Quotes About Standing

I think you stand by the people you love. That was what he'd said, and it was what she would do.

The sun shines on those who stand up for themselves, before it shines on those who kneel to cowardice.

She stood slim and proud as some medieval witch princess against dawn.

The man glanced down and made a face. "I see that many pigeons have pooped upon these stairs," he remarked. "I shall remain standing, if that's not too rude.

Did you see her?" the Marid said nervously, looking at her with great dark eyes. "Our daughter. Standing on the Gear. Dis you see her?" "What?" said September—and then she winked out, like someone blowing out a candle, and all the field was still.

The same president who has insisted that core moralism drives him has brought America to its lowest moral standing in history.

What we wanted to do we went and did, on our legs upstanding, and we faced all reproof and censure on our legs upstanding, and did not hide behind the skirts of classical economists and bourgeois philosophers, nor behind the skirts of subsidized preachers, professors, and editors.

how I stood, with my love and my ingenuity, between him and the dark.

I told myself all sorts of lies, standing there at the bar, but I could not move. And this was partly because I knew that it did not really matter anymore; it did not even matter if I never spoke to Giovanni again; for they had become visible, as visible as the wafers on the shirt of the flaming princess, they stormed all over me, my awakening, my insistent possibilities.

Open debate is our strongest tool in standing up to extremism. The far more dangerous avenue is to force extremist ideas underground, where they can fester without competition.

It's not really outstanding when you're standing outOutcry is the only outburst, if you can't shout

I'm a lurker and a creep. Women don't like me because I sleep standing up, like a horse.

I always thought that owing to their social standing, army spouses had to maintain a dignified appearance, no matter what, at all times and that their only source of entertainment was the officers' parties.

Home is, in the end, not just the place where you sleep, but the place where you stand.

Somebody has to stand when other people are sitting. Somebody has to speak when other people are quiet.

I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.

You stand up for what you believe in.

To me, bravery is to stand up for what you believe in.

You have to stand up for some things in this world.

More people should stand up and not be afraid to do things that mean something to them.

It is important to stand up to bullies.

We can't live in fear. There are going to be people who will disagree with us, but it's important for us to stand up and say what's right and what's wrong.

Someone has to stand up and speak for the freedoms of the little guy.

It doesn't matter if you are a man or woman; you need to stand up for yourself. If you have been abused, you deserve justice.