Top 100 Stands For Quotes
#1. The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word crisis. One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.
Richard M. Nixon
#2. Ensure your employees understand what your brand stands for so they can be your first line of word-of-mouth advertising.
Simon Mainwaring
#3. I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.
Lou Holtz
#4. In other words, he stands for both a phenotypical and a multivalent cultural admixture.
Fiona I.B. Ngo
#5. I feel like my music stands for the ultimate statement of irreverence.
Kesha
#7. So I think (Obama) definitely has convinced people that he stands for change and for hope, and I can't wait to see what he stands for.
Susan Sarandon
#8. 8. EARTH comprises distances, great and small; danger and security; open ground and narrow passes; the chances of life and death. 9. The COMMANDER stands for the virtues of wisdom, sincerely, benevolence, courage and strictness.
Sun Tzu
#9. Justice suffers when men refuse to stand firm for what is right. If we don't fight lawlessness, it prevails. If we don't establish the truth in our nations, truth becomes foreign in the country. God says there is no man when there is nobody who stands for the truth.
Sunday Adelaja
#10. I feel that segregation is totally unchristian, and that it is against everything the Christian religion stands for.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#11. It could happen to anyone when you get hired by a different president. There's a difference in philosophies. It happens. It's a change in CEOs. They have their own people, their own philosophies, and it's different than what Bob stands for.
Rick Pitino
#12. SABLE- A common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#13. Sexual assault has no place in the military. It is a violation of everything that the U.S. military stands for.
Leon Panetta
#14. It is what the "I" stands for - Information, Innovation, Insight, Improvement, or Influence, that needs to be represented by CIOs in the Boardroom.
Pearl Zhu
#15. Since UFO stands for "unidentified flying object", the word ufology means approximately "knowledge about unknown flying objects", and is therefore a "science" whose content is void by definition. Similar considerations hold for parapsychology.
Lucio Russo
#16. I am, indeed, pure Frog, but at the same time I am a thing that stands for a world of un-Frog.
Haruki Murakami
#17. Inside every alienated hacker who thinks he stands for the "good things that ultimately don't matter to most businesses" there is a tycoon struggling to get out.
Michael Lewis
#18. The full name of string theory is really superstring theory. The 'super' stands for this feature called supersymmetry, which, without getting into any details, predicts that for every known particle in the world, there should be a partner particle, the so-called supersymmetric partner.
Brian Greene
#19. As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it.
Thomas Browne
#20. And what is a gold medal? I'd never really thought about it before Nagano. Now I realize that it's a dream to strive for. I love my silver medal, because it stands for all my dreams and all I'm still capable of fulfilling
Michelle Kwan
#21. of all, it needed a name. I thought about it for a while and came up with Operation R.A.F.E., which stands for: Rules Aren't For Everyone
James Patterson
#22. 'Powell movement.' What do you think 'PM' stands for?
Jon Stewart
#23. One feels very blessed to be born into a family like the Birla family, which is a household name in India, which stands for tradition, is yet contemporary, stands for trust.
Kumar Mangalam Birla
#24. The United Nations stands for the freedom and equality of all peoples, irrespective of race, religion, or ideology.
Ralph Bunche
#25. Words are symbols for shared memories. If I use a word, then you should have some experience of what the word stands for. If not, the word means nothing to you.
Jorge Luis Borges
#26. A minister stands for Father Peace, but a good one is no stranger to Mother War.
Joe Abercrombie
#27. I am anti-Bush. A lot of what he stands for is the antithesis of what I stand for.
Jonathan Shapiro
#28. The State always stands for swindling, intrigue, and privilege, and cannot stand for anything else.
Ignazio Silone
#29. I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it.
John Thune
#30. Everyone on the bench stands for the man coming out of the game.
Dean Smith
#31. I guess the majority of people who want to ban certain musicians are the ones who are so proud of everything America stands for.
Stephen Malkmus
#32. The false pride of perennial celebration, of wearing flag lapel pins while betraying the values that the flag stands for, is like the self-esteem curriculum for toddlers, where everything is praised and no achievement ultimately has meaning.
Anne-Marie Slaughter
#33. Art is a culmination of all that one stands for
Aporva Kala
#34. My hope and prayer is that everyone know and love our country for what she really is and what she stands for.
John Wayne
#35. Somebody like Mailer brings to that role everything that he stands for. The types of characters that I gravitate towards, the types of icons, tend to have a heavy physicality in that way.
Matthew Barney
#36. Officially, MPAA stands for Motion Picture Association of America, but I suggest that MPAA stands for Malicious Power Attacking All.
