Standing Alone Quotes

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.

Stand up for what is right even if you stand alone.

Stand up for what you believe in even if you are standing alone

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.

And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing.

We have more faith in what we imitate than in what we create

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.

You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.

A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rather than someone who is bashing a plank and is spitting all over a microphone.

Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.

We looked at each other standing on the podium, and I think we all were tearing up. But we had to keep it cool. I think we did. Then we let out a breath.

Men and women of high professional standing were reduced to the status of vagrants, unable to find employment and forced to eat the bitter bread of public or private charity.

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.

Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts; things she could have said.

The 90's are the 60's standing on their head.

I'm basically talking to the audience, standing alone, describing the weather. It's very rudimentary, the dialogue, saying what the weather is like that day.