Stands Quotes

1686 Stands quotes by 1249 unique authors

If you are afraid to write or edit or assemble or disassemble, you are merely a spectator. And you are trapped, trapped by the instructions… — Seth Godin
The routine of custom tends to deaden even scientific inquiry; it stands in the way of discovery and of the active scientific worker. For discovery… — John Dewey
I truly believe the book of philosophy to be that which stands perpetually open before our eyes, though since it is written in characters different… — Galileo Galilei
Pilgrimages of mind or walking meditation - bringing moments of illumination in which the sense of relationship to the rest of existence suddenly stands out… — David Fontana
Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals to motherland and… — George Packer
Throughout human history the waste of mind has been appalling, and, as this story is meant to show, society has conspired to promote it. No… — Henry Adams
What . . . is this testimony of Jesus, how can it be acquired, and what will it do for those who receive it? The… — Keith B. McMullin
Today, reishi stands out as one the most valuable of all polypore mushrooms in nature for the benefit of our health. Many naturopaths and doctors… — Paul Stamets
You didn't think that when you got up this morning that this would be the day your life would change did you? But it's going… — Robert H. Schuller
No one can stop a home run. No one can understand what it really is, unless you have felt it in your own hands and… — Sadaharu Oh
This human need for mysticism – surrender to an unknown truth, union – stands at the helm of all romantic feeling. It is, in essence,… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke
Some people are ignorant of the world but educated in Scripture, and are therefore prone to missing the relevance of Scripture - these sometimes, later,… — Criss Jami
I would rather have strong enemies than a world of passive individualists. In a world of passive individualists nothing seems worth anything simply because nobody… — Criss Jami
The philosopher stands at his desk in the lecture hall, and demonstrates away the soul of man, and with exact thought measures out his atoms… — Ouida
Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When the sovereign spirit within us is true to nature, it stands poised and ready to adjust to every change in circumstances and to seize… — Marcus Aurelius
As thou thyself art a component part of a social system, so let every act of thine be a component part of social life. Whatever… — Marcus Aurelius
In this initial illimitableness of possibilities that characterizes one who has no nature there stands out only one fixed, pre-established, and given line by which… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
In pulp fiction it is a rigid convention that the hero's shoulders and the heroine's balcon constantly threaten to burst their bonds, a possibility which… — S. J. Perelman
To understand one another, and to grow in charity and truth, we need to pause, to accept and listen to one another. In this way… — Pope Francis
All of Christian existence ... stands within an expectation. Its fulfillment may be sure, but its timing is unknown. — Luke Johnson
above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to watch over their… — Alexis de Tocqueville
One must not hesitate to innovate and change with the times. The leader who stands still is not progressing, and he will not remain a… — Vince Lombardi
America stands unique in the world: the only country not founded on race but on a way, an ideal. Not in spite of but because… — Ronald Reagan
Cities are the huge central dynamos of all being. The power of a man can be measured today by the mile, the number of miles… — Gerald Stanley Lee

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