Stand Quotes

With homosexual marriage gaining converts among the young, the party of the Moral Majority declines to stand with Chick-fil-A.

~ Pat Buchanan

Until politicos take a true stand in defense of marriage by proposing an anti-adultery amendment to the Constitution, stop demonizing gays and lesbians when the one debasing your marriage is the individual in the mirror.

~ John Ridley

It's very important that you tell someone when you are being bullied - someone that you trust. You should never be quiet when you are being bullied or when you see someone being bullied. It's so important to stand up and say something.

~ Stephanie Mcmahon

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.

~ Galileo Galilei

I love mankind it's people I can't stand.

~ Charles M. Schulz

We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of infinite space because we cannot conceive of so much matter that our imagination will not stand upon the farthest star and see infinite space beyond.

~ Robert Green Ingersoll

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

~ Lyndon B. Johnson

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

~ Jeff Rich

No matter where you stand politically - even if you're unsure of what your political ideology is - it is important to take part in the process of shaping our government.

~ Brad Henry

The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.

~ Jack Lynch

I do not inveigh against higher education, I simply maintain that the sort of education the colored people of the South stand most in need of, is elementary and industrial. They should be instructed for the work to be done.

~ Timothy Thomas Fortune

When I go to Indian reservations in the West, and especially to the Pine Ridge Reservation, I sometimes feel unsure where to put my foot when I open the car door. The very ground is different from where I usually stand. There are fewer curbs, fewer sidewalks, and almost no street signs, mailboxes, or leashed dogs.

~ Ian Frazier

To have some idea what it's like, stand in the outside lane of a motorway, get your mate to drive his car at you at 95 mph and wait until he's 12 yards away, before you decide which way to jump.

~ Geoffrey Boycott

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

~ William Shakespeare

As a model, I really stand for not being a model, if that makes sense. When I started, the whole idea of the model was very different; it was a bit stuck-up. Not stuck-up, but no one was trying to have fun, or not even have fun, but be willing to smile.

~ Cara Delevingne

There's always something heroic and romantic about taking a stand against the powers that be.

~ Greg Gutfeld

In a romantic comedy, it's usually a good idea to have people who can't stand the fact that they are attracted to each other.

~ Amanda Peet

The attack on ObamaCare was that Congress does not have the power under the Commerce Clause to force a private citizen into a private contractual relationship. If such a thing is permitted to stand, the anti-ObamaCare forces argue, there will be no limit to Congress's power in the future.

~ John Podhoretz

Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.

~ Lillian Hellman

Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance.

~ F. Sionil José

Prose, poetry, and drawings stand side by side in a very democratic way in my work.

~ Günter Grass

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Listen, Bruce Lee fought out of anger. That's why they call it the 'Fists of Fury.' Michael Jackson danced with fury. I do stand up out of fury. I'm not mad at anybody. I'm not mad at any human being because I'm a human being.

~ Tracy Morgan

This stand wasn't because I feel like I'm being put down in any kind of way. This is because I'm seeing things happen to people that don't have a voice: people that don't have a platform to talk and have their voices heard and affect change. So I'm in the position where I can do that, and I'm going to do that for people that can't.

~ Colin Kaepernick

A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My home has to be filled with stuff - mostly paintings, sculpture, my fish lamps, cardboard furniture, lots of books.

~ Frank Gehry

Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.

~ Arnold Rothstein

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

~ Confucius

I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.

~ Sam Houston

I can't stand to watch anything that I'm in. I tear it apart. The worst thing you can do is leave me alone and let me watch what I'm in. It's abusive.

~ Elias Koteas

Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.

~ Susan Powter

When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.

~ Don Rickles

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

~ Karl Marx

But my humble opinion is, I'm not quite sure where I stand on the legalization of drugs - though, if tequila is legal, pot should probably be legal.

~ Ted Demme

We stand for free speech. This means we are not going to ban distasteful subreddits. We will not ban legal content even if we find it odious or if we personally condemn it.

~ Yishan Wong

In legal practice, in the representation of clients, I have always felt deeply engaged, serene, and not all inclined to stand aside. I have always done whatever needed to be done, and have usually gotten my way.

~ Louis Begley

I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized.

~ Jalal Talabani

Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize that freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted.

~ Larry Flynt

A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.

~ Marian Wright Edelman

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

~ Madeleine Albright