Stood Quotes
1356 quotes by 999 authors
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Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.
— Joseph Parry
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It turned out in the long run that Lincoln's credit and the popular confidence that supported it were as valuable both to his creditors and…
— John George Nicolay
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Night after night, through years of performing and directing, I've stood in awe of the audience, of its capacity for response. As if by magic,…
— Robert McKee
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The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time.
— Ayn Rand
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The Peace Corps represents some, if not all, of the best virtues in this society. It stands for everything that America has ever stood for.…
— Sargent Shriver
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There in the mist, enormous, majestic, silent and terrible, stood the Great Wall of China. Solitarily, with the indifference of nature herself, it crept up…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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I'll tell you how I'd like to be remembered: As a black man who won the heavyweight title - Who has humorous and who never…
— Muhammad Ali
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Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before,…
— Albert Einstein
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Nobody has the right to shield any idea as so sacred it can’t be challenged. ... Almost all human progress is driven by people who…
— Glenn Greenwald
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It was lucky that the linesman wasn't stood in front of me as I would have poked him with a stick to make sure he…
— Ian Holloway
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As I stood in the booth chatting to people, it occurred to me that besides good racing, the Crew Classic provided an ideal setting for…
— Brad Alan Lewis
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Another boat, a straight-four, four sweep oarsmen without a coxswain, raced through our flotilla. I looked at them as they jetted past, and I quickly…
— Brad Alan Lewis
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With options thus foreclosed, in order to protect and defend the nation and clear the obstacles that stood in its path, a decisive appeal to…
— Hideki Tojo
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I remember the day I turned thirty. I was getting out of the shower and I stood in front of the mirror and stared at…
— Terry McMillan
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I remember the first time I saw him play. It was for a Sporting CP youth team. I told my assistant, 'There goes Van Basten's…
— Jose Mourinho
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The Masonic Fraternity is one of the most helpful mediating and conserving organizations among men, and I have never wavered from that childhood impression, but…
— William Howard Taft
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The men began to trade tales of atrocities, first stories they had heard, then those they'd witnessed, and finally the things that had happened to…
— Toni Morrison
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Eighteen months ago, when first I stood before you I called attention, as earnestly and seriously as I knew how, to what looked to me…
— J. Reuben Clark
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So much of what we said sounded crazy, yet none of it was false... as if two theoretical physicists stood on stage to say that…
— Richard Bach
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They wanted to speak, but could not; tears stood in their eyes. They were both pale and thin; but those sick pale faces were bright…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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