Top 100 Stand Up To Quotes
#1. The airline business is it is mostly run by a bunch of spineless nincompoops who actually don't want to stand up to the environmentalists and call them the lying wankers that they are.
Michael O'Leary
#2. To get a horse to hit a mark without a rider, to get it to stand up, to get it to rear, to get it to pick up a bucket and bring it over is amazing. It's hard work and very rewarding but can be dangerous.
Benedict Cumberbatch
#3. The Ukrainians don't have the military means to stand up to Russia, but we haven't helped them militarily, either.
Wesley Clark
#4. The main thing is to stand up to the light, to joy (like our child) in the knowledge that I shall be extinguished in the light over gorse, asphalt, and sea, to stand up to time, or rather to eternity in the instant. To be eternal means to have existed.
Max Frisch
#5. Anybody that'll stand up to The Cline is all right.
Patsy Cline
#6. I think you've got to have a depth, a deeper depth to take stand-up into acting, but I think it really helps you as a stand-up to home into different characters and stuff easily.
Chris Tucker
#7. You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows.
Charles De Lint
#8. Why would I ever search out someone who abandoned me? Someone who had no regard for any of us, who ran because he's too much of a damn coward to stand up to his family!
Alexandra Bracken
#9. Leaders today must have a strong vision and positive beliefs that support that vision. If they don't, their people will not only lose, but they'll be lost. When difficulties arise, their minds will not be prepared to stand up to the challenge.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#10. Entrepreneurs are different beasts. Beasts who don't give a damn, who kick ass when required, who stand up to a challenge, and who rise time and again with utter disregard to fear or failure. These are the beasts who run the world.
Vishwas Mudagal
#11. I won't stick around to see how much temptation I can take. God is not impressed with my ability to stand up to sin. He is more impressed by the obedience I show when I run from it.
Joshua Harris
#12. It is not only all right but necessary to stand up to George Bush.
Russ Feingold
#13. After all, if an idea could not stand up to a serious challenge, then it was never a very good idea in the first place. Question everything.
James J. Caterino
#14. I'm an honorary ambassador for Stand Up to Cancer, and I'm also associated with St. Jude's.
Sofia Vassilieva
#15. In ourselves, we are sinners, and yet through faith we are righteous by the imputation of God. For we trust him who promises to deliver us, and in the meantime struggle so that sin may not overwhelm us, but that we may stand up to it until he finally take it away from us.
Martin Luther
#16. It's the ultimate pinnacle of stand-up to have an hour on HBO, but way more people see Comedy Central, and they've been good to me.
Daniel Tosh
#17. And there's another thing: a man should stand up to his bad luck, to his mistakes, to his conscience and all that sort of thing. Why--what else would you have to fight against.
Joseph Conrad
#18. Don't forget, I've been fired by studios; I'm not the studio's guy. I'm a guy who can work with studios, but if you ask any studio, I stand up to these people.
Glen Mazzara
#19. She gets away with it. Everybody co-signs her bad behavior. It's like we all are co-dependent on Lindsay Lohan. When are we going to stand up to her?
Jane Velez-Mitchell
#20. Family values stand up to injustice and power outside the household.
Ralph Nader
#21. Think about the adiamante." I was too tired to say much more. "It says more than I can." And it did - the hardest manmade substance, and it couldn't stand up to the souls of human beings.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#22. I do not accept the belief that the United States of America and our government can't stand up to the ripoffs of the pharmaceutical industry which charge us by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs.
Bernie Sanders
#23. It takes a strong person to stand up to his or her fate and overcome the obstacles that stand in the way of freedom and success, but I believe in you.
Pax Prentiss
#24. My show is not just a cop hosting a talk show - the two are completely different. My show is about helping people stand up to the bad guy.
Steve Wilkos
#25. I think a lot of people get into stand-up to be the center of attention, which is perfectly legitimate. But I think I got in there to be heard.
W. Kamau Bell
#26. Somebody's going to have to stand up to ISIS. It is a threat. When we have Americans beheaded, when we have people posing as refugees and become terrorists as in France, this is a scary time in the world.
Rick Scott
#27. Blimey, Neville,' said Ron, 'there's a time and a place for getting a smart mouth.' 'You didn't hear her,' said Neville. 'You wouldn't have stood it either. The thing is, it helps when people stand up to them, it gives everyone hope. I used to notice that when you did it, Harry.
J.K. Rowling
#28. The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
George Bernard Shaw
#29. I was bullied by a few people who were much older than me. I went to camp to learn boxing. I was 12, and my coach was 24. I felt like if I could fight him, I could stand up to anyone.
Liam Payne
#30. I got into stand-up to get on a sitcom.
David Spade
#31. I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge.
Ben Nelson
#32. It takes much courage and bravery to stand up to your enemies and say I love you and I forgive you.