Richard Stallman
#37. George Banks and all he stands for will be saved. Maybe not in life, but in imagination. Because that's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.
Walt Disney Company
#38. In his grief over the loss of a dog, a little boy stands for the first time on tiptoe, peering into the rueful morrow of manhood. After this most inconsolable of sorrows there is nothing life can do to him that he will not be able somehow to bear.
James Thurber
#39. A thought is truly sought only if it has got, in latent or potent form, the strength of 'WE' which sounds as 'V' that stands for 'VICTORY', and so it reflects the power of a true leader who as writer or speaker involves everyone alike at the same level.
Anuj
#40. Cities are the huge central dynamos of all being. The power of a man can be measured today by the mile, the number of miles between him and the city; that is, between him and what the city stands for
the centre of mass.
Gerald Stanley Lee
#41. MEAN stands for MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS, and Node.js. Many industry experts believe the MEAN stack will be a dominant web development platform in coming years.
Ken Williamson
#43. The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception.
Edgar Allan Poe
#44. I would consider my music like, pop-R&B. So it can reach a lot of people. Pop is popular music. That's what it stands for. So I'm just making music that I know that I like, I know other people will like, and my fans will like.
Justin Bieber
#45. We act out our lives to a soundtrack, thought Isabel, the music that becomes, for a spell, out favourite and is listened to again and again until it stands for the time itself. But that was about all the scripting that we achieved; the rest, for most of us, was extemporising.
Alexander McCall Smith
#46. Don't kid yourself. President Obama's decision to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan before he stands for reelection is not driven by the United States' 'position of strength' in the war zone as much as it is by grim economic and political realities at home.
Ron Fournier
#47. The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.
Christopher Lasch
#48. In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.
James Mark Baldwin
#49. Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.
Woodrow Wilson
#50. Matangi's mantra is aim, which is MIA backwards. She fights for freedom of speech and stands for truth, and lives in the ghetto because her dad was the first person in Hindu mythology who came from the 'hood, but had gained enlightenment through not being a Brahmin.
M.I.A.
#51. Your name is a funny thing. It stands for what you're about, and everything I do is really about pride.
Tom Ford
#52. Harper: "What are FM shoes?"
Drina: "Ahh. These are FM shoes."
Harper: "And the FM stands for?"
Drina: "Fuck Me.
Lynsay Sands
#53. The Party, as such, stands for positive Christianity, but does not bind itself in the matter of creed to any particular confession.
Adolf Hitler
#54. The difference between greater people and greatest people is the "est" which stands for "extra mile". Extra steps give Extraordinary results; Extraordinary people do Extra things.
Israelmore Ayivor
#55. I haven't always voted for the same party, mostly because I find that strange. One thing I've never quite understood is when people say 'I'm a Conservative' or 'I'm Labour,' before even hearing what the person running stands for or wants to change.
James Corden
#56. We're half siblings, after all. We share the same DNA - and in our family, DNA stands for Denial Now and Always.
Jane Lotter
#57. No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.
Mac Thornberry
#58. Now that we have a true leader who stands for family and has a loving relationship with his wife, maybe black men and women will follow their example. We have a lot of faith and trust in President Obama because his integrity thus far has shown us a new level of manhood, fatherhood and husbandhood.
Tasha Smith
#59. Money is to an economy as nutrition is to the human body. When central bankers ignore that relationship by providing more capital that functionally needed, they debase everything capitalism stands for.
Said Elias Dawlabani
#60. Based on what our country stands for. We can't fail to stand for democracy.
Kelly Ayotte
#61. MD stands for money doctor, while PhD, like me, stands for poor hungry doctor.
M.N. Tarazi
#62. John Kerry says the 'W' in George W. Bush stands for 'Wrong.' But he still can't explain what John Kerry stands for.
David Letterman
#63. Unkindness almost always stands for the displeasure that one has in oneself.
Adrienne Monnier
#64. As commander-in-chief, I will do whatever it takes to defend America. But in defending America, we cannot lose what America stands for.
Rand Paul
#65. In my case, the body of work stands for itself ... I think my work has been representative of me as a man.
Sidney Poitier
#66. Whoever stands for 'one China' will get our support. We can have talks with them, and our talks will cover anything.
Zhu Rongji
#67. Do you even know what gay stands for? Well, let me tell you. G-A-Y. Got Aids yet?
Paul Russell
#68. Dachau-the significance of this name will never be erased from German history. It stands for all concentration camps which the Nazis established in their territory.
Eugen Kogon
#69. I participate in a program called D.E.A.R. which stands for Drop Everything and Read, where a few times a month I come in and read to each class.
