Stood Quotes
1356 quotes by 999 authors
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We thank those Senators, both Republican and Democrat, who stood firm against tremendous pressure from the Bush administration, pro-drilling members of Congress and their allies…
— Carl Pope
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And close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. And close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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I am not here to pass civilities or compliments with you, but on other business. I have stood your meanness as long as I intend…
— Nathan Bedford Forrest
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When I began my physical studies [in Munich in 1874] and sought advice from my venerable teacher Philipp von Jolly...he portrayed to me physics as…
— Max Planck
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The compulsory transfer of the [Palestinian] Arabs from the valleys of the proposed Jewish state could give us something which we never had, even when…
— David
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I remember as a ranger the first time I stood alone on Inspiration Point over at Canyon Station looking out over this beautiful land. I…
— Gerald R. Ford
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In the years since then, those four freedoms - freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear - have stood…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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And Americans have always stood ready to pay the cost in energy and treasure which are needed to make those goals a reality.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Thus I began my systematic though half-bewildered tour of Innsmouth's narrow, shadow-blighted ways. Crossing the bridge and turning toward the roar of the lower falls,…
— H P Lovecraft
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An ambassador for peace, Pope John Paul II stood steadfast against communism and condemned discrimination against all people.
— Shelley Berkley
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I was tired of an outlaw's life. I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I have never known…
— Frank James
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Everest is regarded as one of, if not the most challenging of human conquests. I was passionate about climbing and a great believer that one…
— Omar Samra
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Friendship is such an elastic word. There never was an age when it stood for so many things in private, and was yet so absolutely…
— Ouida
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And oft I thought (my fancy was-so strong) That I, at last, a resting-place had found: 'Here: will I dwell,' said I,' my whole life…
— William Wordsworth
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Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his…
— Bill Vaughan
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I stood in unimaginable trance And agony that cannot be remembered.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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I stood tip-toe upon a little hill, The air was cooling, and so very still, That the sweet buds which with a modest pride Pull…
— John Keats
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My favorite scene that I ever filmed was singing "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" from the balcony of the Casa Rosada in Argentina [where the…
— Madonna Ciccone
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I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head…
— Lou Gehrig
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If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
— Khalil Gibran
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