Stood Quotes
1356 quotes by 999 authors
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She tied her blond hair back with a strip of denim torn from her pants leg, and in the fiery light of the river, her…
— Rick Riordan
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We can heal. Perhaps we can return to that same place we once stood, when we were both young and innocent.
— Marie Lu
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I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.
— Charles Bukowski
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I swallowed the fear. It’s always there– fear– and if you don’t stay on top of it, you’ll drown. I swallowed again and stood tall,…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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That space the Evil One abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, Of guile, of hate,…
— John Milton
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Till I, high in the tower of my time Among familiar ruins, began to cry For accident, sickness, justice, war and crime, Because all died,…
— Howard Nemerov
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Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by…
— Margaret Atwood
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Those words are from Lynda Barry's novel 'Cruddy.' I've carried them with me for some time. There's a lot in my life I wasn't expecting.…
— Jack Dorsey
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Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.
— John Milton
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The remaining liberty of the world was to be destroyed in the place where it stood.
— Lucan
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Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange believe that it is the word of God has…
— Thomas Paine
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Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.
— Theodore Parker
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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a…
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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I also had a will that let me eliminate everything that stood in the way of my becoming the best dancer I could be. By…
— Twyla Tharp
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From the moment of my birth, the angels of anxiety, worry, and death stood at my side, followed me out when I played, followed me…
— Edvard Munch
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Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully…
— Theodore Parker
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I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to…
— Pat Boone
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No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
— Lord Acton
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I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched it thunder into…
— Wallace Stegner
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My mother always told me that no matter how much you dislike a person, when you meet them face to face you will find characteristics…
— Larry Flynt
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