Top 100 Stand Quotes
#1. It is a good thing to stand away from the canvas from time to time and take a full view of the picture.
Winston Churchill
#2. One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom, not knowing what to do with oneself and one's life. Even if man had no monetary, or any other reward, he would be eager to spend his energy in some meaningful way because he could not stand the boredom which inactivity produces.
Erich Fromm
#3. Be friends with everybody. When you have friends, you will know there is somebody who will stand by you.
Charles M. Schwab
#5. Fate has carried me 'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breast To pierce another.
George Eliot
#6. You can cower," she told them in a clear voice, wrapping her long shaking fingers around the cold iron bars. "But I will stand.
Gwenn Wright
#7. You desire to tame everything, but if you just stand still and feel for a moment you would know how everything yearns to be wild.
Jim Dodge
#8. What's going on in this country? Unions stand against those trends. We've got to somehow insulate the robust American economy from this global economy that seems to want to devour our standard of living.
James P. Hoffa
#9. The boys went off to fight with swords while girls had to learn dog barks and owl hoots. No wonder princesses were so impotent in fairy tales, she thought. If all they could do was smile, stand straight, and speak to squirrels, then what choice did they have but to wait for a boy to rescue them?
Soman Chainani
#10. When we cannot stand certain people, we try to have suspicions about them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#11. The westward march has stopped, upon the final plains of the Pacific; and now the plot thickenswith the change, the pause, the settlement, our people draw into closer groups, stand face to face, to know each other and be known.
Woodrow Wilson
#12. I am no coward sir! I shall stand and fight!"
"Well, I am," said Sal. "So can we go ... please?
Alex Scarrow
#13. I know the youth of India. They are not merely asking for things. The youth wants to stand of their own feet and live a life of pride and dignity.
Narendra Modi
#14. I never knew if I would get my own show, but I knew I loved stand-up.
Anthony Jeselnik
#15. We're losing our way as a society. If we don't stand up, if we don't say what we think those rights should be, and if we don't protect them, we will very soon find out that we do not have them.
Edward Snowden
#16. The public wants elected officials who have character. The public wants elected officials who are willing to stand up and say things, even if they don't agree with them.
Michael Bloomberg
#17. Indifference, Gundhalinu, is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it. It lets neglect and decay and monstrous injustice go unchecked. It doesn't act, it allows. And that's what gives it so much power." He
Joan D. Vinge
#18. My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.
Pauly Shore
#19. It's dangerous to cherry-pick a few stand-alone verses, particularly when they are used as a weapon to silence and intimidate, effectively benching half the church5 in the midst of holy harvest season when the harvest is plentiful and the workers are few.
Sarah Bessey
#20. When you stand, you can see everyone's weak spots.
Kirejan Javier
#21. If no one was gutsy enough to stand by her, she'd stand by herself.
Darcie J. Gudger
#22. As for politics, I'm an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can't stand caged animals. People must be free.
Charlie Chaplin
#23. I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.
Barry Manilow
#24. People always complain about something. If you face yourself and stand up strong, you're OK. You can't go wrong.
James Hetfield
#25. And it was funny, that they call it falling, because that was what it was. The ground giving up underneath you. The surge of air. He did not stand a chance.
Bill Cheng
#26. The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.
Anthony Storr
#27. You must be deadly serious in training. When I say that, I do not mean that you should be reasonably diligent or moderately in earnest. I mean that your opponent must always be present in your mind, whether you sit or stand or walk or raise your arms.
Gichin Funakoshi
#28. We stand for a use of color free from the imitation of things as colored objects. We stand for an aerial vision in which the material of color is expressed in all of the manifold possibilities our subjectivity can create.
Carlo Carra
#29. Will the devil be home?"
"My grandma is not the devil," Ben said, smiling despite the insult. "Besides, isn't the devil a male?"
"I thought so until I met your grandma. Could you tell her to stop calling me Fatty?"
"You could stand to lose a little weight.
Victor Kloss
#30. I don't do drugs. If I want a rush I just stand up when I'm not expecting it.
Dylan Moran
#31. Jesus meant us to ast God to hep us stand the pain, not beg Him to take the pain away.
Olive Ann Burns
#32. You better stand tall when they're calling you out, don't bend, don't break, and don't back down!
Jon Bon Jovi
#33. In that instant she knew what it must feel like to cross a river into a foreign country, and then set fire to the bridge behind you, and stand on the riverbank, watching and breathing deeply as your only chance of retreat went up in smoke.
