Quotes About Stand

A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it.

Very rarely is there a spike in news-stand sales.

Fans booing when a ball was passed backwards used to spin me out. Theyd rather cheer a right winger, running 100mph down the flank and then crossing into the stand. Thats no good.

To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.

A doctor has a stethoscope up to a man's chest. The man asks, "Doc, how do I stand?" The doctor says, "That's what puzzles me!"

There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'

The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.

No man's abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.

And they had studied this problem. Graphed the frequency of doorway delivery-time disputes. Wired the early Deliverators to record, then analyze, the debating tactics, the voice-stress histograms, the distinctive grammatical structures employed by white middle-class Type A Burbclave occupants who against all logic had decided that this was the place to take their personal Custerian stand against all that was stale and deadening in their lives.

That many ignorant people could be dangerous if they got pointed in the wrong direction, and so we've evolved a popular culture that is (a) almost unbelievably infectious, and (b) neuters every person who gets infected by it, by rendering them unwilling to make judgments and incapable of taking stands.

The wall is home base. The wall won't move. If I stand at the wall, I won't be expected to move. This is what it means to be a wallflower. Now I understand.

There's nothing sacred about the book you've written. The Bible says there's safety in a multitude of counselors. The movie is the movie, and the book is the book. They're different critters, and each must stand on their own merits.

I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.

Her wild imagination immediately interpreted his statement as him claiming her, making her his, letting her know no matter what, he would stand for her.

To take a side against Rushdie, or to be neutral and evasive about him in the name of some vaguely sensitive ecumenical conscience, is to stand against those who try to incubate a Reformation in the Muslim world.

It should bear its own health warning: so sugary that you may need an insulin shot to withstand it.

Chrysler and stood him up behind the Ford, where

It's hopeless, he went on. We no longer have the learning of the ancients, the age of giants is past! We are dwarfs, William admitted, but dwarfs who stand on the shoulders of those giants, and small though we are, we sometimes manage to see farther on the horizon than they.

The man in the middle gets the bullets from both directions; but I suppose we have to take our stand there all the same.

They've got onto Hitler at last." "You think the British mean to fight him?" "They've got to make a stand somewhere, and they've pretty nearly reached the point. The Cabinet is split, and different members wobble this way and that; but even a near-Fascist like Beaverbrook has decided that they can't go on making concessions forever.

Another said , I don't ask six months, I don't ask two. In less than two weeks we'll meet the government face to face. With twenty-five thousand men we can make our stand.

In the market, tourists were still crowded around the fish stand. White-aproned vendors threw thirty-pound king salmons through the air to one another: at every toss, tourists snapped photographs.

The only way to fight a bully is to stand your ground. Be brave, Grandpa Walt would say. Pretend if you have to.

Love is an element. . . . Like air to breathe, earth to stand on.