Timothy Ferriss
#70. And I think Governor Romney has a shot if the 'R' next to his name doesn't just stand for 'Republican,' it stands for 'reformer.'
Scott Walker
#71. 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
#72. As long as we have a youth that stands for all that is strong and manly our future is assured.
Ernst Junger
#73. Nothing stands for content-free corporate bullshit quite like PowerPoint. And that's just scratching the surface ...
Charles Stross
#74. You know what 'FEAR' stands for? It stands for 'False Evidence Appearing Real.' It's the darkroom where Satan develops his negatives.
Gary Busey
#75. My daughter, who goes to Stuyvesant High School only blocks from the World Trade Center, thinks we should fly an American flag out our window. Definitely not, I say: The flag stands for jingoism and vengeance and war.
Katha Pollitt
#77. Apple released the upgraded version of the iPhone 4, called the iPhone 4S. I think the S stands for suckers.
Craig Ferguson
#78. With Celine Dion, we were selling 25 million records a pop. 'Pop' stands for 'popular.' It means we're plugging into the masses.
David Foster
#79. I feel that America is essentially against the artist, that the enemy of America is the artist, because he stands for individuality and creativeness, and that's un-American somehow.
Henry Miller
#80. I fully realize that a person who stands for what I stand for, an activist, a gay activist, becomes the target or the potential target for a person who is insecure, terrified, afraid, or very disturbed with themselves.
Harvey Milk
#81. The man who is always waving the flag usually waives what it stands for.
Laurence J. Peter
#82. I shouldn't have called out Will Ferrell, but I am getting a little fed up with these people.You want to support Bernie [Sanders], knock yourself out. Does he know what Bernie stands for? Does he know what Bernie wants? And I submit to you, he doesn't.
Bill O'Reilly
#83. I am in everything that stands for justice and the natural rights of free men everywhere.I am American Amaranth
J.R. Ortiz
#84. Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise every influence of our great country to put a stop to that war which is now raging in Cuba and give to that island once more peace, liberty, and independence.
Henry Cabot Lodge
#85. The republic stands for truth and honour. For all that is noblest in our race. By truth and honour, principle and sacrifice alone will Ireland be free.
Liam Mellows
#86. I came up with myself. FAYZ. Spelled F-A-Y-Z. It stands for Fallout Alley Youth Zone. Fallout Alley, and nothing but kids." Howard laughed his mean laugh. "Don't worry, Astrid, it's just a FAYZ. Get it? Just a FAYZ.
Michael Grant
#87. I've always been pro-life from conception to natural death. It's important for the Republican nominee to maintain what we stand for. We are the party that stands for all of life, whether it's convenient or inconvenient, whether it's perfect or imperfect.
Michele Bachmann
#88. Certain characteristics about 'Marbury v. Madison' are, I think, indisputable. Marbury was the first Supreme Court decision ever to strike down an act of Congress as unconstitutional. Marbury stands for the authority of the Supreme Court to have and to exercise that power.
Cliff Sloan
#89. I found a copy of Leven's birth certificate and was surprised to see his birth name listed as E. Leven Thumps. I assume the E. stands for Elton, and I have no idea why they didnt spell it out, but it's intresting to think that it took exactly eleven whacks or thumps to down the oldest tree.
Obert Skye
#90. To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.
Patrick Ness
#91. A&R stands for "artists and repertoire." No one knows what that means, but the A&R guy is the person at the record label in charge of making sure a band doesn't suck, overdose, or try to make a concept album.
Dave Hill
#92. THE BODY SHOULD be triangular, the mind circular. The triangle represents the generation of energy and is the most stable physical posture. The circle symbolizes serenity and perfection, the source of unlimited techniques. The square stands for solidity, the basis of applied control.
Morihei Ueshiba
#93. Taliban stands for student; own a pen not gun.
Vinita Kinra
#95. I thought "RV" stood for "Recreational Vehicle." No! It stands for "Ruins Vacations."
Bill Engvall
#96. Um, yes sir. It's just. That looks like a hamster." "It is a hamster. In all essentials. However, we call them POCKs. That stands for Piece Of Crap.
Felix R. Savage
#97. An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding.
Richard Bach
#98. Let me tell you what the Tea Party stands for. It stands for the fact that we are taxed enough already.
Michele Bachmann
#99. To me the special quality (which of course many men have as well) is first of all a sharpness, a clarityIt cuts through - especially intellectual ossification. Itgets to the point. To me the dakini principle stands for the intuitive force.
Tenzin Palmo
#100. When you strip it of everything else, Pentecost stands for power and life. That's what came into the church when the Holy Spirit came down on the day of Pentecost.
David Wilkerson
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