Stand Quotes

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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
Few of us will do the spectacular deeds of heroism that spread themselves across the pages of our newspapers in big black headlines. But we… — Wilferd Peterson
This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there… — Anna Julia Cooper
The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life. — George Santayana
A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of… — Thorstein Veblen
Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity. — Tony Blair
I want every American to be free to stand up for his rights, even if sometimes he has to sit down for them. — John F. Kennedy
A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size, or it is not the door that providence means for him. — Henry Ward Beecher
Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results. — George Bernard Shaw
Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to the… — Abraham Lincoln
However, they have not acquired a perfect mastery of the art of lying; they lie so clumsily and ineptly that anyone who is just a… — Martin Luther
I will always stand firm to protect the sanctity of marriage. I believe it is important to work with people to find common ground on… — George W. Bush
I believe it is in the national interest that government stand side-by-side with people of faith who work to change lives for the better. I… — George W. Bush
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in. — Sydney J. Harris
He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three… — Charles Caleb Colton
But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before; though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where. Men… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Few of us stand prosperity; another man's I mean. — Mark Twain
We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us; God has provided for this, by appointing his angels… — Thomas Aquinas
Myself, and all the Angelic Host, that stand in the sight of God enthroned, our happy state hold, as you yours, while our obedience hold.… — John Milton
I hate turkeys. If you stand in the meat section at the grocery store long enough, you start to get mad at turkeys. There's turkey… — Mitch Hedberg
The thing I try to get across to the writers - and I do a lot of writing, too - is that when I do… — Chris Rock
You stand up for your teammates. Your loyalty is to them. You protect them through good and bad, because they'd do the same for you. — Yogi Berra

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