Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.

Punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am.

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.

My early memories are full of football talk around the house, of Dad standing on the terraces at Ayresome Park, of the occasional precious new pair of boots.

I think standing and fighting and working alongside all of these people that raise their right hand and serve their nation... really wipes away the distractions of some of the petty things we think are important at home.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

An entire nation, it seemed, was standing in one long breadline, desperate for even the barest essentials. It was a crisis of monumental proportions. It was known as the Great Depression.

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

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

I find standing and posing for photos very awkward.

Scars show toughness: that you've been through it, and you're still standing.

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

There is no standing still because time is moving forward.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

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.

In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.

Empathy is about standing in someone else's shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place.