Stand Quotes - page 5

An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself. (Irwin Shaw)
When people stand up and talk about the great success that the EU has been, I'm not sure anybody saying it really believes it themselves anymore. View quote
Nigel Farage
We stand at Armageddon and we battle for the Lord. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it's just that my journey started so, so long ago, and I'm still on it and I won't stand still. View quote
Idris Elba
Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided.... No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty. View quote
Ulysses S. Grant
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. View quote
Bill Watterson
It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas. View quote
Paul Cézanne
I hate patriotism... I can't stand it. It's a round world last time I checked. View quote
Bill Hicks
I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand. View quote
Brigitte Bardot
Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore. View quote
Florence Nightingale
The fields from Islington to Marybone, To Primrose Hill and Saint John's Wood, Were builded over with pillars of gold And there Jerusalem's pillars stood. (William Blake)
Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour themselves against reprimand. It is a word intended to stand in place of ethics, denying all moral context. View quote
Steven Erikson
Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight. View quote
Malcolm X
The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over. View quote
Aesop
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. View quote
Emily Dickinson
Where the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone. View quote
William Wordsworth
I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I'm working on the foundation. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
All these soft kinds [of stone] have the advantage that they can be easily worked as soon as they have been taken from the quarries. Under cover, they play their part well; but in open and exposed situations the frost and rime make them crumble, and they go to pieces. On the seacoast, too, the salt eats away and dissolves them, nor can they stand great heat either. View quote
Vitruvius
Marshes that are stagnant and have no outlets either by rivers or ditches, like the Pomptine marshes, merely putrefy as they stand, emitting heavy, unhealthy vapors. A case of a town built in such a spot was Old Salpia in Apulia ... Year after year there was sickness, until finally the suffering inhabitants came with a public petition to Marcus Hostilius and got him to agree to seek and find them a proper place to which to remove their city. View quote
Vitruvius
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a pause. View quote
Edward Young
He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch. View quote
Jean-Luc Godard
Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won't stand up either. View quote
Evan Esar