S Quotes
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“Standing armies shall in time be totally abolished.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of Immanuel Kant (Illustrated)
“Standing at a certain distance, you might have a different perception of me and my tiny universe. But darling, is my love too less or are you blind to walk away from a universe that only consists of you?”
“Standing at my door, I heard the discharge of a gun, and in four or five seconds of time, after the discharge, the small shot came rattling about me, one or two of which struck the house; which plainly demonstrates that the velocity of sound is greater than that of a cannon bullet.”
“Standing at the bus stop sucking on a lollipop
Once she gets pumping its hard to make the hottie stop”
“Standing at the edge of my fears
And contemplating them
Is a healthy exercise.
The extent of the boundaries
Of who I believe myself to be.
What is in question as I stand
Safely at the border of myself
And think of leaping
Or continuing on?
What happens when I walk
To the extent of "I"
And then keep walking?
Who am I then?”
Source: Senses
“Standing at the edge of our city, a man could feel that we had made this place of streets and dwellings in the stillness of the desert, and that we had done a brave thing... Or a man could feel that we had made this city in the desert and that it was a fake thing and that our lives were empty lives, and that we were the contemporaries of the jack rabbits.”
“Standing at the edge of time
Almost falling down to the dark abyss
As I near the end of mine
I reminisce the things I will miss
The smiles and laughter
Running around without a care
The time when my grin will never falter
Being so free, willing my soul to bare
Heartaches, heartbreaks and tears
Now I know better and to myself I will never lie
Because in woe, I learned to love and never fear
Those were the best and worst moments of my life
As the memories rush back to me
I look down and now I feel relieved
Because when it is time
Everything will be fine when I leave”
“Standing at the original Victorian counter was a man in a long black leather coat. His hair had been grown to counteract its unequivocal retreat from the top of his head, and was fashioned into a mean, frail ponytail that hung limply down his back. Blooms of acne highlighted his vampire-white skin.”
Source: The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise
“Standing at the window, reading the menu of Obediah's services, the Minotaur wishes he could believe in what she has to offer: a promise woven into deep lines of his palm, some turn of fate told by a card. But faith is a nebulous thing and charlatans a dime a dozen; it's always been that way. The Minotaur both envies and pities the devout.”
Source: The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break
“Standing at this liquor store, whiskey coming through my pores, feeling like I run this whole block”
“Standing atop the mountain...Happiness is all that surrounds.”
“Standing back so someone can walk the rest of their path alone is often the most difficult part, especially when you care.”
Source: Kingdom of the Feared
“Standing before a camera isn't intimidating. It's more comfortable for me. I enjoy it now. I'm more aware of what to do.”
“Standing before her was the eleven-feet tall by fifteen-feet wide masterpiece, encased in a modern steel frame and protected behind glass.”
Source: The Arnolfini Art Mysteries
“Standing before the awesome majesty and magnitude of the universe is so intimidating that many of us cry out for mediators—the state, gurus, evangelists with coifed hair—all with their own agendas of gain. The purveyors of the marketplace frequently denounce those who learn to respect their own encounter with mystery as "gnostics." Well, gnosis means "knowledge." If I can learn from my direct experience of the universe, and am haunted by them when I ignore them, then why not live my life according what I have learned directly, rather than what is mediated by others, however sincere their motivation may be?”
Source: Hauntings: Dispelling the Ghosts Who Run Our Lives
“Standing before this building, I learn something about fear. I learn that it is not the idle fantasies of someone who maybe wants something important to happen to him, even if the important thing is horrible. It is not the disgust of seeing a dead stranger, and not the breathlessness of hearing a shotgun pumped outside of Becca Arrington’s house. This cannot be addressed by breathing exercises. This fear bears no analogy to any fear I knew before. This is the basest of all possible emotions, the feeling that was with us before we existed, before this building existed, before the earth existed. This is the fear that made fish crawl onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run, the fear that makes us bury our dead.”
Source: Paper Towns
“Standing before you as the advocate of the lower races, I declare what I believe cannot be gainsaid...that just so soon and so far as we pour into all our schools the songs, the poems, and literature of mercy toward these lower creatures, just so soon and so far shall we reach the roots not only of cruelty, but of crime.”
“Standing behind a kitchen counter telling people about what ingredients to put in a pot didn't feel right.”
“Standing behind him, Michaelis saw with a shock that he was looking at the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg, which had just emerged, pale and enormous, from the dissolving night. “God sees everything,” repeated Wilson.”
Source: The Great Gatsby
“Standing beside her grandmother's deathbed, woolen dress still smelling of black logwood dye, Ade had felt the way a sapling might as it watched one of the old forest giants come crashing magnificently to rest: awed, and perhaps a little frightened. But when Mama Larson's final breath rattled from her ribs, Ade discovered the same thing the young sapling would have: in the absence of the old tree, there was a hole in the canopy above her.”
