Standing

Standing

Standing, also referred to as orthostasis, is a human position in which the body is held in an upright ("orthostatic") position and supported only by the feet.

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Famous quotes containing the word standing:

    “There is no going back,
    For standing still means death, and life is moving on,
    Moving on towards death. But sometimes standing still is also life.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still. Like when they say, “As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.””
    —Jean Rhys (1894–1979)

    “I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)