Stand Quotes

I love how the men stand around cooking the barbie while the women have done all the work beforehand doing the marinade and making the salads and then everybody says, 'what a great barbie' to the guy cooking. A barbecue is just the ultimate blokes' pastime, isn't it?

Hey, man, I toss a stick for a living. Gotta spice up that deal, y'know. Gotta stand out.

This 'Making Mirrors' album is far more personal, even if there's a character element to the sounds I'm working with. Every song on this album I stand behind; I feel like I have a close relationship with them. There are older songs where I can feel myself writing a story, so this is the first album where I'm proud of every lyric.'

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

The work evolves when you get another part, and then you're getting called on to solve difficult characters, to inject a note of humanity into them. It's more interesting for me to do that than to stand around and be sunny.

Unless you go out and say what you stand for, other people will do it for you.

When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

It remains to consider what attitude thoughtful men and Christian believers should take respecting them, and how they stand related to beliefs of another order.

I've always been me. I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.

I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences.

Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang.

I was instructed by people in higher rank to stand there and hold this leash and look at the camera. We were doing what we were told.

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.

Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous.

Perhaps it's the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists - people who have learned to embrace the creative possibilities of change - who stand the best chance of penetrating life's mysteries.

The Men at Work thing is always there, it's always going to be there. It's not something I consciously think that much about anymore. The thing that stays with you is the songs, which is a good thing for me, because the songs are the things that stand the test of time.

You do stand alone sometimes. But my mother stood by me through all this.

Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.

When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.

Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.

We should be able to be ourselves. Make a political stand if you want to.

So, yes, we do celebrate America today because the majority will stand up and empower the American people to live that American Dream and to be part of making a better, freer, and safer world.

My favorite moments in the show are when I stand by myself and sing.

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles.

I believe that if you'll just stand up and go, life will open up for you.