Top 100 Stand The Quotes
#1. Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#2. I couldn't stand it. I still can't stand it. I can't stand the way things are. I cannot tolerate this age.
Walker Percy
#3. You have to realize where you stand, the ground underneath you, that's your battleground.
Shamita Das Dasgupta
#4. Imported actors, like certain wines, sometimes do not stand the ocean trip. This can be as true of American actors in Europe as it is of European actors in America.
Edna Ferber
#5. I've got a fierce passion for politics but I can't stand the smarmy, hypocritical upper-middle-class dictator nation that prevails and has always prevailed in this country. I'm up for petrol bombers, mate, and fighting in the streets.
Pete Doherty
#6. If you are obedient to God and do that what He has already created and built in the spiritual realm, then God's creative power will make your job easy, and only then will the things you build be long lasting, able to stand the test of time.
Sunday Adelaja
#7. My older sister has all her degrees in theater, and I couldn't stand the theater geeks!
Diane Neal
#8. I don't like plots. I don't know what a plot means. I can't stand the idea of anything that starts in the beginning - you know, 'beginning, middle and end.'
Maira Kalman
#9. I can't do this, Wrenn. I can't just wait to die."
"Then don't. Live because you can... Live because you love me, and I can't stand the thought of losing you yet.
Missy Johnson
#10. And i can't stand the idea of being alone.
i can't bear the thought of being free.
Chuck Palahniuk
#11. Depression was, indeed, the hand of a friend trying to press me down to ground on which it was safe to stand - the ground of my own truth, my own nature, with its complex mix of limits and gifts, liabilities and assets, darkness and light.
Parker J. Palmer
#12. Why the war paint, Pix?
Because I can't stand the girl underneath....
"Why the tattoos ?"
Because I can't bear seeing the scars of my past.
Tillie Cole
#13. I started getting tattoos, and the hair would grow back out and grow over a nice piece of artwork that I really wanted to show, and it just became one of those things. I can't stand the hair on my body. I just wanted it gone. It's just a better feeling for me.
Ryan Sheckler
#14. Every time I look at you, I'm either so pissed I can't stand the sight of you or so fucking horny I can't take my eyes off you. I don't think I have to tell you which I prefer.
I swallowed. "So which is it now?"
I'm looking at you aren't I?
L.A. Witt
#15. I can't stand the idea of missing something. I've got to know what's going on - it's like an animal instinct with me.
John Fairchild
#16. Knowledge and devotion, to be true, have to stand the test of renunciation of the fruits of action.
Mahatma Gandhi
#17. It was easy to understand why Sala didn't mind sharing; neither of us ever went there except to change clothes or sleep. Night after night I would sit uselessly at Al's, drinking myself into a stupor because I couldn't stand the idea of going back to the apartment.
Hunter S. Thompson
#18. What I saw was more than I could stand. The noise I heard had been made by Little Ann. All her life she had slept by Old Dan's side. And although he was dead, she had left the doghouse, had come back to the porch, and snuggled up by his side.
Wilson Rawls
#19. If you live in such a manner as to stand the test of the last judgment, you can depend upon it that the world will not speak well of you.
Alistair Begg
#20. Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be.
Benjamin Franklin
#21. I don't know if you've ever knit a sweater, but by the end of it, you're like, 'Ugh I can't wear this. I can't stand the color. I'm so tired of it.'
Perrey Reeves
#22. A doctor has a stethoscope up to a man's chest. The man asks, "Doc, how do I stand?" The doctor says, "That's what puzzles me!"
Henny Youngman
#23. If it stands the test of public scrutiny, do it ... if it doesn't stand the test of public scrutiny then don't do it.
Ratan Tata
#25. The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.
Paul Tillich
#26. In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses.
H.G.Wells
#27. If you can't stand the heat, don't go to Cancun in the summer.
Ben Stein
#28. I've always suggested if you can't stand the sight of your own blood, don't run for office.
Mike Huckabee
#29. It's easier to feel shame if those guilty are centuries dead, especially when such discrediting, by default, confers upon yourself a higher moral standard without having to stand the test in the true environment of the time.
Terry Goodkind
#30. Please." His voice was quiet. "I can't stand the thought of losing you. What can I do?
R.K. Lilley
#31. I couldn't stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double life, one pure and one not.
Sylvia Plath
#32. I would take a bomb, but I can't stand the noise.
Joe E. Lewis
#33. But I can't stand the way you make me feel so good, like, better than I ever felt, and then you tear it all away, like deep down, you don't want me to be happy.
