Quotes About Stand

Grey quoted Gladstone, asking "whether, under the circumstances of the case, this country, endowed as it is with influence and power, would quietly stand by and witness the perpetration of the direst crime that ever stained the pages of history, and thus become participators in the sin?

Faith is the power to stand up to the madness and chaos of the physical world, while holding the position that nothing external has any authority over what heaven has in mind for you.

It is an ambassador's duty to stand up for his nation's foreign policy in any era and under any government whatsoever. Ambassadors are, in the full meaning of the term, titled spies.

Any assessment of where we stand in relationship to Him tells us that we do not stand at all. We kneel.

Faced by the actual practice of freedom, the French and American revolutions would be forced to stand by their words.

His life was gentle, and the elementsSo mix'd in him that Nature might stand upAnd say to all the world, "This was a man!"

O sun!Burn the great sphere thou mov'st in; darkling standThe varying shore o' the world.

What part of me was born with the courage to stand in front of strangers and risk rejection?

The mistake-riddled life is much richer, more interesting and more stimulating than the life that has never risked or taken a stand on anything.

That is the Kop, son. The Spion Kop. That is where the finest supporters in the world stand, son. The greatest people in the world. Every game, every match. With those supporters behind you, with those people supporting you, you cannot lose, son. You cannot lose.

Silence is a form of consent, and I just couldn't let the evil popular picture of David and our community stand without trying to combat it.

Everything American in me was stunned by the possibility that my own government might wipe us out. Where's Paul Revere when we need him? I thought childishly. Where are the Minute Men who should stand by our side?

There's a fine line between standing behind a principle and hiding behind one.

Nobody, but nobody, is going to get our guns, even if it means burying most of them in the ground and taking a final stand with our legs spread wide and our favorite firing power nestled in our arms.

I choose not to fight against but to stand for. Not to go against but to go for.

I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair.

Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.

What does it mean to be in-between? It means one can afford to sit on the fence, decide not to take a stand, to always reserve the privilege - while the battle rages all around - to disengage.

We always overrate the man who stands.

Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering. The love of God is of a different nature altogether. It does not hate tragedy. It never denies reality. It stands in the very teeth of suffering.

when you find the one thing in your life you believe in above anything else, you owe it to yourself to stand by it—it will never come again, child. And if you believe in it unwaveringly, the world has no other choice but to see it as you do, eventually. For who knows it better than you? Don't be afraid to take a difficult stand, darling. Find the one thing that matters—everything else will resolve itself.

servant if you watch him all the time. You must always stand over a Jew, though, if you want things done properly. They're tricky and uncertain unless they're working for their own interest.

Individuals can stand up against genocide in Darfur and Iran's quest for nuclear weapons.

The no-first-use policy for nuclear weapons was a well thought out stand... We don't intend to reverse it.