Quotes with stand

  • A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
  • A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.
  • People often ask me where I stand politically. It's not that I disagree with Bush's economic policy or his foreign policy, it's that I believe he was a child of Satan sent here to destroy the planet Earth. Little to the left.
  • Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.
  • One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow.
  • For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?
  • The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.
  • The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?
  • I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
  • One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.
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  • Rabindranath Tagore When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.
    Rabindranath Tagore
    Indian mystic and poet (1861 - 1941)
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  • Benjamin Franklin 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 best chance for such consequences.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Andrew Murray A readiness to believe every promise implicitly, to obey every command unhesitatingly, to stand perfect and complete in all the will of God, is the only true spirit of Bible study.
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  • Thomas Carlyle Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Winston Churchill Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • G.W.F. Hegel As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity. The march of God in the world, that is what the State is.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Robert Lynd Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
    Robert Lynd
    American sociologist (1892 - 1970)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Madonna I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
    Madonna
    American musician, singer and actress (1958 - )
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  • Joe E. Lewis I would take a bomb, but I can't stand the noise.
    Joe E. Lewis
    American writer
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  • Euripides Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Havelock Ellis Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • John Madden Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.
    John Madden
    American Football broadcaster and coach (1936 - )
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an island in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Aesop United we stand, divided we fall.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Bill Watterson We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Napoleon Hill You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Arthur Miller A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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