Stands Quotes

I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for.
Thornton Wilder

Good, Moment, Excellent

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
Mao Zedong

Politics, Art, Whole

And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.
Dick Gregory

Love, War, Dance

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
Muhammad Iqbal

Religion, Science, View

Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for.
Michael Bloomberg

America, Liberty, Fighting

My sister and I shared a bedroom our entire lives and I believe she discovered the Beatles when she was about 11 and I'm four years younger. So from the age of 7 until 17 we had nothing but Beatles paraphernalia in our room, even those little stuffed Beatles that went on stands that are dressed as the Sgt. Pepper band.
Christina Ricci

Age, Nothing, She

Don't kid yourself. President Obama's decision to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan before he stands for reelection is not driven by the United States' 'position of strength' in the war zone as much as it is by grim economic and political realities at home.
Ron Fournier

Home, Strength, War

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.
Henrik Ibsen

Struggle, Long, Lost

Above all else stands the burning question of bipartisanship. Whatever else the politicians might say they're about, our news analysts know that this is the true object of the nation's desire, the topic to which those slippery presidential spokesmen need always to be dragged back.
Thomas Frank

True, Else, Whatever

Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran's leaders.
William Hague

Political, Human, Rights

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

Sense, Days, Left

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
Henry Adams

Purpose, Cheers, Serves

Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
Vaclav Havel

Work, Good, Chance

Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.
Ken Kesey

History, Else, Destroy

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

Freedom, Death, Door

I try to teach my son about sanitation, especially when handling foods like chicken that could be dangerous. I remind him to wash his hands all the time. When my son cooks with me, he stands on a step stool so he can reach the stove. I teach him about safety and fire.
Emeril Lagasse

Time, Fire, Him

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
V. S. Naipaul

Book, Career, Before

Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, Oh, you can't do that.
Tom Clancy

Life, Good, Else

In my case, the body of work stands for itself... I think my work has been representative of me as a man.
Sidney Poitier

Work, Body, Case

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.
Lafcadio Hearn

Beauty, Great, Respect

It's fun being one of the boys. It's fun to have a character that's rough and gets down and dirty and not to be this precious girl who just sits in the corner and just sort of stands by the action.
Diane Kruger

Fun, Girl, Character

Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.
J. G. Holland

Nothing, Opinion, Pride

I like when my face tingles, when the hair on the back of my neck stands up.
Kevin Costner

Hair, Face, Neck

He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
Douglas Horton

Others, Fallen, Lifting

It's a rock 'n' roll thing to have one-night stands.
Rick Springfield

Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.
Harold S. Geneen

Away, Diamonds, Explained

I tend to go for women with common sense. Being down to earth stands out more than looks.
Seann William Scott

Women, Down, Sense

Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them.
Tommy Lasorda

Long, Before, Start

I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands.
Mariah Carey

Hope, Past, Career

I have two moods. One is Roy, rollicking Roy, the wild ride of a mood. And Pam, sediment Pam, who stands on the shore and sobs... Sometimes the tide is in, sometimes it's out.
Carrie Fisher

Two, Sometimes, Mood

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