Stand For Anything Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. They all thought that civilized Germans would not stand for anything really rough happening." Szilard held no such sanguine view, noting that the Germans themselves were paralyzed with cynicism, one of the uglier effects on morals of losing a major war.

Richard Rhodes

#4. I didn't stand for anything. If I wanted to matter - even just to myself - I would have to be less free, by deciding to choose in some kind of definite way.

David Foster Wallace

#5. A religion that doesn't discriminate wouldn't exist, because it wouldn't stand for anything.

Janet Parshall

#6. The reality is that most companies are not about any values at all - they are about making money. It is extremely rare for a business to stand for anything because most businesses don't want to alienate potential customers, and if you believe in anything you are going to alienate someone.

Jerry Greenfield

#7. The Washington establishment think Republicans win elections by you don't stand for anything, you keep your head down, you don't rock the boat. You know what? Every time we do that, we get clobbered in the polls.

Ted Cruz

#8. They don't stand for anything different in South Africa than America stands for. The only difference is over there they preach as well as practice apartheid. America preaches freedom and practices slavery.

Malcolm X

#9. She'll let you put her in her place. But she won't stand for anything worse than first.

J. Raymond

#10. The State always stands for swindling, intrigue, and privilege, and cannot stand for anything else.

Ignazio Silone

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

George W. Bush

#16. Be one of the crowd? It went against everything a wizard stood for, and a wizard would not stand for anything if he could sit down for it, but even sitting down, you had to stand out.

Terry Pratchett

#17. Very few people can write in a crowd. This is a very solitary occupation. I have known people more talented than me who never made it. And the primary reason was always that they couldn't stand to be alone for several hours a day. Any writer worth anything has mastered the art. The art of solitude.

Tom Robbins

#18. If I've learned one thing in life, it's: Stand for something or you'll fall for anything.

Bonnie Hunt

#19. Em, I love you so much it hurts. I would do anything for you. I'd die for you, and I know you'd do the same, so don't you dare stand there and tell me you'd rather have a lifetime of nothing special than a few years of something extraordinary.

Kelley R. Martin

#20. If you are not willing to stand up for anything or anybody, then why should the Creator take a single step to help you?

Suzy Kassem

#21. I love to bake! I have a huge sweet tooth, and I love to make things like zucchini muffins, you know, anything decadent like that. And I stand by the claim that chocolate can be good for you! I love having a good piece of dark chocolate, one that's 70 percent or more cacao.

Lauren Bowles

#22. I hate that Mosul is falling, but I also think that for 10 years we have supplied the Iraqis and they can't stand up and do anything to defend their country, and it is all up to us?

Rand Paul

#23. So many times, people told me I can't do this or can't do that. My nature is that I don't listen very well. I'm very determined, and I believe in myself. My parents brought me up that way. Thank God for that. I don't let anything stand in my way.

Chantal Sutherland

#24. It's the notion that there is no perfection - that this is a broken world and we live with broken hearts and broken lives but still that is no alibi for anything. On the contrary, you have to stand up and say hallelujah under those circumstances.

Leonard Cohen

#25. Sometimes you're watching a great film actor, and if you stand 10 feet away from them, you're like, 'God, they're terrible. They're not doing anything.' And then you see the close-up, and it's so nuanced, and so much expression is happening. They were acting for that camera and for no one else.

Finn Wittrock

#26. I am a woman. I write SF. And it's not acceptable to treat me as anything less than an equal. I won't stand for it.

Ann Aguirre

#27. The Lazio fans always stop [at the bakery] on their way home from the stadium to stand in the street for hours, leaning up against their motorcycles, talking about the game, looking macho as anything, and eating cream puffs.
I love Italy.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#28. Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives.

Jim Rohn

#29. Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is not a good indication to pursue your dreams.

Euginia Herlihy

#30. Maybe I should stand outside the Adam & Eve store holding a sign reading "Single Mom, Anything Helps" and a cup for change.