Source: The Ten Thousand Doors of January
“Standing between these two guys you'd have to be me to know how I'm feelin'!”
“Standing by and doing nothing while a sin is committed is as bad as committing the sin itself”
“Standing by the crib of one's own baby, with that world - old pang of compassion and protectiveness toward this so little creature that has all its course to run, the heart flies back in yearning and gratitude to those who felt just so toward one's self. Then for the first time one understands the homely succession of sacrifices and pains by which life is transmitted and fostered down the stumbling generations of men.”
Source: Mince Pie: Adventures on the Sunny Side of Grub Street
“Standing each by his monster, they looked at each other, and smiled”
“Standing exposed on a rooftop, with no railing and the wind whipping about him, threatening to pull him flailing and screaming to the ground? That held no interest for him.”
Source: The Con Job
“Standing facing the door in an elevator and pretending you're the only person there, no matter how crowded it is.”
“Standing for truth is everything. Truth is power. Don't ever forget that.”
Source: The First Confessor: Sword of Truth: The Prequel
“Standing Here My entire world far beneath my feet, I should be filled with pride. Instead, I feel overwhelmed by a sense of defeat. Suddenly it comes to me, toes tempted to test the ledge, that there is a way out of this. Clam surety flows through my veins, and as I turn to wave good-bye, I wonder if it will hurt or if a single person will cry at my funeral. I take a deep breath, a final taste of sweet mountain air. I conjure Leona, Emily. Move my feet closer. Closer There's Grandma One, Grandma Two, and their spouses, waiting for me. I see Dad. Cara. Mommy. I screw up my courage, step over”
“Standing here now, looking across the valley toward the facing hill, Jess could imagine how homesick Isabel must have felt at times. She herself had been thinking of 'home' a lot. Home, she'd realized, wasn't a place or a time or a person, though it could be any and all those things; home was a feeling, a sense of being complete. The opposite of 'home' wasn't 'away,' it was 'lonely.' When someone said, 'I want to go home,' what they really meant was that they didn't want to feel lonely anymore.”
Source: Homecoming
“Standing here, in this quiet house where I can hear the birds chirping out back, I think I’m kind of getting the concept of closure. It’s no big dramatic before-after. It’s more like that melancholy feeling you get at the end of a really good vacation. Something special is ending, and you’re sad, but you can’t be that sad because, hey, it was good while it lasted, and there’ll be other vacations, other good times.”
“Standing here, staying here, permanent here, eternal here, and we have one goal, one, one: to be.”
“Standing in a garage no more makes you a car than standing in a church makes you a Christian.”
“Standing in a two-hour line makes people worry that they're not living in a democratic nation. People stand in line for two houres and they go over the edge.”
Source: Holidays on Ice
“Standing in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory.”
“Standing in front of a microphone where every word or every slip that you make, especially in these times, is with you forever - you want to say the right thing. I fell into having to extemporize, and it came okay because of tools I've learned. I said [to myself], "Remember [to mention] mom and dad."”
“Standing in Front of the Mirror of Eternity
Dressed By True Existence
Looking to Your Own Reality
In the Ocean of Oneness”
“standing in line is a form of oppression”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“Standing in line to vote! We can do anything!”
“Standing in our power demands that we be vulnerable, listen to our own voice, and take risks outside the comfort of what we know.”
“Standing in our power requires us to let go of the need to make others like us & instead stand committed to honoring ourselves.”
“Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living.”
“Standing in the corridor was a large plastic bin on wheels. He looked inside. Empty tins of dog food. That explained the spaghetti with meat sauce. Oh well, he'd eaten worse.”
“Standing in the light of mercy undeserved I come to understand a Love of God than no one can measure!”
Source: Application Commentary On Friendship: The Book Of Ruth
“Standing in the line at the food court, I try to be myself. But I forget how I usually stand when I'm myself.”
Source: When It Happens
“Standing in the middle between the idea of an event and the actual event, a strange kind of physical reality just in the middle between possibility and reality.”
“Standing in the middle of nowhere, wondering how to begin. Lost between tomorrow and yesterday, between now and then.”
“Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.”
“Standing in the nordic nook of the kitchen, I can gaze down at the flimsy-limbed joggers heading south towards the Park. It's nearly as bad as New York. Some of these gasping fatsos, these too-little-too-late artists, they look as though they're running up rising ground, climbing ground. My generation, we started all this. Before, everyone was presumably content to feel like death the whole time. Now they want to feel terrific for ever.”
Source: Money
“Standing in the park, I was wondering why a frisbee looks larger the closer it gets...then it hit me”
“Standing in the ring of fire, the eye of the storm, the vortex of pain and pressure is simultaneously the most vulnerable and most powerful place to be. Here we embody paradox. We stand our ground and surrender completely. Here we know the full power of the Feminine.”
Source: Burning Woman