Top 100 Stands Quotes
#1. It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail.
Albert Einstein
#2. So much easier to aim for the smallest possible audience, not the largest, to build long-term value among a trusted, delighted tribe, to create work that matters and stands the test of time.
Seth Godin
#3. Between the borders of Faerie and the physical world stands an ancient forest where the trees are exceedingly tall; and although no longer visible to men, their roots go deep into its earth.
Gabriel Brunsdon
#4. For those regarded as warriors ...
When engaged in combat, the vanquishing of thine enemy can be the warrior's only concern. Suppress all human emotion and compassion. Kill whoever stands in thy way, even if that be Lord God or Buddha himself. This truth lies at the heart of the art of combat.
Quentin Tarantino
#5. The city of Hiroshima stands as more than a monument to massive death and destruction. It stands as a living testament to the necessity for progress toward nuclear disarmament.
Edward Kennedy
#6. Probably the most formative experience was reading the 'Foundation' trilogy when I was about twelve years old. That wasn't the first science fiction I had ever read, but it's something that stands out in my memory as having had a big impact on me.
Ted Chiang
#7. His body walks out onto the darkened stage , and a roar goes up from the crowd. He stands in front of the mic, and he can feel his face twist in a sneer-the Elvis sneer from his dreams-though he never told it to move. He is powerless now, a spectator at his own moment of glory.
Joseph Garraty
#8. An artist who lacks the power of self-criticism accomplishes but little. It is good if your work stands higher than your own opinion of it; bad if it is on the same level. But it is a great disaster if your work stands lower than your judgment of it.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#9. Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.
Rosa Luxemburg
#11. I thought "RV" stood for "Recreational Vehicle." No! It stands for "Ruins Vacations."
Bill Engvall
#12. and all the beauty and the blasphemy. Petals, petals, scattering from the stands where only vestals were allowed to sit, having tended the flame for all of us. Here, I knew, was the empire of my soul showing on my face as I turned to you.
Sarah Arvio
#13. Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
Bram Stoker
#14. For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands.
C.S. Lewis
#15. In essence, the education department argues that the quality of the education children receive is irrelevant, as long as someone stands in front of the class.
Helen Zille
#16. 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
#17. Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
#18. An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding.
Richard Bach
#19. Try to realize, and truly realize, that what stands between you and a different life are matters of responsible choice.
Gary Zukav
#20. If water stands motionless in a pool it grows stale and muddy, but when it moves and flows it becomes clear: so, too, man in his wanderings.
Muhammad Asad
#21. Each man must begin where he stands, must learn how to control the things that are nearest to him.
Swami Vivekananda
#22. One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is to remove the prejudice which stands in the way of doing this. It is not a stupid prejudice.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#23. I find this day Stands in the way Of finding you Beneath the blue
Vickie Johnstone
#24. Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
Stanley Kubrick
#25. Over everything stands its daemon or soul, and, as the form of the thing is reflected by the eye, so the soul of the thing is reflected by a melody.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#26. Shamas stands in the open door and watches the earth, the magnet that it is, pulling snowflakes out of the sky towards itself.
Nadeem Aslam
#27. Under the one word "house" are included the schoolhouse, the almshouse, the jail, the tavern, the dwellinghouse; and the meanest shed or cave in which men live contains elements of all these. But nowhere on the earth stands the entire and perfect house.
Henry David Thoreau
#28. The Chinese side stands ready to work with Morocco to consolidate and deepen mutually beneficial cooperation and continuously push forward the development of Sino-Moroccan ties in the spirit of boosting understanding, broadening cooperation for common development.
Wu Bangguo
#29. Our mind is a crazy nightclub of cacophonous sound filled with strange images and one-night stands: our mind tells us lonely, loveless tales that leave us frightened but really have no lasting power
Lauren Roedy Vaughn
#30. In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#31. In a competitive crowded world market, it's the well positioned brands that Stands Out!
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#32. The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitability of his every action.
Leo Tolstoy
#33. I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read 'Just Kids' and it's an inspirational, well-written account of an emerging New York artist in the late seventies.
James Iha
#34. I never made the movies for the critics; I've done the best I could with the material and the directors and the actors I had. But the thing that's really exciting is that once I do that one project that's different, that stands out, everyone's gonna be watching.
