1.
If you live, live free
or die like the trees, standing up.
Mahmoud Darwish
If you exist, exist independently or persevere like the trees, unbowed.
2.
Standing here, staying here, permanent here, eternal here, and we have one goal, one, one: to be.
Mahmoud Darwish
Remaining here, persisting here, enduring here, perpetual here, and our purpose is unified: to exist.
3.
I would rather die standing up to live life on my knees.
Che Guevara
4.
The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.
Nikos Kazantzakis
5.
I find standing and posing for photos very awkward.
Nicole Kidman
6.
You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily see it, and people only get it when they're ready to get it.
George Harrison
7.
Better die standing than live kneeling.
Pericles
9.
Life doesn't actually knock you down. It does, however, provide you with many opportunities to evaluate your standing in life: what you stand on, what you stand for, how you stand within yourself and for yourself.
Iyanla Vanzant
10.
If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.
Harry Stack Sullivan
11.
Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown... they are so stupid and do not notice that I am standing up straighter!
Anna Freud
12.
It's mainly a few elite women who benefit greatly from standing with the forces that keep women down.
Catharine MacKinnon
13.
Living the gospel and standing in holy places is not always easy, but I testify that it is worth it.
Bonnie L. Oscarson
14.
You are only as good as the woman you are standing beside.
Charlie Chaplin
15.
There is not one obstacle standing in the way of your success anymore.
Jon Taffer
16.
It's fun to be liked, but when standing up for what you believe in, it's also very fun not to be liked.
Andrew Breitbart
17.
When I did not become enemies, then I understand that there was nothing standing.
Maria Callas
18.
I have spent the better part of my adult life standing up and fighting for working families.
Bernie Sanders
19.
Just be wrong. Just stand there in your wrongness and be wrong, and get used to it.
Josiah Bartlett
20.
Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it's time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.
Nas
21.
I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.
B.K.S. Iyengar
23.
There is no greater thing than standing victorious in the arena.
Crixus
24.
I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much – in just standing and staring.
James Herriot
25.
It becomes an emperor to die standing.
Vespasian
26.
If you don't have any shadows, you're not standing in the light.
Lady Gaga
28.
The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
Nadine Gordimer
30.
You can never evaluate anything standing from outside; you have to evaluate yourself first.
Aruna Roy
32.
A paradox is only a truth standing on its head to attract attention.
Alan Watts
33.
Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
Audre Lorde
34.
I will never apologize for standing up for my fellow Teamsters and all American workers.
James P. Hoffa
35.
I suppose I'm like most coaches now, standing on the sideline hoping somebody asks them a question.
Bobby Bowden
36.
My point is this: the more you have to lose, the braver you are for standing up.
Craig Silvey
37.
Never shoot up in the air when you're standing under it.
Woody Allen
38.
When you stand up for yourself, you are standing up for everyone who will follow your positive example!
Doreen Virtue
39.
I'd rather die standing than live on my knees.
Shania Twain
40.
I don't think our death ray is working. I'm standing right in it, and I'm not dead yet.
Jamie Hyneman
41.
You can dance in a hurricane, but only if you're standing in the eye.
Brandi Carlile
42.
I have always believed in standing up for what I believe in and I believe that everyone deserves the right to love whoever they love no matter who they are.
Josh Hutcherson
43.
The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
Dallas Willard
44.
It's not easy for me to admit that I've been standing in the same place for 18 years.
Denzel Washington
46.
Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.
Chuck Palahniuk
47.
Basically it's just a whole bunch of blokes standing around scratching themselves
Kathy Lette
50.
For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?
Jim Hodges