Joanna Wylde

#31. Some songs, some nights won't do anything for you, but people enjoy them and that's the job. The magic is finding those places to stand in the song and gain perspective.

Justin Vernon

#32. I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn't stand the idea of being people tortured and that we even had such a thing as war. I hated the older generation, who had not done anything about it. Punk was a call-to-arms for me.

Vivienne Westwood

#33. What I'm doing is a dream come true but at the same time its work. It's like anything else. The only time it doesn't really feel like work to me is when I'm on stage and doing what I've prepared myself for my whole life which is to stand out in front of a crowd and sing.

Gretchen Wilson

#34. What you remembered? Probably. More or less. Different people remember things differently, and you'll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or not. You stand two of you lot next to each other, and you could be continents away for all it means anything.

Neil Gaiman

#35. Anything that threatens, hinders, obstructs, denies, delays your capacity to stand fully up for yourself, within yourself, take it down.

Iyanla Vanzant

#36. Don't let your cool stand in the way of being soulful. Life is too short. Too short to hate. Too short to judge. Too short not to live for. Don't let anything or anyone get the best of you or your heart and mind. If you are going down ... go down swinging, singing, and loving.

Butch Walker

#37. What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away. And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn't there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it.

Eugene T. Gendlin

#38. I kept being asked by corporations to do corporate gigs. And I said, 'I don't have anything. I'm not a stand-up. You want me to come sing show tunes for you? I don't think so.'

Jason Alexander

#39. ...as a woman who was raised with the idea that the world was at my fingertips, that anything I wanted could be mine for the taking, on the eve of my thirtieth birthday I am ready to stand up and say that trying to have it all is not all it's cracked up to be.

Anna Mitchael

#40. My advice to whoever asks me how to make a home is to not have anything, just a few shelves for books, some pillows to sit on. And then, to take a stand against the ephemeral, against passing trends ... and to return to lasting values.

Gae Aulenti

#41. Contrary to your beliefs, I am stronger then what you give me credit for, but the real lesson here is the knowledge to know I don't owe you an explanation to anything.

Nikki Rowe

#42. Sometimes
and I know it doesn't last for anything more than a second
sometimes there can be perfect understanding between two people who can't stand each other. He smiled, and I smiled, and we put the Timex watches on, and we watched the seconds flit by.

Gary D. Schmidt

#43. If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

Peter Marshall

#44. If we don't stand for something, you may be sure we will fall for anything.

Irene Dunne

#45. Choose a place to take a stand. Not where they can corner you but not where they can surround you, either. Find a weapon, a stick, a rock, anything. If you cannot escape, make them pay as dearly as you can for capturing you. Fight them all the way.

Robin Hobb

#46. 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

#47. 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

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

Les Brown

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

Bob Uecker

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. 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

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. 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

#59. 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

#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. A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.

Khaled Hosseini

#62. '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

#63. 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

#64. 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

#65. 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

#66. 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

#67. 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

#68. 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

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

Rick Husband

#70. I never wanted to have anything in my life that I couldn't stand losing. But it's too late for that.

Audrey Niffenegger

#71. Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.

Idries Shah

#72. When you've just done it, you're not sure. But when you've sat with it for a couple of hours and you don't want to do anything more to it, that's a great feeling. It can stand on its own two feet.

Damien Hirst

#73. I don't need you to make allowances for anything." Damn her pride. "If you can stand to pay for it, then I can wear it."
His brow arched. "Don't let your mouth write checks your body can't cash, sweetheart. Because trust me, I know exactly how to dress a woman for prime impact.

Lora Leigh

#74. How easy it was, she thought unhappily as she did it, for men and women. They could stand in a street and argue, flirt - they could kiss, make love, do anything at all - and the world indulged them.

Sarah Waters

#75. Have you ever taken a serious political stand on anything? Yeah. Sure. For twenty-four hours once I refused to eat grapes.

Woody Allen