Stand Quotes

Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can't stand up to those principles when you're raising a child, forget it.

When you're shooting you go to references in your mind. You think about how you should stand in these particular clothes, or how you should move. You think about the different characters you're playing, really.

Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.

I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for.

I've decided to lead in a way that takes people with me. It's the approach that I think will stand not only our party but also our state in good stead.

I can't stand being around anal people, especially anal people with big egos.

I stand up for what I believe. I don't know if it's always paid off for me, because I've been ridiculed and humiliated.

Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews.

I can't stand reading anything that I've said.

Anyway, how can you sack anyone who still hasn't got a contract. I'll be there for the game and I'll stand behind the dugout giving instructions to the players from there. They will respond to me more than the next manager.

I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.

Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

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.