Stephen King
#34. Be strong enough to stand alone,
be yourself enough to stand apart,
but be wise enough to stand together,
when the time comes
Unknown
#35. The kind of love which makes us stand against everyone and defend a stranger is the strongest one.
M.F. Moonzajer
#36. A man of peace shall always live in peace, if all chances are given and only shall he stand to fight for his rights if peace and freedom isn't granted to him.
Auliq Ice
#37. most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead.
Jonah Berger
#38. I can not stop despair but I can stand up & speak truthfully against it to make it uncomfortable every time it knocks on my door!
Bullying Ben
Timothy Pina
#39. How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#40. Sometimes the future changes quickly and completely, and we're left with only the choice of what to do next. We can choose to be afraid of it, to stand there trembling not moving, assuming the worst that can happen or we step forward into the unknown and assume it will be brilliant.
Sandra Oh
#41. ps.146.8 Jehovah is loosing the prisoners, Jehovah is opening (the eyes of) the blind, Jehovah is raising the bowed down, Jehovah is loving the righteous, ps.146.9 Jehovah is preserving the strangers, The fatherless and widow He causeth to stand, And the way of the wicked He turneth upside down.
Anonymous
#42. His life was gentle; and the elements
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!
William Shakespeare
#43. Only when we stand in the truth and fight with it, can God Himself come and begin to confirm His Word.
Sunday Adelaja
#44. I always figured we were born to fly, one way or other, so I couldn't stand most men shuffling along with all the iron of the earth in their blood. I never met a man who weighed less than nine hundred pounds.
Ray Bradbury
#45. Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.
John Madden
#46. The place where you are now is vital. The path toward victory opens from where you stand.
Daisaku Ikeda
#47. And I needed a rock. Something to hold onto, to stand on. Something solid. Because everything was going soft, turning into mush, into marsh, into fog. Fog closing in on all sides. I didn't know where I was at all.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#48. The Band advances to the cadence of the flute, and has no call for retreat. Its code is Stand and Die.
Steven Pressfield
#49. Mother," said little Pearl, "the sunshine does not love you. It runs away and hides itself, because it is afraid of something on your bosom. Now, see! There it is, playing a good way off. Stand you here, and let me run and catch it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#50. Stand up and be strong! No fear. No superstition. Face the truth as it is!
Swami Vivekananda
#51. Sometimes it seems to stand still. Like you're in a bag and you can't get out and somebody's always telling you that it will get better with time and time just seems to stand still and laugh at you and your pain.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#52. New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It's a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just to stand still.
Barbara Walters
#53. I want you all to stand; will you do that for me, please?
James Dickey
#54. It takes practice to stand with others facing pain of death, and it helps if you don't have to do it all alone. We should practice on the small stuff so that we will be better able to stand together for what we believe and for what we love, who may someday need our support.
Megan McKenna
#55. When I'm feeling a little low, I put on my favorite high heels to stand a little taller.
Dolly Parton
#56. I really like birds. Everyone always wants me to say that I can't stand to go near them, just like they want Janet Leigh to confess that she can't bear to take a shower. Well, I'm sorry to disappoint you.
Tippi Hedren
#57. Stand-up comedy is a sickness. Who wouldn't want a room full of people laughing and screaming at you just because of who you are? Nothing is as good, except maybe having a baby.
Howie Mandel
#58. Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand.
Meryl Streep
#59. Well I am still not drunk" I straightened up against the pillows as best I could. "You told me once that if you could still stand up, you weren't drunk."
You aren't standing up." he point out.
You are.
Diana Gabaldon
#60. I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.
Al Sharpton
#61. Power is like a house of cards. Leave it alone and it will stand forever. But if you try to build it higher and higher, sooner or later it is bound to collapse.
Felix O. Hartmann
#62. I'm very lucky in that I've gotten to do a lot of things. But if you ever put a gun to my head and said, "You can only do one," I'd think it would be stand-up. I think it's the coolest job in the world.
Jeff Foxworthy
#63. Before you can really start setting financial goals, you need to determine where you stand financially.
David Bach
#64. I was deeply identified with a very unhappy, egoic entity I believed was "me." For years I lived in depression and continuous anxiety. One night I couldn't stand it anymore. The thought came into my mind, "I cannot live with myself any longer."
Eckhart Tolle
#65. Don't fight against what you don't want, instead stand for the spiritual qualities you would like to manifest in your life and watch how the universe rushes to flesh out your intentions as new life experiences.
