Stands Quotes
1686 Stands quotes by 1249 unique authors
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I am very proud to be called a pig. It stands for pride, integrity and guts.
— Ronald Reagan
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Use the formula P=40 to 70, in which P stands for the probability of success and the numbers indicate the percentage of information acquired. Once…
— Colin Powell
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Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.
— Herman Melville
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Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft.
— Ann Patchett
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They don't stand for anything different in South Africa than America stands for. The only difference is over there they preach as well as practice…
— Malcolm X
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Looking out at that crowd, I imagined those who had not yet arrived, minority students who, in years to come, would make this multitude of…
— Sonia Sotomayor
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I'm normally the guy that stands off in the corner.
— Josh Turner
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A platform is something a candidate stands for and the voters fall for.
— Gracie Allen
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I do not even hate the Talib who shot me. Even if there was a gun in my hand and he stands in front of…
— Malala Yousafzai
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Behind the parents stands the school, and behind the teacher the home.
— Abdul Kalam
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There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the cross-roads of history and must choose which way to go.…
— Lal Bahadur Shastri
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I find it most true that the greatest temptation outside of hell is to live without temptations; if water stands, it rots; faith is the…
— Samuel Rutherford
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The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.
— Don DeLillo
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Every artist, every scientist, every writer must decide now where he stands. The artist must take sides. He must elect to fight for freedom or…
— Paul Robeson
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Among the basic freedoms to which men aspire that their lives might be full and uncramped, freedom from fear stands out as both a means…
— Aung San Suu Kyi
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We pick politicians by how they look on TV and Miss America on where she stands on the issues. Isn't that a little backwards?
— Jay Leno
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One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is to remove the…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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If a sinner comes into your assembly or you otherwise come into contact with him, remember that he is a human being for whom Christ…
— J. Vernon McGee
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Strong emotional experiences are for the most part impersonal. Anyone who has hated another person so much that only chance stands between that person and…
— Robert Musil
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The child learns to believe a host of things. I.e. it learns to act according to these beliefs. Bit by bit there forms a system…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The nation was not founded by habitual groupthinkers. But it stands a fair chance of being destroyed by them.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash'd palings, Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of rich green, with many a pointed…
— Walt Whitman
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The idea that a reporter has to be 'fair and balanced' is ridiculous. The fact is, the truth usually is not fair and it's not…
— Lou Dobbs
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I find the only thing that really stands up, better than gambling, better than booze, better than women, is reading.
— Mario Puzo
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An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the…
— George Catlin
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