Stand Anything Quotes

#1. A strange species we are, We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much, and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy, sick.
John Steinbeck to Adlai Stevenson

John Steinbeck

#2. I can't stand Liverpool. I can't stand the people. I can't stand anything to do with them.

Gary Neville

#3. Wolfgang von Goethe:A man can stand anything, except a succession of ordinary days.

Jacqueline Winspear

#4. When there's love enough you can stand anything. When there isn't, you can stand nothing. Living together every day you find out a lot you didn't know, and love can't keep still. It's got to grow or die.

Kate Langley Bosher

#5. When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, Can we stand anything else?

George McGovern

#6. Take a stand; go for the right choice. Don't just sit for anything; stand for something. Be specific because sometimes, when the meaning is not clear, there us absolutely no meaning!

Israelmore Ayivor

#7. I've always said it takes more courage to stand back there and throw a ball knowing you're fixing to get drilled than anything I can think of in football.

Bobby Bowden

#8. Stand up for what you believe in, because you can fall for anything.

Les Brown

#9. Without compassion, we will never know anyone or anything, not even our own story. Too much judgment, too many ideas and attitudes will stand in the way of the fundamental principle that we are similar to, connected with, and part of everything else.

Deena Metzger

#10. If you're going to do a Chris Christie joke, just say, 'Christie spent $82,000 at a concession stand at MetLife Stadium. Then he turned to his friends and said, 'You guys want anything?' That's a joke. I can't believe it. I caved in. I feel awful.

Jimmy Fallon

#11. If there is anything more frightening than the threat of global nuclear war, it is the certainty that humans not only stand on the verge of producing new life forms but may soon be able to tinker with them as if they were vintage convertibles or bonsai trees.

Michael Specter

#12. I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career - anything for a laugh.

Bob Uecker

#13. All of us are different. That's what makes us interesting and special. I don't want to be anything like another person. I want to be totally myself and go against the grain, forge my own path. I've learned that being different is what makes you stand out. It makes everything so much more intriguing.

Alicia Keys

#14. I have no idea what I'm going to say when I stand up to give a toast. But I do know that anything I say I find funny.

Don Rickles

#15. Fuck, she was so sick of herself-herself and her fucking emotional retardation. How did people do this shit all the time, this wanting people, caring about them? How did they stand it, how did they ever get anything done? She was sick of being lost.

Stacia Kane

#16. Ever since I was a child I have been a strong believer in the principle that to under-stand how anything works you need to take it apart and look at it in detail. This principle that worked with toys also works pretty well with search.

David Amerland

#17. My husband would do anything for me ... ' It's degrading. No human being ought to have such power over another."
"It's a very real power, Harriet."
"Then ... we won't use it. If we disagree, we'll fight it out like gentlemen. We won't stand for matrimonial blackmail.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#18. I had that hunger, that desire, to be successful and I wasn't going to let anything stand in my way.

Jerry Rice

#19. In 1994, the College Board changed the test's name from Scholastic Aptitude Test to the Scholastic Assessment Test. Now according to the College Board, the letters don't stand for anything anymore. Perhaps that itself is symbolic.

Alexandra Robbins

#20. It started as a selfish act and has turned into a way of life. I can't stand to watch someone throw anything away that belongs in my green bin.

Jen Hatmaker

#21. Criticism involves taking a position, Mr. Day. How long has it been since you took a considered position on anything important?

Allan Dare Pearce

#22. I don't do anything specific for the stage. I'm just myself. I can't stand still for five seconds. I'm normally quite active, so that just comes out on stage. If I see people react to me and my music, I just have to give back and express myself.

Shreya Ghoshal

#23. First let me take a piece of chalk and draw a circle round you, so you're safe. There. Now I'll stand guard, keeping a weather eye open for anything threatening, and we can catch up with each other while we wait.

Helen Simpson

#24. If we have no idea what we believe in, we'll go along with anything. Truth takes courage. Courage to stand up for what we believe in. Not necessarily in a confrontational way, but in a gentle yet firm way. Like an oak tree, able to sway gently in the wind, but strongly rooted to the ground.

A.C. Ping

#25. I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I'd give that a twist.

Dylan Moran

#26. Don't do anything as an individual that will make you stand out from your teammates.

Mike Krzyzewski

#27. I stand up and then scoop her into in my arms like I'm some kind of hero. Only I'm no hero. I'm just a man in love. Though there's never been anything more courageous than loving someone.

Karina Halle

#28. Your online life is a variety show, so if anything, the fact that you didn't put me in your stand-up act means you covet me. Maybe even more than I realize, since right now your hand is heading to your cunt yet again.

Caroline Kepnes

#29. I don't see anything wrong with telling someone that you are selfish with their love and that you can't stand sharing them with anyone else.

Vic Fuentes

#30. Or that I couldn't stand to watch anything bad happen to you, because it was like it was happening to me too. Is that love?