Caroline Kepnes
#34. I can't stand the club scene. It's all about impressing people.
Christine Taylor
#35. The stony-minded orthodox were right in fearing the first movement of new knowledge and free thought. It has gone on, and will go on, irresistibly, until some day we shall have no respect for an alleged "truth" which cannot stand the full blaze of knowledge, the full force of active thought.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#36. I can't stand the sound of fingernails on a chalkboard!
Hugh Jackman
#37. I think every program needs to stand the sunshine of righteous scrutiny. Whether it's Social Security, whether it's Medicaid, whether it's Medicare.
Rick Perry
#39. To take a journey of a thousand miles, you have to begin with the first step from the place where you stand; the romantic description of the journey and the things the body sees on the way and the description of the scenery are of no use unless you lift your foot and take the first step.
Vimala Thakar
#40. I think most people are decent people. I don't know if they could stand the pressure he's under, but most people aspire to be decent people.
Brendan Gleeson
#41. Life is full of unexpected. The grace of God is available to everyone to stand the test of time.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#42. In far-off lands stand the great stones
on which my thoughts rest.
It was a foreigner who wrote the strange words
on the hard board that is called my soul.
Days and nights I lie and think
about things that never happened:
my thirsty soul was once given a drink.
Edith Sodergran
#43. I've spent a lot of time in L.A. and I love it. A lot of Brits can't stand the place, but I like the West Coast attitude and the way people celebrate success.
Sophia Myles
#44. Cultural icons stand the test of time because they speak to our deeper convictions and ignite our dreams.
George Takei
#45. It is a strange pressure to be across from a man who wants something that you don't want to give. It's like standing in a forceful current, which at first you think is not too strong, but the longer you stand, the more tired you become, the harder it is to stay upright.
Stephanie Danler
#46. Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly?
Jodi Picoult
#47. Men can not stand the explosive mixture of beauty and intelligence.
Sharon Stone
#48. Some people who don't like guns can't stand the idea of so many gun owners in one place (at gun shows) buying and selling their wicked products. It's how some communists feel when they visit the New York Stock Exchange.
Dave Kopel
#49. I can't stand the crap that gets talked by everyone - Players, Fans, The Media, Club Officals. Why should I waste my time listening to people who are clearly less intelligent than me
Fabio Capello
#50. I just can't stand the sound of my voice sometimes, or how my face looks. There are always a few times at every premiere when I just have to cover my eyes when I'm up there.
Carrie-Anne Moss
#51. The more pain I train myself to stand, the more I learn. You are afraid of pain now, Unk, but you won't learn anything if you don't invite the pain. And the more you learn, the gladder you will be to stand the pain.
Kurt Vonnegut
#52. His lady scowls and asks, "Are you a man? If you can't stand the smell, get out of the can. I'd whack him myself, but he looks like my dad, And killing him thus would be Freudian mad.
Mr. Z
#53. There they stand, the innumerable stars, shining in order like a living hymn, written in light.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
#54. I want to be in movies that stand the test of time.
Clive Owen
#55. If you want your church to stand the test of time, then you have to be replaced.
Andy Stanley
#56. Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.
William James
#57. But waiting is killing me. Don't they understand? Don't they remember what it feels like? I want to have things settled. I can't stand the idea of not knowing.
Samantha Schutz
#58. We are all of us remarkably goodtempered while we have our own way; but the true meekness, which is a work of grace, will stand the fire of persecution, and will endure the test of enmity, cruelty, and wrong, even as the meekness of Christ did upon the cross of Calvary.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#59. Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I knew that if the missile were launched, mortality would arrive in half an hour, so I spent a lot of my childhood feeling that I was 30 minutes from being dead.
Jane Smiley
#60. They that know their God shall not be disappointed. They will stand the test of time.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#61. My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
Imogen Heap
#62. It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.
Bruce Springsteen
#63. Clark couldn't stand the idea of anyone's working for him without having the chance to accumulate a bit of wealth.
Michael Lewis
#64. The answer I have is, you know, there a lot of things you can try to build to last. And what we try to do in our work is to come up with ideas that will last. Ideas that will stand the test of time.
James Collins
#65. How do you stand the pain?" I ask. "It's just pain." He shrugs. His white cloak, smeared with dust, sticks to him as though he is wet beneath it.
Mark Lawrence
#66. I try to make sure that I make music that can stand the test of time.
