Stand Quotes

I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.

~ Nadia Giosia

The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.

~ Bernard Tschumi

I'm totally committed to the cause of individuality. That's the only thing I stand by: independence.

~ Juliana Hatfield

I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.

~ Calvin Trillin

I'm glad I'm not bisexual. I couldn't stand being rejected by men as well as women.

~ Bernard Manning

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

~ Earl Nightingale

Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.

~ Steve Earle

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

~ Ansel Adams

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.

~ Jesse Jackson

I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are 'among the most unspeakable crimes in history.' I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.

~ Noam Chomsky

We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States.

~ Susan Sarandon

Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.

~ Allen Tate

This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.

~ Louise Slaughter

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

~ Miguel De Cervantes

Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.

~ Douglas Horton

Those who seek to profit by division don't stand a chance.

~ Henry Rollins

Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.

~ Euripides

I guess I've always been attracted to people who stand out as individuals - people who are adventurous and take chances.

~ Carmen Electra

I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.

~ Bob Marley

A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.

~ Molière

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

~ Clara Barton

Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?

~ Thomas Sowell

I've said I'll stand for a full second term, but I think after that it will be time for new leadership. Terms are like Shredded Wheat - two are wonderful but three might just be too many.

~ David Cameron

I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.

~ Barbara Feldon

The history of using mice to stand in for humans in medical experiments is replete with failures.

~ Gary Wolf

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.

~ Louisa May Alcott

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

~ Billy Graham

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

~ Robert Green Ingersoll

All we can do is find the courage to stand still and to look backwards.

~ Joshua Oppenheimer

There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.

~ Geraldine Brooks

Now that I've got some films under my belt, I have the courage of my convictions regarding acting. It gives me a leg to stand on.

~ Mira Sorvino

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

~ Charles De Montesquieu

I stand before you a totally healthy person.

~ Melissa Etheridge

I try to travel as light as possible to avoid baggage issues. Los Angeles airport is notorious for baggage delays, so I'll often FedEx a suitcase ahead or back so I don't need to stand around; it also minimises problems at check-in.

~ Kyle Maclachlan

Every year in late June, Custer's Last Stand is reenacted on the high plains of Montana. When Custer led out the 7th Cavalry in 2003 - the year I witnessed it - the audience stood and cheered with turbo-charged patriotism.

~ Clive Sinclair

Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith.

~ Garth Brooks

In prayer, we stand where angels bow with veiled faces. There, even there, the cherubim and seraphim adore before that selfsame throne to which our prayers ascend. And shall we come there with stunted requests and narrow, contracted faith?

~ Charles Spurgeon

We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.

~ Ted Cruz