Stand Quotes

It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.

The good feeling I get from contributing rivals anything I felt on the Olympic stand in Albertville.

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.

Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt. Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.

It's important to stand up for what you believe in.

It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one.

To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

Anybody that'll stand up to The Cline is all right.

I can't stand directors who try to micro-manage everything. When it happens these days I just walk off set, saying if they don't like the way I'm doing it they can get someone else.

I don't like to watch golf on television because I can't stand people who whisper.

I stand 100 percent by the truth, exactly what happened.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

As I stand here today and tell you about these, I am heavy with an awareness of the fact that I am in more than one sense a product of both the Chinese and Western cultures, in harmony and in conflict.

American credibility in the war on terrorism depends on a strong stand against all terrorist acts, whether committed by foe or friend.

Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny.

We cannot sacrifice our safety to the murderous greed of drug cartels. We cannot stand idly by as drop houses, kidnappings and violence compromise our quality of life.

You've got to be extremely careful, because you could be with a great team, and you could be the product of a great team. There are some players that stand out despite the teams that they play on, and there are some players that are good because of the team that they're with.

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song - the fusion of the South, my body's song and me.

Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.

In almost every interview someone asks what does HIM stand for. I can't even remember our latest lie about that. When Hanson was hot, we said it means Hanson Is Murder. The name doesn't have a particular history. His Infernal Majesty was a totally different band. I think HIM derives from some death metal joke.

One has to work for years and decades, to conduct negotiations, to stand for positions and points of view, to jointly develop a civilized view on the administrative and state organization of Chechnya.

We're the only creature God ever created that doesn't want to adapt. We want to make it stand still. And one thing that's constant is nature is constantly changing.

The only people that ever stand up and tell the truth are who? Intelligence officers. Because our culture is, never break faith with the truth. We'll tell you, you don't have to drag it out of us.

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

In Castling, the King must be moved first, or before the Rook is quitted. If the Rook be quitted before the King is touched, the opposing player may demand that the move of the Rook shall stand without the Castling being completed.

Let's stand up. Let's speak with pride about our morals and our values and redouble our effort to elect more conservative Republicans.