Mayer Hawthorne
#67. Pete (Rose) doesn't run with celebrities and he can't stand the phonies. His big buddy in LA ain't Sinatra, it's a funny old groundskeeper.
Sparky Anderson
#68. You're the one who got away. And I can't stand the thought of that happening again. I will do whatever it takes to keep you, he said, and the words torched her heart.
Lauren Blakely
#69. I can remember back to my early tour days when some fellows didn't think I'd last too long. Nothing physical - they said it was my swing. Some said it was too much of a 'muscle swing' to stand the test of time. One fellow predicted I wouldn't get past 30 out there.
Arnold Palmer
#70. I think Wilco is going to definitely stand the test of time - no question - and Uncle Tupleo, and the whole No Depression scene, which is now alt-country. I think that's going to be around a long time.
Roger McGuinn
#71. People would ask me how I could stand the long campaigning, how I could stand being charged with the responsibilities of a great nation, one of the most powerful and difficult jobs in the world.
It wasn't any more difficult than picking cotton all day or shaking peanuts.
Jimmy Carter
#72. Why can't you understand that I love you so much, that not being able to touch you hurts? I can't stand the fact that I can't get into your thoughts. Haventon is gone to you, but it's also gone to me. I miss it so much. It feels like my heart's been ripped out from my chest.
Jordan Deen
#73. Perception was easily accomplished, required little effort, and it never had to stand the test of reality.
Terry Goodkind
#74. Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down.
George Carlin
#75. When we stand, the Azad Hind Fauz has to be like a wall of granite; when we march, the Azad Hind Fauz has to be like a steamroller.
Subhas Chandra Bose
#76. I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.
Randy Castillo
#77. Hide your feelings, hide you thoughts, hide your self from the world but dont hide you from you cause only you know where you stand & the world's knows nothing
Shujoy Chowdhury
#78. Listen, that girl is my world, and I can't stand the thought of anyone hurting her. I'd handle this myself if I could play the game and be by her side at the same time, but I can't
J. Sterling
#79. Friendship is not going to stand the pressure of greatly great guidance for quite extensive.
Robert Staughton Lynd
#80. Marriage without struggle is like an unfired clay pot.
It is easily made, but it will not stand the test of time.
Allan Wolf
#81. Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
Billy Graham
Billy Graham
#82. If you can't stand the way this place is take yourself to higher places
Three Days Grace
#83. I wear my pajamas. That's the thing I love most about writing. I don't get changed until I actually have to go out of the house. I'll write and take a late lunch or go to a coffee shop when I get where I can't stand the four walls anymore.
Kimberly Willis Holt
#84. If you give up, you champion the cause of the devil.If you stand the test, you align yourself with the character and will of God.Children of God never give up on a good cause!
Phanuel Muverengwi
#85. I'd rather be a face for happiness and doing things that you have a passion for, rather than faking it and pretending like I'm this face of women's basketball, when I can't stand the sport at all.
Elena Delle Donne
#86. I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.
Giorgio Armani
#87. There is a natural tribal hostility between the married and the unmarried. I cannot stand the shows so often quite instinctively put on by married people to insinuate that they are not only more fortunate but in some way more moral than you are.
Iris Murdoch
#88. She can't stand the sight of me, Helen. The one girl, the only girl who's ever really shook me up - and I horrify her.
Josephine Angelini
#89. For your love to stand the test of time, you must commit to behaviors that protect your marriage, in spite of how you feel about your spouse on that particular day.
Jennifer Jeanne Patterson
#90. As things stand the "intellectuals" only come out to lick the bones left over by the tyrant.
Nilantha Ilangamuwa
#91. Psychedelics are actually a kind of miraculous reality that can stand the test of objective examination.
Terence McKenna
#92. The only reason I get out of bed at all on weekends is because eventually I can't stand the taste of my own breath any more.
Jeff Kinney
#93. I can't stand the kind of paralysis that some people fall into because they're not happy with the choices they've made.
Hillary Clinton
#94. A friendship will stand the test of time when all the good that is given is repaid in kind.
Theodore Volgoff
#95. It's hard to watch. Can't stand the pressure of that much hope.
Lisa McMann
#96. Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.
Abraham Lincoln
#97. Jesus meant us to ast God to hep us stand the pain, not beg Him to take the pain away.
Olive Ann Burns
#98. 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
#99. My girlfriend's packed her bags and moved out to another town, she couldn't stand the boredom when the video broke down.
Ray Davies
#100. Only parents and torturers and the janitors of holocausts are asked to stand the sound of so much human grief.
Martin Amis
