Stander Quotes

#1. In Saint Stylites, the famous Christian hermit of old times, who built him a lofty stone pillar in the desert and spent the whole latter portion of his life on its summit, hoisting his food from the ground with a tackle; in him we have a remarkable instance of a dauntless stander-of-mast-heads;

Herman Melville

#2. I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

#3. A stander-by may sometimes, perhaps, see more of the game than he that plays it.

Jonathan Swift

#4. A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.

Samuel Richardson

#5. Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son, Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding, No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart from them, No more modest than immodest.

Walt Whitman

#6. Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void.

William James

#7. I eat so much chicken, I'm surprised I haven't grown feathers yet.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

#8. Oh, he's not unbalanced," said Dumbledore quietly. "He's just suffered a severe disappointment.

J.K. Rowling

#9. I was a soul back on Earth. AWOL a little while from heaven.

Alice Sebold

#10. My Dear Son ... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.

Abigail Adams

#11. I wanted to win, even in practice.

Bjorn Borg

#12. I am glad to be with you and treat your weakness tenderly.

E. James Wilder

#13. Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.

Karl Marx

#14. I am a professional performer and I only appear on TV for entertainment or for philanthropic organizations, and I consider this a very serious matter that doesn't fit into either category.

Lionel Stander

#15. When a man can't trust his eyes what does he fall back on . . . and what does the choice he makes reveal about him?

Mark Lawrence

#16. There is a terrible beauty to isolation. You don't have to accept responsibility for others, or live up to their expectations. You could dip your toe into humanity's maelstrom from time to time, or sit on the river bank and observe.

Celia Stander

#17. I wondered if he knew how he controlled my heartbeats.

Brittainy C. Cherry