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  • The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal.

  • That was the one thing she knew now. Some chances came and went, and if you missed them, you could spend the rest of your life standing alone, waiting for an opportunity that had already passed you by.

    Kristin Hannah (2013). “Kristin Hannah's Family Matters 4-Book Bundle: Angel Falls, Between Sisters, The Things We Do for Love, Magic Hour”, p.297, Ballantine Books
  • The standing ovation threw me. ... To be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.

    Ovation   Towns   Talent  
    "Blame Phil Collins: 'South Park' loses song Oscar to 'Tarzan'" by Porter Anderson, www.cnn.com. March 26, 2000.
  • Not so deep down, we all know that safety is an illusion, that only character melds us together. That’s why most of us do everything we can (healthy and unhealthy) to ward off that real feeling of standing alone so close to the edge of the world.

    Real   Character   Safety  
    Kiese Laymon (2016). “How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America”, p.72, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?

  • 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.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, you know, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there's no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that's standing ten feet to eleven feet tall! Can you imagine? But it was fascinating to work that close to that kind of animal.

    Animal   Play   Feet  
  • Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

  • Well, I'm not a member of the permanent political establishment, and I've learned quickly these last few days that if you're not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone.

    Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota
  • A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company

    "Ethics and Citizenship". Book by John Walter Wayland, p. 208, 1924.
  • A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.

  • 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.

  • Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

  • Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.

    Dr. Laurence J. Peter, Raymond Hull (1969). “THE PETER PRINCIPLE WHY THINGS ALWAYS GO WRONG”
  • At present, man applies to nature but half his force. He works on the world with his understanding alone. He lives in it, and masters it by a penny-wisdom; and he that works most in it, is but a half-man, and whilst his arms are strong and his digestion good, his mind is imbruted, and he is a selfish savage.

    Strong   Selfish   Work  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.46, Library of America
  • Bright was the summer's noon when quickening steps Followed each other till a dreary moor Was crossed, a bare ridge clomb, upon whose top Standing alone, as from a rampart's edge, I overlooked the bed of Windermere, Like a vast river, stretching in the sun.

    Summer   July   Rivers  
    William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.492
  • 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.

    NEA Journal: The Journal of the National Education Association‎, Volume 41 (p. 300), 1952.
  • But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

    Writing   Sitting   Lines  
  • I like to record with people. I don't particularly enjoy standing alone and recording my own voice or my own stuff. It's sometimes fun to do for demos and stuff, but I really enjoy the social act of recording records, because writing it is so lonely. And it has to be.

    Lonely   Fun   Writing  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • It is almost inevitable that our faith will be challenged. We may at times find ourselves surrounded by others and yet standing in the minority or even standing alone concerning what is acceptable and what is not. Do we have the moral courage to stand firm for our beliefs, even if by so doing we must stand alone?

    May   Minorities   Belief  
  • I feel that racial profiling may be a very complicated and long-standing problem. It will take a long time even to make tiny progress.

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

  • Blue moon you saw me standing alone Without a dream in my heart Without a love of my own.

    Dream   Heart   Sadness  
    "Song: 'Blue Moon'". 1952.
  • It was mind-blowing. It was a small place with 2,000 standing-up tickets. It's great to have your band back and working and playing again, people have been so generous.

  • There is something obscure which is complete before heaven and earth arose; tranquil, quiet, standing alone without change, moving without peril. It could be the mother of everything. Not knowing its name, I call it Tao.

    Mother   Moving   Names  
  • We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.

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

  • Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

    Travel   Writing   Mind  
    Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.700, Simon and Schuster
  • I'm just a simple man standing alone with my old brushes, asking God for inspiration.

  • 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.

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