Quotes About Standing

My family are so proud of me for standing up for marginalised people in nerd communities.

I don't regret standing up to Gamergate at all.

As senator, my focus will be on standing up for Mainers, especially when it comes to protecting our rights and fighting for our health care.

He drank standing up because he said, 'If you drink sitting down, you don't know if you will be... able to stand up.'

I, along with my colleagues in the Republican Study Committee, are committed to standing up to China's aggression.

I will never apologize for standing up against oppression and injustice in Israel or anywhere else.

San Francisco needs a Mayor who will make all our neighborhoods safe, a Mayor with a record of standing up for public safety and fighting for the resources we need.

With all the injury problems we have in men's tennis at the moment, I'm happy to still be standing.

A man should be rugged like Steve McQueen; the way he stands, like he's ready for something. Or he should be a man of the world like Dean Martin.

Be he the first to stand or the last, a man must stand," the father had told his adoring son. "And if there is only one man, then that man must stand alone." ~Thomas to Bruce Wayne

It is a brave man who is the first to sit down during a standing ovation.

A man can dignify his rank; no rank Can dignify a man.

During the year I stood there I had known was the loss of my heart. While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth.

Men and women of high professional standing were reduced to the status of vagrants, unable to find employment and forced to eat the bitter bread of public or private charity.

If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they'd have to sleep standing up.

A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.

In this culture, there is no ego rewards for standing up in public and admitting vulnerability.

Lucas Glover was the name of the man standing at the doorway in the heat. And though most called him Luke, he answered to either. Still, he suddenly wished that his name was a different one entirely and that he was standing anywhere else at that particular moment.

At times a man must cut loose from his associates and stand alone for a great cause; but the necessity for such action is almost as rare as the necessity for revolution.

Progress is a dynamic thing, and you had to ride it leaning forward a little, like a surfboard because if you stood there flat-footed you'd get drowned.

And if the world does turn, and if London burns, I'll be standing on the beach with my guitar

Most people would put me firmly in the nerd/geek category. It wouldn't be a change from where I've been put my whole life, but my place now has standing. Nerds are inexorably cool again.

Most millennials have no problem standing their ground when asked to do something that conflicts with their personal values.

Whether you reed or rite, accustom yourselves to stand at a high desk