Why Stand In Line?

I get a standing ovation just standing. - George Burns

Why fit in when you were born to stand out? - Dr. Seuss

If you want to move up you must first stand out. - Tom Peters

You stand out more by being weird than fitting in. - Emma Tupa

Give me a place to stand and I'll move the world. - Archimedes

Acting is standing up naked and turning around slowly. - Rosalind Russell

There are things you stand up for because it's right. - Nikki Giovanni

Lines of gulls standing on glassy blue patches of wet sand. - Cathleen Schine

Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Psychiatrist: an M.D. who can't stand the sight of blood. - Unknown

Sometimes it takes a really good fall to know where you stand. - Hayley Williams

I know how to make decisions and stand up to the criticism every day. - Michael Bloomberg

Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides. - Euripides

If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much. - Marian W. Edelman

A standing army is one of the greatest mischiefs that can possibly happen. - James Madison

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. - Confucius

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. - Emily Dickinson

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid. - Hedy Lamarr

I believe that if you'll just stand up and go, life will open up for you. - Tina Turner

Don't stand shivering upon the bank; plunge in at once, and have it over. - Sam Slick

We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still. - Mignon McLaughlin

There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore looking like an idiot. - Steven Wright

I will never stop doing stand-up; that's my career, but I will do movies in Hollywood. - Russell Peters

The most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights. - Ziggy Marley

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. - Winston Churchill

I wish I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. - Bernard Berenson

I was determined to share my positive approach and not let diabetes stand in the way of enjoying my life. - Paula Deen

Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. - Charles Peirce

From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it. - Tony Hillerman

Being President is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but stand there and take it. - Lyndon Johnson

You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few moments; then the wind blows your footprints away. - Arlene Blum

When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then do something. Don't just stand there; make something happen. - Lee Iacocca

He who would learn to fly on day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I stand up for what I believe. I don't know if it's always paid off for me, because I've been ridiculed and humiliated. - Kevin Costner

Can't figure women. Sometimes they're afraid of a spider, other times they're not afraid to stand right up to the devil. - Donal Harding

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes. - Taylor Swift

Dream big - dream very big. Word hard - work very hard. And after you've done all you can, you stand, wait, and fully surrender. - Oprah Winfrey

Perseverance: outlasting the most rash, pessimistic, cowardly naysayers; those first in line to deny us the dreams never tried. Ourselves. - R.S. Guthrie

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. - Winston Churchill