Stand Quotes

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

I've learned that winning isn't everything, and it's more about the journey. But at the end of the day, I just want to stand on the podium with the gold medal.

We have only one task, to stand firm and carry on the racial struggle without mercy.

When you're an actress, you become this thing in people's hands that people are trying to manipulate. I cannot stand it.

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.

Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.

I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like to be told I had to study and had to do homework. There's a fact that you have to want to learn.

There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that.

Reform is not a one-night stand.

I don't like telling people where I stand on this, although I'm surprised anybody wonders. I suppose if I say I'm pro-choice, if I make that clear, it let's the audience off the hook, then they can sort of relax. Okay, it's alright he's pro-choice then I can enjoy this.

We know enough to stand here in truth - facing pain, cry and suffering of those who were murdered here. Face to face with the victims' families who are here today. Before the judgment of our own conscience.

The truth is, I don't have any problem with journalists - I count some of them as friends - also some of my heroes are journalists, I'm a big fan of Robert Fisk - great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what's right.

Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'

Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.

I stand on the shoulders of countless people, yet there is one extraordinary person who is my life aspiration - that person is my mother, Celina Sotomayor.

I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here.

I've got a life, you know, take me in the totality of my actions and I'll tell you, I will stand with my record.

I just can't stand the sound of my voice sometimes, or how my face looks. There are always a few times at every premiere when I just have to cover my eyes when I'm up there.

You can take a handful of dollars, a good story, and people with passion and make a movie that will stand up against any $70 million movie.

The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.

If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

I don't like directors that just say, Stand there and now do this.

Suddenly you're surrounded by strangers who want something from you. The thing is, they don't know what they want, and you don't know what they want, unless it's an autograph, and you just sort of stand there grinning at one another.

The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

I just want to be in the best shape I can be. Not to stand on that start line and say: 'Oh my God, I have this injury and that injury.' I just want to be able to go out and race.

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

One time I can stand fiddling in front of the mirror for an hour and another time I think: well hack, this is just the best it can get. Only if I have to go to work I really try to look fantastic.