Stand Quotes

I want you all to stand; will you do that for me, please?

And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones being Gandhi and Cry Freedom, there are things which I do care about very much and which I would like to stand up and be counted.

Abraham Lincoln because he was a man filled with great compassion who believed that all men are created free and equal, and was not afraid to stand on that platform. The way Lincoln lived his life has served me well in mine.

I can't stand whining.

I thought that that mission and the mission of taking care of those soldiers were my priorities, and I stand by the same today. There wasn't a lot of support for those soldiers.

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

He's psychologically damaged, I suppose, if you stand back and look objectively at him, but then, who isn't?

I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

Everybody in my band is married, pretty much, and have lives at home, and I don't want them to be away from their families so long that they just start to feel psychotic. You have to go home and stand around in your bathrobe doing your dishes to feel like a normal person sometimes.

When I wear the national team shirt, its sole contact with my skin makes it stand on an end.

I can't stand Bob Dylan.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don't operate that way.

I'd do entire music videos in my bedroom, where I used to stand in front of my television memorizing the moves to Michael Jackson's 'Beat It.'

Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to stand up for freedom and justice.

And of course I didn't make any money from stand up for years, so I had temp jobs. That was the way I made money.

Let's use the opportunities before us to stand for Christ. If we will do, God himself will honor our efforts and America can be restored.

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

It is my happy privilege to be able to stand here and tell you that if you elect me you will have elected a governor who has made no promises of preferment to any man or group.

I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball.

As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.

I'd rather hang out with five people that I love than with 400 strangers at a club who are all doing the up-and-down inspection thing. They appraise everybody from head to toe - the outfit, the handbag, the shoes, how much they weigh... I can't stand it!

Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.

It slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones wounded, and it wounded me ten times as much because I couldn't stand seeing them hurt like this.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the people of Palestine. We only aim to de-legitimize the settlement activities and the occupation and apartheid and the logic of ruthless force, and we believe that all the countries of the world stand with us in this regard.

Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn't stand it.

All the conductor has to do is stand back and try not to get in the way. Mozart is doing all the work.

What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of others.