Pauly Shore
#35. With God, anything that stands against you will always be inferior to what resides within you.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#36. Let me tell you what the Tea Party stands for. It stands for the fact that we are taxed enough already.
Michele Bachmann
#37. Here he stands before me as he was, in midlife, and perhaps that is why reading them is so painful for me, he wasn't only much more than my feelings for him but infinitely more, a complete and living person in the midst of his life.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#38. Above all else stands the burning question of bipartisanship. Whatever else the politicians might say they're about, our news analysts know that this is the true object of the nation's desire, the topic to which those slippery presidential spokesmen need always to be dragged back.
Thomas Frank
#39. Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past.
Friedrich Schiller
#40. What is it that stands higher than words? Action. What is it that stands higher than action? Silence.
Francis Of Assisi
#41. 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
#42. Mandela stands alone in possessing all of the qualities of other great men, but has one quality which is transcendent ... his ability to forgive and to place others above himself.
Kevin Allen
#43. In losing a friend, she is reminded of all she has lost and all she stands to lose again. There is nothing to be done to make it any easier. We all grieve alone.
Alice Hoffman
#44. What matters most is that each picture stands on its own, with its own place and feeling.
Steve McCurry
#45. A good hitting instructor is able to mold his teaching to the individual. If a guy stands on his head, you perfect that.
Bill Robinson
#46. Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.
Owen Chamberlain
#47. I don't like to be the guy that stands out. I like kind of sneaking up on guys instead of being out front.
Roy Oswalt
#48. A brave woman is one who stands up when she hears gunshots. She doesn't dive under the desk.
Lee Child
#49. No person is free until he or she is free at the center. When we let go there, we are free indeed. When the self is renounced, then one stands utterly disillusioned, apart, asking for nothing. If anything comes to us, it is all sheer gain. Then life becomes one constant surprise.
E. Stanley Jones
#50. Every sentence stands on its own. Whether that's fair or not, that's kind of the way it is.
Chris Hayes
#51. Money is a cruel thing. It's the thing that stands between you and the things you want and the people you love.
Rainbow Rowell
#52. No one stands taller in the climb to success than when he bends over to help up someone else.
John C. Maxwell
#53. 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
#54. Vacuum stands and remains a mathematical space. A cube placed in a vacuum would not displace anything, as it would displace air or water in a space already containing those fluids.
Roger Bacon
#55. Nothing is more important to a nation than its history. It is the earth upon which any society stands.
Robert Harris
#56. BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.
Bobby Knight
#57. I'm always looking for meaningful one-night stands
Dudley Moore
#58. I'm not into one-night stands. I've only slept with three guys in my life and they all involve relationships.
Katie Price
#59. The judgment of the world stands upon matter of fortune.
Philip Sidney
#60. The happiness for which our souls ache is one undisturbed by success or failure, one which will root deeply inside us and give inward relaxation, peace, and contentment, no matter what the surface problems may be. That kind of happiness stands in need on no outward stimulus.
Billy Graham
#61. Of all the varieties of violence of which our sorry species is capable, genocide stands apart, not only as the most heinous but as the hardest to comprehend.
Steven Pinker
#62. They have been in prison so long that, if the prison door stands open, they would no longer notice!
Agatha Christie
#63. He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.
Oscar Wilde
#64. One aspect of perfection, after all, it stands to reason, will be that our need for imperfection will cease. Or, perhaps more precisely: that imperfection itself will cease to have meaning.
Ron Currie Jr.
#65. It is not a conspiracy, don't call it a conspiracy. It is all out in the open and it stands on the ignorance, apathy and stupidity of the American people that is the foundation upon which the New World Order is built.
William Cooper
#66. A trusted man doesn't flip-flop on where he stands. He says what he means and stand where he stands.He's not easily influenced by fear. He's influenced by destiny and will not be taken advantage of.
Henry Johnson Jr
#67. The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events.
Ray Bradbury
#68. In 1969, 'Life' magazine came up to me and said they wanted to do a little story on the Hobie, and I ended up getting a six-page spread. I remember Robert Redford was on the cover, and when that magazine hit the stands, it was a whole new ballgame.
Hobart Alter
#69. Your future and success stands at the door steps of your own efforts and hardworking.
Auliq Ice
#70. Generations pass while some tree stands, and old families last not three oaks.
Robert Browning
#71. If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone.
Daniel Keys Moran
#72. Whoever says You does not have something; he has nothing. But he stands in relation.
