Stand Quotes

You see a lot of us lingering around. We'll just stand there on the edge of the pool and kinda psych ourselves up into getting in.

Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for - because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Tonight, you are hearing from the Democratic women of the Senate... We stand together on so many issues: economic prosperity, quality education for all, protecting a woman's right to choose.

They also serve who only stand and wait.

To stand there and do nothing on film is probably the hardest thing to do.

When you flop, that's just another message that you don't know how to play me. Stand up and take your medicine like a man.

France needs to find something that makes it stand out. It's not enough for it to do almost as well as its neighbors.

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.

The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

The best part about being a stand-up is the connection with the audience. There's nothing more gratifying then when you can make 300 people applaud and stand up - because that's all you.

If you stand still there is only one way to go, and that's backwards.

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.

I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.

I want to try to talk like normal people talk, not just stand there and bark at the camera.

The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.

Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is, 'We are above that now. We're not just parochial, we're not just chauvinistic, we're not just provincial. We stand for something.' I mean, in a way, Obama's standing above the country, above - above the world. He's sort of God. He's going to bring all different sides together.

I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

I can't stand the club scene.

I refuse to stand up in front of a rabbi and my friends and the woman I love - who I will tell you I can love with all my heart - and promise she will be the only one I will ever have until the day I die. That's a lie.

There are times not to flirt. When you're sick. When you're with children. When you're on the witness stand.

I've done one movie. And it's not a movie I want to stand on as far as acting ability goes. I mean, I'm not going to win an Oscar anytime soon. I'm not Meryl Streep.

The Clinton administration brought 65 cases from 1995 to 2000 before the World Trade Organization. The Bush administration has brought twelve. Twelve cases. They haven't even been able to stand up for our jobs.

Liberals believe they own the franchise on minorities and can't stand any Hispanic or black who breaks rank.

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.