Chaz Day
#66. He couldn't prevent her from feeling any pain, but he could stand beside her through it.
Meljean Brook
#67. You have to be strong enough to stand up for what you believe, even if you are standing alone.
Bohdi Sanders
#68. One of the reasons I got into fighting was because I'd never really been in a fight. It's like in Fight Club, the famous line, 'How much can you really know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?' ... It's the the clearest mirror you'll ever stand in front of.
Jon Fitch
#69. he had completely forgotten that it is a gift to be an intercessor and to stand in the gap for others.
M.A. Malcolm
#70. But now we are a mob. Man does not stand in awe of man, nor is his genius admonished to stay at home, to put itself in communication with the internal ocean, but it goes abroad to beg a cup of water of the urns of other men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#71. The doughy-faced woman has been forced to sit on the sidelines of culture for too long, and it's now time for us to stand up with our big round faces like the moon and say we have things to say, too. We have a round-faced agenda we want to push.
Caitlin Moran
#72. 'Polisse' is the sort of cop thriller where people do things like angrily bang on a desktop or sweep everything off it. If it happens once, it must happen six times. But every time it did, I wanted to stand up and cheer, which I've never wanted to do for any such thriller.
Wesley Morris
#73. I can't stand girls who laugh at everything I say like I'm the funniest guy in the world. I like girls who tell it like it is, no kissing up to me because I'm on TV.
Jeremy London
#74. I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up.
Jenny Eclair
#75. It's hard to watch. Can't stand the pressure of that much hope.
Lisa McMann
#76. It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I'm not naive, and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.
Chris Kyle
#77. Tracey Cunningham does my color, and little by little, my ombre turned into more of a rooted blond, and then it got lighter and lighter. I love how I stand out more as a blond - it makes me feel bright and healthy.
Khloe Kardashian
#78. If I was really a bitch I'd make your life a living hell. Instead, I'll just stand by and watch you do that yourself. You seem to do a pretty good job at it.
Sophie Monroe
#79. The law of the fast benefits both those who fast and those who stand in need ... In addition to providing the means for taking care of the poor among us, fasting is a principle of power which helps us to individually achieve righteous purposes in our lives.
Victor L. Brown
#80. Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.
Confucius
#82. I'm yours for ever
for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
Henry James
#83. Stand still ... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.
Charles R. Swindoll
#84. I'll never forget that for as long as I live; the way you were my strength, when I was too weak to even stand.
R.K. Lilley
#86. Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.
Abraham Lincoln
#87. I would never rep Versace. I can't stand her. I think she makes disgusting clothes. Calvin [Klein] is like, snore! Who wears Calvin Klein? I'm not dissing him. I think he's built an amazing, respectable business, but I would never want to work for Calvin Klein, ever.
Kelly Cutrone
#88. If a medium is representational by nature of the realistic image formed by a lens, I see no reason why we should stand on our heads to distort that function. On the contrary, we should take hold of that very quality, make use of it, and explore it to the fullest.
Berenice Abbott
#89. Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.
Douglas Horton
#90. Before they came here I could stand it, being alone in the building. But now it's changed ... You can't go from people to nonpeople.
Philip K. Dick
#91. The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions - not obstinately or defiantly
Rollo May
#93. If you don't take your stand for Christ, you will be on the wrong side, and someday when it is too late, you'll cry out, "I've taken the wrong stand!" You'll be in the devil's trap! You can't lick the devil.
Billy Graham
#94. I love the Holy Spirit. I can't stand to see it being disrespected. It's been there for me at times when I really needed it. Therefore, I have a duty to stand for it is how I feel.
Sinead O'Connor
#95. So a lot of our shows where even we think we've taken a very deliberate stand, liberals say, 'That's awesome, you took on the conservatives' same show and conservatives say 'That's awesome, you took on liberals.'
Matt Stone
#96. Letters remind us that when we write we can bring back the best of times, even make time stand still, if only for a few minutes.
Lois Wyse
#97. Oppressed with countless little daily cares, he had waited ... For an act. A free, considered act; that should pledge his whole life, and stand at the beginning of a new existence.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#98. I want you to know," she whispered to the wind, to the earth, to the body far beneath her, "that you were right. You were right. I am a coward. And I have been running for so long that I've forgotten what it is to stand and fight.
Sarah J. Maas
#100. There are for starters, grandeur and silence, pure water and clean air. There is also the gift of distance ... the chance to stand away from relationships and daily ritual ... and the gift of energy. Wilderness infuses us with its own special brand of energy.
Linn Thomas
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