Stands Quotes

To me, Ennis stands for the conservative side of America. He's the biggest homophobe in the whole movie - culturally and psychologically - but by the time he admits his feelings, it's too late.

To me, 'Blackberry Way' stands up as a song that could be sung in any era, really. We do it with the new doing all sort of fanfare things in it and it works really well. It goes down great with audiences.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.

Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

National Socialism stands or falls by its Weltanschauung.

One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.

For me the Anita series is built like a mystery series, which means that as much as possible each book stands alone, so you have a mystery to solve from the beginning to the end of the book.

No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.

My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future.

People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different.

But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

Especially today as we fight the war on terror - against an enemy that represents hatred, extremism and stands behind no flag - we need to remember the sacrifices that have gone into protecting our flag.

Sexual assault has no place in the military. It is a violation of everything that the U.S. military stands for.

I got a kick out of the stands when they would heckle me. I would take the energy from that.

I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them.

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.

Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.

He who stands with his face to the East in the morning will have the sun before him. If he does not change his posture, the Earth in the meantime having changed its, he will have the sun no longer before him, but behind.

One girl who stands out was this Miami stripper. She still lives with her mother and father, and they know she strips. They call her by her stripper name, Freaky Red.

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.

Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.

McEnroe has got to sit down and work out where he stands.

Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.

What the F.D.I.C. does is to put the full faith and credit of the United States government behind every savings account in the nation, up to a limit that has changed over the years and stands now at $100,000.