Debasish Mridha
#34. 19. Everything is here for a purpose, from horses to vine shoots. What's surprising about that? Even the sun will tell you, "I have a purpose," and the other gods as well. And why were you born? For pleasure? See if that answer will stand up to questioning.
Marcus Aurelius
#35. As an artist, I gotta stand up to my own work.
Edward Ruscha
#36. I think the immediate thing is we stand up to protect those people who are in trouble.
Bernie Sanders
#37. Someone must stand up to those who say, "Here's the key, there's the Treasury, just take as many of those hard-earned tax dollars as you want."
Ronald Reagan
#38. History does not record anywhere a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help.
Robert A. Heinlein
#39. Life can be the worst bully in the world," Grandpa said and pointed a finger at Mathieu. "And you will stand up to that bully.
Francois Houle
#40. When faced with a situation, the confidence you stand up to that situation with usually pushes the other person to back down because the guy that is trying to start the fight doesn't really want to fight. He just wants a scene.
Sean Faris
#41. We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha's own words must be rejected.
Dalai Lama XIV
#43. Real truths, as opposed to imagined ones, are able to stand up to rigorous debate and questioning .
Jeffrey Small
#44. I don't believe in getting clothes that just look pretty or that'll fall apart - they have to stand up to a lot of abuse.
Lilith Saintcrow
#46. We know too much, and what might have been excused in other times can no longer stand up to reason. ... with that understanding comes moral responsibility.
Wayne Pacelle
#47. People are not impressed by watching interviewees cry. People recognize chat shows with personalities as the trivial things that they are. They're not designed to be deep. Quite frankly, people in show business don't stand up to in-depth scrutiny.
Terry Wogan
#48. People will hate you for speaking the truth, but you've gotta learn to stand up to them, so don't be offended if I say something you don't like.
Eminem
#49. A happiness that won't stand up to examination is less than worthless.
Drea De Matteo
#50. Stand up to injustice, even if you stand alone
Suzy Kassem
#51. We prefer to find an explanation for why things are not perfect, and these rarely stand up to close scrutiny.
Charlie Campbell
#52. Some of the subject matter is a little less weighty. When we were writing for Mr. Show, we were talking about how is this going to stand up to the test of time. Every little piece had to be this brilliant comedy jewel.
B. J. Porter
#53. If we allow our Christian faith to be adulterated with materialism, watered down by secularism, and intermingled with a bland humanism, we cannot stand up to a system that has vowed to bury us.
Billy Graham
#54. Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: (1) Compared to what? (2) At what cost? and (3) What are the hard facts?.
Thomas Sowell
#55. So it has come, the day of testing. Without warning, without fanfare, it is here, and he is in the middle of it. In his chest his heart hammers so hard that it too, in its dumb way, must know. How will they stand up to the testing, he and his heart?
J.M. Coetzee
#56. But she knew the black hole pulled at you. You stand up to it, or you go down.
Charles Frazier
#57. The need to do something about global warming is obvious. And it's also pretty clear that the public understands the need for change and is ready to embrace it. What is missing is political will in Congress to stand up to the powerful energy companies and their well-paid lobbyists.
Chellie Pingree
#58. What we need to do is to stand up to the big money interests, and the campaign contributors. When we do that, we can, in fact, transform America.
Bernie Sanders
#59. You stand up to that challenging shot, you put yourself into that shot, and you pour yourself into it confidently. Stand up and commit yourself completely. If you miss it, you miss it certainly. You've done everything you can.
Debbie Massey
#60. A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.
Lenny Kravitz
#61. Someone must stand up to confront and dissipate darkness.
Sunday Adelaja
#62. I wanted to be an actress. I think it had a lot to do with being a kid and watching how every time my dad would stand up to talk people would applaud ... that was pretty cool.
Eleanor Mondale
#63. Even if I didn't believe I was the kind of person who could stand up to the people who hated me, I wanted to be the kind of person who would.
David Levithan
#64. I think that the important point is we've got to have a president who understands the benefits of free trade but also is going to enforce unfair trade agreements and is going to stand up to other countries.
Barack Obama
#65. Creating something that builds lasting value and changes the lives of millions of people requires forging a team that will work hard to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles, stand up to the pressures of fame and fortune, and stay true to the original vision long after others stop believing.
Jay Samit
#66. I'm an honest, hardworking conservative leader who will stand up to Washington and fight for Nebraska.
Deb Fischer
#67. The trouble with the world today, she thought, was that people were not prepared to stand up to bad behaviour.
Alexander McCall Smith
#68. If you stand up to the human race you lose something called their 'goodwill'; if you kowtow to them you gain ... their permission to continue kowtowing.
Celia Green
#69. Can't any of us stand up to those women?"
