Stand Quotes

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.

I think it's the end of progress if you stand still and think of what you've done in the past. I keep on.

I don't use my body to seduce, no. I just stand there.

The workers have nothing to gain from this war, but they stand to lose everything that is dear to them.

To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.

I can't stand outside myself and be anybody else.

You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.

I have to say I've worked very few days of my life. I used to have to cut the lawn, and when I was in junior high school, I worked at a concession stand at a stadium.

People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.

People can expect to see a lot of me - I'm not too proud to stand on corners and hold my campaign signs.

I stand before you today as a disciplined conservative Texan, a committed Republican and a proud American, united with you to restoring our nation and revive the American dream.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

Young people need to vote. They need to get out there. Every vote counts. Educate yourself too. Don't just vote. Know what you're voting for, and stand by that.

Because Larry, by then, was a drummer, who would sort of get bored and tired, and rather stand up and blow kisses to people. So we needed the bass to sort of drive along.

I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up, I knew when I got into the box that I would lie! Again!