Stand Quotes
7661 Stand quotes by 4427 unique authors
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The good I stand on is my truth and honesty.
— William Shakespeare
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The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life - this much we can stand.…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Ladies and gentlemen of the press, I stand before you a free man. Free in body, free in spiret and free in mind! It has…
— Don King
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Making a hundred friends is not a miracle. The miracle is to make a single friend who will stand by your side even when hundreds…
— John Spence
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At the end of the day - the long day of your life - as people stand around your grave no one will talk about…
— John Spence
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Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
— Robert Kennedy
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Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.
— Mary Stewart
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First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he…
— Kristin Hunter
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My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive,…
— Robert Browning
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Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might overwhelm or damage…
— Margaret Atwood
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Water is one of the basic needs of survival of mankind and water can destroy it, too. That is the power of NATURE. But there…
— Vikas Khanna
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When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down into…
— Billy Eckstine
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Drink, eat, jump and dance as much as you can stand tonight, but not too much, because you are fifty now.
— Menachem Mendel Schneerson
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I cannot stand being awake, the pain is too much.
— Spike Milligan
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Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.
— Lactantius
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This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for…
— Walt Whitman
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Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
— Tammy Wynette
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It is always the first and last steps that are the hardest to take. We walk away and try not to turn back, or we…
— Dinaw Mengestu
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I stand before you today as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency of the United States. I am not the candidate of…
— Shirley Chisholm
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People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God our forces stand again on Philippine soil—soil consecrated in the blood of…
— Douglas MacArthur
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Late in August the lure of the mountains becomes irresistible. Seared by the everlasting sunfire, I want to see running water again, embrace a pine…
— Edward Abbey
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In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.
— Edward Abbey
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I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a simple view of…
— Edmund Burke
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Church and State, Soul and Body, God and Man, are all one at Mont Saint Michel, and the business of all is to fight, each…
— Henry Adams
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