Martin Buber
#73. When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion.
Zadie Smith
#74. Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.
Josiah Gilbert Holland
#76. Miss McCleethy stands to address us. "Thank you, Miss Bradshaw. That was a nice start to our day."
A nice start? It was lovely. Perfect, in fact. Miss McCleethy has no passion at all, I decide. I shall be forced to give her two bad conduct marks in my invisible ledger.
Libba Bray
#77. I think that one of the things that we all ask ourselves, whoever we are, is: who stands to make a lot of money out of this [wars]? And, certainly, it comes back to people like armaments makers, and so on and so forth.
Jacqueline Winspear
#78. What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage of Europeans.
Timothy Radcliffe
#79. The most striking thing about highly effective leaders is how little they have in common. What one swears by, another warns against. But one trait stands out: the willingness to risk.
Larry Osborne
#80. Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
Vaclav Havel
#81. Real entrepreneurs have what I call the three Ps (and, trust me, none of them stands for 'permission'). Real entrepreneurs have a 'passion' for what they're doing, a 'problem' that needs to be solved, and a 'purpose' that drives them forward.
Michael Dell
#82. The way you think either stands in your way or assists you in achieving your goals.
Michael Arndt
#83. The memory of the 146 people who lost their lives in the Triangle Shirtwaist fire stands as a reminder that legal protections and workplace safety standards were won through a long struggle for social justice and at great human cost.
Eric Schneiderman
#84. Everything Ticketmaster stands for is what we're fighting against. They're just a small cog in a machine where the artist is at the bottom.
Jeff Ament
#85. No one in high school wants to be put under the spotlight. You don't want to be that person who stands up for the other people because then the people who are going after those people are gonna come after you.
Kristin Cast
#86. It is no misfortune if you do not know where you are going; it is far worse when there is no longer anywhere to go. He who stands on the path of experience cannot step away from it, even when it has come to its end. For the path is without end.
Marina Dyachenko
#87. Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.
William Safire
#88. I believe to go along to get along is unpatriotic. I believe that agreeing with your government on everything they do is unpatriotic. I believe a patriot stands up and holds your government's feet to the fire. Because if you do that, you will get good government.
Jesse Ventura
#89. By all means be selfish; the right way. Wish yourself well, labour at what is good for you. Destroy all that stands between you and happiness. Be all; love all; be happy; make happy. No happiness is greater.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#90. The gospel may not make a sow's ear into a silk purse, but it will make everybody better if they live it. I've tried it. It stands the test.
Henry Eyring
#91. The enemy of the moment is not as important as our own inner weakness. If this is not mended we are already defeated, though no foreign conqueror stands within our walls.
Roger Zelazny
#92. Forgiveness isn't an end in itself. The point of forgiveness is to remove the barrier that stands between us and God so that He can give us His Spirit and bring us into His everlasting family.
Darrell Bock
#93. I remain an active volunteer in the field of at-risk youth, so I'm pretty familiar with the landscape as it stands now, but I don't have any qualifications or an exhaustive body of research to back up my observations.
Janice Erlbaum
#94. He's the meat in the meat locker. The wrecking ball at the end of a crane's chain. The seawall that stands between the ocean and the shore. Big. Bald. Beaten down.
Chuck Wendig
#95. When a teacher is paying extra attention to your child, you believe that it's because you raised such an exceptional kid, one that stands out head and shoulders above the rest of her booger-eating friends.
Drew Magary
#96. 30. A philosopher without clothes and one without books. "I have nothing to eat," says he, as he stands there half-naked, "but I subsist on the logos." And with nothing to read, I subsist on it too.
Marcus Aurelius
#97. When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them both opposite and complementary. The one cannot exist without the other. Which is the sun and which is the shadow? It's well known some criminals have been great men.
Jean Genet
#98. Revolution is a spectators sport. The majority will sit in the stands and watch the factions fight. At the end they will choose side with the team that is winning.
George Lincoln Rockwell
#99. The blood of Christ stands not simply for the sting of sin on God but the scourge of God on sin, not simply for God's sorrow over sin, but for God's wrath on sin.
Peter Forsyth
#100. When a child of the streets stands before you in rags, with a tear-stained face, you cannot easily forget him. And yet, you are perplexed what to do. The human soul is difficult to interfere with. You hesitate how far you should go.
Charles Loring Brace
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