningful, Night, Sleep, Standing, Standing Here, Telling, Things, Thinking mind, Thoughtful manner, Thoughts
Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody’s looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you’re misunderstood.
Author: Charles R. Swindoll
Topics: Courage, Look, Looking, Mistakes, Misunderstood, Pain, Painful, Quite, Reading, Ready, Real, Reality, Realization, Standing