Why Stand In Line?

Fall seven times, stand up eight. - Japanese Proverb

United we stand, divided we fall. - Aesop

on forever's very now we stand - e e cummings

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today. - H G Wells

There is Jackson, standing like a stone wall. - Bernard Bee

I love mankind... It's people I can't stand. - Linus Van Pelt

Being brave is only standing up when you're afraid. - Jon Steele

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. - Harry S Truman

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

If you stand up and be counted, someone will take your seat. - Unknown

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

All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall. - Alexandre Dumas

Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still. - Chinese Proverb

Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam. - Goethe

Sooner or later, even the fastest runners have to stand and fight. - Stephen King

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. - Isaac Newton

Someone has to stand up and speak for the freedoms of the little guy. - Christopher Monckton

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

I'm just a person standing in front of a salad, asking it to be a donut. - Unknown

I'm also just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her. - Notting Hill

I'm definitely an animal lover, and I stand up for all animals' rights. - Laura Mennell

I live in California, so I do stand-up paddle board, which is a killer workout. - Ashley Wagner

Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight. - Harvey Milk

If we tried to sink the past beneath our feet, be sure the future would not stand it. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved. - John Chrysostom

In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock. - Thomas Jefferson

You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.' - Earl Nightingale

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened. - Billy Graham

The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving. - Oliver Wendell-Holmes

When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again. - Albert Einstein

If I'm ever to reach any understanding of myself and the things around me, I must learn to stand alone. - Henrik Ibsen

The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. - George Jessel

Progress is a tide. If we stand still we will surely be drowned. To stay on the crest, we have to keep moving. - Harold Mayfield

To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity. - Richard Thompson

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained. I stand and look at them long and long. - Walt Whitman

You see something scary, you should stand up and step toward it, not away from it. Instinctively, reflexively, in a raging fury. - Lee Child

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity. - Elvis Presley

Fearlessness requires attention and receptivity - it takes focus to stand in the still eye of a tornado and not be swept away by it. - Susan Piver

Lawyers have the singular distinction of being able to play the hero and villain at the same time. Depending on where you stand in a courthouse. - Lenox Mhlanga

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it. - A Hodge