Stands Quotes

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

When the tempest rages, when the thunders roar, and the lightnings blaze around us it is then that the truly brave man stands firm at his post.

Getting hurt and watching Tom Brady take over and beginning what's been just a spectacular run of his, and to come back and play in the AFC Championship Game against the Steelers in Pittsburgh, and help us win that game, is a memory that stands out very clearly.

The first time, where Fox Mulder and Scully met, she stands up for herself. She stands right there and gives it to him and that was extremely attractive.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

Especially today as we fight the war on terror - against an enemy that represents hatred, extremism and stands behind no flag - we need to remember the sacrifices that have gone into protecting our flag.

Sexual assault has no place in the military. It is a violation of everything that the U.S. military stands for.

I got a kick out of the stands when they would heckle me. I would take the energy from that.

To me, Ennis stands for the conservative side of America. He's the biggest homophobe in the whole movie - culturally and psychologically - but by the time he admits his feelings, it's too late.

To me, 'Blackberry Way' stands up as a song that could be sung in any era, really. We do it with the new doing all sort of fanfare things in it and it works really well. It goes down great with audiences.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.

Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

National Socialism stands or falls by its Weltanschauung.

One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.

For me the Anita series is built like a mystery series, which means that as much as possible each book stands alone, so you have a mystery to solve from the beginning to the end of the book.

No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.

My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future.

People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different.

But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.

Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.

I wanted to be that cranky old guy that stands on his porch and yells at the neighborhood kids.

It stands, essentially, for the application of increased energy to the efforts already undertaken by my ministry since 1934 with the results shown in the above statistics.

I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them.

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.