The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.
Douglas Haig

The later it gets the more disturbed the city becomes. I go with Albert through the streets. Men are standing in groups at every corner. Rumours are flying. It is said that the military have already fired on a procession of demonstrating workers.
Erich Maria Remarque

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
William Blake

The noise resembles the roar of heavy, distant surf. Standing on the stirring ice one can imagine it is disturbed by the breathing and tossing of a mighty giant below.
Ernest Shackleton

The Peking man was a thinking being, standing erect, dating to the beginning of the Ice Age.
Davidson Black

The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.
Margaret Chase Smith

The standing orders of the Parliamentary Party, however, apply to me, apply to every other Member of the Parliamentary Labour Party and they put into a context the way in which those rights to freedom of speech should be exercised.
Ron Davies

The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.
Michael Caine

The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I was standing in the crib singing God Bless America.
Linda Lavin

The treble parade would have been the most perfect moment of my footballing life, but for the two people standing behind me, clearly already plotting their next move.
Robbie Fowler

The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally during the past year that the crop has acquired a commercial standing far in excess of its previous status.
David F. Houston

The Wall will be standing in 50 and even in 100 years, if the reasons for it are not removed.
Erich Honecker

There are a hell of a lot of jobs that are scarier than live comedy. Like standing in the operating room when a guy's heart stops, and you're the one who has to fix it!
Jon Stewart

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

There are two reasons why I'm in show business, and I'm standing on both of them.
Betty Grable

There is no standing still because time is moving forward.
Greg Lake

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

There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.
Jean Baudrillard

There is technique to it-he is just standing there flexing his arm, and I am standing there making faces as if I am being choked. You keep your head in a certain angle for the camera.
Ron Livingston

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