“There are certain things in the scripts that need to be planned: you know, big stunt sequences, battle sequences... you can't improvise that stuff. You can improvise when there's just two of you standing in a kitchen and the most dramatic thing that's going to happen is someone's going to open the fridge.” KnowsNeedsTwoBigsHappensCertainStuffBattleStandingScriptsDramaticKitchenSequenceFridges Author:Tom Hiddleston
“If you go back into military history, the person who's leading the troops ought to be in with the troops and not just standing on the backline sending them into battle.” IfsPersonsMilitaryOughtBattleStandingTroopsMilitary History Author:Richard Branson
“Heroism is not fighting some big battle. It is not standing up to some fearsome foe ... Heroism is every day getting up with a mission to show this world that you are going to light it up with your spirit, to make the best out of yourself.” WorldShowsBigsLightSpiritFightingThis WorldBattleStandingMissionsHeroismFoe Author:Cory Booker
“I was standing next to a famed geo-politician when the first news of the Argentine attack [on the Faulkland Islands] was received, and heard him muse incredulously: "An old-fashioned naval battle. A war between two civilized nations, perhaps with even a declaration of war, and later a peace conference. Wow." No hostages, no nukes, no ideologies, no religious fanaticism; just a fair-and-square war over national interests - hard to believe, in this day and age.” FirstsBelieveTwoWarHardAgeNextNationsPeaceInterestReligiousHeardPoliticianBattleNewsFairsStandingIdeologyIslandsCivilizedThis DaySquaresWowMuseDeclarationOld FashionedConferencesFanaticismHostageHard To BelieveNavalNational InterestsNukesCivilized NationsDeclaration Of War Author:William Safire
“It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.” TruthLyingPleasureSeaAdventureHonorBattleStandingWindowErrorsShipsWanderShoreCastlesMistTempest Book:Complete Essays Source: Complete Essays
“I'm here to change things so that little girls have someone to look up to. I'm here to fight the eating-disorder battle that millions of people are having and I'm standing up and saying that's not okay. Frankly, I can't fail. I will not fail.” PeopleLooksLittlesI CanGirlFightingMillionsFailingBattleEatingStandingOkayLook UpDisorderEating DisorderNot Okay Author:Whitney Thompson
“The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.” ShouldLongPoliticalPoliticsIndividualRightsBattleStandingCountenanceIndividual RightsStanding Alone Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
“Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.” SometimesAbleRevolutionBattleStandingBlessedArena Book:A Burst of Light: and Other Essays Source: A Burst of Light: and Other Essays
“There was no honor in war, less in killing, and none in dying. But there was true dignity in how men comported themselves in battle. And there was always honor to be found in standing for a just cause and defending the defenseless.” MenWarFoundCausesDyingHonorBattleStandingDignityKillingDefenseless Author:Michael Scott
“... there’s also nothing noble about being fearless. How much do you wanna bet the last man standing in a battle is usually the biggest fool of all?” - Paul Hudson” MenLastsFoolBattleStandingNobleFearlessLast Man Standing Author:Tiffanie DeBartolo