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Quotes About Stand

Ming assumes Brenda has taken Katherine's point, but it turns out she's only pausing for dramatic effect. She lowers her voice. "You don't believe he's innocent," she says. "That's why you think he shouldn't speak on his own behalf." For a moment, Katherine looks startled. She reddens, as if caught. She recovers herself. "This is about how to win. This isn't about who can stand by her man .
~ Lan Samantha Chang
It's love, not the Battle of Thermopylae. You don't have to treat everything like it's a last stand.
~ Cassandra Clare
He's a filthy pervert. Jace should stand for Consul instead." "I am also a filthy pervert," said Jace, "or at least I aspire to be. You have no idea what I get up to in my spare time. Just last week I asked Clary to buy me a—
~ Cassandra Clare
When the Church stops standing for Jews- for anyone- then we stop being the church. Grace is costly-it took the death of our Lord Jesus Christ, our savior to achieve that grace. It requires just as much from each of us
~ Cathy Gohlke
And he exercised uncommon tact with his men, meeting them where they stood, rather than demanding that they always be the ones accommodating themselves. I have learned over time that this quality is rare in any man, even more so in a leader.
~ Geraldine Brooks
Before you can change the world, you must understand that you yourself are part of it. You can not stand outside, looking in.
~ Gilbert Adair
I'd say it's time for women to make a stand. And it's far, far easier to make a stand when you're wearing comfortable shoes.
~ Gina Barreca
You are a guardian and protector of liberty. You may be the only thing that stands between freedom and slavery. And if you can, join those who are willing to take a stand in Washington, DC on 9-12. If not, stand together somewhere in your community on 9-12. Get involved. They're very well organized in their communities, and I didn't realize how many socialist communities there were.
~ Glenn Beck
The message that I gave on the - on the steps today was that you need to stand for those things that are right and empower the individual. Believe in the power of one person. Don't believe that you can't do it. Everybody wants - everybody wants a shot. That we can all agree on. Beyond that, it becomes politics. I'm not talking politics.
~ Glenn Beck
'Hello my name is the Republican Party and I got a problem. I'm addicted to spending and big government.' I'd like one of them just to stand up and say that.
~ Glenn Beck
Courage, strength and hope possess my soul…I will stand firmly and without fear.
~ Goethe
If we would individually and collectively resolve to stand for something, to lift our voices for truth and goodness and offer our supplications to our Eternal Father, those supplications would be heard, and the result would be remarkable.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
To have nothing the matter with you and no habits is pretty tame, pretty colorless. It is just the way a saint feels, I reckon; it is at least the way he looks. I never could stand a saint.
~ Mark Twain
If man--if each one of us--abdicates his responsibilities with regard to values; if each one of us limits himself to leading a trivial existence in a technological civilization, with greater adaptation and increasing success as his sole objectives; if we do not even consider the possibility of making a stand against these determinants, then everything will happen as I have described it, and the determinates will be transformed into inevitabilities.
~ Jacques Ellul
Truth is nothing if not unchangeable, and in so far as a man takes his stand upon Truth does he become steadfast in virtue, does he rise superior to his passions and emotions and changeable personality.
~ James Allen
man does not commence to truly live until he finds an immovable center within himself on which to stand, by which to regulate his life, and from which to draw his peace.
~ James Allen
If you're afraid to defend your convictions because you might get your ass kicked for it, you're not really fit to advocate for them.
~ James Carlos Blake
I'm a Republican. I'm a former Red Sox. I have a nasty habit of talking - a lot - about anything anyone asks me and totally unconcerned about giving you my opinion. You will never question where I stand - right or wrong, agree or disagree - on anything.
~ Curt Schilling
We have suffered discrimination. We have suffered isolation and undermining. But we stand up for America, oftentimes when others who think they are more patriotic, who say they are more patriotic, do not.
~ Maxine Waters
With 'Aurangzeb,' I just knew that the film wasn't going to work, though I think it was one of my most underrated performances. I did the film too early in my career, but I stand by it.
~ Arjun Kapoor
I understand everybody in this country doesn't agree with the decisions I've made. And I made some tough decisions. But people know where I stand.
~ George W. Bush
And, I hope now that everybody understands that the Labour Party - as it always has done - stands for free speech and individual Members of the Labour Party are entitled to exercise that free speech.
~ Ron Davies
I don't mind expressing my opinions and speaking out against injustice. I would be doing this even if I wasn't a writer. I grew up in a household that believed in social justice. I have always understood myself as having an obligation to stand on the side of the silenced, the oppressed, and the mistreated.
~ Tayari Jones
What is sad to me is not what Bill Nye thinks about me. What I found really unfortunate is that after presenting my stand on God's Word, there were a number of Christians who were more complimentary of Bill Nye than of me because Bill Nye was defending evolution and billions of years.
~ Ken Ham