Stand Quotes

7661 Stand quotes by 4427 unique authors

The man who can face vilification and disgrace, who can stand up against the popular current, even against his friends and his country when he… — Alexander Berkman
When my children wake up in the morning they know they will eat breakfast, get hugs from their parents, go to a good, safe school.… — Susan Sarandon
We know that progress is not inevitable. But neither was victory upon these beaches. Now, as then, the inner voice tells us to stand up… — William J. Clinton
An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the… — Irwin Shaw
Avoid theatrical flourishes - the phrases that sound so damned good that they stand up and beg to be recognized as "good writing," and therefore… — Unknown Author
Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand. — Alan Cohen
Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering… — Max Lerner
A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand. — Mark Twain
One interesting indication of Capablanca's greatness is that to non-chess players his name was better known than the names of all other chess masters together!… — Fred Reinfeld
A good print is really essential. I want to take strong documentary photographs that are as good technically as any of the best technical photographs,… — Mary Ellen Mark
I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it,… — Diane Arbus
If there is any method in the way I take pictures, I believe it lies in this: See the subject first. Do not try to… — Bill Brandt
Images of people, cities, and landscapes from the air tell a unique story about our personal space and how we relate to one another. I've… — Vincent Laforet
If you can't stand the heat in the dressing-room, get out of the kitchen — Terry Venables
He's not a lad that likes to stand on his feet. — Chris Waddle
Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried in all soils,… — James Russell Lowell
Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it — Bobby Fischer
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry,… — Sylvia Ashton-Warner
For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of people if they… — Henry Ward Beecher
I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and… — Gary Snyder
Humankind can't stand too much reality. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Plato used the dialogue format because the exchange of views, the posing and answering of questions, showed that understanding is a living, dynamic process. He… — John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
Ye Gads, no! I couldn't stand the noise. — W.C. Fields
It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and hide the hearts… — Mahatma Gandhi
Last time I checked, Congress was created to uphold the values of the Constitution, not the Bible and its biased teachings. 'All men (including women)… — Barack Obama

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