Stand Quotes

Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence.

TIVO executives stand up and say, 'Well, we're not getting rid of commercials, but we are letting them fast forward, because people like commercials, and if they see one that they like they stop and watch it.' I mean, please.

I kind of have a happy magnet. I can't stand being depressed, so I work my ass off to get out of it as soon as possible.

I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.

I would take a bomb, but I can't stand the noise.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

I can't stand accessories.

To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in the repertoire, and other masterworks as well, stand in no further need of my services.

To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.

I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.

If I revealed all that has been made known to me, scarcely a man on this stand would stay with me." and "Brethren, if I were to tell you all I know of the kingdom of God, I do know that you would rise up and kill me.

The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.

I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.

'Polisse' is the sort of cop thriller where people do things like angrily bang on a desktop or sweep everything off it. If it happens once, it must happen six times. But every time it did, I wanted to stand up and cheer, which I've never wanted to do for any such thriller.

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.

I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic.

Unless physicians stand together to fight threats and injustices, our practices cannot remain viable in the future.

Johnny Rotten. He's a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he'd stand up and holler. He's funny. Smart too, and a nice guy. Don't think he's a jerk because he isn't.

What I have found is that real friends stand by you.

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

We stand united, facing the big responsibility to change our country into a nation of justice, solidarity, humanity and green development.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.

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?

This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.

The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals.