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“Don't you want to stand still with me?”
Sex and the City
“To be is to stand for.”
Abraham J. Heschel
“Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.”
Walt Whitman
“The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.”
Colin Wilson
“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“For what is it to die, But to stand in the sun and melt into the wind?”
Khalil Gibran
“When I was little, my grandfather used to make me stand in a closet for five minutes without moving. He said it was elevator practice.”
Stephen Wright
“The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.”
Phillip Brooks
“Stand a little less between me and the sun”
Diogenes
“Among the many thousands of things that I have never been able to understand, one in particular stands out. That is the question of who was the first person who stood by a pile of sand and said, "You know, I bet if we took some of this and mixed it with a little potash and heated it, we could make a material that would be solid and yet transparent. We could call it glass." Call me obtuse, but you could stand me on a beach till the end of time and never would it occur to me to try to make it into windows.”
Bill Bryson
