Stands Quotes

I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
Babe Ruth

Mean, Hit, Dirt

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus

Great, Against, Desire

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

Against, Pathetic, Offended

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
Henrik Ibsen

Alone, Strongest

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
Joseph Hall

Death, Birth, Grave

'The Panorama' is also the last place anywhere in New York where the World Trade Center still stands, whole, as it stood in the early morning of September 11. I can also see the corner where I saw the first tower fall and howled out loud. Seeing the buildings again here is uplifting, healing.
Jerry Saltz

Morning, Healing, Place

The Eucharistic mystery stands at the heart and center of the liturgy since it is the fount of life by which we are cleansed and strengthened to live not for ourselves but for God and to be united in love among ourselves.
Pope Paul VI

Life, Love, God

As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.
Laura Nyro

Beautiful, Become, Simplicity

The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.
Pam Brown

Courage, Dark, Between

Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.
Henry A. Wallace

Fear, Democracy, Small

I am amazed at radio DJ's today. I am firmly convinced that AM on my radio stands for Absolute Moron. I will not begin to tell you what FM stands for.
Jasper Carrott

Today, Tell, Radio

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.
Havelock Ellis

Art, End, Human

Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.
Yasser Arafat

Cannot, Cause, Terrorist

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.
Thornton Wilder

I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal.
Richard Wagner

Love, Help, Long

Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work on it, to elaborate it or animate it in some way. It's a mysterious process.
Leonard Cohen

Work, Time, Again

Chemistry is really about two people who like to act together, I think. It's like tennis in the most cliched way. It's like if you hit the ball, they hit the ball back, and they don't hit it into the stands, and they don't put the ball in their pocket and walk off - and they don't argue with the umpire, you know?
David Duchovny

Together, Two, Put

Major league baseball has asked its players to stop tossing baseballs into the stands during games, because they say fans fight over them and they get hurt. In fact, the Florida Marlins said that's why they never hit any home runs. It's a safety issue.
Jay Leno

Home, Hurt, Fight

I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.
Karl Lagerfeld

Rock, Road, Singer

An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
George Catlin

Down, Through, Put

Define what your brand stands for, its core values and tone of voice, and then communicate consistently in those terms.
Simon Mainwaring

Values, Voice, Define

Ensure your employees understand what your brand stands for so they can be your first line of word-of-mouth advertising.
Simon Mainwaring

Understand, Line, Employees

And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Hero, Light, Face

You know what 'FAILING' stands for? It stands for 'Finding An Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth.'
Gary Busey

Important, Growth, Failing

I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten.
Francis Ford Coppola

Done, Another, American

An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Process, Inner, Outward

And we can celebrate when we have a government that has earned back the trust of the people it serves... when we have a government that honors our Constitution and stands up for the values that have made America, America: economic freedom, individual liberty, and personal responsibility.
John Boehner

Trust, Freedom, Government

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.
Ang Lee

Time, Feelings, America

You know what 'DOUBT' stands for? It stands for 'Debate On Understanding Bewildersome Thoughts.'
Gary Busey

Doubt, Thoughts, Debate

If you hear Anarchy in the UK today your hair stands on end. It gives you the shivers.
Vivienne Westwood

Today, End, Hair

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