Quotes About Stand

I tried to get a job in music but was too unique to stand behind someone as a backing vocal or to sing in weddings.

'Betchya Got A Cure' is my gut response to the media wars in this country, which are driving a wedge between citizens. It's about taking a stand for individuality and being brave instead of being accepted.

I have survived so long because I've been blessed with talented and gracious colleagues and with a top brass who let me choose my topics every week and then allowed me to express opinions that were not always popular. Well, someone had to stand up to the yackety-yak soccer cult.

We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.

Normally, I would seek to compromise, but not on immigration policy.

Everything I did in the jails - chain gangs, everything - I haven't changed the policy. I did it, I stand by it, and I'm not going to change.

What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house.

I will never join politics under any circumstances.

In pop music, people take a stand. When you look at a Beyonce or a Kendrick Lamar, they are going to tell you what they think. And audiences totally get it. They totally love it, and they are totally hungry for it. But in our conservatory training, I think it's a little lacking.

My responsibility is to speak out on my own convictions.

I don't do any work that I am not very convinced about. That has always been my stand.

I want to appeal to all people to come together across the country and stand against this politics of corruption.

As a society, there are times when we need to stand together against indecency and cruelty.

I know my beliefs. I know where I stand on issues and concerns, and I feel that there is the right platform to tackle those concerns. And if you're lucky enough to have a voice on something you have knowledge, then speak your mind, but only really for things for which you have an input.

When you don't take a stand against corruption you tacitly support it.

Disruption starts with committing to excellence and taking a stand for your customer.

It's about cultural forums and movements and collectives of people taking a stand. That's all activism is.

A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.

I'm ready to stand tall for freedom and get Washington out of our lives.

To me, patriotism means dedication to the principles on which the country was founded and a willingness to stand firm and fight for these principles regardless of what the government says or does

Sydney sighed and stood up, smoothing her rumpled clothes with dismay. 'I need a coffee shop or something.' 'I think I saw one in a cave down the road,' I said. That almost got a smile from her.

Yes, Boss?' Dorcas, the last twenty or thirty years I've been a worthless, no-good parasite.' She yawned again. 'Everybody knows that.' Nevermind the flattery. There comes a time in every man's life when he has to stop being sensible--a time to stand up and be counted--strike a blow for liberty--smite the wicked.' Ummm...' So quit yawning, the time has come.' She glanced down. 'Maybe I had better get dressed.

My phone buzzed in my pocket, but I did not move. He did a slow three-sixty until his eyes settled on the taco stand. A middle-aged Latina was ordering food. The red-haired cop was forty yards away, but I still saw the lines that trapped his eyes like spiderwebs. The

Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth....