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:

    A poore widow, some deal stape in age,
    Was whilom dwelling in a narrow cottage,
    Beside a grove, standing in a dale.
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    If a person lost would conclude that after all he is not lost, he is not beside himself, but standing in his own old shoes on the very spot where he is, and that for the time being he will live there; but the places that have known him, they are lost,—how much anxiety and danger would vanish.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    When we stand the truth on its head we generally fail to notice that our head is not standing where it should be standing either.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)