Stand Quotes
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It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
M. Russell Ballard -
A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open.
Damian Lewis
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I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.
Earl Weaver -
Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.
Jack Kemp -
I took group lessons at a rink near my home. We first had to learn how to stand up on the ice wearing skates. Eventually we learned to move forward, but soon found out that it was not that easy to stop! So that was our next important lesson.
Nancy Kerrigan -
I have always appreciated designers who dare to reinterpret fabrics and proportions, so I follow the Japanese and Belgian designers. The pieces are so animated. When they lie still, they are one thing, but once you stand them up or wear them, they become something else.
Zaha Hadid -
We have much work ahead, to stand still.
Said Musa -
One of the aspects of form that I have been very interested in is stasis - the concept of form which is not so directional in time, not so much climactic form, but rather form which allows time, to stand still.
La Monte Young
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Feminism is rooted in racial rights and gender rights, and all of those things intersect, and to say that that's not something you can stand behind - it confuses me. I think it's a really great word.
Mackenzie Davis -
You see a lot of us lingering around. We'll just stand there on the edge of the pool and kinda psych ourselves up into getting in.
Natalie Coughlin -
Everything's always about being homogenized and following in a group. The people who stand out always have the most problems.
Idina Menzel -
Folks differs, dearie. They differs a lot. Some can stand things that others can't. There's never no way of knowin' how much they can stand.
Ann Petry -
'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.
Hal Sparks -
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
Karl Marx
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I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.
Sir Isaac Brock KB -
I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
Daniel Barenboim -
Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
Abraham Lincoln -
When we stand up for America, we stand up for what America stands for, which is a safety net for our seniors and really helping our families be able to help themselves.
Barbara Mikulski -
It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.
Karen Thompson Walker -
No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
Zainab Salbi
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The American tradition of Washington and Hamilton and Madison and Lincoln and TR and Pat Buchanan is of economic nationalism - making America an independent, self-sufficient, sovereign forever country that's able to stand on its own feet.
Pat Buchanan -
The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.
Oliver Tambo -
I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
Calvin Trillin -
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
Og Mandino