Jennifer Echols

#31. This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don't stand for anything and are impatient with people who do. It's possible to do this job with honor and dignity.

Matt Taibbi

#32. I love stand-up more than anything, and I'm so happy to have found a way to use it in the show.

Louis C.K.

#33. If you don't stand for anything, you don't stand for anything!

George W. Bush

#34. A wise man once said that we can't make anyone feel or do anything. We can throw things into the wind, but it's up to each person to decide how they want to react, where they want to stand when things fall.

Jonathan Maberry

#35. If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

Abraham Lincoln

#36. I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.

Agnetha Faltskog

#37. When I started caregiving, I was not on very firm ground. My first marriage had dissolved. I was working at an ice-cream stand in my thirties. I learned that when you don't have anything to give, that's when you really give, and then you get back so much more.

Jonathan Evison

#38. What I really wanted more than anything was to put my boss on the floor and stand on his throat and watch him gag.

Scott Carrier

#39. Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there.

F. Murray Abraham

#40. This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon anyone outside, but stand up, lay the blame on yourself. You will find that is always true. Get hold of yourself.

Swami Vivekananda

#41. I don't really think of things in terms of legacy or where I stand in the history of Nintendo or anything like that.

Shigeru Miyamoto

#42. If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask.
If you want a different kind of love I'll wear a mask.
If you want to strike me down in anger here I stand.
If you want a partner in life take my hand.
I'm your man.

Leonard Cohen

#43. I'm a big eater. I mean, a lot of my stand-up is about food, and you write about what you know, and that's the only thing I know. I don't know anything else.

Jim Gaffigan

#44. To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.

Zig Ziglar

#45. Today we live in a cash-for-trash world. Anyone can stand up and say anything unkind, unfair or completely untrue about you, and then they are rewarded financially for it ... because life is unfair.

Kathie Lee Gifford

#46. Yeah, it's been pretty gnarly. It's fun. It can only be fun, unless you're really squirmy about that. Honestly, during that guts episode, they didn't tell Andrew and I anything. They just put trenchcoats on us and said, "All right, just stand right here and we're going to put this stuff on you."

Steven Yeun

#47. If you want to be a writer, you should go into the largest library you can find and stand there contemplating the books that have been written. Then you should ask yourself, 'Do I really have anything to add?' If you have the arrogance or the humility to say yes, you will know you have the vocation.

Margaret Atwood

#48. By the time I got into Juilliard, I was working at a Target distribution warehouse. It didn't make anything, it just shipped things, and my job was just to stand there and look at the security codes on the back of trucks and see if they would lock, and check them in.

Adam Driver

#49. The problem with most leaders today is they don't stand for anything. Leadership implies movement toward something, and convictions provide that direction. If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything

Don Shula

#50. I want to get to the point where one day I don't have to have anything but a rug and a microphone stand on stage and still be able to sell out places like Madison Square Garden, like Bruce Springsteen does.

Demi Lovato

#51. I don't stand a chance When you look at me that way I'll do anything you want me to Anything for you And I'll shout it for the whole world to know Oh, honey, that's what you do to me And I don't mind at all

Emma Chase

#52. [When asked: "If women voted, would they not have to sit on juries?":] Many women would be glad of a chance to sit on anything. There are women who stand up and wash six days in the week at 75 cents a day who would like to take a vacation and sit on a jury at $1.50.

Anna Howard Shaw

#53. If I have learned anything over this last year it's that you have to live your own life too so that if something we hoped for doesn't work out, you still have two legs to stand on, you still have your own path.

T.S. Krupa

#54. 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

#55. Anything is possible if you get off your 'BUT' and STAND!

Sean Stephenson

#56. Why should I let anything stand in the way of life, liberty, and the pursuit of vivisection? I

Jeff Lindsay

#57. The truth is, I would do anything for Alan Rudolph. If he asked me to stand on my head and spit wooden nickels, I would. I love him. I loved working with him.

Lesley Ann Warren

#58. The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.

Vince Lombardi

#59. As one widow put it to me, Strength doesn't mean being able to stand up to anything, but being able to crawl on your belly a long, long time before you can stand up again.

Mark Matousek

#60. If things get too much for you and you feel the whole world's against you, go stand on your head. If you can think of anything crazier to do, do it.

Harpo Marx

#61. To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.

Og Mandino

#62. When I'm focused, there is not one single thing, person, anything that can stand in the way of my doing something. There is not. If I want something bad enough, I feel I'm gonna get there.

Michael Phelps

#63. I sort of consider myself a comedic actress, not a comedienne. I think it's different. You know, I'm not a stand-up or anything, but playing into comedic situations is sort of where, I think, my strength lies.

Zooey Deschanel

#64. When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for him, Diogenes is said to have replied: 'Yes, stand a little less between me and the sun.' It is what every citizen is entitled to ask of his government.