"Nope," said at least three men in unison.
Robyn Carr
#70. Merrill Krause - "My brothers have scared off just about any fellow who showed interest in getting to know me."
Granny Lassiter - "Well, if a man can't stand up to those brothers of yours, you needn't even consider him. A man ought to be able to hold his own with his wife's family.
Tracie Peterson
#71. My music is made for the people who are willing to stand up to change this world themselves.
Tom Morello
#72. I didn't stand up to my jailers because I realized how quickly I would have been overpowered.
Eileen Pollack
#73. The intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing on whether it is true or false. The importance of the strength of our conviction is only to provide a proportionately strong incentive to find out if the hypothesis will stand up to critical evaluation.
Peter Medawar
#74. How strong is a faith that can't stand up to a few honest questions?
Kenneth C. Davis
#75. I have never been afraid to stand up to the leadership on issues where we disagree. If you chose to keep Cambridge Labour, then I can continue to press the Government for the things that matter to you, in a way that members of the opposition are unable to.
Anne Campbell
#76. It's important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They're the star.
Biz Stone
#77. The thing is, it helps when people stand up to them, it gives everyone hope.
J.K. Rowling
#78. Papa wasn't man enough, couldn't stand up to his responsibilities. Instead of taking care of me, he'd rather live lavishly.
Tupac Shakur
#79. ...beneath his youth and his daredevil attitude lay the kind of decency that could stand up to the ugliness of the world. On Pamarthe they called that quality bedrock. A warrior of bedrock was one on whose loyalty a kingdom could be built.
Claudia Gray
#80. I want people who will stand up to me. People who are not afraid to say exactly what's on their minds, even though that's probably not what I want to hear. That's what I want.
Henry Kravis
#81. Incidentally, the long-held idea that spices were used to mask rotting food doesn't stand up to much scrutiny. The only people who could afford most spices were the ones least likely to have bad meat, and anyway spices were too valuable to be used as a mask.
Bill Bryson
#82. It is easier to stand in front of a bullet than it is to stand up to the world.
Lori Goodwin
#83. It is time to pick a side.Either we stand with the gun lobby or we join the president and stand up to them.
Hillary Clinton
#84. Because I was surrounded by so much negativity at some point that it took me going back and doing stand-up to realize, you know, people really like me.
Dave Chappelle
#85. It was very clear, even from long before Donald Trump got in this race, when he would talk to Republicans, the number-one concern they had about Jeb Bush was whether he was too rusty for this, and whether he was going to be strong enough to stand up to Hillary Clinton.
Amy Walter
#86. A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.
Khaled Hosseini
#87. They looked at me like I was some kind of threat. [Mick] Jagger really tried to put me down, but there was no way some crude, lippy guy was going to do a number on me. I was always able to squelch him. I found out that, if you stand up to Mick, he crumbles.
Anita Pallenberg
#88. Darkness will never prevail. If you do not recognize the evil in our world, you will never stand up to it.
Landon Parham
#89. I know how to make decisions and stand up to the criticism every day.
Michael Bloomberg
#90. If we can't stand up to the never good enough and who do you think you are? we can't move forward.
Brene Brown
#91. My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O'Reilly is kind of a bully, and he's the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground. And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, 'Teacher, sue him.'
Al Franken
#92. From her first superheroine role in 'Lara Croft: Tomb Raider' - which earned $275 million globally in 2001, back when that was real money - Jolie has been the one actress who can stand up to any male star and stare him down.
Richard Corliss
#93. 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
#94. From the moment I take office, I will stand up to the special interests and stand with hardworking families so that we can give America back its future and its ideals.
John F. Kerry
#95. People ask me, 'Have you ever considered doing stand-up?' To me it would be less offensive if someone asked me, 'Have you ever considered dental implants?'
David Sedaris
#96. The FCC can and indeed should do more to protect the Internet as the free and open environment people have come to expect and depend on - which is why we need to stand up to attacks on the FCC's authority.
Chellie Pingree
#97. When you forgive somebody, when you are generous, when you withhold judgment, when you love and when you stand up to injustice, you are, in that moment, bringing heaven to earth.
Rob Bell
#98. As president, I will stand up to the great human rights tests of our time - in China, Russia, and the Middle East. We must send a signal to our allies and adversaries that America is back in the leadership business.
Carly Fiorina
#99. As members of Congress, we take an oath to uphold the Constitution and bear true faith and allegiance to the United States, not the Republican or Democratic party. I have been willing to stand up to my own leadership when it's in the national interest.
Jackie Speier
#100. The 20th century taught us how far unbridled evil can and will go when the world fails to confront it. It is time that we heed the lessons of the 20th century and stand up to these murderers. It is time that we end genocide in the 21st century.
Allyson Schwartz
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