Henry Hazlitt

#65. 'Stand and Deliver' has been the most successful thing I have done in my life. So many people have seen it. There was really no need for me to do anything else.

Edward James Olmos

#66. Set your goals, follow your dreams, listen to your heart and don't let anything stand in your way.

Brandy Johnson

#67. It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing.

Harvey Pekar

#68. To find real peace you have to let the armor go. Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.

Jim Carrey

#69. I do not think there was anything abusive in my house. Yet, I stand by a lot of my critiques of Western parenting. I think there's a lot of questions about how you instill true self-esteem.

Amy Chua

#70. You are not any different. You can do anything you want. So many times, I've been asked what I think of women stand-ups. If you actually look around, there are so many female comedians starring in the biggest TV shows.

Lilly Singh

#71. Do you think... do you think people ever learn anything?

Stephen King

#72. I really don't want to do anything that resembles stand-up comedy. But I will agree to say that I am doing it, and I will hope that people expect it to be that, so I can thwart those expectations.

Lucas Neff

#73. You see, the thing is, if you don't do anything to your face, and you get old, and you can stand up, and you can remember your lines, the work is there.

Judy Parfitt

#74. I will do anything for you, just don't go anywhere. Just don't leave. Stand there and smile at me, and I'll do anything you want.

Lilith Saintcrow

#75. If faith is a valid tool of knowledge, then anything can be true 'by faith,' and therefore nothing is true. If the only reason you can accept a claim is by faith, then you are admitting that the claim does not stand on its own merits.

Dan Barker

#76. Failure is another emotion I cannot stand to feel, because in adult life I have conditioned myself not to fail at anything. Failure takes me straight back to the feelings of worthlessness I grew up with as a stammering, reclusive little boy.

Jake Wood

#77. I can't stand reading anything that I've said.

Larry David

#78. Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for - because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Peter Marshall

#79. When Alexander the Great addressed him with greetings, and asked if he wanted anything, Diogenes replied Yes, stand a little out of my sunshine .

Diogenes

#80. The thing about stand-ups is you can't really get good unless you're failing in front of a large number of people. That makes stand-up comedy unique: you need a tremendous amount of reserve within you to take the rejection from the audience, and without it, you can't do anything.

David Steinberg

#81. After all, if freedom of speech means anything, it means a willingness to stand and let people say things with which we disagree, and which do weary us considerably.

Zechariah Chafee

#82. Any idiot can stand in front of a target. It doesn't prove anything except that you're bullying him. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.

Veronica Roth

#83. You've got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything
You've got to be your own man, not a puppet on a string

Aaron Tippin

#84. I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.

Franz Kafka

#85. It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one.

Robert Capa

#86. For a moment, without thinking of anything else, Jenny was simply proud of him. Fiercely, passionately proud that a human, a seventeen-year-old who hadn't even heard of the Shadow Men until a month ago, could stand up to them like this. Could conceal his terror and smile that way and offer to die.

L.J.Smith

#87. I didn't need him to say anything. I just needed him to stand there and hold me.

Courtney Allison Moulton

#88. There isn't anything you can't stand if you are only born and bred to it.

Mark Twain

#89. And I know it doesn't last for anything more than a second
sometimes there is perfect understanding between two people who can't stand one another.

Gary D. Schmidt

#90. Don't die before your dead! Don't let anything stand in your way of God's appointed purpose for your life.

Rick Husband

#91. I'm a stand-up comic. Anything else I do besides that is a plus, but stand-up comedy is what I do, it's what I've been doing and it's what I'm going to keep doing.

Dave Attell

#92. But the truth is, feelings don't change anything. To change something, you have to say things out loud. Do things. Take chances. Take a stand" -Riley

Jeff Garvin

#93. If I've learned any one lesson from life, it's this: If you don't stand for something, you will stand for anything.

Ginger Rogers

#94. There is your car and the open road, the fabled lure of random adventure. You stand at the verge, and you could become anything. Your future shifts and warps with your smallest step, your shitty little whims. The man you will become is at your mercy.

Dan Chaon

#95. When you come to the place where you can't do anything else, you must stand still and believe ... When you can't do anything, let God do it all.

James MacDonald

#96. After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means - and that if we stand together, we can accomplish anything.

George Pataki

#97. The emergent movement is creating a mushiness to the thinking patterns in Christianity today. It's like we really can't stand for anything.

Eric Ludy

#98. Man, you learn so much just like with anything else. If you do something long enough, you learn. You make mistakes. You run into roadblocks and barriers. You overcome obstacles. You fall down. I mean you have to fall down to learn to stand up.

Chuck Ragan

#99. Why, after all, did she do these things? why seek pinnacles and stand drenched in fire? Might it consume her anyhow! Burn her to cinders! Better anything, better brandish one's torch and hurl it to earth than taper and dwindle away ...

Virginia Woolf

#100. I was terrible in English. I couldn't stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention - it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.

Richard P. Feynman